Videogame music can be fun and even pleasant, but with repetition it usually gets old. Nathan Koch, the man behind Emulsion, took this seemingly limited genre and expanded its horizons beyond the 30 second mark. The elements are the same, but the purpose is not.
All of the sounds are obviously computer-derived; in just […]
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Blue Sky Objective Review on cdreviews.com
July 27, 2006
Blue Sky Objective Review in Regen Magazine
July 21, 2006
Game music brought to artistic levels for those with a penchant for cool experimental retro electronic.
Emulsion is an electronic outfit manned by Nathan Koch, an avid fan of 8-bit game music of his youth. When one usually thinks of electronic music, most ponder the dance-friendly fodder that emanates within many clubs across the globe. […]
Blue Sky Objective Review on Lizzyville
June 23, 2006
Who doesn’t love a good synth pad? Even in the midst of electronica’s rising popularity, the more elegant sound effects of the earliest video games aren’t employed enough; it’s astounding what millenial production can do for what was already done twenty years ago. The skeletal formula is as follows: remastery + ProTools + […]
Blue Sky Objective Review in Release Magazine
June 18, 2006
Emulsion (aka Nathan Koch) presents his debut CD “Blue Sky Objective”.
The style comes from his love of quite classic elements – electronica, IDM
and indie. This is not all though, as he also states a fondness for the old
8-bit gaming machines, so how have all those catchy Mario melodies guided
his musical development?
The interesting thing you […]
Blue Sky Objective Review in Textura
June 1, 2006
Emulsion’s 8-bit sound is proudly front and center from the opening moment of Blue Sky Objective, but what most distinguishes the full-length by native New Yorker and now Chicago resident Nathan Koch is his gift for bright, tangy melodies. Every requisite elements of the classic electro-IDM style is here—bouncy, lo-fi beats, symphonic synths, handclaps, bleepy […]
Blue Sky Objective on Boozeismymomma
May 22, 2006
A minute ago we turned you on to a cat named Copy and his Mobius Beard, an album inspired by and modeled after the Casio blip soundtrack of the original NES system. Just listening to Copy, we can practically feel the Doritos slime on our fingers and taste the gallons of Mountain Lightning, the Mountain […]
Blue Sky Objective Review in Gridface
May 7, 2006
Before I begin, I should mention that Emulsion is Nathan Koch, and we’ve been friends since college; nevertheless, I believe I can review this album objectively. Nathan’s music has come a long way in just the past few years. Coming from a background of 8-bit videogames and industrial music, Emulsion surrenders to melodic electronics for […]
Emulsion Profile in Time Out Chicago
May 4, 2006
(Recommended) Chicago laptop artist Emulsion (Nathan Koch) recently released Blue Sky Objective, which has the quivering clouds of Boards of Canada without the heavy layers of gauze, resting on some low-res rhythms. Slava Terror and OAO are also on the bill for this brains-meets-beats battle.
Blue Sky Objective Review on Music-Critic.com
May 1, 2006
No, you won’t find a ‘painting’ based joke at all in this little review of electronic masterpiece Blue Sky Objective, the debut album from Emulsion. Nigel Koch’s - who ultimately is Emulsion – obsession with the plinky plonkey 8-bit sounds of yore is blatantly obvious as soon as the first track LeftRightLeftRight begins with those […]
Blue Sky Objective Review on smother.net
April 16, 2006
Emulsion’s debut full-length on Lens Records is a mish-mash of eclectic electronica, ‘80’s electro-pop,
and IDM for a sound that they can truly call their own. Obsessed over 8-bit, Nathan Koch takes us
down the avenue of bleeps and beeps with ecstatic enthusiasm. You may have heard Emulsion already if
you’ve got the David Bowie tribute album “Contamination” […]