Natsuko’s Datascape is a 9-track transmission from the outer edge of ambient electronics inner-sanctum. Channeling somewhere between Burial at his most atmospheric, the art-side of Jeff Mills most esoteric B-sides, and the unstable machine psychology of Chris Carter and Throbbing Gristle, Natsuko builds together fragments of expressive matter that make you feel like you just friended a Bot with dark-but-amicable intentions. Built around the idea of data developing sonic personalities and trying to communicate through analog (human) sound, Natsuko has created an Arrival of sorts, where a hidden field of intelligence is trying to reach out and describe something. This all simultaneously while it closes out the Low Res ‘reset’ trilogy with the O.W.S.O. (Other-Worldly Spinning Oject) appearing across all three album art (incl. Omnitel and OFF-REALITY™), signifying the manifestation is fully booted and and triangulating necessary integrations. Leaving the question, is the O.W.S.O. documenting this world or describing another?
Across the nine tracks on Datascape, the album imagines data as something with mood, personality, and communicative instinct. It sounds as if information itself tries to speak to other lifeforms through dysfunctional pathways, broken thoroughfare, and ultimately leave you breathing machine atmosphere in place of oxygen. What makes the album unique is the way it draws from a lineage of artists who treated sound not simply as composition, but as environment, disturbance, and psychological architecture. The Debussian smog Natsuko creates has a kinship with the more exploratory margins of industrial and post-industrial thinking, where atmosphere carries as much weight as melody, and where electronics are allowed to feel haunted and minimal while cohesive and futurist by design. Bass and bleeps, rumble and hiss, restlessness and impending doom.
We are thrilled to present Natsuko ‘Datascape’ as RES 3 in the contemporary catalog of sounds at LOW RES.
