Polish producer NATT fits right into the Amek Collective, from the j-card
featuring a blurred silhouette against a stark white orb that’s about to be
engulfed by a black abyss to the blurred silhouette of dark ambience of the
recordings themselves, set as they are in stark relief against a bleak reality but
still about to be engulfed by a black abyss of mood and tone. DARK AMBIENCE:
let it be a lesson to you, a polestar to guide you through a murk of negative
energy that nonetheless thrills in its capacity for catharsis. NATT grasps the
humanness of disappointment and despair and grips it until it’s choked purple
and black, wringing every last ounce of remorse and regret out of it. Then NATT
takes the byproduct of this nefarious deed and distills it, then chugs it, then
creates. That’s The Way You Were Made.
That’s why NATT fits right into the Amek Collective – NATT is able to
turn grief into digestible sound, somewhere between desolate electronics and
despondent IDM, all smeared with a hollowness of reverb and echo to accentuate
the part of the person that has been ripped away or is missing. But what these
Central Europeans (Amek is located in Bulgaria) have going for them is that
they’re able to tap into a vitality within the grief, an energy that crackles
just out of earshot but is inherently present in their work. So where NATT’s
music may be all about the gloaming of regularity and routine following a disruptive
event and the sculpting of a psyche through trauma, the “way [that personality]
was made,” on the other side of it, the disruption itself brings forth a grim
vigor that propels the sufferer forward, hopefully to a less dismal outcome.
But to find out, through NATT’s endeavors, is an exciting proposition!
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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