Wolfgang Voigt
GAS
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.date 2008
.style Ambient
.label Raster Noton
.cat.no. R-N 102
.source WEB (FLAC)
.type Album
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 60,4 MB
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for the first time ever, this book wolfgang voigt û gas presents the
visual aspect of the comprehensive gas project. it is not meant to be a
monolithic retrospective of his visual work, but it features a broad
spectrum of photographic images taken between 1995 and 1998 showing many
different moods and perspectives of wolfgang voigtÆs cosmos. what they
all have in common, however, is the mystical focus and seemingly, the
blurring of boundaries between lightness and darkness, happiness and
depression, kitsch and art, pixels and leaves. and the enclosed music
cd, voigt has opened his treasure chest and presents some well-selected,
rare jewels from the very early days (and nights). four of the five
tracks have never been released or played before.
in the middle of the 1990Æs, wolfgang voigt, better known under a great
many pseudonyms such as mike ink, studio1 or grungerman, and the driving
force behind the rise of cologne minimal techno, had reached a temporary
peak in his career. regardless, he never really stopped pursuing and
developing his true creative music passion. going back to the 1980s,
voigt began working under a self realized concept he named blei. taking
in the most varied sound models, he began to extract elements from
classical, polka, or brass music, and along with electronic pop music
and german schlager sounds form a distinguished and unique pop music
style that would fit in with the subculture at that time. in the early
1990s, influenced by techno, voigt began to experiment with a timbal
marching through strongly alienated, free-floating string loops. these
elegiac tracks, their lack of beginning nor end beginninglessness and
endlessness, their intoxicating, smooth and partly amorphous structure
sounded to him like evaporating gas and thus, gas music was born. gas is
the vision of a sonic body between sch÷nberg and kraftwerk, between
french horn and bass drum. gas is wagner goes glam rock, and hansel and
gretel on acid. gas is there to take you on a seemingly endless march
through the under woods û and into the discoteque û of an imaginary,
nebulous forest.
in his music, wolfgang voigt does not create a direct reference to the
original sounds and or even the forest itself. he rather tries to reduce
the material to its basic aesthetic structure by using different zoom,
loop and alienation techniques in order to release it from its original
meaning and context. his intention is to create a kind of aesthetic
essence, a cave (detail/loop/repetition) where you can get lost. and for
all of you who think that this is too heavy to ingest, please accept
this as wonderful music.
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01 Der Wald 09:59
02 Das Moor 10:46
03 November 89 10:34
04 Nah Und Fern 11:42
05 Tal 90 Version 12:45
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55:46 min
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