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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Wolfgang Voigt
Title......: GAS
Rip Date...: Aug-09-2008 Cat.No.....: R-N 102
Style......: Ambient Label......: Raster-Noton
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 60,4 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
If there is any producer who needs no introduction on these pages
it's Wolfgang Voigt. Under his Gas moniker Voigt has not only
produced some of the most important electronic music of the last
quarter-century, but also influenced a generation of awestruck
music makers. Without those seminal early recordings it's safe to
say ambient electronic music would not look quite the same.
Thankfully Kompakt (the label which Voigt heads up) re-issued
those classic recordings a few weeks back to much-deserved
critical acclaim, but for those of you who already possessed them
in some form or another, this Raster Noton release was the one
that had us chomping at the bit. Firstly, I have to say this is
one of the most lavish releases I've ever seen - packaged in
weighty book of photos complete with a gorgeous foil-embossed dust
cover this might be the very definition of the 'artists edition'.
Most people will no doubt be buying this for the hour of
unreleased Gas material, but the book is in itself worth shelling
out your hard earned, credit crunched dough. Packed with the
wooded images we have come to associate with Gas records over the
years it's the kind of book that works as the perfect
accompaniment to the clouds of ambient synthesizer music contained
on the disc and a testament to Voigt's skill as an artist of many
different disciplines. It is however, the music itself that makes
this release so absolutely indispensable. Dating back to 1989 (!),
every single track on this record has never been released
previously, but far from an odds-and-sods collection this is a
perfect reminder of the peerlessness of Voigt in the ambient
world. Countless copyists have come and gone, but hearing these
tracks, the earliest of which is close to twenty years old, you
remember why you fell in love with electronic music in the first
place. The distant, reverberating strings, pulsating, crumbling
rhythms and those drifting washes of synthesizer on 'Das Moor' are
enough to shake any self-respecting muso out of complacency, but
the fact that this is kept up for an entire disc, and that this
material has never seen the light of day truly astounds me. I
doubt very much that there are any of you out there who have never
heard Gas before, but if there are a couple of stragglers you
should know this - if you have any interest in ambient music,
electronic music, experimental music or whatever you choose to
label it, you really owe it to yourself to get this album. From
the catalogues of Type and Miasmah to the hallowed ground of Touch
and Mego the influence of Wolfgang Voigt spans the whole scene and
this release is there to be cherished. Immense.
www.raster-noton.net
www.discogs.com/release/1412348
Notes: Released in 128 page bound book featuring photographs and
images taken between 1995-1998.
CD features unreleased material from the Gas archives.
p l a y l i s t
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
55:46 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl