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Label: Kompakt
Catalog#: KOMPAKT CD 66
Format: 4 x CD Box Set
Country: Germany
Released: 05 Jun 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Minimal, Ambient
Credits: Mastered By - Burger* , Voigt*
Music By - Wolfgang Voigt
Notes: Collection of four Gas albums previously released on Mille Plateaux between 1996 and 2000. Comes in two-part canvas-textured box with artist name embossed on the lid. Each CD comes in an individual card sleeve and the box also contains four 12cm x 12cm prints. The only text within the box is the album title on each disc.
Rating: 4.93/5 (166 votes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_(musician)
Gas is a project of Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a part of Germany's black forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind the project. He has claimed that the intention of the project is to "bring the forest to the disco, or vice-versa".
Gas is the most abstract of Voigt's many projects, with each album consisting of several long tracks of dense, hypnotic, atmospheric sound. All Gas material shares a characteristic sound, consisting of an ambient wash of drones and loops, usually accompanied by a repetitive four to the floor kickdrum underneath the multiple layers of music. Occasionally a song will just drift on its own ambience. Voigt has commented that he builds his tracks using samples, which are manipulated beyond recognition to create what can better be described as textural environments than songs; Voigt described the technique to Rob Young of The Wire as "a certain kind of loops and reverse, and alternated reverses, which has no ending and no start, and it's just totally confusing", as well as describing the sound as "moving around in constantly overlapping loop structures, there is no definite start nor end" in an interview with the online music journal Globecat.
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