Kompakt dude obsessed with shiny 80s pop shocker.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 08:42 (seven years ago) link
not ballsy, just lazy
― the late great, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
i think it's great
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
I usually hate that "something different to what I normally play on the club" bullshit, and it is true that this sounds like a middle aged woman's spotify playlist, however, I enjoyed it more than any other RA podcast in a year or more (with the exception of that disco / italo mix by that Japanese guy).
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
huh, i missed this
only listening on my laptop at the moment, which cuts out a lot and always makes things sound smoover, but
OH JESUS
it sounds so much waaaaay more narcotic (dur) than a typical gas record, just like an instant ZONK, like a microwave beam, i suspect encephalography was involved at some stage
― j., Friday, 1 December 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link
live show this year was fantastic. i don't know how long it went on for but i was spellbound the whole way through, that whole thing where creeping anxiety is slowly transmuted into joy and wonder and then you slip back into the dark again. my journey home from work is often through some woods in the dark and now narkpop is more often than not the soundtrack to that. it's really had the effect of recallibrating my ears and my emotional response to that environment, especially hearing the wind through the leaves in the treetops as that same static-like hissing, no idea why i hadn't thought of listening to gas in situ before
― damian green is people (NickB), Friday, 1 December 2017 11:37 (six years ago) link
yes! the show was amazing
― nxd, Friday, 1 December 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link
Cosign all that, just zoned out and became completely immersed in it.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 December 2017 11:54 (six years ago) link
fuck i guess i gotta buy tickets for here
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 1 December 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
i hope you like trees!
this album sends you under like nothing else
― ogmor, Friday, 1 December 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
it's taken me a while to realise just how much I love Gas, and Narkopop has been the deal-sealer, one of my favourite albums for the last few months
― Illegal Ethiopian Dance Music (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 December 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
So... Bleep lists this as 11 tracks, the last of which is >70min. Is that the vinyl-only track? (In which case, how come the vinyl is "only" a triple if it's 150min?) I'm guessing this is a typo, as the vinyl bonus on Discogs is 16min. And the vinyl is over £50!
CD w/booklet is sold out on Bleep (which might be the only way to get track 11 bundled, as a download, with the CD), so I may go for 11xWAVs and write 1-10 to disc with no pre-gaps (tracks are seamless on the CD release, right?).
― Michael Jones, Friday, 1 December 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
presumably that last track is just the album in a single track - Spotify lists it that way as well
― Simon H., Friday, 1 December 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
Ah, got it. The 71min version is for gapless streaming/burning. So Narkopop 11 really is vinyl-only, not downloadable.
£50 though...
― Michael Jones, Friday, 1 December 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
Kompakt has it for €50 so that's about £44... without shipping
― willem, Friday, 1 December 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
this trend of splitting up CD-length albums over as much wax as possible really bugs me
― Simon H., Friday, 1 December 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
I have made my peace with it wrt the Cavern of Anti-Matter LPs (both triples), but they were £20 each, and pretty satisfying to own on vinyl. Having a bit of a thing at the moment for vintage synths on wax, possibly triggered by digging out Matmos's Supreme Balloon (a mere double LP) again a few weeks ago and marvelling at how that sounded.
But GAS I'd take as full-fat digital.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 1 December 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
Many xxps: great post, nickb. I got offered a ticket for the Barbican show but I live in the Shires and am old and said no and oh fuck it.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 1 December 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
Album of the year for me.
maybe me as well
― sleeve, Friday, 1 December 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
RIYL GAS: F.E. Denning
i only started listening to him, uh, last night, but his music reminds me quite a bit of voigt - long, untitled drone-based songs, occasional string pads, effectively establishing a sense of unique space in each song, e
while generally being quite a bit darker in tone. all of his songs have < 1000 listens on spotify so i don't think he's a household name quite yet, but
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
goddammit, i didn't mean to submit that yet, but i'll just leave it there. if anyone knows of him or knows any cool tidbits about him or his music i'd love to hear them. i find it to be excellent work music so i expect to be listening quite a bit more this coming year.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
Aw, I know him, he is a cool guy :) Him and a whole bunch of Copenhagen jazz guys did a pretty cool Coltrane tribute a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1qs-z-7dJI
― Frederik B, Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
wow, that's very unlike his other material i've heard, thanks!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Another new album!
https://www.stereogum.com/1987630/gas-announces-new-album-rausch-watch-a-trailer/video/
― Simon H., Monday, 19 March 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
whaaat
― sleeve, Monday, 19 March 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
fuck yeah
― nxd, Monday, 19 March 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
Oh nice! I’m seeing him next week, hopefully he’ll play some stuff on the new one!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 March 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
Nice. Does he do his own album art?
― Evan, Monday, 19 March 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
i'm pretty sure it's his own photography.
nice to see the new one is half the price of narkopop, not sure why that one was quite so expensive
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 19 March 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
It came with a book, didn't it?
― Evan, Monday, 19 March 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
oh yeah, that's right! (i didn't buy it obv)
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 19 March 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
Narkopop (CD) was $15, with the book-packaging.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 19 March 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
― willem, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
Vinyl was £55 or something daft like that!
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
lol yeh i got one, deffo around the fifty quid mark
― nxd, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
holy shit I went to the show in Philly last night and it was something. Did anyone see him in NY/DC/elsewhere?
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
crut saw the Big Ears show and said it was amazing, see that thread for details
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
london last year! hope he comes to uk again soon :)
― nxd, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
Agreed on the greatness of the Big Ears show. It was the end of a long festival day so I sort of drifted in and out, which was maybe the perfect way to experience it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
saw him DC and it was exactly what i wanted... a roomful of people transported into the subconscious void staring rapt at dark forest abstractions for an unclear amount of time. it was odd emerging from that into the mid-afternoon sunlight at the wharf.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
sounds amazing
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0012922037_10.jpg€11.90 EUR for the digital album "Rausch" (no thanks, Wolfgang)
lets hear some samples
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
cd edition cannot be that much more surely ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
i dont ever buy digital albums but is that bad?
― nxd, Thursday, 10 May 2018 08:29 (six years ago) link
it's approximately the same as paying for the CD (+ booklet)
lovely scarf, though
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 11 May 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
vinyl arrived today!
sounds quite pacy compared to previous records
― nxd, Friday, 18 May 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
listening to the album for the first time, and it's nice to hear these songs again! i heard him a few weeks ago, and i think he pretty much just played this album, or at least large stretches of it (i like gas but sometimes have trouble distinguishing between tracks that aren't on konigsforst or pop, the two i've listened to the most).
for me, 3 is a highlight. this will make it sound terrible, but it's gas as a blissed out droney late 80s reverb rock band, with traces of numan popping in and out.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 May 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
odd atmospheres going on, on Rausch. Track two sorta reminds me of Tilt, by Scott Walker
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 18 May 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
Anyone know whether the CD version is supposed to include a booklet? My copy has a slot for one but none present...
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link