Wolfgang Voigt's GAS Project: the Poll

So is there anywhere one can buy Oktember at a reasonable price? It's not on the Kompakt site. And is Modern 12" only?

Mark- It's the third track on Zauberberg that really gets me. This album somehow manages to both creep me out and pacify me at the same time.

Also, the only way to suitably describe the last track is heavenly.

yea zauberberg is really bizarre, isn't it? you have the first and last tracks which are completely gorgeous - yea, heavenly, the third track (which is one of my favorite Gas tracks) which kind of envelopes you in this really calm way, but all the other tracks are downright creepy.

the last track on konigsforst always makes me think of a sunrise because it sounds like a warped/looped "william tell overture", that waking-up music they use in cartoons

i wonder if any classical heads can trainspot what pieces he samples

I actually thought about e-mailing Alex Ross about Gas. He's probably pretty busy though.

you should do it!

Pop was the only one I could ever find on CD. it was the first one I heard, and though I liked the earlier albums after going back and hunting them down on p2p, I did find them to be a bit darker and more eerie than Pop. I don't think I ever really digested the earlier albums like I did Pop for that reason, so Pop got my vote. If they ever did re-release these, I'd swoop them up in a heartbeat.

toby: arent you in america now? honestly your best bet for getting gas stuff cheap is just to scour used bins whenever you get the chance. there's a lot of mille plateaux stuff lying around. these things were pressed in massive quantities. however, ebay/discogs/amazon holds no hope of reasonable prices...

i actually sold all of my gas CDs and am replacing them slowly w the vinyl because i'm a nerd

i look everywhere for gas everytime i enter a used record store to no avail. all i have is the koenigforst lp (which i got for a steal at $15 sealed a couple of years ago) and moderne.

mille plateaux comps are super plentiful but most single artist albums are about as hard to find as stuff on rather interesting these days.

am0n: that track always makes me think of the wizard of oz.. the twister... dorothy falling asleep etc..

both of those last two tracks make me think of tornadoes and hurricanes for some reason... i think the second to last is my favorite... those horns breaking through the clouds of strings....

resolved where do you live?

if anyone goes out and buys all of these i'd hate to see their GAS BILL!!!! HAHAHAHAHHA

some dude listed the 4 full lengths on eBay for $300 a few weeks ago. dunno if they sold or not.

p.s. how did i miss this thread? i would've voted for POP.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/48155-kompakt-reissues-gas-catalog-in-box-set

oooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh

[nerd alert] i've fantasized about something like this for some time.. i wanted to design a multiple lp box set w/all the albums, lps, comp tracks, + remixes...

but how the hell do you fit those albums on 2 lps????

ps get me to write the liner notes, wolfie

so so so so happy

reissuing these is really the best thing to happen to music since... i dunno "ignition (remix)" or something. fucking rejoice!!

WOW! This is a wish come true and then some. What perfect timing...

YES!!!!!!! this is so perfect. i timed this thread pretty well, huh?

but how the hell do you fit those albums on 2 lps????

yes i'm wondering that now, too. hmmm, something different has to be going on with the 2 lps. maybe you get the regular 4 albums plus the various non-album tracks?

in any case, this is very, very exciting. i was wondering if voigt was ever going to do this.

maybe you get the regular 4 albums plus the various non-album tracks?

meaning the 4 albums are the 4 cds (obv.) and the non-album stuff goes on the lps? i don't know.

awesome. will the cds be available separate from the box as well?

it's probably the first box set i've ever been excited about.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/voigt_wolfgang/originals/291cover.jpg

"ranger"!

the box is gonna be beautiful

still don't get the hype for this stuff

where can i preorder

yea i'm seriously gonna jump on this box set

Never heard but I could maybe buy

What the hell is going on with The Wire? I suppose at least Rob Young penned this piece, so Philip Sherburne doesn't have the monopoly on minimalicious cover stories....

Philip got to do The Jukebox with Carl Craig :)

i can't find anything anywhere about the box or the raster-norton book thing. what is going on

isn't hype only applicable to new stuff?

yeah, had i done the voigt piece i probably would have lost all credibility. too many people think i'm a shameless minimal booster as it is!

anybody found a place to pre-order this yet?

i did it via email w/ a trusted local record store

Here's some more info about the box set:

GAS: Nah Und Fern 2LP (KOM 175LP). Double LP version.
GAS: Nah Und Fern 4CD (KOMP 066CD). RELEASE DATE: 06/10/2008
"The Kompakt label presents the work of Wolfgang Voigt's Gas - a remastered deluxe package that includes all four of his Mille Plateaux albums: Gas (1996), Zauberberg (1997), Königsforst (1998) and Pop (2000). Wolfgang Voigt, in the past known under a great many pseudonyms such as Mike Ink, Studio 1 or Grungerman, is the driving force behind the rise of Cologne minimal techno and also Kompakt's co-founder and co-owner. In the 1980s, Voigt began working under a concept he named BLEI - extracting elements from classical, polka, brass music, electronic pop and German schlager sounds to 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 and end, their intoxicating, smooth and partly amorphous structure sounded to him like evaporating gas and thus - Gas was born. Gas is the vision of a sonic body between Schönberg and Kraftwerk, between French horn and bass drum. Gas is Wagner goes glam rock, and Hansel and Gretel on acid. Gas takes you on a seemingly endless march through the woods into the discotheque. Reducing the material to its basic aesthetic structure by using different zoom, loop and alienation techniques, he releases it from its original meaning and context, creating a kind of aesthetic essence, a cave to get lost inside. There are one or two new tracks and versions, but both Voigt and Jörg Burger decided to keep remastering light, maintaining Gas' purity and authenticity. This 4CD box comes in a special and stylish collector's format, including 4 small artwork prints. The double vinyl comes in a fold cover with a bonus artwork print and is strictly limited. The vinyl features one extended-edit track from each of the albums per side."

how much will this be? i wonder if the cds will be made available individually from the box

ah, thanks for the info. now I understand what the 2LP is, I think I'll probably pass on that.

I have all the albums and I like the idea of extended cuts, so I'm definitely going to get the vinyl.

Any news on the book that Raster-Noton announced? That seems most interesting to me.

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ebay fuckers will probably beat me on this one. can't find pre-order anywhere

this is all torture. i want BOTH cds and vinyl, AND the Raster-Noton book.

and i already have all the lps.

i want BOTH cds and vinyl, AND the Raster-Noton book.
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For anyone in the DC area, we'll be sure to carry this as soon as it's available at the store where I work (CD Warehouse). It's not out until June 10th. I'm not exactly sure what the prices will be yet, but I know the vinyl will be considerably cheaper than the 4xCD box set.

Simon Reynolds on Nah und Fern

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we'll have this in at Amoeba SF with plenty to go around on CD, but the vinyl seems to be limited. i ordered a few but if there's high enough demand, i'll get more.

Apparently at least one person isn’t at all excited by the GAS reissues. Bewilderingly, Mr. Burns writes in the Voice that the reissuing “will mummify Gas and make Voigt’s work a museum piece”. Why, exactly, should that be again?

the "problem"

hahaa

do you think anyone has dared ask voigt out loud if he did that on purpose or not?

honestly, unless i were mastering or something (this is a fantasy world, ok), i don't think i would have the guts to ask

first album on vinyl, just pre ordered a copy

https://boomkat.com/products/gas-bdf31db7-af60-4495-aa2a-3812f4f9bdc5

Nice. I paid out for a decent copy of the first EP, Modern in May. Good to see this one getting a reissue. Hopefully in its original form?

Always rated the first album slightly below the others, but for whatever reason it's sounding a lot better to me now, maybe the equivalent of Pop and almost as good as Konigsforst. I think, like a lot of people, I heard the s/t after the others, but revisiting it now and experiencing it in isolation, outside of the context of the Gas legacy, it's really an extraordinary album. The new remaster sounds terrific

yep, really enjoying it