Gas "Nah und Fern"

[Jafs]

Re-issue and remastered 4 Gas albums in a box set, and it's on Kompakt. People here may be informed of this, if not, now you are

I was losing hope to find every album independently, excepted Königsforst which I found last year on the amazon marketplace for 20€. I was lucky for this, when you know than those albums are not under 120€, even used.



Here are the full news:


Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas project is to be entirely reissued in CD, LP and book form.

The most ambitious, enigmatic and sonically beautiful of the many projects of Kompakt label head Voigt, Gas combined fin-de-siècle Austro-German orchestral music with modern processing and kickdrums to produce an intoxicating vision of classical-ambient-techno back in the nineties. A pioneering figure in Cologne techno, Voigt has produced a dizzying amount of music under innumerable aliases, yet all are united by an interest in the alchemical properties of sampling and a ubiquitous 4/4 thud. Early Mike Ink productions re-imagined UK acid from a German gnarz perspective, M:I:5 and Wassermann paired reverse samples with glam rock and invented shaffel, and Studio 1 remains some of the most barren minimal techno ever produced. Gas, however, represents Voigt’s most definitive artistic statement.

Originally released on Mille Plateaux throughout the mid nineties, the four long-out-of-print Gas albums, Gas, Zauberberg, Konigsforst and Pop, are to be re-issued on Kompakt, available mid-May 2008. Brought together on four compact discs in a book-bound casing and as a strictly limited double vinyl version (which will include an exclusive art print), Gas - Nah un Fern promises to allow a new generation of listeners to get lost in Voigt’s psychedelic forests.

Simultaneously, art/music collective Raster-Noton will publish 'GAS', representing the visual side of Gas. The accompanying CD will include tracks from Raster-Noton’s 20' to 2000 series, with additional unreleased tracks and GAS loops.

The Gas 'Nah un Fern' 4CD boxset is out on Kompakt on May 26, 2008. Wolfgang Voigt's 'Gas' also arrives on Raster-Noton on the same day.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=9242


As the co-head of Cologne, Germany's Kompakt label, minimal techno pioneer Wolfgang Voigt has spent this decade mostly focused on other people's music. But in the previous decade, his albums as Gas helped define the sound Kompakt artists are still perfecting.

Voigt and Kompakt will revisit the Gas catalog with the reissue of the out-of-print Gas, Zauberberg, Kônigforst, and Pop in a single four-CD/two-LP collection called Nah und Fern. Originally released on Frankfurt label Mille Plateaux, these records come restored and remastered for Kompakt's reissue in May.

Also in May, Voigt will publish a book through art and music collective Raster-Noton titled Gas: Loops. The book will present "the visual side of Gas," according to a press release, but its pages' specific contents remain a mystery. Gas: Loops will come with a CD featuring two tracks from the November edition of Raster-Noton's 1999 "20' to 2000" series (where artists were asked to soundtrack the final 20 minutes of the 20th Century), as well as various Gas loops and previously unreleased tracks.

For a deeper, more personal look at Gas, check out our own Mark Richardson's column, "Resonant Frequency #48". (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...t-frequency-48)


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