View basket “Awakening From The Illusory Self” has been added to your basket. GAS Gas SKU: Kompakt491 Barcode: 4250101471391 41.00 £41.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Kompakt Released Date: 9th August 2024 Buying Format: 3LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Kompakt is proud to announce, finally, a reissue of the first, self-titled GAS album. Originally released on electronica imprint Mille Plateaux back in 1996 it’s been unavailable in its original form ever since – the version of GAS included in 2008’s Nah Und Fern box featured several different tracks. Here, however, GAS is restored in all its glory, the debut full-length from Wolfgang Voigt’s most enigmatic, quixotic project. There had, of course, been signs of what was to come. Back in 1995, Voigt essayed the first Gas release, a slender, yet remarkable four-track EP, Modern. Its centre label featured a reduced symbol – an overhead or lamp light, switched on, its glow radiating outwards in four bold black lines – a perfect representation of the tight, stylised ambient electronic pop contained on that 12”. A few curious compilation tracks were floating around, too, for Mille Plateaux’s Modulation & Transformation and Electric Ladyland series. If you were attentive enough, you could tell something was up. But nothing quite prepared us for the languorous, effervescing loops and regular-like-clockwork beats that Voigt folded together on GAS. Its six long tracks, all untitled, neither begin nor end but hazily fade into earshot, vibrate majestically in your cochlea for fifteen-or-so minutes – some a bit shorter, some longer – and then meander away, reading the mise-en-scène for the next example of Voigt’s drift and dream logic to unfold. The material is referential in the most distant way, and you can sense only the most evanescent of ghostly presences, haunting these six compositions. GAS feels, also, like a more pliable hint at what’s to come, as the GAS concept really solidified on its successor, 1997’s Zauberberg, and reach its apotheosis on Königsforst and Pop. Those three albums share a very similar palette – blurred, hazy samples, often of classical music, stacked and cross-thatched across a muted 4/4 thud. GAS, then, is an outlier of sorts: it’s more expansive in its remit, lighter in its mood, perhaps more fleet of foot. This, of course, is part of its charm. In clearing space for Voigt, by preparing the terrain, GAS sits both at the edge of the forest, and at the verge of an expansive, wide-eyed future; one where GAS would become truly eternal. Text by Jonathan Dale Artist Gas Genre Electronica Label Kompakt Buying Options 3LP Includes Download Code Format 3LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings GAS 1 (1996) 13:56 GAS 2 (1996) 18:44 GAS 3 (1996) 14:28 GAS 4 (1996) 11:56 GAS 5 (1996) 16:21 GAS 6 (1996) 17:31 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Gas and more from Electronica View Product Quick View Gas Der Lange Marsch Electronica | Kompakt | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th August 2024 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gas Der Lange Marsch £31.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Kompakt SKU: Kompakt466 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th August 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gas Rausch Electronica | Kompakt | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th May 2018 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gas Rausch £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Kompakt SKU: Kompakt386 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gas Narkopop Electronica | Kompakt | 3LP, Includes CD Released 21st April 2017 £59.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gas Narkopop £59.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Kompakt SKU: Kompakt371 Formats: 3LP, Includes CD Released Date: 21st April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gas Box Leftfield / Experimental | Kompakt | 10LP, Box Set Released 28th October 2016 £126.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gas Box £126.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Kompakt SKU: KOMPAKT370 Formats: 10LP, Box Set Released Date: 28th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tycho Dive Electronica | Ghostly | 1LP Released 10th February 2014 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tycho Dive £18.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ghostly SKU: GI145LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Residents, The God In 3 Persons Soundtrack Electronica | Rykodisc | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th June 2024 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Residents, The God In 3 Persons Soundtrack £14.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Rykodisc SKU: nn288901 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th June 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Bibio Beyond Serious Electronica | Warp | 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 3rd May 2017 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bibio Beyond Serious £12.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WAP397 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 3rd May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cameron Morse The Truth Is Electronica | Lucky Me | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 26th August 2022 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cameron Morse The Truth Is £16.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Lucky Me SKU: LM085EP Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 26th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Double Virgo Eros In The Bunker 12” Electronica | PLZ Make It Ruins | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 14th October 2022 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Double Virgo Eros In The Bunker 12” £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: PLZ Make It Ruins SKU: PLZ045 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Royksopp Profound Mysteries II Electronica | Dog Triumph | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 18th November 2022 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Royksopp Profound Mysteries II £27.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dog Triumph SKU: DOG052LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 18th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hayden James We Could Be Love Electronica | Future Classic | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th October 2024 £23.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Hayden James We Could Be Love £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Future Classic SKU: 6922967801 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th October 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Daphni (Caribou) Jiaolong Electronica | Jiaolong | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 4th October 2012 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Daphni (Caribou) Jiaolong £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Jiaolong SKU: JIAOLONG005LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 4th October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View W. 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