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Gas Featured New Release Nah Und Fern (Rmst) The Kompakt label presents the work of Wolfgang Voigtís Gas ó a remastered deluxe package that includes all four of his Mille Plateaux albums: Gas (1996), Zauberberg (1997), K–nigsforst (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 Kompaktís co-founder and co-owner. In the 1980s, Voigt began working under a concept he named BLEI ó 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 ó Gas was born. Gas is the vision of a sonic body between Sch–nberg 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 J–rg Burger decided to keep remastering light, maintaining Gasí purity and authenticity. This 4CD box comes in a special and stylish collectorís format, including 4 small artwork prints. Format: CD Album   Label: Kompakt Catalog: KMPK66.2 Origin: Germany Listed: 2008-06-10 Activity Status: IN STOCK - Ready To Ship   Price: $29.76   More titles from Gas : Great American Songs Nah Und Fern (Rmst) specials Ikeda, Ryoji +/- Price: $10.44 More Info    Monolake Interstate Price: $13.85 More Info

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