Description:	4CD boxset on Kompakt
	Format:	CD box set
	Genre(s):	Dub Techno
	Label:	Kompakt
	Price:	£19.79
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Ant on 12 June 2008.

The eagerly anticipated Gas 'Nah Und Fern' box set which reissues Wolfgang Voight's hugely respected and influential albums originally released on Mille Plateaux in the 90's. The 4CD box is a lovely looking thing with Voight's original artwork. This stuff just perfectly blurs the lines between ambient and techno. Really lush sounding stuff that you can just lose yourself in completely. This has been carefully re mastered and is really full sounding. I like the way some of the tracks make me think I'm in a chill out room listening to ambient but you can hear the distant thud of the kickdrum in the main room in the distance. Like listening to a rave through a wall of dub. It's almost perfect because you can be in two places at one. Just imagine if you could be in bed and in the pub at the same time... Maybe one day eh! It's amazing what they can do these days. I haven't a clue what tracks are on the vinyl though.

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What their label says...

Without question one of the most important ambient/techno releases in recent memory, a silver embossed four cd box set of Wolfgang Voigt’s legendary GAS project, released just after his Wire magazine front cover and feature.
lBeyond being a founding co-owner of KOMPAKT, WOLFGANG VOIGT is recognized as a pioneer of the German techno music scene and one of the leading forces behind ’90’s electronic music. His many aliases and styles such as MIKE INK, LOVE INC., M:I:5, STUDIO 1 have given him almost legendary status. GAS is easily his most acclaimed music project to date, heralded by many as one of the most important and influential outputs to emerge in ’90’s music.
lThe limited edition 4 CD collectors box includes 4 small artwork prints. The ultra-limited double vinyl comes in a foldover cover with a bonus artwork print. Both formats include the re-mastered 4 albums: GAS (1996), ZAUBERBERG (1997), KONIGSFORST(1998) and POP (2000), all released on Mille Plateaux at that time. The originals all currently sell for silly money on Ebay. The connoisseur will notice one or two new tracks and versions. All 4 albums were remastered by Voigt and Jorg Burger aka The Modernist.
lGAS is the vision of a sonic body between Schoenberg and Kraftwerk. GAS is there to take you on a seemingly
endless march into an imaginary, nebulous forest. In his music, Wolfgang Voigt does not create a direct reference to the original sounds and or even the forest itself. Instead he tries to reduce the "material"to its basic aesthetic structure by using different zoom, loop and alienation techniques in order to release it from its original meaning and context. Hisintention is to create a kind of aesthetic essence, a cave (detail/loop/repetition) where you can get lost.

Press:
- PITCHFORKMEDIA: "(VOIGT’s) albums as GAS helped define the sound Kompakt artists are still perfecting"
- THE WIRE: "For now, then, the GAS tetralogy stands as Wolfgang Voigt’s masterpiece, awork of substance and
integrity that looms like Cologne Cathedral over the pop-art experimentation of his dancefloor sides."

Tracklisting:
- CD1 (Gas): 1. Gas 1  2. Gas 2  3. Gas 3  4. Gas 4  5. Gas 5  6. Gas 6
- CD2 (Zauberberg): 1. Zauberberg 1  2. Zauberberg 2  3. Zauberberg 3  4. Zauberberg 4  5. Zauberberg 5  
6. Zauberberg 6  7. Zauberberg 7
- CD3: (Konigsforst): 1. Konigsforst 1  2. Konigsforst 2  3. Konigsforst 3  4. Konigsforst 4  5. Konigsforst 5  6. Konigsforst 6
- CD4 (Pop): 1. Pop 1  2. Pop 2  3. Pop 3  4. Pop 4  5. Pop 5  6. Pop 6  7. Pop 7