Nah Und Fern, by Gas (CD box set on Kompakt)

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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

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