Norman Records Silhouette of a dancer with caption 'Slapping the thighs of melody'
 

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

Cover art for Nah Und Fern by Gas Description: 4CD boxset on Kompakt
Add Nah Und Fern by Gas to your cart

UK ORDERS OVER £50 SHIP FREE!
Format: CD box set
Label: Kompakt
Price: £19.29
Catalogue number: KOMCD66
Availability: despatched in 1 working day


What you say

No-one has reviewed Nah Und Fern by Gas yet.

  • Give us your opinion on Nah Und Fern by Gas.

What we say

Rating: happy This record left our Ant feeling happy.

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.

What the 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

 

Other customers buying this also bought:

Electro Shock For President by Brainiac (CD, £4.99)
Sarolta Zalatnay by Sarolta Zalatnay (LP, £14.79)
Paint A Lady by Susan Christie (LP, £14.79)
Mirrored by Battles (CD, £6.49)
Warren (Home Version)/ Helpless by Jessica Bailiff (7", £3.99)

Request more details

If you would like more details about Nah Und Fern by Gas, fill in the form below and we'll get back to ya.

Your Name (required):

Your E-Mail Address: (required)

What do you want to know about? (required)

Your comments/questions/request:

in your cart:

0 items in your cart, fool!

main links:
Homepage
Contact details
Competition
Mailing list
Blog
MySpace
search:

Format:
Catalogue A-Z
New stuff in
Used items
Pre-ordering
Sale items!
View entire catalogue
Jonathon Whiskey
Chain With No Name
news & opinion:
News & reviews
Search reviews
ordering:
Payment methods
Shipping info.
Reserving records
Special orders
Wants & trading
Update your info
about us:
FAQs
Life at Norman Towers
Links
Credits
 


Back to top | Search | Browse the catalogue | New stuff in | Recommendations | News & reviews

Bookmark & Share

Send this page to a friend | Print this page

Norman Records:
Unit 1 Armley Park Court, Stanningley Road, Leeds, LS12 2AE, UK.
Tel/Fax UK (+44): 0113 2311114
phil@normanrecords.com


About the humble CD:

The CD is essentially a small portable face mirror which has an extra feature of being able to play music (through a thing known as a CD player). These CD's are a modern invention hence them being all shiny and digital. They can hold about 80 minutes of music and apparently are indestructible as you can smear jam on them and they still play (not as nourishing as toast mind you but when you're hungry.....). They sound crystal clear and are tiny convenient things. They lack the charm and warmth of their old analogue counterparts but their portability, convenience and ease of being duplicated make them a perfect thing of a thing for most folks. Jewel cases are the worst thing ever though and they really need to stop.