Wolfgang Voigt's GAS Project: the Poll

"Have we mentioned that?" Duh, this was a poll.

Just dug out Zaub... and it skips on the last track. It's been looping a tiny fragment of the fade-out for the last five minutes. So that's nice :/

this all made me listen to s/t which is great which sucks

Königsforst is pure magic, I completely forget myself when it is on at loud volume.

After careful consideration I've decided to treat myself... to the WAV downloads of Nah Und Fern from Bleep for £12. I just can't justify that box.

(I've still got my skippy Zaub CD if I want the original sound balance, can't find Konig anywhere and figure I never actually owned Pop).

if you get a cd polished in a game store, does that cure skips or will that fuck it up further?

It should help - but it is literally just the fade out on the last track. I almost kinda like it.

i've had bad luck with those things, been burned the only couple of times i've used them (and it was in a work context w/ a dvd, have never used them on my own stuff) and would avoid them personally

I may even be able to rip it and burn it anew to CD-R. In which case, I can make my own little 5-CD boxset: Nah Und Fern plus Zaub (orig). In real paper sleeves, dead classy.

I can forget the box set when there's the Robyn remix. Just wish it would get a physical release.

I don't know what's going on exactly, but these are the track lengths of the original, 2008 and 2016 cds:

title - orig. - 2008 - 2016
gas 1 - 10:20 - 06:27 - n/a
gas 2 - 13:47 - 14:08 - n/a
gas 3 - 14:33 - 08:20 - n/a
gas 4 - 11:15 - 11:50 - n/a
gas 5 - 13:38 - 13:56 - n/a
gas 6 - 13:31 - 13:51 - n/a
zau 1 - 07:50 - 07:46 - 11:44
zau 2 - 14:13 - 14:09 - 14:14
zau 3 - 12:50 - 12:47 - 14:31
zau 4 - 06:01 - 05:59 - 05:55
zau 5 - 08:05 - 08:01 - 07:59
zau 6 - 07:23 - 11:04 - 11:02
zau 7 - 09:32 - 09:11 - 11:58
kon 1 - 09:39 - 09:49 - 09:40
kon 2 - 13:57 - 13:56 - 13:58
kon 3 - 08:58 - 09:01 - 08:59
kon 4 - 06:31 - 06:32 - 06:32
kon 5 - 15:13 - 15:19 - 15:14
kon 6 - 10:22 - 10:20 - 10:20
kon 7 - n/a - n/a - 06:20
kon 8 - n/a - n/a - 07:11
okt 1 - 09:38 - n/a - 11:47
okt 2 - 15:10 - n/a - 15:13
pop 1 - 05:13 - 05:30 - 05:13
pop 2 - 08:38 - 08:36 - 08:35
pop 3 - 07:27 - 07:26 - 11:03
pop 4 - 09:31 - 09:28 - 09:53
pop 5 - 10:52 - 10:51 - 10:49
pop 6 - 09:24 - 09:18 - 09:20
pop 7 - 14:37 - 15:02 - 14:36

god dammit, the box is sold out everywhere; my Amazon order got delayed until mid-December (despite being placed like two months ago), which I assume means it's probably not going to get filled.

my good friends at m-theory music in san diego have one, if you don't mind paying shipping

lol i remember pre-ordering the nah und fern vinyl from amazon thinking "there's no way this is actually going to ship". sure enough, come release day it was placed on back-order with no foreseeable ship date. bastards.

god dammit, the box is sold out everywhere

was just coming here to whine about this

be quick:
Kompakt Records at Kompakt Records.
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A few limited copies of the GAS Box just arrived and are available in our Cologne shop and online mailorder: http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/box

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THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU for the heads up; I was able to snag one and cancel my Amazon order, which is an immense relief since they never gave me a ship date (and it actually ended up being cheaper to just get it via Kompakt somehow) and I couldn't find a shop in town which didn't sell out immediately.

The photo book included in the box is the cheapest default photoshop filter bullsht ever. Completely pointless and actually cheapens the whole concept. Music sounds great though.

yeah there are some scary Discogs reviews re: fingerprints/dirt on new records, etc. and everybody hates the photobook

It's pretty amazing how they've managed to confuse and disappoint people twice now (by remastering the music in a weird way or omitting some of the original recordings or fucking up a 150 euro deluxe box set), when most of them would've probably been happy if they'd simply just reissued the original albums as they were.

Thankfully I have the original Gas & Königsforst albums + Nah und Fern + various compilation tracks, so I don't need to pay ridiculous prices for a few extra minutes of those loops.

I just really want the two vinyl-only KF tracks and the Oktember 12" (and they even fuck that up in the box by omitting the A-side and subbing a comp track), the sad thing is that the box costs less than those two do total.

So, has anyone managed compared these new records to the older versions? Are they the original masters or the Nah und Fern remasters or completely new ones?

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from the Discogs page:

Every track sounds better with this boxset over the original CDS and the Nah Und Fern boxset except track 1 of Pop. The Nah Und Fern version of track 1 on Pop sounds better in my opinion.

one person's opinion, but still...

Yeah, I get it, I can be a complete completists loon when it comes to music I really love. (And as nice as this stuff is, thankfully it isn't so good that it'd cause such an extreme reaction in me.) I just feel it's a bit of scam, because there must be a lot of people like you who already own some older versions of these records and are forced to pay ridiculous prices to get those couple of tracks they don't have, when Voigth could've simply just reissued the albums individually at a regular price.

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agreed, for sure

That sounds pretty subjective to me, I wonder if anyone's done a proper waveform analysis? I haven't seen any of the promotional material say they would've been remastered again since Nah und Fern?

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Note: This is an additional Delivery. A Re-press comes in February 2017.
Hinweis: Es handelt sich um eine Nachlieferung. Eine Nachpressung erwarten wir im Februar 2017.

grateful that I have nah under fern, that's all I need from gas

All i need from gas is r e l i e f

I've been on a major Wolfgang Voigt kick lately. The GAS stuff in particular is perfect for this time of the year. As of right now I think I have to go with Zauberberg.

I broke down and got the new box, everything was in great shape except for the Oktember CD which was ruined, Kompakt immediately sent me a replacement after I contacted them via email. Such great stuff, nice to have this in the non-tweaked Nah Und Fern versions. I just wish they had included both sides of the Oktember 12", but maybe one is just an edit of the other? Great to have the vinyl-only Koenigsforst tracks at last.

"great"

These are now available digitally, and on Spotify in the UK. As far as I can make out they are the same versions from the recent box

nice!

since my last post I have figured out that the other Oktember track is really just Konigsfirst 1, which explains why it was replaced with "Tal 90" on the reissue.

New album! NARKOPOP

h e l l y e a h

N A R K O P O P

wut

woah

i look forward to not being able to buy a copy when this sells out in 5 minutes

lol, me too.

w u t

w o a h

waht

pre-orders available through the Kompakt site, 16 euros for CD, 50 for 3xLP plus CD, both come with "artbook"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emUETcnDxnY