Wolfgang Voigt's GAS Project: the Poll

no seams between tracks on the CD version, it does work best as one full serving, with all of its variations cohering into one streamlined piece (tonally). Narkopop is definitely one of the best sounding GAS albums, airy and humid, it's ultra-pleasant. I'm sure the vinyl product is top notch but it's nice to not have to change sides every 15 or so minutes.

lol @ residentadvisor comment thread

Whoa is that tracklist the actual tracklist? That is a ballsy move.

Kompakt dude obsessed with shiny 80s pop shocker.

not ballsy, just lazy

i think it's great

I usually hate that "something different to what I normally play on the club" bullshit, and it is true that this sounds like a middle aged woman's spotify playlist, however, I enjoyed it more than any other RA podcast in a year or more (with the exception of that disco / italo mix by that Japanese guy).

huh, i missed this

only listening on my laptop at the moment, which cuts out a lot and always makes things sound smoover, but

OH JESUS

it sounds so much waaaaay more narcotic (dur) than a typical gas record, just like an instant ZONK, like a microwave beam, i suspect encephalography was involved at some stage

live show this year was fantastic. i don't know how long it went on for but i was spellbound the whole way through, that whole thing where creeping anxiety is slowly transmuted into joy and wonder and then you slip back into the dark again. my journey home from work is often through some woods in the dark and now narkpop is more often than not the soundtrack to that. it's really had the effect of recallibrating my ears and my emotional response to that environment, especially hearing the wind through the leaves in the treetops as that same static-like hissing, no idea why i hadn't thought of listening to gas in situ before

yes! the show was amazing

Cosign all that, just zoned out and became completely immersed in it.

fuck i guess i gotta buy tickets for here

i hope you like trees!

this album sends you under like nothing else

it's taken me a while to realise just how much I love Gas, and Narkopop has been the deal-sealer, one of my favourite albums for the last few months

So... Bleep lists this as 11 tracks, the last of which is >70min. Is that the vinyl-only track? (In which case, how come the vinyl is "only" a triple if it's 150min?) I'm guessing this is a typo, as the vinyl bonus on Discogs is 16min. And the vinyl is over £50!

CD w/booklet is sold out on Bleep (which might be the only way to get track 11 bundled, as a download, with the CD), so I may go for 11xWAVs and write 1-10 to disc with no pre-gaps (tracks are seamless on the CD release, right?).

presumably that last track is just the album in a single track - Spotify lists it that way as well

Ah, got it. The 71min version is for gapless streaming/burning. So Narkopop 11 really is vinyl-only, not downloadable.

£50 though...

Kompakt has it for €50 so that's about £44... without shipping

this trend of splitting up CD-length albums over as much wax as possible really bugs me

I have made my peace with it wrt the Cavern of Anti-Matter LPs (both triples), but they were £20 each, and pretty satisfying to own on vinyl. Having a bit of a thing at the moment for vintage synths on wax, possibly triggered by digging out Matmos's Supreme Balloon (a mere double LP) again a few weeks ago and marvelling at how that sounded.

But GAS I'd take as full-fat digital.

Many xxps: great post, nickb. I got offered a ticket for the Barbican show but I live in the Shires and am old and said no and oh fuck it.

Album of the year for me.

maybe me as well

RIYL GAS: F.E. Denning

i only started listening to him, uh, last night, but his music reminds me quite a bit of voigt - long, untitled drone-based songs, occasional string pads, effectively establishing a sense of unique space in each song, e

while generally being quite a bit darker in tone.
all of his songs have < 1000 listens on spotify so i don't think he's a household name quite yet, but

goddammit, i didn't mean to submit that yet, but i'll just leave it there. if anyone knows of him or knows any cool tidbits about him or his music i'd love to hear them. i find it to be excellent work music so i expect to be listening quite a bit more this coming year.

Aw, I know him, he is a cool guy :) Him and a whole bunch of Copenhagen jazz guys did a pretty cool Coltrane tribute a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1qs-z-7dJI

wow, that's very unlike his other material i've heard, thanks!

Another new album!

https://www.stereogum.com/1987630/gas-announces-new-album-rausch-watch-a-trailer/video/

whaaat

fuck yeah

Oh nice! I’m seeing him next week, hopefully he’ll play some stuff on the new one!

Nice. Does he do his own album art?

i'm pretty sure it's his own photography.

nice to see the new one is half the price of narkopop, not sure why that one was quite so expensive

It came with a book, didn't it?

oh yeah, that's right! (i didn't buy it obv)

Narkopop (CD) was $15, with the book-packaging.

Nice. Does he do his own album art?

Narkopop (CD) was $15, with the book-packaging.

Vinyl was £55 or something daft like that!

lol yeh i got one, deffo around the fifty quid mark

holy shit I went to the show in Philly last night and it was something. Did anyone see him in NY/DC/elsewhere?

crut saw the Big Ears show and said it was amazing, see that thread for details

london last year! hope he comes to uk again soon :)

Agreed on the greatness of the Big Ears show. It was the end of a long festival day so I sort of drifted in and out, which was maybe the perfect way to experience it.

saw him DC and it was exactly what i wanted... a roomful of people transported into the subconscious void staring rapt at dark forest abstractions for an unclear amount of time. it was odd emerging from that into the mid-afternoon sunlight at the wharf.

sounds amazing

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0012922037_10.jpg
€11.90 EUR for the digital album "Rausch" (no thanks, Wolfgang)

lets hear some samples

cd edition cannot be that much more surely ?

i dont ever buy digital albums but is that bad?

it's approximately the same as paying for the CD (+ booklet)

lovely scarf, though

vinyl arrived today!

sounds quite pacy compared to previous records