Gas - criminally underrated/unknown?

Ok so I've been into electronic music for a fair amount of time now, and I've always constantly been searching for records I've never listened to, both new and old. I recently thought that I might have finally gotten to the point that I was running out of good stuff to check out.

Then I found "0095" by Gas, and I was blown away. Seriously I've never seen much about this guy. Did he just elude me for whatever reason or is he as unknown/underrated as I think?

oh wait there's two gas'? well i'm talking about mat jarvis gas.

It's about the first name that gets thrown around here whenever ambient music is mentioned, together with Stars Of The Lid. Not bad per se, but I think they're massively overrepresented.

just double checking are we talking about the same gas? i just realized there's two people that have used that name, i'm talking about this one http://gas0095.bandcamp.com/album/gas-0095

oups

  On 1/14/2016 at 4:57 AM, chim said:

It's about the first name that gets thrown around here whenever ambient music is mentioned, together with Stars Of The Lid. Not bad per se, but I think they're massively overrepresented.

I tend not to think of Gas (Wolfgang Voigt that is) or SOTL as ambient. Gas is...well Gas is its own genre. SOTL is more modern classical/drone to me than ambient.

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:00 AM, orangebattery said:

just double checking are we talking about the same gas? i just realized there's two people that have used that name, i'm talking about this one http://gas0095.bandcamp.com/album/gas-0095

Different gas. You're talking about a guy who apparently released one album in 1995. So it's not a bit surprising that he's unknown, especially compared to the massive appeal of Gas (Wolfgang Voigt's project). I'll give him a shot though!

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:29 AM, Ayya Khema said:

love him but I really only dig 0095. love this album, but I think there's many many other electronica artist much more underrated.

The one most discussed around here is the wolfgang voigt project dubbed "Gas", which is more in a neoclassical/ambient/notquitedub deutchland techno vein. IMHO it is neither underrated nor overrated, just amazon.

From wikipaedia

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Gas is a music project of Wolfgang Voigt (born 1961), a Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind his work under the name Gas.^[1] He has claimed that the intention of the project is to "bring the forest to the disco, or vice-versa".^[2]

 

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Voigt is known for his numerous, nearly inexhaustible list of one-off projects and aliases. Of these, his best known is arguably Gas, a project that saw the marriage of ambient music and 4/4 techno.

Dunno anything about this other Gas but will check out. Pretty sure Pete Namlook recorded some tracks under the alias Gas too.

Why cant we edit more then 1 time our post.

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:33 AM, orangebattery said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:29 AM, Ayya Khema said:

love him but I really only dig 0095. love this album, but I think there's many many other electronica artist much more underrated.

yeah for sure there's many others underrated, it's just i was really surprised i hadn't come across this album before.

 

0095 is beautiful!

why cant we edit more then one time our posts?

from the same compilation of 0095, check out International peoples gang

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:32 AM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:00 AM, orangebattery said:

just double checking are we talking about the same gas? i just realized there's two people that have used that name, i'm talking about this one http://gas0095.bandcamp.com/album/gas-0095

Different gas. You're talking about a guy who apparently released one album in 1995. So it's not a bit surprising that he's unknown, especially compared to the massive appeal of Gas (Wolfgang Voigt's project). I'll give him a shot though!

 

yeah i was getting mixed up with the two gas', now that i see he only released one album i can see why it's more unknown but still this album is the bomb dot com.

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:36 AM, orangebattery said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:32 AM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:00 AM, orangebattery said:

just double checking are we talking about the same gas? i just realized there's two people that have used that name, i'm talking about this one http://gas0095.bandcamp.com/album/gas-0095

Different gas. You're talking about a guy who apparently released one album in 1995. So it's not a bit surprising that he's unknown, especially compared to the massive appeal of Gas (Wolfgang Voigt's project). I'll give him a shot though!

 

yeah i was getting mixed up with the two gas', now that i see he only released one album i can see why it's more unknown but still this album is the bomb dot com.

 

wow, i thought that gas- 0095 was wolfgang voigt. no wonder I always found I much preferred 0095 over all his other work

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:41 AM, Ayya Khema said:

wow, i thought that gas- 0095 was wolfgang voigt. no wonder I always found I much preferred 0095 over all his other work

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:46 AM, orangebattery said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:41 AM, Ayya Khema said:

wow, i thought that gas- 0095 was wolfgang voigt. no wonder I always found I much preferred 0095 over all his other work

ha, yeah i went to check out some other tracks that i thought were the same gas but were actually voigt and was not really into them. makes sense now.

 

looking at discogs, gas-0095 is also High Skies-sounds of earth.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/64945-High-Skies

From the same era/ label, International peoples gang-3395 is great too!

Woob is one of my fav artist: fromt he same label: Woob- 1194 and 4495.

talking about underatted, woob is massively underrated around here.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/4078-Woob

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:00 AM, orangebattery said:

just double checking are we talking about the same gas? i just realized there's two people that have used that name, i'm talking about this one http://gas0095.bandcamp.com/album/gas-0095

Turns out we weren't. This album is excellent 90s electronica!

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:49 AM, Ayya Khema said:

Woob is one of my fav artist: fromt he same label: Woob- 1194 and 4495.

talking about underatted, woob is massively underrated around here.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/4078-Woob

You're god damn RIGHT.

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:49 AM, Ayya Khema said:

looking at discogs, gas-0095 is also High Skies-sounds of earth.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/64945-High-Skies

 

From the same era/ label, International peoples gang-3395 is great too!

 

Woob is one of my fav artist: fromt he same label: Woob- 1194 and 4495.

talking about underatted, woob is massively underrated around here.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/4078-Woob

damn woob is amazing too, thanks for pointing him out man. i have to dive more into this label, seems they had some top-notch stuff back in the day.

side note: i really love finding new gems like this. literally for the past couple months i was not finding anything exciting, now in 24 hours i've found two great new artists.

remember this vid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTe1-a6Pdo

damn awesome video, hadn't seen it before...guess 1million other people have tho lol

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:59 AM, orangebattery said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:49 AM, Ayya Khema said:

looking at discogs, gas-0095 is also High Skies-sounds of earth.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/64945-High-Skies

 

From the same era/ label, International peoples gang-3395 is great too!

 

Woob is one of my fav artist: fromt he same label: Woob- 1194 and 4495.

talking about underatted, woob is massively underrated around here.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/4078-Woob

damn woob is amazing too, thanks for pointing him out man. i have to dive more into this label, seems they had some top-notch stuff back in the day.

 

side note: i really love finding new gems like this. literally for the past couple months i was not finding anything exciting, now in 24 hours i've found two great new artists.

 

Gel-Sol and Woob are my favorite from that label. International peoples gang, 302 Acid and Gas are also very special.

Woob is one of my favorite artist of all time and Gel-sol is quite amazing too!

edit: you should really listen to Woob 2015 albums. Intervision 1015 is a true masterpiece

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:35 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

The one most discussed around here is the wolfgang voigt project dubbed "Gas", which is more in a neoclassical/ambient/notquitedub deutchland techno vein. IMHO it is neither underrated nor overrated, just amazon.

 

From wikipaedia

 

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Gas is a music project of Wolfgang Voigt (born 1961), a Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind his work under the name Gas.^[1] He has claimed that the intention of the project is to "bring the forest to the disco, or vice-versa".^[2]

 

 

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Voigt is known for his numerous, nearly inexhaustible list of one-off projects and aliases. Of these, his best known is arguably Gas, a project that saw the marriage of ambient music and 4/4 techno.

 

Dunno anything about this other Gas but will check out. Pretty sure Pete Namlook recorded some tracks under the alias Gas too.

Yeah, was gonna say the same about Voigt, he's rated just about right here on WATMM I think.

The t:me/em:t stuff I remember leeching back in the slsk IDM chatroom days but haven't listened to it in years.

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:35 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

From wikipaedia

 

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Gas is a music project of Wolfgang Voigt (born 1961), a Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind his work under the name Gas.^[1] He has claimed that the intention of the project is to "bring the forest to the disco, or vice-versa".^[2]

 

 

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Voigt is known for his numerous, nearly inexhaustible list of one-off projects and aliases. Of these, his best known is arguably Gas, a project that saw the marriage of ambient music and 4/4 techno.

 

 

I wrote that :)

em:t had some pretty incredible records back in the day. The first Woob album is one of the greats of that slightly ethno dubby '90s ambient scene. I've not been so taken by his newer stuff but I have a lot of respect for the guy. Brian Dougans was his tutor at university, which probably explains a lot.

The Gas album is probably my second favourite on the label, really wonderful stuff, love the almost housey sounds on some of the tracks. And that some of the short pieces are full tracks he wrote and then compressed into a couple of seconds.

Totally recommend the first International Peoples Gang record, too. Amazing use of samples.

Besides Woob and Gas I also love Miasma and Qubism from Em:t. Haven't checked the intl Peoples Gang but I'm gonna have to.

I couldn't find a lot of T:me stuff last time I looked for it, though, anyone have some recommendations?

  On 1/14/2016 at 1:50 PM, th555 said:

Besides Woob and Gas I also love Miasma and Qubism from Em:t. Haven't checked the intl Peoples Gang but I'm gonna have to.

 

I couldn't find a lot of T:me stuff last time I looked for it, though, anyone have some recommendations?

dont forget Gel-Sol! Everything he does is amazing.

https://gelsol.bandcamp.com/album/unifactor

International people gangs, I prefer their 2006's 0006 album!

  On 1/14/2016 at 7:10 AM, manmower said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:35 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

The one most discussed around here is the wolfgang voigt project dubbed "Gas", which is more in a neoclassical/ambient/notquitedub deutchland techno vein. IMHO it is neither underrated nor overrated, just amazon.

 

From wikipaedia

 

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Gas is a music project of Wolfgang Voigt (born 1961), a Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind his work under the name Gas.^[1] He has claimed that the intention of the project is to "bring the forest to the disco, or vice-versa".^[2]

 

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Voigt is known for his numerous, nearly inexhaustible list of one-off projects and aliases. Of these, his best known is arguably Gas, a project that saw the marriage of ambient music and 4/4 techno.

Dunno anything about this other Gas but will check out. Pretty sure Pete Namlook recorded some tracks under the alias Gas too.

Yeah, was gonna say the same about Voigt, he's rated just about right here on WATMM I think.

 

The t:me/em:t stuff I remember leeching back in the slsk IDM chatroom days but haven't listened to it in years.

  On 1/15/2016 at 4:27 AM, bronchuseven said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 7:10 AM, manmower said:

 

  On 1/14/2016 at 5:35 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

The one most discussed around here is the wolfgang voigt project dubbed "Gas", which is more in a neoclassical/ambient/notquitedub deutchland techno vein. IMHO it is neither underrated nor overrated, just amazon.

 

From wikipaedia

 

  Quote

Gas is a music project of Wolfgang Voigt (born 1961), a Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind his work under the name Gas.^%5B1%5D He has claimed that the intention of the project is to "bring the forest to the disco, or vice-versa".^%5B2%5D

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Voigt is known for his numerous, nearly inexhaustible list of one-off projects and aliases. Of these, his best known is arguably Gas, a project that saw the marriage of ambient music and 4/4 techno.

Dunno anything about this other Gas but will check out. Pretty sure Pete Namlook recorded some tracks under the alias Gas too.

 

Yeah, was gonna say the same about Voigt, he's rated just about right here on WATMM I think.

 

The t:me/em:t stuff I remember leeching back in the slsk IDM chatroom days but haven't listened to it in years.

 

I was all over the slsk IDM chatroom too; I remember a user "mwr" - was that you?

 

Nah, pretty sure I was a total lurker there and certain I didn't use anything remotely similar to my WATMM handle. (It was probably something even stupider but I can't remember what.)