GAS

Kompakt is proud to announce, finally, a reissue of the first, self- ;tled GAS album. Originally released on electronica imprint Mille Plateaux back in 1996 it’s been unavailable in its original form ever since – the version of GAS included in 2008’s Nah Und Fern box featured several different tracks. Here, however, GAS is restored in all its glory, the debut full-length from Wolfgang Voigt’s most enigmaOc, quixoOc project.here had, of course, been signs of what was to come. Back in 1995, Voigt essayed the first Gas release, a slender, yet remarkable four-track EP, Modern. Its centre label featured a reduced symbol – an overhead or lamp light, switched on, its glow radiaOng outwards in four bold black lines – a perfect representaOon of the Oght, stylised ambient electronic pop contained on that 12”. A few curious compilaOon tracks were floaOng around, too, for Mille Plateaux’s ModulaOon & TransformaOon and Electric Ladyland series. If you were aienOve enough, you could tell something was up. But nothing quite prepared us for the languorouKompakt is proud to announce, finally, a reissue of the first, self- ;tled GAS album. Originally released on electronica imprint Mille Plateaux back in 1996 it’s been unavailable in its original form ever since – the version of GAS included in 2008’s Nah Und Fern box featured several different tracks. Here, however, GAS is restored in all its glory, the debut full-length from Wolfgang Voigt’s most enigmaOc, quixoOc project.