GAS - Oktember

Label: Kompakt – Kom 370.4
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Reissue
Country: Germany
Released: 2020
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental, Dub Techno

A reissue of GAS’s Oktember, originally released in 1999, presenting two immersive ambient compositions that epitomise Wolfgang Voigt’s lush, forest-inspired sound world.

Wolfgang Voigt’s output as GAS has had an indisputable influence, reshaping the borders of ambient and dub. Released between 1996-2000, Voigt’s four albums on Mille Plateaux carved an etch in electronic music as effortlessly as it cast listeners into thickly fogged pseudo-reality.

‘Oktember‘’s earthly thuds sit solemnly beside a distorted string orchestra, in a ghostly forest symphony; ‘TAL-90’ is warmer, glacial guitar loops brushing wistfully against each-other in ethereal liminality. Voigt’s perception for organicism within his machines conveys a ghostly sense of ‘mono no aware’, or appreciation of fleeting beauty, that offers a warm and welcome return each and every time.

"GAS fantasises about a sound body ranging somewhere between Schönberg and Kraftwerk, between bugle and bass drum. GAS is Glamrock as Wagner, Hansel and Gretel on Acid. An endless march through the undergrowth – into the disco – of an imaginary, misty forest." - Wolfgang Voigt

A. Tal 90
B. Oktember