If you somehow haven't heard of Gas (or Wolfgang Voigt), and if you're looking for an introduction to ambient, techno, or good electronic music generally, you couldn't possibly improve on this 4xCD set, which collects Gas's Mille Plateaux full-lengths into one extremely affordable package - if you had tried to put this collection together last year, it would have cost well over $200. I don't even know where to begin on the greatness of these four albums; "Königsforst" and "Zauberberg" are (in my opinion) among the top 10 electronic albums ever made, without question. The Gas sound has been accurately described as "heroin house," akin to hearing a techno set from the other side of a canyon, or through a series of walls; the music consists of heavily altered samples from classical and popular music distended and placed under propulsive 4/4 beats or washes of ambience, which seems like it might be boring, but turns out to be hypnotic and hauntingly beautiful. One of the more important re-issues of the decade for sure.
Genre: Techno, Ambient
RIYL: The Field, Rod Modell
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Download: Untitled (Pop Track 1)
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