Gas - Pop
(Mille Plateaux)
The packaging of this record describes the music perfectly. Aside from the name of the artist and the title of
the record, there is no other text on this CD. The photographs on the front, back, and inside covers are of
foliage: tree branches and wildflowers (a change of pace from the usual Mille Plateaux aesthetic of thin lines
and technological imagery).
This, the fifth record by Wolfgang Voigt aka. Gas aka Mike Ink of Burger/Ink fame, is a wonderful
combination of warm electronic sounds, culled from who knows what sources, layered with an end result
similar to Oval's 94 diskont. Where Markus Popp is usually dry, Voigt's sound is pure liquid.
Listening to this CD with headphones on, I find this to be the musical equivalent to floating on a bed of thick
foam on top of a fast moving body of water. By the fourth track, I have become the water itself, and I can hear
ripples and currents pushing me along.
Voigt is staying true to the minimal ideals as these pieces stay rather fixed in space and time. His focus is on
texture, and while the tones on this record conjure images of water more than the woods (at least for me),
Gas has succeeded in producing a remarkable record that will gather many repeated listens.
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