Prepare yourself for a bumper edition of the Depot, stuffed with pretty ditties and hot pounders for your aural delight. This includes a couple of tracks from our featured album of the week, Kompakt’s Gas restrospective compilation, Nah Und Fern. Also, there’s a track from the first release on Bleep Fiend, an online project to reissue long lost electronic music. Get that first release, At Home With Astronaut No.1, for free and find out more on the label here.
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Tracklist
C’Est What – Terminal 11[Cock Rock Disco]
Riddim Grid – Disrupt[Werk]
Is We Going Under? – Steinski[Illegal Art]
Pop IV – Gas[Kompakt]
2D – Skream[Tempa]
New Territory (Norman Nodge Remix) – Peter Van Hoesen[Time to Express]
Matter of Sound – Planetary[Metamorphic]
Reminissin’ (Skream’s Time Traveller Refit) – Geiom ft. Marita[Berkane Soul]
Drama – Fool ft. MC Non[Hum & Haw]
Mom, The Video Broke – Syclops[DFA]
Poo Yourself Jason – Venetian Snares[Planet Mu]
W.32.Deadcode.A – AFX[Rephlex]
CYK – Cristian Vogel[Tresor]
Elektro Cut – MMM[MMM]
Heartbeats Per Minute – Astronaut No. 1[Bleepfiend]
Funf – Gas[Kompakt]
Featured Album: Gas – Nah Und Fern [Kompakt]
Nah Und Fern, an anthology of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas project, brings some of the most influential recordings of electronic music out of the mitts of hoarding collectors and into a much more accessible domain. From the 1996’s self-titled debut to 2000’s Pop, the package is all 4 full length releases, missing only the Modern E.P. and a couple of other lost recordings from the discography.
Gas is Voigt, co-founder of the Kompakt label and microhouse pioneer, at his most reflective, taking inspiration from the Black Forest and looping crackly orchestral snippets into oblivion. Each sample used is a seed that branches and firs. Where the kick drum is introduced, it is only to gently pad you deeper into the dense, expansive drone. Occasional field recordings and instrumentation seep into focus out of the murk, only to disperse out of recognition. The music is vital and intuitive, comfortable in blind ambiguity and astonishingly beautiful.