Pop

Gas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Efa Imports
• ASIN: B00004RCAD
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #424,440 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Köln kingpin Wolfgang Voigt often waxes tyrannical about the sanctity of techno's four-on-the-floor heartbeat. In his Gas guise, though, Voigt is gradually coming to value beatless bliss. His atmospheric Gas-werks are as in thrall to the almighty kick drum as all productions bearing the redoubtable Voigt's nom de jour. But over four albums (and a vinyl-only mini-LP), Voigt has been refining the Gas concept to the point of perfection. Practice indeed has its virtues. Voigt craftily weaves string and woodwind samples that he has skimmed from obscure classical recordings into bolts of melodic mesh. Where these folds once fell freely over beds of uncompromised beats, Pop hangs them as from a lofty bough to billow in the breeze. As this shimmering material twists and tangles, shadows collect among the creases. Voigt introduces the knotlike texture of the familiar 4/4, and the intrusion of rhythm is for once absolutely justified. While uplifting and ravishingly melodic, Pop is certainly not pop. Nor is it ambient music in the strictest, Brian Eno-sired sense of the word--Voigt's still reluctant to give up those ghost drums. For now, Gas is like no other music on Earth or off it. --Gil Gershman

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars shimmering, June 6, 2000

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Matthew D. Mercer (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pop (Audio CD)

Gas is the ambient alter-ego of Wolfgang Voigt (aka Mike Ink). While his two past albums as Gas (Zauberberg and Konigforst) were brooding and dark, the new one Pop is much more radiant. It breathes hope throughout its duration, with its light, airy washes of tones and drones and the signature pulsing undercurrent. Gas is a very distinctly new kind of ambient music, bridging the gap between pure atmosphere (Eno, Satie) and the so-called "ambient techno" of the early nineties.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Symphonic Ambient, October 17, 2002

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Mons "Mons" (Norrpan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pop (Audio CD)

Probably the most interesting record I have heard in a long time. This is a must-listen for anyone interested in ambient music, simply because it is primarily a work of texture rather than melodies or grooves, (see also Brian Enos Music for Airports) In ot her words, Pop has a tactile quality that gives rise to a different kind of listening experience. On the surface, Pop is a pretty smooth ride. Think: a string section of a huge symphony orchestra playing the same chord repeatedly, forming a sweeping expanse of noise. Think: Wagner with severe short-term memory loss. All the tracks on this album are just variations of one theme: beat, no beat, slowed-down, speeded-up, different instruments coming in, but always the same steady orchestral pulse (and white noise?), which makes this good to have on while you are working, for example. Repeated listening, however, reveals superstructural details - harmonies, fragments of melody, a constantly evolving sound picture. Gas, incidentally, is one of German electro nica pioneer Wolfgang Voigts (Mike Ink) aliases .Vorsprung durch teknik, indeed.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zonked Out on Pop Tunes, November 4, 2008

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Avant S. (Woodland Hills, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pop (Audio CD)

This album is insanely good. I bought it in 12th grade because it was on the staff picks at Tower Records. It's fantastic. If you have any tasks you want to get done, this fills out the rest of your brain and lets you get to work while giving you just a tiny bit of propulsion half way through to keep going. It's like a zen fountain.