Narkopop, by GAS

Narkopop

by GAS

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Mads Peter Rommedahl So dark and relaxing. Very good at loud volume. Favorite track: Narkopop 5.

Karl Scutt An album that has left me lost for words and my mind wandering so much it may not come back Favorite track: Narkopop 6.

Cornelis V. It's what I call "Eventing out"

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	1.	Narkopop 1 04:52
	2.	Narkopop 2 11:21
	3.	Narkopop 3 04:24
	4.	Narkopop 4 04:09
	5.	Narkopop 5 06:47
	6.	Narkopop 6 05:11
	7.	Narkopop 7 09:16
	8.	Narkopop 8 07:27
	9.	Narkopop 9 07:57
	10.	Narkopop 10 17:08
	11.	Narkopop (Continous Mix) 01:11:17

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In the body of work of Cologne artist Wolfgang Voigt – who, like few others, has informed, shaped and influenced the world of electronic music with countless different projects since the early 1990s -, GAS stands out in particular as a saturnine sound cosmos based on heavily condensed classic sequences. Even after nearly 20 years, the sound of GAS doesn’t seem to have lost any of its luster, as shown by the commanding success of Kompakt’s fall 2016 re-release of the essential back catalogue as a 10xLP/4xCD box set.

The overwhelming feedback from a loyal international fan community and worldwide media outlets attests once again to the sheer timelessness of GAS. Which is why it will feel like hardly a day has passed since the release of the last official album “Pop” nearly two decades ago, when Wolfgang Voigt resumes this specific creative path with the upcoming new full-length NARKOPOP.

Even in the here and now, the unmistakable vibe of GAS immediately hits home, taking the listener on an otherworldly journey with the very first sounds, drawing him or her into an impervious sonic thicket, down to the depths of rapture and reverie. From wafts of dense symphonic mist emerges a floating and whirling feeling of weightlessness, before the listener steps into an eerily beautiful forest of fantasy, pulled in by the allure of a narcotic bass drum.

While earlier GAS tracks were often based on the hypnotic effects of looping techniques, the 10 new pieces on NARKOPOP unfold their magic in a more entwined manner, sometimes with the sonic might of an entire philharmonic orchestra, sometimes as subtle and fragile as the most delicate branch of a tree with many. A main characteristic of Voigt’s oeuvre, the coalescence of seemingly contradictory stylistic aspects such as harmonious and atonal, concrete and abstract, light and heavy, near and far is also a decisive feature of NARKOPOP.

In accordance with the transgressive spirit of his collective work, Voigt carries the aesthetic conceptions of his music over to the realm of the visual. Based on his abstract forest pictures, the GAS artwork addresses Voigt’s artistic affinity to romanticism and the forest as a place of yearning. For the first time, a closer look at the cover of NARKOPOP reveals signs of architectural fragments which hint at another, maybe parallel world behind Voigt’s forest. Truth is the prettiest illusion.

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released April 21, 2017

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GAS Cologne, Germany

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Der Lange Marsch

Dec 2021
Nah Und Fern

Jun 2008
Zauberberg

Oct 2016
Königsforst

Oct 2016
Pop

Oct 2016
Oktember

Oct 2016
Narkopop

Apr 2017
Rausch

May 2018

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