Gas synthesizes a new kind of anesthesia on his first new album in 17 years, Narkopop
Having first been exposed to the landmark 90s releases of Gas (a.k.a. Wolfgang Voigt) on the Mille Plateaux label courtesy of the Nah Und Fern box set (2008), I can personally attest to their timeless and enduring quality. All those early albums (Gas, Zauberberg, Königsforst, and Pop) didn’t strike me as “dated” or “retro” the way many electronic albums from that era do, chiefly due to GAS’s deft management of all those ethereal and hypnotic 4/4 loops. (A separate box set released last year, which basically mined the same sources but also included the Oktember EP, demonstrated how the Kompakt label could get away with pretty much just…
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