Microscopics

Here is an excerpt from the Earlabs review of Gas 0095…

GAS - GAS 0095
RATED: 9.9 / 10

Superb re-issue of the masterwork “GAS 0095” from British Ambient/IDM-composer GAS.

I was so amazed by the particular track titled “Microscopic” played in the “Drone Zone” channel that I just had to hear some more from this “Gas” project. The result was the reception of the album titled Gas 0095 (a.k.a. “High Skies“). Mat Jarvis (alias Gas) has already had quite a few releases on the highly respected Em:t Records label.
The “Gas 0095″-album was originally released on Em:t Records back in 1995, was never advertised and quickly sold on word of mouth alone. Now it has been re-issued in superb sound quality by Mat Jarvis’s own label Microscopics, and the album certainly deserves a royal treatment!

I regard “Gas 0095” as a landmark within the ambient-based IDM scene, up there with the heavyweights of the UK ambient/IDM-scene alongside benchmarks from the Warp Records label. The two lengthy tracks “Microscopic” and “Discovery” especially are stunning works of art. The expression on these two pieces has common grounds with some of the famous artists of the British ambient/IDM-scene, even though Gas creates its very own sound worlds. Take the earliest days of Warp Records, circa the legendary Warp compilation series “Artificial Intelligence” and stir it up with atmospheric wanderings that suggest virtual galactic discovery similar to Global Communication’s “76:14″ and more rhythm-structured chillout moments from Future Sound of London’s “Lifeforms”. The result is excellent.

For people interested in conceptual sound art, a very interesting fact about the album is the track titled “Timestretch”. A four-minute track, which has been compressed into one second of audio.

For anyone interested in electronic space music “Gas 0095” is an absolutely amazing release and now re-issued into a true sonic beauty. Essential!
9.9 / 10

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