Microscopics

Kraftwerk (German for powerstation) are due to release eight of their albums as a remastered box-set (Kraftwerk: The Catalogue) with expanded artwork. They will also be available individually. Personally I’d rather have the Ralf und Florian album than Electric Cafe, The Mix or Tour de France Soundtracks, there are still five classic and hugely influential albums in there [...]

Eddy Boxerman, the main man behind the ambient game Osmos and myself (Mat Jarvis) have been interviewed by Peter Kirn at his Create Digital Music blog. We cover such topics as the evolution of the game, gravitational mechanics, and the Osmos soundtrack.
Visit CreateDigitalMusic.com to read the full interview (music physics space in perfect fusion)
Further Osmos interviews [...]

For the Future Music Magazine feature on Gas 0095,  Bob Katz, world famous mastering engineer was kind enough to give us a quote about the album…

Mat Jarvis’ restoration of Gas 0095; it sounds to me like it was originally mixed to analog tape, congratulations on doing a good, conservative job with the noise reduction.
I must say that I’m [...]

Walter Murch, the award winning film sound designer, explains where the name ‘Wookie’ (or ‘Wookiee’) from the Star Wars movies came from.

On the DVD extras for the early George Lucus movie THX1138 (1971), Murch is explaining his thoughts and processes for the film’s sounds and atmospheres…

I THINK I JUST RAN OVER A WOOKIE
Walter Murch: “The voices that [...]

We are pleased to announce that we have supplied music (four tracks), along with Robert Fripp (King Crimson, Eno, Sylvian - ten new tracks), free for download for anyone to add to their own Worldwide Telescope space tours.
Here is the track listing…
Mat Jarvis
Gas - Earthloop
Gas - Earthloop (explorer mix)
Gas - Microscopic
Gas - Pixels
High Skies - The [...]

Hemisphere Games are currently at the PAX show in Seattle as Osmos has been selected as one of the PAX 10, the top ten games voted by Penny Arcade.
Congratulations to Eddy and Dave at Hemisphere. This is Osmos…
 
Here are a collection of random Osmos reviews and interviews…
INTERVIEWS
Indie studio talks about what it takes to bring a [...]

It’s that time of the month again to announce the winner of Septembers free CD draw for subscribers and customers, and this month the winner is Laurent Plisson from the beautiful Royan, France.
As a Gas 0095 CD customer he is free to chose from another copy of Gas 0095 in any format (to give to a friend), or a credit [...]