Microscopics

Last week we linked up with Plague Recordings for the Pump CD giveaway on our blog, this week it’s Plague’s turn to give away our Gas 0095 CD on their blog.
Just add a comment on their blog to win. The draw finishes on Sunday 22th (sic)
Visit Plague’s blog and win a CD…
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Special offer: All orders of our Gas 0095 album on CD or Flac24 come with a free Minimoog model (Microscopics micro model Minimoog?). The 1/8th scale model is painstakingly modelled on the classic Minimoog analogue synthesizer (204D model), probably the best known and most loved of all synthesizers. It’s printed at 600dpi on 350gsm matt-laminated card, die cut [...]

Part II of my interview with Paul Frankland (Woob) on his Season 9 blog, where we talk about future work, future synthesis, favourite gear and recording Gas 0095.
High Skies – Sounds of Earth by  microscopics
Part I of our previous interview is here…
Read the interview Part II…
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Gas 0095 and High Skies – Sounds of Earth albums have been added to MySpace Music, where you can now stream every track in full. All the usual things, so you can loop, randomise and play in a pop-out player or share on Facebook and Twitter etc.
Visit MySpace Music…
Gas – Gas 0095
High Skies – Sounds [...]

Here are the winners in our recent spot the synthesizer (and other gear) competition

The competition was to name as much gear from the above video of the Gas studio from around 1999. These are the three winners who will each receive the Gas 0095 album on CD+Flac24+MP3.
Pichenettes
BUS
Rold B
One that was tricky for some was the [...]

Here’s a video of the old Gas studios taken around 1999 or 2000.
The video is quite blurry, so it’s a good way to test your synthesizer naming/ geeking skills. Name all the gear you can in the comments and I’ll send three copies of Gas 0095 on CD+MP3+Flac24 to the three geeks who guess/ identify the [...]

Today’s Gas 0095 and final quote comes from Richard Barbieri who plays keyboards for Porcupine Tree and the legendary Japan. Japan were responsible for one of the greatest albums ever, Tin Drum, and Richard was hugely responsible for its sound; a strange mix of Chinese folk influenced electronics; Eno and Moroder meet Mao Tse Tung.

Richard Barbieri on [...]

Todays Gas 0095 quote comes from Bob Katz, one of the best known and highly regarded mastering engineers, he’s also an inventor and author, and owns and runs the highly successful Digital Domain mastering company.

Mat Jarvis’ restoration of Gas 0095; it sounds to me like it was originally mixed to analog tape, congratulations on doing a good, conservative [...]

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from ambient pioneer Alex Paterson who has been recording and performing as The Orb for over 20 years. In 1997 rumour has it that The Orb remixed Jean Michel Jarre’s ‘Oxygene 8′; Jarre refused to release it as it had almost nothing from the original. So The Orb called it [...]

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from electronic pioneer Ian Boddy who has been releasing electronic music since the very early 80s with three cassette only releases on the Mirage label. Famous for his analog modular systems he’s been releasing albums consistently ever since including collaborations with Robert Rich, Mark Shreeve and Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle). [...]