Gas 0095 Quotes: Richard Pinhas (Heldon)

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from electronic pioneer Richard Pinhas who first started experimenting with electronics in French band Heldon back in the early 70s.

Richard Pinhas on Gas 0095…

“Music saw genius appearing year by year, decade after decade. In the seventies people like Brian Eno gave a real boost in all areas of music. Then came other genii (in [...]

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Gas 0095 Quotes: Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order)

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from Mancunian electronic musician Peter Hook from New Order and Joy Division.
New Order were famous for mixing Moog sequences and Oberheim drum machines with Peter Saville artwork. Their single ‘Blue Monday’ famously depicted a 5 1/4″ floppy disc that cost more to produce than they made, so they lost money [...]

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Gas 0095 Quotes: Magnus Birgersson (Solar Fields)

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from Swedish electronic musician Magnus Birgersson who records as the excellent Solar Fields. He mixes huge organic ambient scapes with broken beats and electronics, released on Ultimae, the sunniest place in France. Magnus also drew one of the winners in our Gas 0095 competition on Monday.

“Gas 0095: A timeless masterpiece that [...]

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Gas 0095 Anniversary Draw – The Winners

Many thanks for everyone who took the time to add a comment and for all the kind words on our recent anniversary draw.
The results were drawn at random by fellow artists; Charles Webster (Presence, Furry Phreaks, Symetrix etc), Magnus Birgersson (Solar Fields), and Martin Iveson (Atjazz).

The Gas 0095 collection of CD + t-shirt + MP3 + Flac24 [...]

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Gas 0095 Quotes: Pete Namlook (Fax)

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from Pete Namlook, the prolific electronic German musician. Owner of the classic Fax label, he’s released music with Klaus Schulze, Biosphere, Richie Hawtin, HIA, Mixmaster Morris and many others.
Peter’s laconic quote about Gas 0095…
“Simply a classic”

Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze – Dark Side of the Moog
Many thanks Pete!

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Gas 0095 Quotes: Simeon Coxe (Silver Apples)

Everyday for the next week or so we’re going to be posting quotes from fellow electronic musicians about Gas 0095.
Silver Apples were one of the pioneers of electronic music and atonal arrangements, experimenting with oscillators (named The Simeon) on their first two albums in 1968 and 69. They were recently quoted by Portishead as being [...]

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Gas 0095: 15 Year Anniversary – Collection Giveaway

The Gas 0095 album was first released fifteen years ago this month, and was the second artist album on Emit Records. To celebrate, we’re giving away the Gas 0095 Collection, plus we’ll have other posts, interviews, and freebies over the next couple of weeks.
Gas 0095 – giga zoom

A mix of tracks from the Gas 0095 album.
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Gas 0095 Questions for Answers

Gas 0095 15 year anniversary Q&A
If you have any questions about Gas 0095, let us know here and we’ll answer a selection in another blog post.
Anything you like; how it was recorded, what the cover is, which track was recorded first, did any mistakes make it to the CD, mastering, track names, what’s the width of the [...]

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Gas 0095 for $3.75

Gas 0095 is now available in Amie Street, the variable price store where the community sets the price of albums and songs. Songs start free and then rise in price as they become more popular.
So currently the album is $3.75 and each track is $0.25, although it may be more tomorrow. (So for Experiments on [...]

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Gas 0095 Quotes: Bob Katz

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 [...]

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