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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.
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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). [...]

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from conceptual artist Robin Rimbaud who records as Scanner. Scanner shot to fame with his controversial methods of using scanned mobile phone conversations set over ambient scapes. He’s collaborated with Radiohead, Laurie Anderson, Michael Nyman and others, as well as recording for Emit (as has Michael Nyman for a Time [...]

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from Paul Frankland who records as Woob, Max & Harvey, and Journeyman. He’s recently re-released his seminal Woob 1194 album first released on Emit Records.  If you’re into ambient, chillout, or electronic music you should own this album.

Paul Frankland on Gas 0095…

“A lot of electronic music has a habit of [...]

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from Dylan (DF Tram), one of the most respected Chillout DJs/ producers/ remixers out there. He’s also one of the brains behind the band Jumpcut and the Ambisonic Collective. DF Tram is a collaboration between Dylan and Lonely Boy who use found-sound and film to create a powerful and moving audio/visual [...]

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 [...]