Gas (2) – Gas 0095

I have known Mat Jarvis for about 20 years. I used to ask him to make a vinyl pressing even before I had a label. Every year or so I ask him about if he changed his mind yet. He always says no nicely. And every year, I will keep asking.....

Please for the love of god make a vinyl pressing of this.

Truly one of those genre-defining moments in music. I'd consider it part of the holy trinity of ambient albums, alongside Biosphere's "Substrata" and Carbon Based Lifeforms' "World of Sleepers".

Fingers crossed for a quality vinyl pressing, preferably in my lifetime!

Alongside Woob 1194 and Qubism 2294, this album is what em:t records is all about. After silent Generator 0000 opening the album, the majestetic Experiments on Live Electricity slowly starts to play. This song is one of the best ambient works I've ever heard. I don't think theres any weak points here, the record is pure magic.

I will always Gas 0095 as the album that turned me onto ambient music. Something about it sent chills down my spine. Luckily, for those who didn't get one in the 90's, it has been remastered by Microscopics. Mat Jarvis has started writing new tracks as 'High Skies', and has released a new EP called 'Sounds of Earth'.

This one and Woob 1194 are the CDs that made em:t a cult label.
Both are timeless great records. This one is more on the technoid side than the other ambient albums on em:t. I own my copy for more than 10 years now and still listen to it frequently. There are only very few albums that can still fascinate me after listening to them so many times. GAS0095 is an outstanding work. A highlight in the em:t series and an essential piece for every electronic music connoisseur.

Perhaps one of the most original ambient album, and certainly an essential release. It has a lot of classical ambient textures, but also very smooth and soulfull pieces of deep techno, influenced by Larry heard in many points, but completely reinterpreted. Very original indeed, could be compared to John Beltran in some points, but much more ambient, "à la" em:t !
Note : the strange sample at the end of the album are in fact recordings of the final (and demonically mad) level of Doom II!

Gas’ (2) work (= Mat P Jarvis) is completely different then Voigt's work and of a much greater diversity. <BR>
Of all artists on em:t, <B>Gas</B> was voted the <B>most liked em:t artist</B> together with Woob during a 2003 poll on the em:t website. Since his em:t 2298 album was never released, these votes are all about his only album: this em:t 0095.<BR>
0095 starts with this banging gong sound that will be etched everlastingly in your brain and evolves into this ambient dub soundscape with lots of roaring meandering basslines, obscured FSOL fairytale-strings, deep groove and beats that hit occasionally, yet always dense and firm. <BR>
This a totally essential album, nothing less.