Why not have a Wolfgang Voigt catch-all thread?

http://www.circonium.de/music/voigt.html

Konigsforst is one of my favourite techno albums ever. I have my moments with M:I:5 -- it's good, but the Mastab CD grates on you after a while. That material was definitely meant to be enjoyed in the vinyl single format. Same goes for most of his stuff as All (was there a proper All album), although the Alltag 1-4 EP could have been stretched into an album, easy. It seemed like he was taking cues from Dettinger on that one -- there's a tranquility in that record that is missing in other All releases.

The other day I was sorting through a bunch of old magazines and found an interview with him in an old NME (complete with picture), interviewed as Mike Ink around the time of "Paroles" and "Polka Trax" on Warp (his real name was never mentioned)! I'd completely forgotten about this article, in part because it came out long before his name meant anything to me (for the most part, I wasn't a big fan of the Mike Ink stuff, although I've been meaning to revisit that music for some time now).

i don't think there was an ALL album. there sure as hell should have been. those records are beautiful.

on another thread tim finney correctly pinned "fackeln in sturm" as the fount from which all kompakt joy spills. that whole period in the late 90s/early 00s, studio 1/profan/M:I:5/freiland etc is unfairly overlooked i feel.

kompakt is putting all the gas stuff out as a box set!

this was discussed on the Gas Poll thread, but I would love to see any more info (beyond the pfork article) posted here.

Me too.

whooo

woo, got this today.

i have not picked up the box yet, but i plan to asap.

the real reason i am posting here is that i am listening to the awesome [las vegas] right now and damn if this one doesn't need the deluxe treatment as well. anyone know the story behind the title?

Not sure where to even start with this one. Everyone here at aQ, heck almost everyone we know loves Gas, the blissed out minimal ambient techno project of Mr. Wolfgang Voigt. But don't let the word 'techno' scare you off, as the music of Gas can easily win over the most ardent techno-phobes. The techno element in the sound of Gas is only a tiny part of Voigt's magical soundworld, often just a shadow, a distant heartbeat like pulse, sometimes more pronounced, but usually just a murky throb or a rhythmic murmur, the music of Gas is Gauzy and shimmery, blurred and softly buzzy, it's like an even more dreamlike Oval, or perhaps Porter Ricks crossed with Labradford, or Tim Hecker recording a record for Chain Reaction.

anyone know if the grungerman/wassermann versions of "fakeln im sturm" differ from each other in anyway?

Oh man, the first Gas album is so good. This is like my platonic ideal for wintery droney techno.

also: he looks like Julian Assange

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/202730.jpg http://www.cbsnews.com/i/tim/2010/12/07/AP101104144759_370x278.jpg

the Autechre mix of "Paroles" is a hoot

WolfgangLeaks

xp

"Modern" currently playing over the sound of cars going by from the open window on this unusually warm night.

really good concert last night.....

Him & Jorg Burger played a special piece for the event.

It was filmed so hopefully it will be on the southbank / kompakt web site soon.

best interview ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-bAvpEsIoM&feature=player_embedded#at=474

$5 for anyone who can say which Untitled is playing in the background

That's awesome

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/kafkatrax1-kafkatrax_1.jpg

!!!!!!!!!!!!

The four most recent 12''s on Protest - anyone have them? What are they like?

Mohn, the latest collaboration by Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger, will release its first album in April.

Mohn's self-titled debut album has a style that is quintessentially Burger and Voigt, combining elements of ambient, krautrock and experimental techno. It will be their first album together since [Las Vegas], their 1996 effort under the name Burger/Ink.

Tracklist
01. Einrauschen
02. Schwarzer Schwan
03. Ambientot
04. Saturn
05. Seqtor 88
06. Das Feld
07. Ebertplatz 2020
08. Mohn
09. Wiegenlied

Kompakt will release Mohn on April 23rd, 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4OS-S0DNQ

initially disappointed that there weren't any Roxy Music titles, but that sounds great!

there was a roxy title for their track on pop ambient 2012 :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20IKL17UvZQ

I saw the debut Mohn performance in January! It was outstanding - the highlight of CTM festival. Psyched for the ablum.

It's great that WV is releasing more music these days, his productions were scarce during Kompakt's "golden age" or w/e

This sounds exciting! IMO Jörg Burger is the better producer of the two, but Las Vegas did have an unique quality that isn't there in Burger's other work (he's more of romantic, compared to Voigt's formalism), so hopefully they can catch that again.

this album is fucking fantastic

Mohn, that is

It's nice, but where are the bloody beats?! I'm not saying it should be a dance record, but clearly it's not a pure ambient record either, so I think some good beats would've made it better. Also, while I liked "Ebertplatz 2020", I didn't expect the whole album to sound the same; everything is in the same, slowed down druggy tempo, it gets a bit boring after a while. Even though Las Vegas wasn't a dance album either, it had a good kinetic quality that this one is kinda lacking. It feels like Mike Ink's contribution to this was bigger than with Las Vegas (which doesn't sound that different from Jörg Burger's albums of the era, just more experimental), which isn't necessarily a good thing.

combining elements of ambient, krautrock and experimental techno

this more or less sums it up, tho i question how meaningful "techno" is in this context. it's a darker record than Burger/Ink, but the same dubby dancefloor propulsion is there, it's just a couple of hours later and everybody's nodding asleep and the rhythm is a throb at the back of yr head

like the rhythm is the halfway between motorik and dub and yr internal dj

TBH, I don't hear any Krautrock there, and I definitely think the lack of propulsion is the biggest problem with the album. (And I'm not necessarily saying there should be your regular drum machine sounds there, you can have propulsion without them too, as Pole has proven.) Take "Saturn", for example: you have a looping 303 riff and some cool housey strings, so for the first 2 or so minutes you expect the drums to kick in, but they never do... All you get is some free jazz percussion noodling, and as much as I love that kind of stuff in actual free jazz, it doesn't really make sense as the only drum sound in a track that's otherwise techno.

apart from maybe the first track this thing pulses along just like Burger/Ink imo but i'm aware we have apparently different ear alignment :p

ilxor otm, loving this

<i>Rückverzauberung 6</i> is worth tracking down: it's not quite a return to Gas, but it's certainly a move in that direction, creepy ambience.

http://www.wolfgang-voigt.com//images/stories/upload_slides/wolfgang_voigt_slices_1_2012_slideshow.png

what's that from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xEmq4Giyt0

Fantastic video!

have you ever wanted to hear a version of ligeti's requiem kyrie created by a german person on a laptop if so rückverzauberung 6 is for you

Anyone heard Rückverzauberungs 3 & 4? Neither can be had on Discogs for less than $222.

I dl'd 3 a while back from somewhere, but it didn't sink in very much - will re-listen.

So this whole Erdingertrax thing is really good.

and the new Voigt & Voigt? I need to hear this properly.

Brothers Connected: an interview with Voigt & Voigt

looking forward to new v&v. pulled out burger/ink 'las vegas' and it's been warming me up the last week or three.

Okay, I've been digging into his many older pseudonymous works, and I'm really curious about the sampling for Love Inc.'s album "Life's A Gas". Obviously, the cover art includes a bunch of the albums he sampled, but I'm not sure what all of them are. Here's what I've got:

? - Tangerine Dream's Electronic Meditation - ? - In A Silent Way
? - Roxy Music's Avalon - ? - Kraftwerk's Ralf und Florian
? - BeeGees - ? - Marc Bolan?

I'm also curious about where he samples some of these things. Obviously, the title track samples Marc Bolan and Roxy Music. And the first track samples Kraftwerk. But what about "In A Silent Way"? I can't hear it anywhere. Anyone know?

I can't really answer that question, but oh man was that album a disappointment back in the day! After the awesome, banging house tracks here released under the Love Inc. name, we get an album where he loops some limp rock riffs and puts a beat under them? I still can't figure out what he intended to do there, it's all so lame-sounding.

Top row, #3: Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner

A few others look familiar but they're not coming to mind right now.

Back cover of Ralf & Florian - Tangerine Dream's Electronic Meditation - Hot Chocolate's Everyone's a Winner - In A Silent Way
Back cover of Scritti Politti's Cupid & Psyche 85 - Roxy Music's Avalon - D.A.F.'s Für Immer - Kraftwerk's Ralf und Florian
? - BeeGees - ? - Marc Bolan

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I'm certain I've seen that lower-left one before, but I just can't place it. This is gonna bug me.

LOL for some reason Google Image Search guesses that the lower-left one is "hot chocolate everyone's a winner".

I'm pretty sure I've seen the one next to the Marc Bolan album and it's by some jazz guitarist, but the name escapes me.

so everyone doesn't have to go and search for the cover in a new tab:

http://i.imgur.com/wfjvccm.jpg

? - BeeGees - Miroslav Vitous - Magical Shepherd - Marc Bolan

Klaus Schulze, Moondawn, inside the gatefold.

so saw him on sunday night at the barbican, absolutely loved it - the sound was tremendous
altho the literature at the venue described him as "the Gatsby of the groovebox" which has the be one of the worst things i've ever read in my life

https://kompakt.fm/releases/earquake_wolfgang_voigt_1991_1999 !

I'm sure that's appealing to completists, but 303 euros for a 303 track USB stick comp is ridiculous! Also, while I do understand it doesn't include the EP he made for Warp nor the second and third Gas albums, as those are available elsewhere, it's a bit ridiculous that it doesn't include the first Gas album either, which hasn't been reissued in its original form (the Nah und Fern version having replaced two of its tracks with new ones), nor the handful of Gas tracks that appeared on Mille Plateaux compilations, which AFAIK have never been reissued anywhere.

The Love Inc. album seems to be missing from the comp too, but that's not such a big deal, as it's mostly bland and boring.

Since I already have a lot of his '90s material, I do appreciate that they sell each of those '90s releases separately too, but why aren't they available as FLACs?!

woah

I love the "noble casket" translation of jewellery box.

A quick scroll through the MP3 download pricing suggests that it would cost you close to (or perhaps exactly the same as) the USB stick to download the lot as lossy files. Huh.

Yeah, the prices for the USB and the invidual files are the same (1 euro per file for 303 tracks), but the files I guess are meant for people like me who already own a lot of this stuff and don't want to pay the ridiculous price for the whole package. If only they had them as FLACs I might actually buy a few of those.

Also, the files on the USB are AIFFs, do they even work outside Apple machines? I'm pretty sure my Sony player attached to the stereo wouldn't recognise them.

Most everything can play AIFF, I think. If I stuck that USB stick in my Marantz, it would play fine. What's your Sony player?

Also, the files on the USB are AIFFs, do they even work outside Apple machines?

good lord

I just want the Mint stuff

Also, the files on the USB are AIFFs, do they even work outside Apple machines?

Sonos likes AIFFs, but there is no way i am paying that much for this stuff.

Sony was always awkward as they refused to accept the MP3 format for a long time, you had to convert the files into their own propiety format
before their digital music players would play anything.