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Released
  
January 1995

Length
  
72:56

Release date
  
January 1995

Label
  
Em:t Records

Recorded
  
Gas studio, Nottingham

Artist
  
Mat Jarvis

Producer
  
Mat Jarvis

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Genres
  
Ambient music, Electronic music

Similar
  
Pop, Woob 1194, Königsforst, Zauberberg, Woob2 4495

Gas 0095


Gas 0095 was the debut album of electronic musician Mat Jarvis (High Skies) released under his Gas moniker. It was written, performed and recorded in his Nottingham studio during 1994 and released on Em:t Records (Emit Records) in January 1995.

Contents

The album was never advertised and quickly sold on word of mouth alone. Today it is much sought after among collectors and on auction sites like eBay. The album was encoded in 3D by the huge and hugely expensive Roland Sound Space RSS 3D sound imaging system.

In 2008, Gas 0095 was remastered at 32bit/96 kHz from the original studio tapes, and re-released on CD and digital download by Jarvis on the Microscopics label as Micro-000001.

Track listing

  1. "Generator"- 0:35
  2. "Experiments On Live Electricity"- 16:39
  3. "Microscopic"- 9:54
  4. "Miniscule" - 0:02
  5. "Pixels"- 1:27
  6. "Vapourware"- 1:28
  7. "Selenium"- 0:38
  8. "Earthshake"- 8:57
  9. "Mathematics And Electronics"- 12:49
  10. "Timestretch"- 0:02
  11. "Earthloop"- 3:45
  12. "f"- 0:14
  13. "Tellurium"- 0:32
  14. "Discovery"- 11:00
  15. "Generator 74"- 1:14

Oddities

  • The track "Timestretch" is a full four-minute track, shrunk down into one second of audio. Much speculation has been made over whether this track can be stretched back again to recover the full version.
  • The track "Minuscule" is a four and a half minute track time-stretched down to twelve milliseconds and is intended as a "comma" between tracks.
  • There are two extra unlisted tracks, "Pink" and "Doom", which appear at the end of the album. "Pink" is a short instrumental, while "Doom" is composed of sound effects from the last level of the classic 1990s computer game, DOOM.

    • Artwork

    Em:t releases are noted for their striking graphic design, and the 0095 cover is no different. It displays a very iconographic invertebrae ctenophora zooming off like an alien spaceship. The high resolution nature photography is believed to have been chosen by the artist with layout by British design firm The Designers Republic.

    Songs

    1Generator0:36
    2Experiments on Live Electricity16:36
    3Microscopic9:54

    References

    Gas 0095 Wikipedia
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