Gas 0095 was the debut album of electronic musician Mat Jarvis

Mat Jarvis

Mat P. Jarvis aka Jarvan IV is an electronic music demacian artist from England who has released one full-length CD and several other tracks on the Em:t Records label under the name Gas. More recently, Jarvis released material under the name High Skies....

(High Skies) released under his Gas

Mat Jarvis

Mat P. Jarvis aka Jarvan IV is an electronic music demacian artist from England who has released one full-length CD and several other tracks on the Em:t Records label under the name Gas. More recently, Jarvis released material under the name High Skies....

moniker. It was written,
performed and recorded in his Nottingham studio during 1994 and released on Em:t Records

Em:t Records

Em:t Records was a British record label, based in Nottingham, which specialized in ambient electronic music. They were active from 1994 to 1998, and after a period of bankruptcy, re-established themselves in 2003 under new ownership and management...

 (Emit Records) in January 1995.

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.

Gas 0095 has just been remastered and released on Jarvis' new microscopics label.

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 0072"- 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 timstretched 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
  Doom
  Doom may refer to:* dōm, the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "judgment", "law"** Doom book the Laws of King Aelfred, Legal Code of Alfred the Great, Code of Alfred 893* Doom , a painting that depicts the Last Judgment...
  
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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

Ctenophore

The Ctenophora are a phylum of animals that live in marine waters worldwide. Their most distinctive feature is the "combs", groups of cilia that they use for swimming, and they are the largest animals that swim by means of cilia – adults of various species range from a few millimeters to in size...

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

The Designers Republic

The Designers Republic was a graphic design studio, founded on 14 July 1986 by Ian Anderson, and based in Sheffield, England. It was known for its anti-establishment aesthetics, while simultaneously embracing brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands, such as Orange and Coca-Cola...

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External links

• microscopics.co.uk Mat Jarvis' new label for High Skies & Gas
• highskies.com High Skies / Gas - Official Website
• thevibes.net Mat Jarvis interview about the 0095 album
• emit.cc Fan Site