Nah und Fern is a box set collecting the four albums

Music Album

Music album is the name of:* Music Album , a 1970s Canadian television series* Album, a collection of music tracks...

 released by Wolfgang Voigt

Wolfgang Voigt

Wolfgang Voigt is an electronic music artist from Cologne, Germany, known for his output under various aliases on a plethora of record labels, including Warp, Harvest, Raster-Noton and Force Inc...

 under the Gas

Gas (musician)

Gas is a project of Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind the project...

 alias. Some tracks are shortened edits, and some are also subject to very slight alteration and remastering; Voigt noted around the time of release that the music seemed to resist attempts at cleaning up the recordings, with the muffled or lo-fi nature of some elements of the music forming an integral part of the characteristic Gas sound. The tracks were originally released on the label Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. It is known for mostly releasing minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music.-History:...

. The albums start with 1996's self-titled album and end with 2000's Pop. The album is filled with vague sounds recalling the ideals of minimalism

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

. The box set reached #13 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Top World Music Albums chart.

Disc 1: Gas

1. "Untitled" - (6:28)
2. "Untitled" - (14:08)
3. "Untitled" - (8:21)
4. "Untitled" - (11:50)
5. "Untitled" - (13:57)
6. "Untitled" - (13:51)

Disc 2: Zauberberg

1. "Untitled" - (7:46)
2. "Untitled" - (14:10)
3. "Untitled" - (12:47)
4. "Untitled" - (6:00)
5. "Untitled" - (8:01)
6. "Untitled" - (11:05)
7. "Untitled" - (9:12)

Disc 3: Königsforst

1. "Untitled" - (9:49)
2. "Untitled" - (13:56)
3. "Untitled" - (9:01)
4. "Untitled" - (6:32)
5. "Untitled" - (15:19)
6. "Untitled" - (10:20)

Disc 4: Pop

1. "Untitled" - (5:30)
2. "Untitled" - (8:36)
3. "Untitled" - (7:26)
4. "Untitled" - (9:28)
5. "Untitled" - (10:51)
6. "Untitled" - (9:18)
7. "Untitled" - (15:02)