dauka dealey,
daina distortion,
malduguns crusher,
kannepju fuzz
Influences
N.S.R.D., Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, The Residents, Brian Eno, Coil, Bad Sector, Pan Sonic, Mark Rothko, Aube, Merzbow, Muslimgauze, Borbetomagus, Grazdanskaja Oborona, Yanka Dyagileva, Kraftwerk, The Hafler Trio, Phill Niblock, Massive Attack, Faust, Laibach, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Pole, Wolf Eyes, Swans, Rafael Toral, Sunn o))), COH, the Velvet Underground, anthems, marches, sirens, folk songs, heartbeats, unknown signals, theory of general relativity.
Sounds Like
A metro breaking through the flesh of a synthetic jungle. It’s a kind of somatic journey through the inner space. The feeling of spinning through arteries, evading collision with erythrocytes, but always failing. Shadows twinkling outside the carriage window. For a short moment glances intersect but it’s enough to feel them drilling through your body-membrane and then dissolving in the endless flow within. Irreversibly modifying metabolism, they draw towards the heart. It reminds a journey through the dark room, when in spite of absolute emptiness perception detects solid volume filled with rhythms of the organism. In that state of mind borders of the body-membrane expand embracing the whole sensed environments. Neither inner nor outer spaces exist any more. The body looses its protection. Impulses and shadows transfer fluently between these worlds (Maksim Sentelev, 2004)
The man behind the Gas of Latvia is Andzons or Andris Indans. He is the most veteran Latvian electronic musician to have emerged within the early 90s post-industrial cassette-tape scene, where he was one of the members of the band Kartaga. This prolific artist has crossed through genres such as industrial punk, ambient, dub, idm, drone and noise, always keeping a recognizable polyphonic signature, based in early industrial music. / Viestarts Gailitis (Skanu Mezs), 2007/
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ALBUMS :
"Lex Poeticus" - 2006 (CD, melo records),
"TEC-1" (laboratory of stage arts & gas of latvia) - 2006 (DVD, L.S.A.),
"zil bi pa zil bei" – 2005 (mp3, gassound),
"dzelmes" - 2005 (mp3, gassound),
"we are the champions" - 2004 (CD-R, sturm),
"inout - gas of latvia in 13 exhalations" (v.a.) - 2004 (CD, Ingus Bauskenieka ieraksti),
"sex" - 2003 (CD, sturm),
"[un]real time sound & text show Nr.4" (live audio-video performance) - 2002 (CD-R, melo records),
"the melancholic valse" - 2001 (CD, melo records),
"solar system" - 1999 (mp3, gassound),
"latvijas gaazes industriala romantika" - 1999 (CD-R, gassound),
"saule saule spidi spozi" - 1999 (CD, alises ieraksti),
"ziema ir gara" (ep) – 1999 (CD, alises ieraksti),
"miersnemiers" - 1998 (MC, gassound / CD-R, acoustic space),
"nacionalais atsvesinatibas parks" - 1997 (unreleased)
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INSTALLATIONS: "Black Hole" - opera of the dead ether - 2007 (9.1 surround sound installation, "SKAN" - sound art exhibition, Riga), "Topografija 29" - 2007 (soundtrack for Katrina Neiburga video installation, "urbanologika" - exhibition of contemporary art, Riga), "iela" - 2006 (14.1 surround sound installation for Katrina Neiburga videoinstallation, "La noche en blanco", Madrid), "Alvoda" - 2006 (Katrina Neiburga, Peteris Kimelis, Andris Indans, sound installation, "Trajektorijas 3" - exhibition of contemporary art, Riga), "Solitude" - 2005 (6 channels surround sound insallation for Katrina Neiburga video installation, gallerie "Le Plateau", Paris, 2005, "realitates arheologija" - exhibition of contemporary art, Riga, 2006, "KIASMA" - contemporary art museum, Helsinki, from 2007)
1. THE REANIMATORS - Toxic bird cage 2. MR. SCRUFF & ROOTS MANUVA - Nice up the function (remix instrumental) 3. CAPTAIN K. VERNE - Do or die 4. DUST GALAXY - Come hear the trumpets (Fort Knox Five remix) 5. BUCKFUNK 3000 - Feedback 6. KAHUUN - Trampoline 7. NOBODY BEATS THE DRUM - When I get low 8. SEBASTIAN - Ross ross ross 9. KRAZY BALDHEAD - The end 10. DUBLICATE - Slash riddim 11. KID606 - Take it from me 12. RIOW ARAI - Trillion 13. TIPSY - Lipstick Tree 14. FORSS VS. BORG - A tribute to per cussion 15. MICHAEL FAKESCH - Dot 16. SPOONBILL - Mangle Boogie Bangle 17. OUTRO