Sog (Wolfgang Voigt)- For the Love of God 4 (Profan 37)

Описание: There is no free video of this music on the internet so i figured i should upload this vinyl rip. If kompakt wants to take this down i will gladly do so, PLEASE support their amazing artists on their website https://kompakt.fm/

(My review of this on discogs)
Phew… if you think you’ve heard minimal from Wolfgang Voigt this will suprise you. Sog is the techno equivalent of staring at a Donald Judd painting for an hour
This is a conceptual album from a techno genius, based off of the Damien Hirst’s bedazzled skull of the same name. Let me remind you this is the most expensive piece of art in the world from the richest living artist in the world. To me Hirst is the Dj Khaled of art, as he gets talented artists and craftspeople to do the work on his large scale concepts, which are more marketing than art, and in the end he slaps his watermark on the work and the money comes in. His work truly highlights all the problems with modern art and its market, and the playground of money laundering it is for all these smug billionaires. But enough about that monopoly man…
This album features 50 minutes of a continuous slow kick drum with modulations and delay being slowly added in. Make sure to listen with headphones as the subtleties are harder to hear through speakers. The sound is very reduced, more than most of his many aliases, but still provides a very intriguing texture and soundscape. However this music serves more as an art piece than his other work which is endlessly listenable, i don't think i will be returning to this piece for a while.

In one of his interviews Wolfgang Voigt talks about good minimal techno being able to turn 10 minutes into just a couple, which most of his work achieves and hypnotizes… but i just don’t get that with this release, although i guess this would be more in the experimental category as this is the most minimal thing ive heard from him, and techno has.., well, a groove. This is more of a conceptual sound experiment

I much more prefer the second part of this album which can be found on the Kompakt site, it is sonically way more interesting and actually a bit closer to the early Gas material.