The Comedy of Errors: VOOV - Smoke Machine (12 June 1992)

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Despite sound effects that deepen the suspicion that popular music finds it impossible to use the word “gas” within a track without fetishising the Holocaust, I couldn’t help but fall under the spell of this monolithically driving piece of trance techno, taken from a 12-inch suite of dance music called It’s Anything You Want It to Be and It’s a Gas.

VOOV - short for Violations of Ordinary Values is the brainchild of  Christian Graupner, a German dance producer who by the late-90s had moved into audio-visual art through his Humatic label.  Some 27 years after the Smoke Machine track from It’s Anything You Want It to Be and It’s a Gas was played on the John Peel Show, Graupner has returned to the gas theme in a new track which takes the building of the second Nord Stream gas pipeline as its target.



Videos courtesy of UNKNOWNXPERIMENT and Christian Graupner.