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.

Mat Jarvis' work as Gas is often mistakenly credited to an alias used by German electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt. Although the two artists sound somewhat similar, they are separate and distinct musical entities.

His Gas 0095 album includes "Microscopic", "Experiments On Live Electricity", "Cataclysm", "Demacian Standard" and "Discovery", is noted for the inclusion of the track "Timestretch", which is rumoured to be a complete four minute track shrunk down to one second.

Em:t Records went out of business before the follow-up album Gas 2298 could be released. There has been a version of the album circulating the internet, but this has been confirmed as fake.

Discography

Full-Length Albums

• Gas 0095 (Em:t Records, 1995)
• Gas 0095 - remastered (Microscopics, 2007)
• Gas 2298 - unreleased

Singles/EPs

• Particles (Time Records, 1992)
• Know Your World (Time Records, 1992)
• Sumatra EP (as High Skies) (Miso Records, 2003)
• Sounds of Earth EP (Microscopics, 2010)

Compilation Appearances

• Em:t 0094 (tracks "Pixels", "Earthloop") (Em:t Records, 1994)
• Em:t 3394 (track "Microscopic") (Em:t Records, 1994)
• Highway & Landscape (track "Earthshake") (Distance Records, 1995)
• Em:t 2295 (track "Shockwaves") (Em:t Records, 1995)
• Emit 2000 (tracks "Microscopic", "Shockwaves") (Instinct, 1995)
• Emit Explorer (tracks "Experiments On Live Electricity", "Discovery") (Instinct, 1995)
• Em:t 2296 (track "Vapournaut") (Em:t Records, 1996)
• Em:t 1197 (track "Oxygen") (Em:t Records, 1997)
• Em:t Beat Exploration (track "Oxygen") (Instinct, 1997)
• 360° (track "Staars", as High Skies) (The Foundry, 2001)
• Ambient02 (track "Microscopic"), as 'Gas (Mat Jarvis)' (Ambient02, 2002)
• Em:t 0003 (track "Red Green Blue", as High Skies) (Em:t Records, 2003)
• Em:t 0004 (track "Burning Buildings", as High Skies) (Em:t Records, 2004)
• Fluidities (track "The Shipping Forecast", as High Skies) (The Foundry, 2004)

Remixes

• Charles Webster - Remixed On The 24th July (track "Gift Of Freedom - High Skies remix) (Peacefrog Records)

External links

• microscopics.co.uk Mat Jarvis' new label for High Skies & Gas
• thevibes.net Mat Jarvis interview