GAS

Germany, 1995–now

Wolfgang Voigt's best-known alias, and the founder of Kompakt working under it. He takes small samples of Austro-German classical records, brass bands and Schlager and puts them through what he calls zoom, loop and alienation - a four-to-the-floor kick buried under an orchestral fog, made to bring the disco into the forest and the forest into the disco. The covers are his own photographs of the woods outside Cologne he walked through on LSD as a teenager.

MusicRoots documents 2 artists who influenced GAS and 0 artists GAS influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Who influenced GAS?

• Richard Wagner — Wagner is the largest of the sources Voigt loops under GAS - the records are built from small samples of Austro-German classical music put through zoom, loop and alienation.
• Arnold Schoenberg — Schoenberg is the other composer named among the records Voigt takes apart for GAS.