Zauberberg

ZAUBERBERG – Wolfgang Voigt’s most fundamental (and foreboding) release under his alias GAS and perhaps of all in his untold discography – finally stands alone once again and is released in the way its original splendour. Though this narcotic symphony is not the first release under the GAS moniker, ZAUBERBERG is the first to disclose the true nature of Wolfgang Voigt’s unified sound and ideology as GAS. Layers of ominous intensity supported by muffled kick drums as classical music loops incessantly swirl with no direction, ZAUBERBERG is the definitive GAS album and a perfect starting point for those not familiar with his music.

Nearly twenty years later, Wolfgang Voigt’s records under the GAS alias still assault our presumptions about electronic music. How can music that seems to be monotonous convey such beauty and clarity?

The second of Wolfgang Voigt's Gas albums released by Mille Plateaux, Zauberberg is stylistically uniform whereas its predecessor, Gas (1996), is stylistically varied.