Voigt, who has been making music under dozens of different stage names since the 1980s, says the GAS project was inspired by his youthful LSD experiments - a vision of combining Schoenberg and Kraftwerk, French horn and bass drum, Wagner and glam-rock. Voigt wanted to create music that could accompany the acid trip of the fairytale characters Hansel and Gretel.
GAS released its debut album in 1996, followed four years later by the highly acclaimed "Pop" album (2000), widely regarded as one of the milestones of the ambient technique.
Voigt shelved the GAS artist name in the early 2000s but revived it again in the form of remixes and live performances in the early 2010s. In 2017, after a long break, he released his fifth GAS album "Narkopop". Voigt's latest long-player "Rausch" (2018), released on his own Kompakt label (including The Orb, Matias Aguayo, Gui Boratto), consists of one hour-long track.
