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Gas

While I was working in a music store in downtown Stockholm, we would often receive CDs without a category in our database. These were the "bastard" artists. The Melvins, Gonzales and Antipop Consortium were also such artists. Sometimes my job was to just sit there and listen and try to figure out where the hell these artists should be placed. Should it go in the electronica section? Jazz? Hip hop? Where?. This enabled me to discover a whole bunch of interesting artists, but the one that marked me the most while doing this task is when I put Gas' Königsforst in the cheap CD player.

Even with the lack of base in the speakers, I could tell this was something for me. It was ambient, very minimal but had this incredibly thick sound which smothered you as soon as it reached your eardrums... and then came the beat! A deep, so-far-away-yet-so-present 4/4 "thump" that would have been more at home on any house record then here. Yet there it was, somehow managing to be in complete harmony with the sludgy ambience. I couldn't bring myself to stop the music and put on the next CD. Co-workers had a "what-the-hell-is-this" kind of reaction and I got strange looks when I said I thought this was great! That same day, I bought it and brought it home. A few days later I ordered the other three (Pop had just come out) through Cheap CDs. Except for the first album, Gas, all of Wolfgang Voigt's albums under that name are in regular rotation on my CD player or iPod. Just stunning and beautiful music.

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