Wolfgang Voigt is an electronic music

Electronic music

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 artist

Artist

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 from Cologne

Cologne

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, Germany

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, known for his output under various aliases on a plethora of record labels, including Warp

Warp Records

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, Harvest

Harvest Records

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, Raster-Noton

Raster-Noton

Raster-Noton is a German electronic music record label founded in 1996 by Olaf Bender, Carsten Nicolai and Frank Bretschneider. Based in Chemnitz, Germany, Raster-Noton merged in 1999 from separate labels Rastermusik and Noton .The collective label's aesthetic focus is rhythmic, minimal electronic...

 and Force Inc. Although widely known as a tireless producer

Record producer

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, he is best known for co-founding the influential German

Germany

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 techno

Techno

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 label Kompakt

Kompakt

Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music record label and vinyl/CD distributor, owned by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape. They specialize in microhouse and minimal techno, and are known for their Total compilation series which reached its eleventh installment in 2010.Kompakt...

 alongside Michael Mayer

Michael Mayer (musician)

Michael Mayer is one of the key figures of Cologne, Germany's electronic music scene. Mayer is a remixer, DJ, and producer, and has released a small handful of his own singles on the Kompakt music label that he helps run with founder Wolfgang Voigt...

 and Jürgen Paape.

Aliases and projects

Voigt is known for his numerous, nearly inexhaustible list of one-off projects and aliases. Of these, his best known is arguably Gas

Gas (musician)

Gas is a project of Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind the project...

, a project that saw the marriage of ambient music

Ambient music

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 and 4/4 techno

Techno

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.

Other names under which Voigt has released music include, but are not limited to, All, Auftrieb, Brom, C.K. Decker, Centrifugal Force, Crocker, Dextro NRG, Dieter Gorny, Digital, Dom, Doppel, Filter, Freiland, Fuchsbau, Gelb, Grungerman, Love Inc., M:I:5, Mike Ink, Mint, Panthel, Popacid, Riss, RX7, Split Inc., Strass, Studio 1, Tal, Vinyl Countdown, W.V., Wassermann, and X-Lvis.

External links

• Two and a Half Questions with Wolfgang Voigt - Interview on Headphone Commute (Feb, 2010)