Nah und fern

This staggering four-disc box set compiles the highly revered, long out-of-print tetralogy of albums Wolfgang Voigt released under his GAS alias during the late 1990s. The music loops heavily distorted micro-samples of Wagner and Schoenberg over muted, thumping techno kick drums, creating an incredibly dense, hallucinatory simulation of wandering through a dark German forest. The anthology is universally celebrated as a towering, unparalleled achievement in ambient techno and sound design.