The project was created as an expressive medium inspired by his experiences with taking LSD in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Cologne, for long periods in his youth.

[2][3] Wolfgang Voigt began creating music under the name of Gas starting in 1995, when he released the EP Modern on the label Profan.

However, he has regarded individual pieces created from 1989 onward as being part of the Gas project, marked by a compiled 2008 release under his real name.

Voigt has intermittently revived the project for remixes and released new Gas albums since, including Narkopop on April 21, 2017[4] and Rausch in 2018.

All Gas material shares a characteristic sound, based on a hazy ambient wash of drones and sampled loops, "barely-audible fragments of horns, strings, record hiss and wind",[10] usually accompanied by a repetitive four-on-the-floor kick drum.