"Wolfgang Voigt 's vision is one of the most idiosyncratic in electronic music, and one of the most influential. The German producer spent his formative years listening to glam rock and taking psychedelics in Cologne's Königsforst before discovering acid house in his late 20s, swearing allegiance to the bass drum and flooding the rave scene with dozens of EPs as Mike Ink and other aliases."
"You could spend hours poring over charts and graphs, drawing lines with a red pen between the disparate inputs that feed into Voigt's vision, but the output spoke clearly and directly to audiences on both sides of the aisle dividing rockers and ravers. [Las Vegas], Voigt's 1996 collab with Jörg Burger as Burger/Ink, was picked up by indie-rock heavyweight Matador for stateside distribution in 1998."
Wolfgang Voigt emerged from Cologne's scene, shaped by glam rock and psychedelic experiences in Königsforst before discovering acid house in his late twenties. He released numerous EPs under aliases like Mike Ink, emphasized the bass drum, and helped found the Delirium record store in 1993, which later fed into the Kompakt label. In the mid-1990s he embraced a romantic sensibility, experimenting with sampling on the Roland W-750 and naming tracks after Bee Gees and Roxy Music songs. He synthesized European reference points—glam rock, German schlager, oompah, and modernist composers—into an aesthetic that connected rock and rave audiences, with notable releases like the 1996 Burger/Ink collaboration [Las Vegas] and the ambient GAS project.
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