The quest for every Gap store playlist ever
In August 2002, I was probably back-to-school shopping with my mom at our local mall, bouncing from store to store for backpacks, socks, and a first-day-of-school outfit. Gap was no doubt one of our stops - and thanks to Michael Bise, I now know what music was playing as we browsed.
When Bise first started working at a Gap store in Dallas in 1992, the first thing that struck him was the store's music.
"Just right away, it was so different from what I was expecting," Bise says. It wasn't the classic soft instrumentals of a chain department store, nor was it pop radio hits. There was house, dance, David Bowie deep cuts, The Bangles - four ho …