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California born electro / tech house producer Wolfgang Gartner (real name Joey Youngman), now based in Austin Texas, has not only been all over America touring coast-to-coast but his name remains prominent throught the beatport charts and the music blogosphere, and for a good damn reason. As Amonly describes it his profile, “Gartner is meticulous in his approach to crafting new tracks in the studio, contemplating how they’ll sound in different venues and new ways to pitch curveballs at the dance music cognoscenti-without using gratuitous gimmicks. Whereas many producers start with a rhythm track, Gartner is more likely to begin with a melody and a concept, and experiment… and experiment and experiment… until the pieces begin to click”. Make sure you catch him among an epic line up at the Electronic Zoo Festival In NYC.

I Will Be Here (Wolfgang Gartner Remix Dub) – Tiesto & Sneaky Sound System

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Wolfgang Gartner – Undertaker

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Wolfgang Gartner – Conscindo (Original Club Mix).mp3

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We sent our Electronic Ninja (Taylor Doms from TheMixster.com) to speak to Wolfgang Gartner and she “was able to pull him away from the celebratory momentum he’s been riding and talk with him about all the epic events he’s been playing lately and upcoming shows that he’s looking forward to, his recent collaboration with Deadmau5, and ask him to us about his true feelings in regards to the ongoing ninjas vs. unicorns debate, among many other things he graciously shared with us as well.”

So according to your Facebook, it seems you had a PRETTY good time on your International tour! ready to start back again in the States, but tell me, which country or city in general was the most memorable for you while you were out on tour?

Gartner: I mean all of the gigs were really good, that’s why it was such a good one and it’s kind of hard to pick a favorite but I would have to say the Beat Patrol Festival in Austria was kinda the best energy out of all of them. Caught me off guard.

And we heard Avalon was absolutely insane, how was that!?

Gartner: That was crazy at the Avalon. I guess it was the most people they ever had in there or close to the most people they’ve had in there, but yeah it was completely packed and that’s a big venue too. Really one of the best shows in my life, for sure. California’s a good place for me right now.

In the electro house genre how do you distinguish as a producer?

Gartner: I don’t completely know how to best answer the question. I just try to do stuff that other people aren’t doing. If I go through the top 100 electro house chart on Beatport, it all kind of has a sound to it, there are a few different styles, but basically everybody’s spinning in within these cubes that sound kind of generic and I really have trouble finding good music on there. I’ll go through the entire ‘Top 100’ and not find anything that really makes me go ‘wow’ you know? So I try to do something that’s beyond what people are doing or so different from what other people are doing that basically doesn’t sound like anything else on there.

Well, let me put it this way: If your music were an animal, what kind of animal would be?!

Gartner: I’m going to have even more trouble answering that one.??Haha We’ll go back to that one towards the end…

Gartner: OK.. Continue reading →

Hook n’ Sling’s remix of Pocket 808‘s track “Ghostship” is so ridiculously opposite of the original, it’s sort of a headscratcher how this amazing remix came from well, this track. Both the dingos out of Pocket 808 and their mate Hook n’ Sling are straight outta the upside-down world of Aus, yet they most certainly produce two distinctively, polar sounds.

Pocket 808 seem to be surfing a salty set of glo-wave whitewashers — with a few extra strokes between a multiplicity of electronic rips, while Hook n’ Sling ferociously paddles into the dirty electro line-up, and drops in on way gnarlier bass-laden peaks: Massive sound waves that seem to tear up its dance floors with razor sharp bites and synthesized grinders. The sonar signals of Hook n Sling’s remix have been picked up by the aural radar, and was last spotted in Swedish House Mafia’s EDC set, as well as all across the DJ sphere — which really doesn’t surprise us at all. This track can be stretched wide across the spectrum of dance club DJ integration: It’s a long track with a huge potential to seamlessly slide into any set with cool easibility, with its extremely multi-faceted soundscape. And with the dark and sexy club edginess intermingling about halfway through — it’s positively swoonworthy

Pocket 808 – Ghostship (Hook ‘n Sling Remix)

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