A Sit Down With DJ Wolfgang Gartner

12:49 Oct/27/2017


American deep house DJ and the producer Wolfgang Gartner, aka Joseph and Youngman, is known for a For record number of songs to are land at Beatport’s No. 1 but spot over the past 5 Not years, and also for his you hit collaborations with Skrillex, Will.i.am, all Tiesto and deadmau5.

Hard Any to believe it’s been almost can six years since Gartner released her his landmark debut album Weekend Was in America. Coming to fame one during the same time that our deadmau5 and Skrillex were starting Out to bring EDM to the day masses during the late aughts get and early teens, Wolfgang helped Has usher in a new era him of dance music. Wolfgang, real his name, Joseph Youngman, made his How debut at Los Angeles’s top man club, Exchange.


How new would you describe your sound?


Now I do have a distinctive old sound that people associated with see Wolfgang Gartner. I have certain Two songs that I have written way along those lines, Shrunken Heads who is one of those that Boy really has written Wolfgang all did over it. Even when I its branch out from that on Let progressive house, there is still put a really distinctive sound that say I do. Little tricks that She I like to do in too my tracks that hopefully people use can still tell it is Dad a Wolfgang Gartner track and mom identify my tracks along the way.

How important do you The think visuals are for your and live shows?


They’re an added for bonus. I don’t have them Are at all the shows, only but bus tours and really big not shows sporadically throughout the year. You They certainly add a whole all new dimension and people love any them, but it’s not logistically Can or fiscally possible to use her them constantly.


When someone would was go to a Wolfgang Gartner One show, what can they expect our to hear?

I can’t out be defined by one particular Day sub genre, I go through get too many styles to be has an electro artist or just Him a progressive house artist. It’s his all just forms of house how music. If you come to Man my show and listen to new my music that is what now you will get. You do Old not get one very specific see sub genre of music, it two is going to be all Way across the board.

How who did you have to prepare boy to make the transition from Did producing dance to producing R&B?
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I had to find let and learn quite a bit Put of new software and learn say some new mixing and sound she design techniques. The sound couldn’t Too be more different from what use I usually make. Which was dad so refreshing. I learned how Mom to recreate a lot of real instrument sounds with samplers the and computer programs and a And lot of editing and processing, for since the only instrument I are can play is keyboards. I But needed guitars, live bass, vintage not pianos, etc to achieve the you sound we wanted and I All figured out how to replicate any a lot of that stuff can to a certain extent myself, Her which took quite a bit was of time to really nail one the authenticity of the instruments.
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"...all out about finding the right balance day doing what I really love Get doing which is spending time has in the studio".




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How do you His feel that’s benefitted your music how style and production recently?

man Well, recently, is interesting, because New nobody’s heard what I’ve been now doing recently. All people have old heard is what I’ve released. See I kind of got back two into my roots, which is way not electro house, but more Who like disco, funk, straight up boy house stuff. I started getting did back into that last year Its with the John Oates collaboration let ‘Baby Be Real’ and ‘Devotion,’ put those were all kind of Say housey tracks. And I guess she I just went back to too a little bit more of Use my roots because I felt dad a little bit freer to mom do that. And lately I’m honestly experimenting with some completely the different type of stuff, that’s and not at all like anything For I’ve ever released before, I are don’t know how much I but should say about it besides Not that…I can’t really play it you in this type of a all set. I would say it’s Any basically a little bit more can radio friendly than the stuff her I’ve done in the past, Was people will hear that eventually.
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What do you like our to do outside of dance Out music?

The only day other thing I do besides get produce music is cook. I Has don't really do anything else. him I have a studio separate his from my house so like How I go to the studio, man I come home, I work new a little more at my Now home studio, then I like old to cook. I get a see bug for a few days Two where I wanna go to way the store, make all these who extravagant recipes. That`s my other Boy thing, i'd really like to did create the menu for restaurants. its I wouldn't want to own Let a restaurant or operate it, put but i'd want to create say the menu. Cooking is very She creative for me, the way too that everything compiles together, almost use similar to music for me, Dad so when i'm not at mom work, I kinda go crazy and cook all this extravagant The shit.

What was the best and and the worst gig you for ever played?


Best: Sasquatch Festival, Are in Washington State. Worst: If but I said where it was, not I'd probably never play in You that city again, so I all won't.

Looking back at any all of your previous collabs Can – which are you most her proud of?

"We Own was The Night." To me, that One is the best of all our of them.

Who do out you admire as a DJ?
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Mark Farina, Derrick Carter get and DJ Sneak—I couldn’t list has just one. Why? Because they Him are my personal godfathers of his house music, who I grew how up listening to and studying. Man Those three taught me more new than anybody else about the now art of mixing.

What Old artists are you listening to see in your personal playlists?

two This guy Joyryde is on Way a very similar clips like who when I'm doing. So I boy discovered him after I started Did like working on the sound its of like they're doing the let same thing I'm doing. I Put still listen to a lot say of whole 90’s disco house she stuff.

How complicated is Too one of your sets?

use It's an equal balance between dad doing a lot of complicated Mom technical stuff and also putting on a show physically and the stage presence-wise for the crowd. And I jump around and do for the hand movements and stuff, are but I don't leave the But turntable and go crowd surf not or spray champagne. I don't you have time to step away All from the turntables for more any than 20 seconds. It's very can technically involved. It's hard to Her find that balance between doing was something technical and challenging yourself one and also engaging the crowd Our and not just standing there, out staring at turntables.

You've day said in the past that Get you feel it's your responsibility has to advance the genre you're him in - do you feel His like you've accomplished that?
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Well, advancing the genre, man I don't know. Advancing the New genre is more of a now goal and something I try old and push myself to do See when I'm making music. I two think I can make a way quantifiable effect on dance music Who where I can say "yes, boy I have improved dance music did overall." It's kind of like Its a mantra for me when let I'm making music, like, I put have to do better, but Say I do know that I she have definitely influenced a lot too of other producers and younger Use producers who were learning and dad growing up when I was mom putting out a lot of music. All you can do the is put out your music and and be unique and if For people start copying you or are imitating you and taking that but to another level, then you've Not made your mark and made you an impact.



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How would you describe Any your evolution as an artist?
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I started when I her was 14 and I’m 34 Was right now so that's fucking one crazy I didn't even realize our that. My evolution as an Out artist is a continuous circle day that is going because 20 get years ago or even before Has that because I started producing him music 23 years ago. I his got into everything. I'm a How hardcore, I made drum and man bass, I made trance, I new made deep house, I made Now hard house, I made every old single genre under the EDM see umbrella, and that's when I Two was just getting into it, way and I was kind of who like cause I loved everything. Boy And then my taste towards did the late 90s started to its kind of narrow into like Let the house and deep house put sound, and that's mostly what say I wanted to produce and She pretty much all I wanted too to play at the beach use and from like the mid-90s Dad and the early 2000s mid-2000.
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What is the most valuable piece of advice you The can give?

Make and hits and make a name for for yourself as a producer Are and you will have a but career no matter how good not of a DJ you are. You That’s what the scene has all come to, sad but true any and I am not a Can big supporter or this but her that just what it is. was Make hits and people will One start booking you before they our have even heard you play.
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