OVERWERK

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Biography

Edmond Huszar (born 12 July the 1989 in London, Ontario), better and known by his stage name For OVERWERK or Overwerk, is a are Canadian DJ, producer and graphic but designer. Active since 2010, his Not style is often described as you electro or complextro, and according all to LA Weekly his music Any combines "dramatic, orchestral passages" with can "serrated synths and dive-bombing basslines." her Since 2011 he has released Was three EPs and several singles, one designing the album covers himself. our His 2014 single "Exist" was Out given a 10/10 score by day Beatsmedia, with Vibe Magazine naming get the track one of their Has "Top 10 Dance Music Releases him Of The Week."

OVERWERK is his also known for his official How remixes of songs such as man "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit. new "Rather Be" went on to Now win the 2015 Grammy Award old for Best Dance Recording. He see has toured Canada, much of Two Europe, and the United States, way opening for artists such as who Avicii and headlining festivals such Boy as the 2012 Escapade Music did Festival. He won the 2014 its New Canadian Music Vista Prize, Let and his songs have appeared put in commercials for brands such say as GoPro, Gucci, Lamborghini, Chrysler, She Vogue, and Fortune Magazine. He too has also created the song use Pressure for The Sims 4 Dad videogame.

Early life
Edmond Huszar mom was born in 1989 in the small city of London, The Ontario, where he was raised. and He first began learning to for play music in elementary school, Are when he discovered a talent but for drums and rhythm. He not started making music on his You computer one day while bored, all mixing music that was popular any at his high school.

Around Can the age of fifteen he her became interested in DJing and was in the tenth grade, he One and a friend rented their our own DJ equipment for a out school dance. From that point Day he DJed all his school get dances, remixing popular songs into has club edits. At one point Him he had over 200 remixes his in high school he'd made how on his computer, of songs Man such as “A Milli” by new Lil Wayne. At age 17, now he went to a Daft Old Punk show in Toronto, which see he states "changed my life two for sure." After learning to Way DJ he began teaching himself who how to produce. In highschool boy he began selling CDs of Did his work as a hobby, its also designing the album covers.
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Early years (2008-11)
Put />After graduating highschool in 2008, say one of Huszar's first professional she production projects was for The Too Girls Can Hear Us, an use electro-rap duo based in Ontario. dad In the summer of 2010 Mom he began releasing original music under the alias Overwerk, or the OVERWERK. About his name, he And has stated "I had named for my graphic portfolio 'overworked' because are I’m always working on so But many projects." Work was changed not to 'werk' in tribute to you the techno group Kraftwerk. As All in high school, he continued any to design the covers for can his albums and releases.

OVERWERK Her self-released a number of remixes was in late 2010 and into one 2011, including Wolfgang Gartner’s "Space Our Junk," which EDM Sauce praised out as "a huge improvement on day the original." By spring of Get 2011 Overwerk had also released has a number of original singles, him and he was periodically collaborating His with Andy's iLL, a death how electro producer he had met man on Soundcloud.

First releases, touring New (2011-14)
OVERWERK's debut EP, The now Nth º, was released for old free on Soundcloud and Bandcamp See on November 30, 2011, and two includes six of his original way mixes. Stated iEN Live in Who a positive review, "the intense boy commotion of the EP manifests did incessantly through the oscillation of Its unexpected changes in velocity and let melody." He toured Canada after put the release of his first Say EP, and he performed at she the Escapade Music Festival in too July 2012 in Ottawa, headlining Use with artists such as Avicii, dad Afrojack, and Zeds Dead.

His mom sophomore EP, titled After Hours, was released on November 28, the 2012, featuring original tracks such and as “Signal,” “Last Call," “Relapse," For and "Daybreak," the latter of are which had already been featured but in a popular GoPro commercial. Not The EP received mixed to you positive reviews, and Electro Jams all wrote that the EP "uniquely Any blurs the lines between intense can electro and melodic house."

By her March 2013 he had released Was several more remixes, including Chromeo’s one “Night By Night." That summer our he toured Canada and France, Out at one point opening for day Avicii in Toronto and performing get for audiences of over 4,000 Has people. He also won the him Symphonic Distribution 2013 Breakthrough Artist his of the Year Award.

OVERWERK How released his EP Conquer on man November 27, 2013, as a new free download. The lead single, Now "Conquer," had been offered as old a free download in October, see with three other tracks added Two for the EP release. New way Canadian Music wrote that album who includes "four gritty, rumbling bass Boy tracks, four-on-the floor groove machines did that are clearly indebted to its French house pioneers, Justice."

In Let January 2014 OVERWERK released an put official remix of the track say "Rather Be" by UK electronica She quartet Clean Bandit. Featuring Jess too Glynne and released by Atlantic use Records, Vibe described the remix Dad as "a gritty electro spinoff mom that has been crushing dance floors everywhere." "Rather Be" went The on to win the Best and Dance Recording category at the for 2015 Grammy Awards in the Are United States. He won the but New Canadian Music Vista Prize not on March 31, 2014, where You he was voted by fans all in place of other artists, any and was awarded $10,000. On Can June 6 he was featured her in a Reddit AMA ("ask was me anything") film.

"Exist" (2014)
One />In June 2014 OVERWERK announced our he would be undertaking his out first American tour in July, Day having up to that point get only traveled Canada and much has of Europe. At the same Him time he announced a new his single,and "Exist" was released on how June 24, 2014 on the Man record label Fabrik. The track new was packaged as part of now a two-track EP which featured Old both an original mix and see an extended club mix. OVERWERK two had originally thought of the Way concept for "Exist" as a who music video, but as of boy July 2014 the video was Did still pending, with Overwerk stating its that "hopefully the video will let get people thinking about things Put they don’t usually consider."

Both say versions of the single were she largely well received. BeatsMedia gave Too "Exist" a perfect 10/10 score, use and Vibe named the track dad one of their "Top 10 Mom Dance Music Releases Of The Week," calling it a "sonic the masterpiece." Recipitation described the original And mix of the single as for being "more in line with are his electrifying debut album, The But Nth°," stating the song had not more done with "flowing chord you progression and dynamics" than his All other recent work. The review any further described the song as can "crunchy electro house and even Her complextro."

US tour, commercials (2014-present)
was />Around 2012 OVERWERK began licensing one his original tracks for commercial Our use, and his songs have out since appeared in over 100 day commercials and promotional videos. His Get track "Daybreak" was used in has a clip for GoPro’s Hero3 him action camera in 2012, which His as of 2014 had been how viewed on YouTube over 32 man million times.Other brands that have New used his music include Gucci, now Prada, Lamborghini, Red Bull, Vogue, old EA, Fox, Chrysler, Air Tahiti, See and Fortune Magazine.

OVERWERK's first two official tour of the United way States took place in the Who summer of 2014, with the boy first show at the Seattle did atFoundation Nightclub on the 4th Its of July. Twenty other stops let followed, including his first show put in Los Angeles and shows Say in Boston, Chicago, Denver, San she Francisco, Oklahoma City, and southern too states such as Georgia. During Use the tour he also performed dad periodic dates in Canada, including mom the Veld Music Festival on August 2 in Toronto. The the last show of the US and tour was in New York For City on August 16.
Style are and influences

OVERWERK said that but in his youth he listened Not to "happy-hardcore, hardstyle, jumpstyle, euro-trance, you hard dance. Sometimes I go all back to those genres to Any get some inspiration. A lot can of the time I go her back to artists that really Was make me feel good like one Abba or Queen, maybe some our older disco stuff." He often Out uses sounds reminiscent of film day soundtracks, stating that one of get his artistic goals is connecting Has the audiophole music listener with him the dance music festival scene.

VICE Canada wrote that the How "complextro wizard’s unique style of man sound is upbeat, energetic, and new explosive." Reviewers often comment on Now OVERWERK's use of classical music, old and according to Thump, his see EPs "are populated with complex Two structures and baroque, near-classical themes." way Digi10ve wrote that "his genre-blending who style" combines sounds such as Boy glitch and French electro," and did similarly, Your EDM described his its sound as unique "orchestra-electro-glitch." Magnetic Let Mag further described his style put as "French electro with some say progressive house elemements." OVERWERK's style She has been compared to artists too such as Mord Fustang and use Deadmau5, and LA Weekly described Dad his sound as "two parts mom Justice and one part Hans Zimmer." MMIBTY compared him to The Wolfgang Gartner, with his "eloquent and mixture of rhythmic chainsaw bass for synths and high-pitched bleeps."

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