This week’s Throwback Thursday features the 30 year old American born producer Wolfgang Gartner. Gartner is another person who produces original sounds and samples which differs from traditional/mainstream house music. Gartner found immediate success in the EDM industry and has had 8 of his songs hold the #1 spot on the Beatport top 10 charts. The four songs that will be featured in this article are “I Will Be Here”,”Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony”,”Conscindo”,and “Undertaker” .

I Will Be Here (Wolfgang Gartner Remix)

As it has been stated in previous Throwback Thursday articles, it is tough for a remix to be better than the original, especially when the original was created by the masterful legend Tiesto. The first song in the article also tends to be one of the artists’ first productions which helped boost his career into the limelight. The perfect adjective to describe this tune is “Summer Anthem” as the lyrics beautifully accompany the beat.

Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony

This song is one of Wolfgang’s first produced songs which assisted in his ascension to stardom. It is also very clever of Gartner to use a sample from another famous musician who’s first name started with Wolfgang. The sample is of course taken from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 5th symphony.

Conscindo 

This track is a perfect example of how Wolfgang has a wide variety of skills in regards to being able to produce different genres within Electronic Dance Music.This song can be considered as a deep house track, as there really is no big drop in this song but more of a mellow and progressive drop. Wolfgang collaborated with Mark Knight on this song. Knight will be featured in a future Throwback Thursday article as he too is talented in producing in a myriad of sub genres in the EDM scene.

Undertaker

Besides Illmerica, Space Junk, and some other tunes, “Undertaker” has to be one of Wolfgang Gartner’s most popular songs and is a Bangin Beats favorite. This song is the perfect example of his bread and butter style of music which is very unique and different from almost every other producer in the industry. There are many exclusive and different samples that are used in many of Wolfgang Gartner’s music, and “Undertaker” is the perfect song to show listeners most of those unique samples.

Wolfgang Gartner is the forerunner of “fidget-step” or “complextro” which is the style of music he produces (Ex:Undertaker). Both terms mean the same thing, as the term “complextro” was recently coined by Porter Robinson who’s musical style is also similar to Wolfgang Gartner’s. There aren’t that many people that have the ability or creativeness to produce these kinds of unique sounds like Wolfgang Gartner, thus giving him a cult like following from the masses and making him one of the most sought out dj’s to perform worldwide whether it is at major festivals or marquee clubs.