Joseph Thomas Youngman (born March 17, 1982), better known by his stage name Wolfgang Gartner, is an

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DJ and music producer. Much of his music prior to 2010 was released through his own record label, Kindergarten, but he signed with

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in 2010 and

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in the UK in 2011.

Biography

Background

Youngman created the Wolfgang Gartner name in late 1999 after establishing a successful name as a

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DJ. Not wanting to be criticized for such an abrupt departure in style, Youngman created the name anonymously. Gartner's identity was revealed officially in July 2008. Youngman took the name from the coach of the Cal Poly Mustangs men's soccer team. The current Wolfgang Gartner logo was created in 2010 by New York graffiti artist Eric Haze who created logos for the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and EPMD. Gartner hosted the first episode of MTV's dance music show "Clubland" which aired on September 22, 2011. A portion of the episode was filmed at his home in

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, where he gave a tour of his studio and introduced music videos. He also was the DJ for the 10th Video Game Awards, which aired on Spike TV on December 7, 2012.

Music

A total of eight of Gartner's songs have held the #1 position on the

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Top 10 Chart.
His single "Wolfgang's 5th Symphony" was the highest selling song on Beatport.com in 2009. Gartner received a Grammy nomination for his remix of

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's "Funk Nasty" in the Best Remixed Recording (Non Classical) Category in 2010. On September 20, 2011, Gartner released his first full-length album ''

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.'' The album featured vocal cameos from Omarion,

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, will.i.am and Eve. It peaked at #2 in iTunes' dance chart and #1 in Beatport's album chart. Gartner also collaborated with

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on "

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"," Channel 42" and " Channel 43", with

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on "The Devil's Den", and with Tiesto and Luciana on " We Own the Night". Gartner's music has been featured in a number of

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, including the racing game '' Midnight Club: Los Angeles'' ("Squares" and "Montezuma"), snowboarding game '' Stoked ("Circles")'', and as

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for

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's '' DJ Hero'' ("Wolfgang's 5th Symphony"), Dirt Showdown ("Illmerica"), Forza Horizon ("Illmerica"), Forza Horizon 4 ("Ching Ching") and in

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(”Anaconda“). His music has also been featured in the TV shows ''

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'' ("Illmerica") and ''

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'' ("Get Em"),

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("There and Back"),

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("Menage A Trois"), ''

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'' ("There and Back") and in the movie '' Limitless'' ("Hook Shot"). "Illmerica" was mashed up with " We Are Your Friends" (by

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) to form the track "Illmerica Are Your Friends" by Australian DJ Steve Camp; the song became popular after it was played as the opening track on episode 186 of

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's radio show ''

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'' in 2010. Gartner was nominated for four International Dance Music Awards in January 2011, including Best Electro/Tech House Track, Best Progressive Track, Best Breakthrough DJ and Best Breakthrough Artist. That same month, Gartner announced a new video for the single "Illmerica". "Forever", a collaboration with will.i.am, was released on April 12, 2011. The music video received regular rotation on

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(Canada), and

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in the USA. The single received limited radio airplay in America, while reaching A-List rotation on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. His musical style ranges from

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to progressive house and

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, as categorized in online record stores such as

. Gartner finished in 8th place in the 2013 America's Best DJ competition—a vote and promotion to find out the country's most popular DJ conducted by ''DJ Times'' magazine and ''

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''.

DJ career

Gartner has performed at a number of music festivals including CounterPoint 2014, Camp Bisco 2011 and 2013, Neon Desert Music Festival 2013

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2012,

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2012,

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2012, Coachella 2010, 2013

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2010, 2011, and 2013,

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2010 through 2013, Parklife (Australia) 2011, Creamfields (UK) 2011, Global Dance Festival 2012, Electric Zoo 2011, 2012 and tours extensively around the world. In 2010, Gartner debuted as a featured guest on

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series, hosted by DJ/producer

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Discography

Studio albums * ''

'' (2011) * '' 10 Ways to Steal Home Plate'' (2016)

References

External links

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