NASHVILLE |DT: SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/JOHN OCHOA
WOLFGANG GARTNER
REVEALS DETAILS FOR ‘WEEKEND IN AMERICA,’ OUT
SEPTEMBER 20 ON ULTRA MUSIC
DEBUT ALBUM FROM ONE OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC’S HOTTEST PRODUCERS
INCLUDES COLLABORATIONS WITH will.i.am, EVE, JIM JONES & CAM’RON AND OMARION
AND FEATURES HIT SINGLES “ILLMERICA,” “MENAGE A TROIS” AND “FOREVER”
NEW ‘WEEKEND IN AMERICA’ TOUR DATES CONFIRMED
GARTNER TEAMS WITH ULTRA, SPIN AND BEATPORT FOR A
‘WEEKEND IN AMERICA’ FLYAWAY SWEEPSTAKES TO HIS SHOWS IN
MADISON, WI AND CHICAGO, IL
ENTRY AVAILABLE AT:
HTTP://WWW.WOLFGANGGARTNER.COM/SWEEPSTAKES
“COGNITIVE DISSONANCE” HITS #4 ON HYPE MACHINE TODAY
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Electronic music producer and DJ WOLFGANG GARTNER is gearing up for the long-awaited release of his debut album WEEKEND IN AMERICA tomorrow Tuesday, September 20 via leading dance music label Ultra Music and has now made available details about the release as well as its support tour. He and his label have also teamed with Beatportand SPIN for a corresponding flyaway sweepstakes.
GARTNER (aka Joey Youngman) spent the last year crafting the album while touring America and simultaneously moving his studio from Austin to Los Angeles. The 11-song collection includes instrumental singles “Menage A Trois,” which recently charted at #1 on the U.K.’s influential Cool Cuts electronic music chart; “Space Junk,” a staple of every relevant DJs live repertoire; and “Illmerica,” with its engaging video that captures our country’s torrid 300-year history—including the American Revolution, the Underground Railroad, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Hiroshima and the Gulf War—in clip art-style animation. Another instrumental “Cognitive Dissonance”—which hit #4 on Hype Machine’s popular list today—will be available as a bonus track on the iTunes version of the album.
He also teamed with some of the most notable names in urban music for WEEKEND IN AMERICA. Glamorous rapperEve brings her strong verse to the album’s opening trak “Get Em,” Dipset’s Jim Jones and Cam’ron feature on“Circus Freaks,” Omarion emerges on “Still My Baby,” and Black Eyed Peas rapper and producer will.i.am lends his lyrical skills to “Forever.” The “Forever” video from famed photographer and video director Nabil Elderkin (Kanye West, Frank Ocean) stars will.i.am as a club kid love-child with eye-popping visuals. The full track listing follows below.
To promote WEEKEND IN AMERICA, GARTNER will return to venues across the country throughout the remainder ofSeptember and into the fall with appearances set for New York, San Francisco, Raleigh, Boulder, Madison, Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Ft. Lauderdale. In Los Angeles, he is confirmed for a two-night back-to-back engagement at Hollywood’s The Music Box where he will perform with The Medusa, his incredible stage set. He’ll close out the year with a December 31 New Year’s Eve set at the Lights All Night event joining Girl Talk andGhostland Observatory at the Dallas Convention Center.
Meanwhile, the American producer/DJ and his label, in partnership with SPIN magazine and Beatport, are hosting a sweepstakes and sending a winner and guest for a Weekend In America. From now through October 14, fans can enter the sweepstakes at: http://www.wolfganggartner.com/sweepstakes. The winner, who will be chosen on October 15, will fly to Madison, WI on Friday October 28 to party at club Segredo where Wolfgang will be bringing his album tour, then fly the next day to Chicago, IL and be VIP at Wolfgang’s show at the renowned Congress Theatre. The grand prize includes round-trip airfare, hotel, two tickets and VIP access to each show, ground transport to and from airport and venue, a year subscription to SPIN Magazine and a $100 credit at Beatport. The winner must be a citizen of the United States and over the age of 21.
One of the world’s fastest rising stars in electronic music, GARNTER was voted the #5 DJ in America by the readers ofDJ Times, has had eight #1 tracks on Beatport (including the site’s best-selling track of 2009: “Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony”) and has done many remixes for A-list artists (Black Eyed Peas, Timbaland, Britney Spears).
The track listing for WOLFGANG GARTNER’s WEEKEND IN AMERICA is:
- Get Em (feat Eve
- Space Junk
- Ménage À Trois
- Circus Freaks (feat. Jim Jones & Cam’ron)
- 818
- Forever (feat will.i.am)
- The Way It Was
- Shrunken Heads
- Still My Baby (feat.Omarion)
- Illmerica
- The Champ
WOLFGANG GARTNER tour dates are:
| DATE | CITY | VENUE | |
| Thu | 10/6 | Montreal, QC | SAT |
| Fri | 10/7 | Raleigh, NC | Raleigh Amphitheatre |
| Wed | 10/12 | Las Vegas, NV | Surrender |
| Thu | 10/13 | Toronto, ON | The Hoxton |
| Fri | 10/14 | New York, NY | Webster Hall |
| Sat | 10/15 | Boulder, CO | Boulder Theater |
| Fri | 10/21 | Los Angeles, CA | Music Box |
| Sat | 10/22 | Los Angeles, CA | Music Box |
| Fri | 10/28 | Madison, WI | Segredo |
| Sat | 10/29 | Chicago, IL | Congress Theater |
| Fri | 11/11 | Las Vegas, NV | Surrender |
| Fri | 11/25 | Philadelphia, PA | Electric Factory |
| Sat | 11/26 | Ft. Lauderdale, FL | Revolution |
| Sat | 12/31 | Dallas, TX | Lights All Night @ Dallas Convention Cente |
For more information, please visit:
www.wolfganggartner.com
www.facebook.com/djwolfganggartner
www.twitter.com/wolfganggartner
www.myspace.com/djwolfganggartner
www.msopr.com/?q=node/5824
Videos
“Forever” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK5O5-LPB7g
“Illmerica” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_rQ6Av0gMY
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For more information on WOLFGANG GARTNER, contact:
MSO 818-380-0400
Alexandra Greenberg x223, agreenberg@msopr.com
John Ochoa (Tour) x230, jochoa@msopr.com
