After a weekend of nonstop action at Identity Festival, Wolfgang
Gartner got down to business this morning and dropped a two-track EP on
Beatport. My initial reaction to Casual Encounters of the 3rd Kind is a resounding mehhhh;
there are no big, infectious melodies a la “Redline,” “Flexx” or the
inimitable “Illmerica” here, and while that’s not automatically a bad
thing, the clean, simple and repetitive game has been played to more
kinetic and spectacular effect elsewhere (ex: Afrojack’s “Pop On Acid;”
Wolfgang’s own “Space Junk”). Maybe it’s just that I’m aggressively not
feeling the whiny loop at the beginning of “Girl on Boy” (can’t help but
think that Alvin Risk would have done something better there) but these
tracks just don’t seem to go anywhere that interesting. But who knows,
maybe they’ll wind up being awesome live. We shall see, I guess. Check
out the EP and let us know what you think.
Beatport: Wolfgang Gartner – Casual Encounters of the 3rd Kind EP
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