Bass music rule-breaking producers Kill The Noise and Wolfgang Gartner team up for the second lead single "How Ya Like Me Now" off Kill The Noise's second album. The track is the spiritual successor to their fan favorite collab last year "Battlestations" and comes on Kill The Noise's first new album in 6 years. "How Ya Like Me Now" infuses old school complextro influences with fresh unexpected sound design, glitchy bass patterns and a soulful vocal performance by Ericka Guitron.
The music of Jake Stanczak, better known as American producer and DJ, Kill the Noise, was born out of an era where Ridley Scott imagined utopian futures on the silver screen, and artists like NIN and Aphex Twin rocked MTV. After channeling the influences of his youth through over a decades’ worth of forward driven electronic releases (Roots, Kill Kill Kill, Black Magic, Occult Classic), and charismatic live shows (Coachella, EDC Lollapalooza, Hardfest), the name “Kill the Noise” has become synonymous with some of the leading acts in dance music — getting creative in the studio with the likes of Dillon Francis, Deadmau5, AWOLNATION and Skrillex — and as 2020 unfolds, he’ll be unveiling even more material.
The most commercial alias for Joey Youngman -- the DJ and dance producer who also recorded as Bosco & Terell, Count Funkula, Frequent Flyers, the Girth, Mario Fabriani, and Spyro Pappadopoulos, not to mention monikers for his several collaborative projects -- Wolfgang Gartner functioned as an outlet for his active and noise-packed electro-house productions, which contrasted greatly with his more sophisticated and "tasteful" deep house releases. Youngman didn't reveal that he was behind Wolfgang Gartner until 2008, once the alias gathered steam in clubs. From 2007 through 2011, there were nearly a dozen Gartner
12" releases, along with remixes of tracks by Tiesto and Sneaky Sound System, MSTRKRFT, and Britney Spears.
In September 2011, Youngman released the first Wolfgang Gartner album, Weekend in America, which allowed him to indulge in his love for rap music by roping guest appearances from Cam’ron, Jim Jones, will.i.am, and Eve, along with R&B vocalist Omarion. Additional singles on Ultra followed over the next several years, leading up to his second proper album, 10 Ways to Steal Home Plate, in 2016. Released on Gartner's own Kindergarten label, it featured Wiley and Trina on the single "Turn Up." He issued a handful of singles in 2018, including "Ching Ching", "Freak", and "The Upside Down", the latter of which featured JayKode.