Stefan Obermaier

Stefan Obermaier (born 8 January 1981) is an Austrian electronic musician, producer and DJ. Born in Schwarzach/Pongau in Salzburg, Stefan Obermaier lives and works in Vienna since 2001. He produces different house music styles, downtempo and electronica.

Life and Music

His parents gave Stefan Obermaier his first electronic keyboard when he was just five years old. In the early 1990s, already he played in various funk and jazz projects. 1997 and 1998, he won the Austrian Band Contest with his school band for his original compositions. Simultaneously, inspired by the "Vienna Sound" mid of the 1990s, Stefan made it at the age of 17 to the forefront of performing electronic musicians in the Salzburg area. At that time, where there were no music functional laptops on the market, he was one of the very few moving around with big computers and installing them in the venues for their gigs.

After finishing school, Obermaier moved 2001 to Vienna to study music science, but left the University after four semester upon signing his first record contract with Universal Music in order to focus on his musical output. The first original recordings under his own name got released through the Viennese music label "Vienna Scientists". He worked further on remixes for a.o.M, Mark Murphy and Supermax. At the same time, Obermaier started a series of reinterpretations from classical music repertoire, going gold in Austria right with the initial album release ("iMozart" 2005). In 2008 Stefan Obermaier revealed his "Classic Reloaded" project, in which he developed the fusion of his own electronica with the prestigious works of great classical composers. So he created a new music concept starting with "Beethoven Reloaded" (2008) followed by "Mozart Reloaded" (2012)[1][2][3]

Stefan Obermaier has a permanent sound-exhibition room at the Viennese museum of sound and music Haus der Musik.[4][5]

In 2012 Stefan Obermaier and his partner Zwetelina Angelova founded their own label imprint "Drift Recordings", inaugurated by its first release, the "Bagana EP" [6] and the single "Traveler", which reached the top 10s of Germany's (DCC) and UK's (Cool Cuts) leading club charts.[7] A Stefan Obermaier album release, among others, is scheduled for later release.

Discography

EPs & Singles

Remixes

Classic Reloaded Project Albums

External links

References

  1. ↑ FAZE Stefan Obermaier.
  2. ↑ FAZE Ein Plädoyer für die Klassik.
  3. ↑ WDR Der kleine Nachtclub.
  4. ↑ Stefan Obermaier at Haus der Musik (House of music).
  5. ↑ Styria Media typischich.at.
  6. ↑ kcnv.
  7. ↑ Cool Cuts at houseplanet.dj.


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