Edmond Huszar (born 12 July 1989 in London, Ontario), better known by his s… Read Full Bio ↴Edmond Huszar (born 12 July 1989 in London, Ontario), better known by his stage name OVERWERK or Overwerk, is a Canadian DJ, producer and graphic designer. Active since 2010, his style is often described as electro or complextro, and according to LA Weekly his music combines "dramatic, orchestral passages" with "serrated synths and dive-bombing basslines." Since 2011 he has released three EPs and several singles, designing the album covers himself. His 2014 single "Exist" was given a 10/10 score by Beatsmedia, with Vibe Magazine naming the track one of their "Top 10 Dance Music Releases Of The Week."
OVERWERK is also known for his official remixes of songs such as "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit. "Rather Be" went on to win the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. He has toured Canada, much of Europe, and the United States, opening for artists such as Avicii and headlining festivals such as the 2012 Escapade Music Festival. He won the 2014 New Canadian Music Vista Prize, and his songs have appeared in commercials for brands such as GoPro, Gucci, Lamborghini, Chrysler, Vogue, and Fortune Magazine. He has also created the song Pressure for The Sims 4 videogame.
Early life
Edmond Huszar was born in 1989 in the small city of London, Ontario, where he was raised. He first began learning to play music in elementary school, when he discovered a talent for drums and rhythm. He started making music on his computer one day while bored, mixing music that was popular at his high school.
Around the age of fifteen he became interested in DJing and in the tenth grade, he and a friend rented their own DJ equipment for a school dance. From that point he DJed all his school dances, remixing popular songs into club edits. At one point he had over 200 remixes in high school he'd made on his computer, of songs such as “A Milli” by Lil Wayne. At age 17, he went to a Daft Punk show in Toronto, which he states "changed my life for sure." After learning to DJ he began teaching himself how to produce. In highschool he began selling CDs of his work as a hobby, also designing the album covers.
Music career
Early years (2008-11)
After graduating highschool in 2008, one of Huszar's first professional production projects was for The Girls Can Hear Us, an electro-rap duo based in Ontario. In the summer of 2010 he began releasing original music under the alias Overwerk, or OVERWERK. About his name, he has stated "I had named my graphic portfolio 'overworked' because I’m always working on so many projects." Work was changed to 'werk' in tribute to the techno group Kraftwerk. As in high school, he continued to design the covers for his albums and releases.
OVERWERK self-released a number of remixes in late 2010 and into 2011, including Wolfgang Gartner’s "Space Junk," which EDM Sauce praised as "a huge improvement on the original." By spring of 2011 Overwerk had also released a number of original singles, and he was periodically collaborating with Andy's iLL, a death electro producer he had met on Soundcloud.
First releases, touring (2011-14)
OVERWERK's debut EP, The Nth º, was released for free on Soundcloud and Bandcamp on November 30, 2011, and includes six of his original mixes. Stated iEN Live in a positive review, "the intense commotion of the EP manifests incessantly through the oscillation of unexpected changes in velocity and melody." He toured Canada after the release of his first EP, and he performed at the Escapade Music Festival in July 2012 in Ottawa, headlining with artists such as Avicii, Afrojack, and Zeds Dead.
His sophomore EP, titled After Hours, was released on November 28, 2012, featuring original tracks such as “Signal,” “Last Call," “Relapse," and "Daybreak," the latter of which had already been featured in a popular GoPro commercial. The EP received mixed to positive reviews, and Electro Jams wrote that the EP "uniquely blurs the lines between intense electro and melodic house."
By March 2013 he had released several more remixes, including Chromeo’s “Night By Night." That summer he toured Canada and France, at one point opening for Avicii in Toronto and performing for audiences of over 4,000 people. He also won the Symphonic Distribution 2013 Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award.
OVERWERK released his EP Conquer on November 27, 2013, as a free download. The lead single, "Conquer," had been offered as a free download in October, with three other tracks added for the EP release. New Canadian Music wrote that album includes "four gritty, rumbling bass tracks, four-on-the floor groove machines that are clearly indebted to French house pioneers, Justice."
In January 2014 OVERWERK released an official remix of the track "Rather Be" by UK electronica quartet Clean Bandit. Featuring Jess Glynne and released by Atlantic Records, Vibe described the remix as "a gritty electro spinoff that has been crushing dance floors everywhere." "Rather Be" went on to win the Best Dance Recording category at the 2015 Grammy Awards in the United States. He won the New Canadian Music Vista Prize on March 31, 2014, where he was voted by fans in place of other artists, and was awarded $10,000. On June 6 he was featured in a Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") film.
"Exist" (2014)
In June 2014 OVERWERK announced he would be undertaking his first American tour in July, having up to that point only traveled Canada and much of Europe. At the same time he announced a new single,and "Exist" was released on June 24, 2014 on the record label Fabrik. The track was packaged as part of a two-track EP which featured both an original mix and an extended club mix. OVERWERK had originally thought of the concept for "Exist" as a music video, but as of July 2014 the video was still pending, with Overwerk stating that "hopefully the video will get people thinking about things they don’t usually consider."
Both versions of the single were largely well received. BeatsMedia gave "Exist" a perfect 10/10 score, and Vibe named the track one of their "Top 10 Dance Music Releases Of The Week," calling it a "sonic masterpiece." Recipitation described the original mix of the single as being "more in line with his electrifying debut album, The Nth°," stating the song had more done with "flowing chord progression and dynamics" than his other recent work. The review further described the song as "crunchy electro house and even complextro."
US tour, commercials (2014-present)
Around 2012 OVERWERK began licensing his original tracks for commercial use, and his songs have since appeared in over 100 commercials and promotional videos. His track "Daybreak" was used in a clip for GoPro’s Hero3 action camera in 2012, which as of 2014 had been viewed on YouTube over 32 million times.Other brands that have used his music include Gucci, Prada, Lamborghini, Red Bull, Vogue, EA, Fox, Chrysler, Air Tahiti, and Fortune Magazine.
OVERWERK's first official tour of the United States took place in the summer of 2014, with the first show at the Seattle atFoundation Nightclub on the 4th of July. Twenty other stops followed, including his first show in Los Angeles and shows in Boston, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Oklahoma City, and southern states such as Georgia. During the tour he also performed periodic dates in Canada, including the Veld Music Festival on August 2 in Toronto. The last show of the US tour was in New York City on August 16.
Style and influences
OVERWERK said that in his youth he listened to "happy-hardcore, hardstyle, jumpstyle, euro-trance, hard dance. Sometimes I go back to those genres to get some inspiration. A lot of the time I go back to artists that really make me feel good like Abba or Queen, maybe some older disco stuff." He often uses sounds reminiscent of film soundtracks, stating that one of his artistic goals is connecting the audiophole music listener with the dance music festival scene.
VICE Canada wrote that the "complextro wizard’s unique style of sound is upbeat, energetic, and explosive." Reviewers often comment on OVERWERK's use of classical music, and according to Thump, his EPs "are populated with complex structures and baroque, near-classical themes." Digi10ve wrote that "his genre-blending style" combines sounds such as glitch and French electro," and similarly, Your EDM described his sound as unique "orchestra-electro-glitch." Magnetic Mag further described his style as "French electro with some progressive house elemements." OVERWERK's style has been compared to artists such as Mord Fustang and Deadmau5, and LA Weekly described his sound as "two parts Justice and one part Hans Zimmer." MMIBTY compared him to Wolfgang Gartner, with his "eloquent mixture of rhythmic chainsaw bass synths and high-pitched bleeps."
OVERWERK is also known for his official remixes of songs such as "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit. "Rather Be" went on to win the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. He has toured Canada, much of Europe, and the United States, opening for artists such as Avicii and headlining festivals such as the 2012 Escapade Music Festival. He won the 2014 New Canadian Music Vista Prize, and his songs have appeared in commercials for brands such as GoPro, Gucci, Lamborghini, Chrysler, Vogue, and Fortune Magazine. He has also created the song Pressure for The Sims 4 videogame.
Early life
Edmond Huszar was born in 1989 in the small city of London, Ontario, where he was raised. He first began learning to play music in elementary school, when he discovered a talent for drums and rhythm. He started making music on his computer one day while bored, mixing music that was popular at his high school.
Around the age of fifteen he became interested in DJing and in the tenth grade, he and a friend rented their own DJ equipment for a school dance. From that point he DJed all his school dances, remixing popular songs into club edits. At one point he had over 200 remixes in high school he'd made on his computer, of songs such as “A Milli” by Lil Wayne. At age 17, he went to a Daft Punk show in Toronto, which he states "changed my life for sure." After learning to DJ he began teaching himself how to produce. In highschool he began selling CDs of his work as a hobby, also designing the album covers.
Music career
Early years (2008-11)
After graduating highschool in 2008, one of Huszar's first professional production projects was for The Girls Can Hear Us, an electro-rap duo based in Ontario. In the summer of 2010 he began releasing original music under the alias Overwerk, or OVERWERK. About his name, he has stated "I had named my graphic portfolio 'overworked' because I’m always working on so many projects." Work was changed to 'werk' in tribute to the techno group Kraftwerk. As in high school, he continued to design the covers for his albums and releases.
OVERWERK self-released a number of remixes in late 2010 and into 2011, including Wolfgang Gartner’s "Space Junk," which EDM Sauce praised as "a huge improvement on the original." By spring of 2011 Overwerk had also released a number of original singles, and he was periodically collaborating with Andy's iLL, a death electro producer he had met on Soundcloud.
First releases, touring (2011-14)
OVERWERK's debut EP, The Nth º, was released for free on Soundcloud and Bandcamp on November 30, 2011, and includes six of his original mixes. Stated iEN Live in a positive review, "the intense commotion of the EP manifests incessantly through the oscillation of unexpected changes in velocity and melody." He toured Canada after the release of his first EP, and he performed at the Escapade Music Festival in July 2012 in Ottawa, headlining with artists such as Avicii, Afrojack, and Zeds Dead.
His sophomore EP, titled After Hours, was released on November 28, 2012, featuring original tracks such as “Signal,” “Last Call," “Relapse," and "Daybreak," the latter of which had already been featured in a popular GoPro commercial. The EP received mixed to positive reviews, and Electro Jams wrote that the EP "uniquely blurs the lines between intense electro and melodic house."
By March 2013 he had released several more remixes, including Chromeo’s “Night By Night." That summer he toured Canada and France, at one point opening for Avicii in Toronto and performing for audiences of over 4,000 people. He also won the Symphonic Distribution 2013 Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award.
OVERWERK released his EP Conquer on November 27, 2013, as a free download. The lead single, "Conquer," had been offered as a free download in October, with three other tracks added for the EP release. New Canadian Music wrote that album includes "four gritty, rumbling bass tracks, four-on-the floor groove machines that are clearly indebted to French house pioneers, Justice."
In January 2014 OVERWERK released an official remix of the track "Rather Be" by UK electronica quartet Clean Bandit. Featuring Jess Glynne and released by Atlantic Records, Vibe described the remix as "a gritty electro spinoff that has been crushing dance floors everywhere." "Rather Be" went on to win the Best Dance Recording category at the 2015 Grammy Awards in the United States. He won the New Canadian Music Vista Prize on March 31, 2014, where he was voted by fans in place of other artists, and was awarded $10,000. On June 6 he was featured in a Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") film.
"Exist" (2014)
In June 2014 OVERWERK announced he would be undertaking his first American tour in July, having up to that point only traveled Canada and much of Europe. At the same time he announced a new single,and "Exist" was released on June 24, 2014 on the record label Fabrik. The track was packaged as part of a two-track EP which featured both an original mix and an extended club mix. OVERWERK had originally thought of the concept for "Exist" as a music video, but as of July 2014 the video was still pending, with Overwerk stating that "hopefully the video will get people thinking about things they don’t usually consider."
Both versions of the single were largely well received. BeatsMedia gave "Exist" a perfect 10/10 score, and Vibe named the track one of their "Top 10 Dance Music Releases Of The Week," calling it a "sonic masterpiece." Recipitation described the original mix of the single as being "more in line with his electrifying debut album, The Nth°," stating the song had more done with "flowing chord progression and dynamics" than his other recent work. The review further described the song as "crunchy electro house and even complextro."
US tour, commercials (2014-present)
Around 2012 OVERWERK began licensing his original tracks for commercial use, and his songs have since appeared in over 100 commercials and promotional videos. His track "Daybreak" was used in a clip for GoPro’s Hero3 action camera in 2012, which as of 2014 had been viewed on YouTube over 32 million times.Other brands that have used his music include Gucci, Prada, Lamborghini, Red Bull, Vogue, EA, Fox, Chrysler, Air Tahiti, and Fortune Magazine.
OVERWERK's first official tour of the United States took place in the summer of 2014, with the first show at the Seattle atFoundation Nightclub on the 4th of July. Twenty other stops followed, including his first show in Los Angeles and shows in Boston, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Oklahoma City, and southern states such as Georgia. During the tour he also performed periodic dates in Canada, including the Veld Music Festival on August 2 in Toronto. The last show of the US tour was in New York City on August 16.
Style and influences
OVERWERK said that in his youth he listened to "happy-hardcore, hardstyle, jumpstyle, euro-trance, hard dance. Sometimes I go back to those genres to get some inspiration. A lot of the time I go back to artists that really make me feel good like Abba or Queen, maybe some older disco stuff." He often uses sounds reminiscent of film soundtracks, stating that one of his artistic goals is connecting the audiophole music listener with the dance music festival scene.
VICE Canada wrote that the "complextro wizard’s unique style of sound is upbeat, energetic, and explosive." Reviewers often comment on OVERWERK's use of classical music, and according to Thump, his EPs "are populated with complex structures and baroque, near-classical themes." Digi10ve wrote that "his genre-blending style" combines sounds such as glitch and French electro," and similarly, Your EDM described his sound as unique "orchestra-electro-glitch." Magnetic Mag further described his style as "French electro with some progressive house elemements." OVERWERK's style has been compared to artists such as Mord Fustang and Deadmau5, and LA Weekly described his sound as "two parts Justice and one part Hans Zimmer." MMIBTY compared him to Wolfgang Gartner, with his "eloquent mixture of rhythmic chainsaw bass synths and high-pitched bleeps."
Parallel
OVERWERK Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Parallel' by these artists:
Akiko Shiina ボートに湖 架け橋を渡る二人組み 散らばるポップコーン 喜ぶ鳩 それを眺める子どもの笑顔 目に写る 全てを ただ ただ…
Ally Rhodes You can rest in my arms but I'm telling you…
Anna Mieke Soon, we′ll find A mothering wall to rest our backs on A…
Bad Religion Sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space There's an ocean…
Bakkushan Wir haben uns tausendmal gefunden und uns genauso oft verl…
Bootblacks Dreamed of you, believed you were never real I didn't…
Bridge It's so strange to see you live like this Seems you…
Chouchou-P feat. Hatsune Miku You're all bright and shiny creating something new Allowed t…
Coop She like it when I come through on the sneak If…
Dayseeker I walk in the room, and I can't conceive it The…
En Medias Res Days we've passed still keep us from looking behind Through…
Flatland Cavalry Don't say you miss me Or wish that I could come…
FLIGHTS OF HELIOS We fly parallel The voltage shifts caught in the swell Hard …
Grover Anderson It feels a little late to still be trying on If…
Hail Your Highness Sometimes there′s no leaving Sometimes there's no leaving Pu…
Hairu Tokyo She's got a sun bleached dress and drinks mimosas She got…
Heffron Drive Counting stars, laying in the grass Side by side, your head…
Högni cs the speckles settle In the dirty morning dew Under the da…
I.F.R. Here I go again, keeping myself in these spaces Thrown again…
j ember Woke up on a Tuesday afternoon A little out of touch,…
Jack White We must be thieves Of each other's minds Like we're on s…
Jem-One & SR We are all comatose. We are overfed and under Undernourishe…
Jessica Harp I know you think that I'm just a little girl But…
Joshua Travis My mind is mental execution Always falling for illusions The…
Karl Leander I was just a pebble bouncing on your pond I had…
KEYTALK ずっとずっと覚えてる 隣にあった世界を いつだって探してる 重なり合ってる世界を すれ違った僕らは 互いに憧れ合って 求…
Kings of Convenience What's the immaterial substance That envelopes two, That o…
LAFAWNDAH If I hang up, roof will fall Now she vanished and…
Laura Brehm I almost lost hold of myself And when I met your…
Lindsay Munroe We don't need words, we can sit in silence All of…
M-Theory Dreaming of somewhere far from oblivion time in stop without…
Melotonics When we run on the tracks Name on the stacks Connection Blac…
Metrik & Grafix You are electric And now I'm under your spell I will pr…
micah martin You're killing me You're killing me! Killing me Maybe this i…
Neuroactive I can see the image of her when she´s gone…
nobb-d We both live in parallel worlds At the same time, dimension…
Oh Pep! I'm always leaving when you come around Looking for me…
Pali Gap Oh lately I've been running in parallel to you Oh maybe…
Riz La Vie You know you got me You know you got me You know…
Segiri I wouldn’t have believed you If you told me we’d end…
Shangri-Lass Parallel across the street lights Damp air clings to…
Sonic Outcast The day has come to start again To change the world…
Spencer Carlson I am a mute tree John Barleycorn laughing at me, through…
Square Kids I don’t mind I can wait Once is enough Get over me Step asi…
Stellar Dreams All up and above, I keep going round and round, On top…
Sølv I′m the rain in the desert I'm the cold light of…
Technimatic feat. Zara Kershaw I've been wondering About words we left untold How things co…
The Blue Steam Project I soak my spine in the dirt But every time it…
The Modern Strangers Tell me if it′s too obvious There's a few versions of…
The Turtle Project Did you ever wonder what it would be like To…
Urbanstep You're killing me You're killing me! Killing me Maybe this i…
Urbanstep feat. Micah Martin Am I a nuisance? Do you want me to fuck off? Isn't…
Violent is Savanna いつもそうだった 無駄なポケット ここまできたらためらわずに キスで壊した ただのロケット GREAT MUSIC甘い…
VIXX 낯설지 않아 너의 오묘한 눈빛 평행한 느낌 보이니 시간의 계단을 건너 네게 왔어…
Voids I always knew, in the dead of night There was the…
Was-a-Bee You know what that shit fucking changed me The so-called lov…
りょーくん 変わらない日常とか 移りゆく街並みとか 捻くれている 今の僕には眩しすぎた 目の覚めぬ様な感覚と 落ちていくだけの情景…
橋本一子 Ub-X Tonight we're holding onto time We're chasing heaven A hidde…
郭修彧 I'd rather you make me feel like I could have…
We have lyrics for these tracks by OVERWERK:
Control ft. Nick Nikon No pressure, no diamonds Volcanoes keep on making these isla…
Daybreak Nelongso roso rasane tangis njroning atiku Yen kelingan esem…
House House House Take a trip to my house Nothing's what it seems…
Odyssey Tereri dori do Tapi en o bivan Tereri dori do Tapi en o…
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OVERWERK
https://overwerk.com/discord — This video was a labour of love; I hope you enjoy it. Join me on Discord if you'd like to chat about music, art, or the past, present, and future of OW.
SuperBigVanilla
Yo! Is there anywhere I can buy, or get a 320KBS version of "I AM LONDON" ??
DarthTellor
Now I understand! Modern Art Galleries exist only so OVERWERK can shoot his music vids.
L'éclectique
It's true
merq
Genius design behind them amirite
disturbedman
I'mma be honest with you guys, I never get to understand a thing about any of his videos or other crafts, but there is something about the music that just feels right. Been feeling like this for years and, even though I like his first albums better, his style never ceases to amaze me and, as I said, there is something about it that is just perfect in a way words cannot describe.
Edmond: if you read this, great job, mate. I would love you to release something more along the lines of Conquer or After Hours or even revisit The Nth°, but I still find your style great and I admire your ability to evolve and stay fresh.
EpicFutureHouse
Agree!
Herr Voragend
absolutely, there is something magical in this music i cant explain at all
Marco Geier
It's always a good day when Overwerk uploads!
Nickolas Panov
очень крутая психоделия получилась!!! и музыка и видеоряд потрясающие!!!