r/Savant

5.8K archived posts · Jun 2012 – Sep 2026

Savant

r/Savant

This subreddit is dedicated to the norwegian music producer Aleksander Vinter, known otherwise as Savant, Blanco, Vinter in Vegas and many more.

Created Jun 30, 2012

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Savant is the dubstep/complextro alias of the Norwegian artist Aleksander Vinter.

He is a prodigious savant with Asperger's syndrome and a fracture of ADD. He thinks out songs in seconds and produces them within few hours. To this date Aleksander has composed/produced over 10,000 songs in various genres, most notably metal, orchestral/classical, hip-hop and electronic music. Aleksander also draws inspiration from early game music such as NES, Sega, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari and SNES. Being such a unique producer; open minded people embrace him and the weekly free music, though critics tend to critique the quantity and the fast rate of releases.

In 2009, he released his debut album, Outbreak, under the Vinter in Hollywood alias. Outbreak was nominated in the electronic music category for the 2009 Norwegian Grammy Awards.

Vinter signed with SectionZ Records in 2010 and released Mamachine under the alias Vinter in Vegas and in 2011, Ninür under Savant.

2012 was his most prolific year in terms of full projects: Vario, Overworld, ISM and Alchemist all contain over 12 tracks each, and represent Savant's first boom in popularity. Starting from Vario, no record would shy away from Bandcamp's #1 spot.

In 2013, his following increased as he embarked on two North American tours. Between tours he released the album Cult and provided music for the D-Pad Studio game Savant – Ascent. Orakel was released on December 11, 2013 and reached the #3 spot on the iTunes Dance charts in the US.

In 2014, Savant released Protos, which reached #24 on the North American iTunes Pop charts and #1 on the Bandcamp Electronica and Overall charts. Later that year, on December 13, 2014, Zion was released, peaking at #2 on the holiday iTunes Dance chart in the US. Zion also reached #19 on the Billboard Dance chart and #24 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

Invasion was released in January 2015, and led deadmau5 to call Savant “the change that electronic dance music needs”. He also released the Bajo EP under his old alias of Blanco, mixing "Latin, African, Arabic, European and Asian music".

In 2016 Vinter worked on singles for the highly anticipated Vex. These are: Fire, Cassette, Savior and Forsaken. Get It Get It, featuring DMX and Snoop Dogg, is his standalone single for 2016. Later that year Vybz came out again under Savant, as well as a semi-unmastered collection of unreleased tracks called Outcasts.

In 2017, he brought back his old hip-hop alias: Datakrash, with the release of the Savage EP and the 90's Babies collab with co-label artist and friend, ToBy. Along with the reactivation of his SoundCloud page, Vinter is offered to work on the soundtrack for The Black Room, a film directed by Rolfe Kanefsky. The OST was released on Savant's bandcamp page on March 11. Following this, he also put out a Savant record called Jester, reaching #1 on Bandcamp once again. In the latter months of 2017, Aleks resurrected yet another alias, "Vinter", releasing the single Online.

In 2018, Aleks is offered to work on the soundtrack of a still unnamed "Savant RPG" game. He also released a celtic-inspired record called Highlander under his own name in March and remastered Jester shortly after.

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