19 May 2021

INTERGALACTIC FM FESTIVAL 2021

Its that time of the year again – the world’s most FREAK underground CULT festival from The Hague Holland  -THE  INTERGALACTIC FM FESTIVAL 2021 – one more titme (let’s hope) as a stream!!! this online festival takes about a week, every day from 16:00 CET to 4:00 CET new sets are transmitted and the rerun from 4:00 till 16:00. It will probably take unitl next Saturday to go through the whole line up.

Just a quick random selection of names from the line up:

THE CONNECTION MACHINE – DJ MAACO DETROIT IN EFFECT – BLACK HELICOPTERS – COSMIC FORCE –  INTERGALACTIC GARY – DIM GARDEN – DAVID VUNK – ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK – HARD TON – IF – MAD MIRAN – JORDAN GCZ – AN-I – ESTHER DUIJN – UNIT MOEBIUS – DJ OVERDOSE – CARDINAL AND NUN – RON MORELLI – LAZERCAT – TRAXX – 543FF – ALBERTA BALSAM – ROBERT BERGMAN – STEVE SUMMERS – STEKKERDOOS – MY NAME IS NOT MATA – NUKLEAR PROPHET – KLANKMAN AND MANY MANY MANY MORE supercool artists!!!

I do a live performance with lot’s of synths again too from my new studio, there is ofcourse no timetable yet I have no clue when it will be transmitted.

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The festival has begun at:

FRIDAY MAY 21 16:00 Central Intergalactic Time

Streaming all week and beyond !!!

check it out here

if you have problems opening the stream try copy pasting the following link in your broswer or VLC or whatever you use, or just click on this link: https://intergalactic.tv/live/cbstv/playlist.m3u8

16 April 2021

LEGOWELT ART COMPETITION 2021 RESULTS

Ok finally they are in, the RESULTS OF THE LEGOWELT 2021 ART COMPETITION!

First of all THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone that entered! Some amazing material was send in and it was reallly difficult to choose the winners.

Check out the winners & all entries (a few hundred) HERE – if you won a prize I will contact you soon for info were to send it etc.

12 April 2021

Legowelt DJ MIX on RINSE FM

A little DJ Mix as broadcasted 1st April on RINSE FM London 106.3 FM for DJ Haus’ Unknown to the Unknown radioshow

TRACK LIST:

Chevalier de Barbaras – My Name is Chevalier
הברווזים החבוטים – Into the Valley of Smack
Legowelt – Novation Circuit Tracks build in Demo
Mono Junk – Won’t u leave love to me
Delroy Edwards – Killer Charlie
David Vunk – Kievietslaan 25
Dickie Smabers – Pompy The Robodoll
Legowelt – Edelweiss Reingold
Chupacabras Acid Freq. – Shitting the Floor
Chevalier de Barbaras – The Chevalier Challenges
Parris Mitchell – The Worm
Dickie Smabers – Sweeping the D&R
AUX 88 – Erase the Time
Franziska Lantz – Run For It
The Speedfreak – Fumble Tunnel
Dickie Smabers – FC Den Haag

7 April 2021

Studio Interview on Stamp the Wax

An interview or ‘shoreless babbling’ about my new studio on Stamp the Wax by Rosie Cain, read it here

7 April 2021

ART COMP CLOSED

The Legowelt ART COMPETITION 2021 is now officially closed, thanks everybody for sending in your artwork!!! We recieved a few hundred awesome entries from all over the world so it will take a week or so to go through them to anounce the winners! Keep an eye out here, in the meantime feel free to stroll around the website 🙂 Winners will be notifiied via email.

2 April 2021

POLYEND TRACKER SAMPLER SEQUENCER

LEGOWELT EDITION

Owyeahhhhh I am very excited to anounce the POLYEND TRACKER LEGOWELT EDITION! The Polyend Tracker is a full self contained hardware tracker sampler sequencer with MIDI from Poland. If you are not familiar with Trackers, they were software sequencers back in the 1990s on computers like the Commodore AMIGA and PC in which you can sequence samples on 4 to 8 channels. The most famous of these were OCTAMED and PROTRACKER, These trackers gave an unique groove and sound and played a vital role in the development and creation of certain music styles (Like oldschool Jungle, Gabber and Bunker sewertechno and electro for example).  This Polyend tracker can read .mod files and import & export wav. audio via SD cards and has lots of other bells and whistles! You can sequence MIDI and you can set everything to 12 or even 8 bit for extra crunchyness and punch! Also inlcuded are filters, wavetable & granular synthesis, an FM radio(!) . And it’s also super easy to use & FAST, especially if you are familiar with trackers, like me I didn’t even had to read the manual 😉

This special edition comes with an unique faceplate designed by myself. Also inside there are 5000+ sounds from my sample archive (1000+ new fresh specially designed ones for this tracker!), 26 project files with finished songs you can play and study, including preset loaded drumkits so you can jammmm instantly.

It comes in a limited edition of 300 pieces, you can pre-order the unit here. 
Also included is an LP (which will be send later this year) with some of my tracks made on the Polyend tracker.

Some sound bytes of what the tracker can do, all straight from the tracker itself:

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31 March 2021

5 DAYS LEFT FOR LEGOWELT 2021 ART COMP

The deadline for entry for the Legowelt 2021 ART COMPETITION is coming near us. You got 5 days to submit your entry! You have until 5 APRIL (that means you can also send it in on that day I reckon). Check http://legowelt.org/art-competition/ how to enter and win one of the prizes like a Casio SK1 sampling keyboard, a Yamaha PSS390 FM synth and lots more!!! All you got to do is make some artwork (drawing, painting, computer, knittting, graffiti whatever) inspired by my musical world. Please send it in a decent quality, not some halflit vague blurry phone pic thats all in a weird angle. 

Here is a movie of me playing the 2nd prize, the Yamaha PSS390 FM synth through an Electro Harmonix Canyon delay/looper pedal:

Everyone can enter – You are always a WINNER!!!

27 March 2021

OUT NOW:

Dickie Smabers – Jammed From the Fist 2xLP

2x vinyl pack with 8 overeasy fat The Hague D&R mixer jams squeezed from the ‘fist’, made in an afternoon or 2. The tape deck heads were so non alligned the tracks almost started to chorus/flange/phase, barely holding things together… ‘Track themes’ span mostly The Hague related stuff like the disfunctional yet cult BABYLON shopping mall, Buying a second hand Akai X7000 in the posh upperclass Vogelwijk (our version of Hampstead), Obscure nightmarish dutch TV show Pompy the Robodoll and some other adventures from the life of Dickie Smabers!!!

Available now at your local record dealer!!!
Bleep (UK)   Hardwax (DE)    Clone (NL)    Rush Hour (NL)    Phonica (UK)   Jettset (Japan)

Digital/streaming versions at various platforms like Bandcamp etc.

MP3 SNIPPETS:

WINKELCENTRUM BABYLON

PARADOX DEN HAAG

UNIT STIJL

EEN AKAI UIT DE VOGELWIJK

POMPY THE ROBODOLL

LEKKERE D&R MIDSWEEPER

DE RODE OLIFANT

UILENNEST

 

22 March 2021

U-TRAX MIXTAPE COMPILATION

I was asked to ‘curate’ this compilation for the legendary Dutch U-TRAX records, a cool little freak label from the mid 1990s that released lots of out-there records from artists/bands like the Connection Machine, Fanon Flowers, P.A. Presents, Heinrich Tillack, Spasms, Sonar Bass and lots more. Its available on all platforms, also on cassettape/CD somehwere (soon?)
I also did the artwork for the cover and wrote the liner notes.

6 March 2021

LEGOWELT 2021 ART COMPETITION

 

I am super excited to anounce the 2021 Legowelt art competition!

Some of you might remember the last one 5 years ago in 2016, I got more then a hundred artworks from all around the world  You can check a few of those here. This year we are going to do a new one and you can win some supercool prizes!!! 

How can I enter???
Make some new fresh (visual) art inspired by my musical world, songs, albums, the website, videos, games, synths, the cyberzine anything you can think of. You can use anything you want – it can be painted, drawn, made on a computer, grafftied on a wall, collaged, embroidered etc.etc.etc.

Just make a pic/scan (of decent quality not some vague blurry underlighted 2005 phone photo) and send it to this email adressss:

 legoweltartcomp    @   gmail.com

The artpieces will be put in an ‘online museum’ on the legowelt.org website
You can add some info if you want, like were you located etc. and I will put it next to the artwork.

The date by which your entry should be send in is 5 April 2021

Everyone can enter – I will give an A for effort no matter what 😉

 

THE PRIZES:

The coolest, nicest, most intriguing ones will win one of these prizes:

 

1ST PRIZE

Signed vintage CASIO SK-1 sampler synth keyboard. An adorable Japanese lo-fi sampler  & additive synth from 1985 with cool functions such as looping, portamento and also sizzling minimalwavish electro drums! In the original box.

 

2ND PRIZE

Signed vintage YAMAHA PSS390 FM synthesizer.  An ice cold yet snuggy sounding beauty this 1990 Japanese 2 operator FM synthesizer.  With sliders to easily program your own FM sounds. Perfect for dungeon synth or wild out of control jakbeat. In the original box.

 

3RD PRIZE

Electro Acoustic Kalimba – as used on the Zandvoort & Uilenbal Folk Triumfator album. Play it as it is or plug it in a mixer with FX and create the most intense darkest sounds out of this fascinating instrument.

 

4TH PRIZE

Smackie SM23 mysterious customized ultracrap keyboard of unknown origin with lofi industrial ‘voice processor’ including microphone.

 

5th Prizes:  Legowelt music pack (CD’s records.) + “You are just a sad hologram projected from the edge of the universe” T-Shirt  Postcards + sticker

6th Prizes: A Legowelt related Record + “You are just a sad hologram projected from the edge of the universe” T-Shirt, Postcards + sticker 

7th Prizes:  “You are just a sad hologram” T-Shirt + Postcards + sticker

 

And remember just entering the competition makes you already a WINNER for life!

GOOD LUCK!!!