Monday 22 October 2018

Legowelt scores Werner Herzog‘s 1979 NOSFERATU

Saturday 17 November I will do a live score on synths for Werner Herzog’s 1979 masterpiece NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE – at the Kino cinema in Rotterdam Holland.

conceived as a stylistic remake of Murnau’s 1922 German Dracula adaptation – Herzogs Nosferatu is a mindblowing visual and mental experience starring Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Ganz.

The screening will start at 00:15 in the night – reserve and get your tickets here limited seating!

Check out the trailer:

Friday 19 October 2018

Tape Workshop Transcription

By popular demand, because there were not enough copies at the workshop and for those who weren’t there, here is a PDF with the transcription of the ‘how to make your own tape release’ workshop I did last Thursday at the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.

17 October 2018

Exclusive Nightwind Stuff at Clone Popup Store Amsterdam

Clone records has a temporary popup store in Amsterdam the next coming days at the ADE (till Saturday) -> You can get some exclusive Nightwind records stuff there – 3 new releases on tape and some apparel such as Sammy Osmo – Schaduw Horizon sweaters and T-shirts! The adres is: Radio Radio Pazzanistraat 3, 1014 DB Amsterdam.

The new tapes are:

STARSHEPHERD – CURRENT EXPLORATIONS IN STAR SYNTHESIS NW020
a grande spectacle of the homebrewed STAR SHEPHERD synthesizers unfathomable sound palette…from pop exotica to extreme powertool electronics to fuzzed out woolly melodic synth tunes…

AUDIO SPORT 8 – DE DIEPE WERELD NW018
Animistic Beliefs and Legowelt collaboration – Hand sequenced meandering bubbling fuzzy 808 electro in the style of Animistic Beliefs and Twilight Moose.

THE LAND IS ENTRANCED WITH PEACE NW021
A recording of the live soundtrack I did last year at the LAB111 cinema for Herzog’s Fata Morgana movie.

and a few extra copies of Sammy Osmo’s Schaduw Horizon too!

If you are not around don’t worry – these items will be available at the normal Clone store & IFM store etc. soon too in a few weeks, and all the releases will be digitally available too on the Legowelt bandcamp page soon! I will post some soundbytes soon!!!

Monday 15 October

Resident Advisor Exchange with Legowelt

I did one of those Resident Advisor Exchange talkradio shows check it out here...45 minutes of shoreless jabbering about Commodore Amigas, the Shadowwolf Cyberzine, synths and lots more!

Monday 15 October 2018

How to make your own cassette tape release workshop

Thursday 18 October I will do a ‘ how to make your own cassettetape release workshop’ during the ADE Sound Lab at the De Brakke Grond (G4 Workshop Room) Nes 45, Amsterdam from 15:00 till 15:45

“The cassette tape is probably the ultimate Do-It-Yourself music format to release on, or at least it used to be back in the analog days. It initiated an independent homegrown amateur music culture that operated outside the normal big labels and distribution channels far before the dawn of the internet and digital music distribution. For the first time people could start their own label, record and release music for next to nothing financially in their own bedroom. In recent years the cassette tape has made a comeback – even though it is a bit of a mysterious ancient relic for people that didn’t grow up with it. During this workshop Legowelt will show that there is nothing to be afraid of when it comes to cassette tape culture. He will explain how to produce your own cassette release with just a tapedeck, computer, some paper and a bunch of cassettes – showing and explaining everything in the process from acquiring a tapedeck, brainstorming titles and track names, making the artwork, designing inlays to copying the cassettes themselves and distributing them”

More info here

Thursday 11 October 2018

Meeting a legend...

yesterday I went to the John Carpenter Anthology concert in Utrecht – apart from getting a cool bag and autographed poster I got a picture with him too!  if you should not be familiar with him check out his groundbreaking haunting minimal synthwave 1976 Assault On precinct 13 theme – one of the most important pieces of music from the 1970s (he also directed the movie itself ofcourse ;p ) . Read more about this soundtrack on the wikipedia page here

monday 8th October 2018

New painting ‘derailment in Los Angeles’

A new painting entitled ‘Derailment In Los Angeles’. Whats going on in the picture???

Saturday 6 October 2018

Legowelt Classics LP on Bunker Repress

The highly sought after Legowelt – Classics 2xLP from 2003 on Bunker records has been repressed! Including early Legowelt hits such as Sturmvogel, Nomium Syndrome, Dirty Love and lots more!  available here at clone and most probably your local dealer too if they aren’t some minimal techno boring wanker store with 2 rows of records and a Banksky poster.

Tuesday 1 October 2018

Phonica DJ Mix

A fresh Legowelt DJ mix – one and a half hour of some stuff I like – for the London recordstore Phonica mix series. Here is a little chitchat about it on the Phonica website too. On the photo I am wearing my NASA SPACE SHUTTLE suit which I bought a few years ago in an Army Dumpstore in Chapel Hill North Carolina when they scrapped the Space Shuttle program. I only wear it on special occasions ofcourse!

Tracklisting:

Hohner 49 Synth demo playing Orb Oberheim style riffs
Klaus Nomi – Keys Of Life
Tony Carey – Queen Of Scots 808 Smackos mix
SVP Clique – Time To Hit The Dope
Legowelt – Columbo Aces The Test
Pinchers – Increase Your Knowledge
The Future – Kings Of Kings
Natural Vibes – Life Inna Prison no nice
Gang – KKK
Andres Komatsu – Planete Noire
Geraldinne Hunt Could We Peter Slaghuis 1980 tape cut edit style
Superstar & Star – Keep On Rocking DJ Sorry ReMix
Cold Colors Xiu Ne Zovi Menya
Legowelt – Star Simulator II
Daniel Wang – In The Street
Rose Royce – Is It Love You Looking For ‘Peter Slaghuis 1980 discobreaks tape cut edit style
Unit Moebius – Speed Fever
Paranoid London – BoomBox Affair
Katerina – Trick Baby
Fanon Flowers – Serenity
AUX 88 – Parallel Universe
Ceephax – National Grid
Luke Eargoggle – Rookie Rokad
Chris Moss Acid – Power Friends
X-PLAIN – Bunker 018
Isabella – Pinned
Z.Zerfall – Bloeiend7beat
Happy Meals – Visions Of Utopia

29 September

Swiss Synthesizer Museum Kickstarter Goal Reached!!!

wooohooo the SMEM Swiss Museum for synthesizers and electronic instruments kickstarter goal has been reached! This means they can expand the museum by building the playroom studio so everyone can access the instruments without them gathering dust tucked away in storage bunker. A triumph for cultural artistic and intellectual achievement – this place will turn into a rebel base for enlightenment in these sinister and evil times, like a monastery in the dark ages. There is still about 24 hours left until the kickstarter ends so if you haven’t participated yet -> LET’S DO IT! Also your only chance to obtain the Legowelt vinyl LP album that I will record there, or if you want to use one of the 1000’s of electronic instruments from their collection – from Mellotrons to rare analog synths to weird prototype exotic digital racks to over the top 1970s space organs – like the Yamaha EX1 in the picture above – and if they make a bit more money they will include a library with all sorts of books concerning electronic instruments and music!

Here is a little movie from some organ channel where they transport the GALAXIS instrument to Fribourg and Klemens Niklaus Trenkle the founder of the SMEM shows a guy around who seems to come straight out of Aus Der Reihe Derrick: