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:

28 September

Legowelt in Katowice & Antwerp this weekend!

Tonite I travel to Katowice Poland to DJ at the P23 -> more info here (FB) and Saturday 29th of September I play a live show in Antwerp Belgium with Juju & Jordash and more at the Ampere club more info here. See You There!!!

28 September 2018

Swiss Museum For Synths Kickstarter 5 Days Left

Did you know that every time some dumb wanker buys a useless vulgar Louis Vuiton bag for his girlfriend (or viceversa) a 1000 innocent puppies and kittens die – their noses cut off and tanned into just the right material for the bags!?! The kickstarter of the SMEM Swiss museum for electronic instruments is hardly the price of a few of these bags away from achieving its goal -> worldwide salvation from the waves of these symbols of self indulged ignorance by means of sonic disobedience! Save thousands of innocent puppies and kittens by supporting this kickstarter – money spent on this kickstarter is saved from being spent on those inutile evil bags!

Above a photo of the WERSI GALAXIS 1977 space organ, one of the exotic pieces in their collection. They still got 5 days left on their kickstarter – help these friendly Swiss freaks out with building the museum and the playroom so the collection will be accessible for the public.
They are hardworking volunteers that spend their precious spare time maintaining and cataloging these unique machines. There are lots of rewards if you participate – one of them is a Legowelt vinyl LP that I will record pro bono using the SMEM collection – it will be available only as reward in this kickstarter campaign not in any stores – so your only change of getting this record is to participate in the kickstarter!

The world needs this sanctuary of enlightenment in these dark and evil times! Spend your money on something that will spread intellectual achievement and endless amount of fun and sounds instead of pointless Louis Vuiton bags!!! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smem/the-playroom-an-interactive-synthesizer-space

20 September

The Hague & Barcelona This Weekend

This Friday 21st of September I will DJ at the Todays Art Festival opnening in the Volharding Building The Hague from 9.30 till 11.00 with Ian Martin & Legs On Fire and more! Saturday I travel to Barcelona to play at the NITSA club with DJ TLR & more! Info and tickets here

14 september 2018

Legowelt in Brooklyn & Upstate New York

Friday 14th September at Elsewhere Brooklyn with DJ Nobu Anastasia Kristensen Mike Servito and more! – tickets and info here.

Saturday 15th September at the Sustain Release festival in Upstate New York with Dj Stingray, Nobu, Josey Rebelle, Courtesy, Eris Drew and lots more!!!! more info here 

10 September 2018

Rising Sun Systems – Oberheim Space 2xLP Out Now!!!

Available as we speak – a double LP vinyl re-issue of the 2015 Rising Sun Systems – Oberheim Space album! Re-issued on vinyl for the first time ever by the Australian Solander Recording Company. Because it is an Australian label the distribution channels are a bit different then usual: It is available in Europe at Germany: HVV – Decks – Vinylism – Holland: Clone – House of Wax Tilburg – Rush Hour – In Japan at Disk Union – In Australia it will be available at Wax Museum and Skydiver records and probably some other stores in the world…will keep you up to date for US places that will sell it. The digital version is still available on the Legowelt bandcamp page here

3 September

Swiss Museum For Electronic Instruments Kickstarter

Something *very* exciting:
The kind people from the Swiss Museum & Centre For Electronic Music Instruments (SMEM) are doing a kickstarter to start up the museum with a ‘PLAYROOM’ – a place where anyone can play the collection with their own hands.

A few levels underground somewhere in the Swiss medieval town of Fribourg is an atomic-bunker-style complex with the world’s largest collection of synths. A collection so vast its almost incomprehensible – a space filled with THOUSANDS and thousands of synthesizers, organs, oddball electronic instruments, beatboxes, effects processors and more – collected over the years by eccentric Swiss actor-musician-artist Klemens Niklaus Trenkle. It is curated and taken care of by a group of local volunteers – the SMEM is also a non profit organisation – hence the kickstarter.

“We believe that the best way to share such an unparalleled collection is through experiencing it firsthand.” – The kickstarter money will be used to build and facilitate a playroom where at any time 50 instruments selected out of the collection of thousands will be available to play – an accessible studio bringing the SMEM’s living heritage to a broad audience of musicians, students, performers, kids, and grown-ups!

one of the many endless rows of the SMEM collection when I visited it earlier this year in the winter

To support this beautiful project Legowelt will travel to Switzerland and spend a week or so with the collection – probably with the most obscure pieces – to record an exclusive vinyl album. This album will be available only for those who participate in the kickstarter – and nowhere else – not in shops! Already for CHF(Swiss Franks) 55  you will support the building of the studio and get the exclusive record – for 110 CHF you will get the record, a T-shirt and 4 hours of playing time in the playroom. There are lots more pledges and perks starting from 15 going all the way up to 5000 CHF.  Go check out the kickstarter to participate and for full and indepth information on this project!

28 August 2018

Out Now: Legowelt – Omnibus Babylon EP

Out now on clone records – Legowelt’s Omnibus Babylon EP on Vinyl EP and Digital

Available worldwide – Buy the vinyl EP here at Clone – or check your local dealer

Digital here on band camp and a lot of other Digital stores like Bleep, Boomkat , Juno Download etc.etc.etc.

Here is a videoclip for the Golem Memory Bank track:

26 August 2018

Rising Sun Systems – Oberheim Space Vinyl Re-Issue

Besides the Omnibus Babylon EP on Clone Records September will see the first vinyl re-issue of the 2015 ambient RISING SUN SYSTEMS – OBERHEIM SPACE album. Original released on my Nightwind Records it is being re-issued by the Australian Solander Recording Company on 2xVinyl with new full colour artwork. In Europe available at HVV amongst some other stores and in Japan at Disk Union. MP3 snipps:

Croissant With Stravinsky

Arcane Marine Biology

I Was Born In A Valley Of Freaks

Something Wild In The Village

Paradoxa Fermi

Hockney World

Nightwind Floppy Disc

Innsmouth, Today a Pleasant Seaside Town

Synthshoppe At A Domestic Airport

Freebasin’ For David Bohm

International Space Expose