Enya‘s Raving Castle
A little excerpt from the live show in Los Angeles last Saturday. Not the most original sample thrown in there but I couldn’t resist (check this movie of her playing it on a Juno 60) Ofcourse this can’t be ever released – so see it as an illegitimate remix…Grab it while its still there, the download function is on 8)
USA tour
The US leg of the Legendary Freaks In The Trash Of Time Tour this week:
11 November Warehouse Los Angeles
17 November MINDCRIME The Lower Level Cambridge Boston
tickets and info here
18 November Output New York with Alden Tyrell & Gerd
See You There!
6 November 2017
Out now!!!
Legendary Freaks In The Trash Of Time
The new Legowelt album out now on Clone records. 2x vinyl LP album + 12″ poster and digital download code.
Audio Snippets:
My Life In A Bush Of Spaceweed
Its midnite & You Are Lost
Northsea Wisdom
Axumesia V S612
Trips To Polarius
Revenge Of The Nerds
Computerized Paradise
Whatever Happened to Surfhouse?
Beyond The Mind Of Man
New Stories
Legendary Freaks in The Trash Of Time
La Guerre Aux Reves
Get it here or at your local dealer
30 october 2017
Legendary Freaks In The Trash Of Time
Release party at Clone Records
This friday 3 November from 18:00 till 21:00 I will do an instore gig at Clone Records in Rotterdam for the releaseparty of my new album ‘Legendary Freaks In The Trash Of Time’ (audio snippets here). My homeboys Antenna & Steve Motto will do some DJ sets. Come and say hello, drink something, listen and buy some records in an idyllic enviroment, meet weird mentally sophisticated people & freaks and have a good time! Its free ofcourse! Adress is Raamportstraat 12 very close to the Central Station. More info here
AMAZONIA 5 VST SYNTHESIZER FOR PC
I recently found this again somewhere on my server -> This is a ramshackled – PC only – VST plugin I made around 2004 in synthedit. Very much aimed at 70s style BBC radiophonic workshop Hammer Horror soundtrack and avant garde ‘early electronic music’ sounds. Good for evolving weird sounds with lots of unexpected artefacts.
Because of its amateuristic gimcracked nature it has some ‘issues’ which are easily workable:
– Only the left output works so you got to set your DAW or mixer channel to mono
– If the delay amt. (Delay amount) is zero there is no sound, so it should always be on, if you don’t want to have the delay effect just put the modulation and feedback at 0.
-The special effect overides the main volume control for some reason.
It will run any PC with a 32bit VST host/DAW even a windowsXP or things before that – if you want to run it quick get the free SAVI host (savihostx86.zip 32 bit) -> run it and select the ‘AMAZON5.dll” file when it asks what VST you want to run (this on a XP I have no idea how that stuff works on modern Windows but I am sure it will work too)
Despite its shoddy appearance and operation it can make some interesting sounds, check out these demos made by Jorge Velez:
Mating Call Of A Disturbed Emo
ofcourse its all free for you -> Download it here and start tweaking those sliders!!!
Legowelt in Berlin This Friday
I will play live in Berlin with DJ Serge this Friday 27th of October! More info here
Legowelt ‘artist’ patch bank for the Roland D05/D50
A free bank of 64 new fresh patches I programmed is available from the Roland website. For the Roland D05 boutique/D50/D550. Go here to download them if you have the Boutique D05.
If you want to use them on a ‘vintage’ D50 or D550 please download the SYX file – You can use MIDI-OX on a PC or Sysex Librarian on MAC to send the patches to your D50/550
Here is a list of the patches with descriptions:
UX-11 Moosley Rain
Rainy Smackos Northwest atmospheres, use the partial balance joystick for some moody dynamics
UX-12 Gauguin Island
Impressionist colours from distant pacific Islands
UX-13 Oracle Pasta
A soul warming harpsichord-like polysynth
UX-14 Soft Focus
Undemanding pleasant tones
UX-15 Sterre Sprinkles
Sprinkle some stardust on your music
UX-16 Astronomious
Astronomical pad bathing in luscious reverb
UX-17 New Age Amiga
A simple poly synth with digital artefacts that remind us of an old Amiga computer
UX-18 Zeppelin Sadness
Play sparsely and draw out its long sustain
UX-21 Dub Techno
Play chords and use the filter
UX-22 Speedlearn Arppegio
A short happy little synth patch perfect for arpeggiating
UX-23 Hyperborean Light
Instant ambient bliss
UX-24 Manhunter D50
A Fierce PWM string like synth
UX-25 Prophethood
A monophonic Detroit style mono synth, turn on portamento for full effect
UX-26 Snow Choco
Like a freezing chocopop
UX-27 Lelystad 1972
A simulation of a broken dutch transistor organ
UX28 Maximal Wave
A minimal wavish monophonic bass
UX31 Analog Wizardry
From the golden days of synthesis
UX32 Jazz Tapes
Soft smooth jazzy mellotron bliss
UX33 SHBass n JXsynth
A split sound, on the left hand a SH-esque old Roland mono synth, on the right hand a JX3P-esque synth
UX34 On Land
Eerie ambient string, deliberately soft in volume so when amplified the digital artefacts and characteristic noise floor are more noticeable
UX35 Isodor Quest
Harp like synthesiser
UX36 Forest Meadow
Hazy forest summer atmospheres
UX37 Arppegiate Me
Arpeggiator friendly sound
UX38 Time Porridge
When played reality becomes a droopy pudding
UX41 Moorland Ritual
Frogs in the swamp, use the aftertouch for some quaint filter effects
UX42 Ober Splendor
Mighty synth brass
UX43 Nitesnacks
Something for deep in the night
UX44 Dream Shampoo
Pure analog simpleness
UX45 Nova Scotia
Splashy poly synth sound
UX46 Valery Art
Complex ambient sound with digital artefacts
UX47 Seabert Banana
Majestic D50 affection
UX48 Arizona Rodezzzz
Smooth desert style electric piano
UX51 Mistral Drone
A medieval instrument, hold a drone with the left hand (particular D and G or A) and play a merry melody with the right hand
UX52 Sequenstra
Brassy, stringy somewhere in between a CS80 and Sixtrak
UX53 Zerfal Palace
A crappy Electric piano mixed with an even more crappier synth full with digital artefacts
UX54 Mist Lamps
Shadows and fog and a lonely street light
UX55 Vampos Suitcase
A dusty toy-ish keyboard piano synth
UX56 Grimorious
A Grimey synth bass
UX57 Key West
Try different velocities and be surprised
UX58 Sinister Noodle
The D50 plays random notes and atmospheres
UX61 Holographic Synth
Buzzy yet smooth
UX62 Detroit Techno Bass
Detroit style electro bass
UX63 Goldberg Bliss
Perfect for playing Bach
UX64 Artic Ambiance
Harmonic pad
UX65 Bassdrone
Raw monophonic bass
UX66 Huxley Planetarium
Frisky and devious with a surprise in its tail
UX67 SE02 Jazzfunk
a 3 oscillator 70s style jazz funk mono synth, use portamento for authenticity
UX68 LA Workspace
soundtrack style dreamy pad
UX71 Mood Atlas
Something you would program on an Oberheim 8 Voice
UX72 Sheep String
Wooly strings
UX73 Mohave Hamley
Eerie soundtrack stuff
UX74 Beauty Dome
More dreamy pad typical D50 splendour
UX75 Ideas of Spain
Hints of Rodrigo spanish guitar
UX76 Moon Picnic
Sri Fi Trekkie space pad
UX77 Strawberry Pie
A sound that dictates the playing style, soggy and wobbly like a strawberry pie
UX78 Feldman Space
influenced by Morton Feldmans compositions
UX81 Diabolo Rave
A rave stab
UX82 Nostromo Druid
A split sound, on the left hand a fat monophonic analog bass, on the right hand a dreamy FM like pad
UX83 Aegian Splendor
Brimming with Meditaranian light
UX84 Mangobass
A fruity polyphonic analog bass
UX85 Soul Cathedral
Metaphysical pad ambiance
UX86 Analog Pond
A pond with some ducks, they might take a dive if you press the aftertouch
UX87 The Nightwind
more pad ambiance
UX88 Lux Aeterna
Influenced by Ligeti’s music used in Kubricks 2001
Live Soundtrack For Herzog‘s Fata Morgana
Saturday 21 October at the LAB 111 Amsterdam during ADE – I will do a live soundtrack on synthesizers for Werner Herzog’s 1971 (actually 1969 to be precise ) FATA MORGANA.
“This is a profoundly pure piece of cinematic creation. Originally intended to be a science fiction film about an unrecognizable earth seen through the eyes of an alien character. Instead Herzog became fascinated by a strange illusion in the desert….the mirage..”
more info on the movie here
admission 12.50 euro tickets here and info on the event itself here
Legowelt live in Vienna & Frankfurt this weekend
Friday I will be playing at the Grelle Forelle in Vienna Austria, Saturday at the MTW club in Offenbach next to Frankfurt. See you there!!!
Everything You Always Wanted To Know about Legowelt But Were Afraid To Ask
I am doing a Q&A on the gearslutz forum, an extremely nerdy forum for producers, synth enthiousasts, gear trolls etc.etc.etc. Ask you question (production synth music related of course) till 14th October and I will try to answer it!