Legowelt


Legowelt is a Dutch electronic musician who describes his musical style as "a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack." The majority of his work under the alias has been released on the Dutch label Bunker in addition to a number of compilation appearances, including the successful "Disco Rout" in 2002.

Career

Already having spent a few years in the business, Legowelt has released a dozen or so projects on various formats, most of them on vinyl released on Bunker records, an electronic music label based in The Hague. He has had some mainstream exposure with Disco Rout, originally released on a Ghostly International compilation but licensed by Cocoon Recordings for a full vinyl release, and subsequently voted track of the year 2002 by the German music magazine, Groove.
Legowelt began producing music in the early 1990s after he came in contact with the sounds of Detroit's Underground Resistance, Model 500, Blake Baxter and Chicago heroes such as Farley Jackmaster Funk, Armando Gallop and Mr. Fingers. Later this palette of influences grew with early µ-Ziq, Aphex Twin, Drexciya, and various releases from the Irdial Discs label.
He marks his major influence as Unit Moebius, after he heard them on the radio. He describes their sound as "a punky palette of RAW freaked out Lo-fi Chicago trax and deep detroit jams made with machines which were found next to the garbage can."
It was a surprise to him when he later learned that this music came out of The Hague, Holland, the same city he lived in. He later visited the Bunker Records office where he was taken under the wing of such musical mentors as I-f and Melvin White. He claims they "lectured him with even more unknown sounds such as early electro and the obscure pre-1983 Italian disco whose production secrets were closely studied."
In 1998 Bunker released Legowelt's first vinyl album, Pimpshifter, a 6-track which became an instant cult hit with tracks such as "Sturmvogel" and "Total Pussy Control".
Apart from producing, Legowelt has been playing live all over the world for the last five years, spending a lot of time together with Orgue Electronique and the infamous Bunker Team.
Some aliases and side projects he has are Catnip, The Chicago Shags, Gladio, Smackos, Smackulator, Squadra Blanco, Salamandos, Raheem Hershel and Venom 18.
Most of the music of Danny Wolfers is published by Clone Publishing from Rotterdam. Clone also co-released Legowelt's greatest hits album together with Bunker records. In 2006 Legowelt started his own label called Strange life records.
Danny Wolfers is the host of the weekly Astro Unicorn Radio Show on Intergalactic FM, an internet radio station. He presents the show using his Smackos alias, and plays a broad range of music including many of his own productions. It was in 2007 that Wolfers started hosting this show on the Cybernetic Broadcasting System, the predecessor of Intergalactic FM.

Discography

As Legowelt

Space Force M.O.C. 1996

Reports From The Backseat Pimp Goldcoast 1998

Pimpshifter Bunker Records 2000

Wirtschaftswunder Bunker Records 2000

Kaihoisa Pt.2 Eat This Records 2001

Disco Rout Cocoon Recordings 2002

Klaus Kinski EP Bunker Records 2002

Starcruiser Kapellmeister Grammofon 2002

Tracks From The Tube Stilleben Records 2002

Classics 1998–2003 Clone 2003

Classics 1998–2003: A Selection of Tracks From The Archive Bunker Bunker Records 2003

Reports From The Backseat Pimp Crème Organization, Goldcoast 2003

Tower of the Gipsies Bunker Records 2003

Dark Days Strange Life Records 2004

Under The Panda Moon Crème Organization 2004

Beyond The Congo Bunker Records 2005

Astro Cat Disco Clone 2006

The Land of Lonzo Strange Life Records 2006

Dark Days 2 Strange Life Records 2008

The Rise And Fall of Manuel Noriega Strange Life Records 2008

Amiga Railroad Adventures Strange Life Records 2009

The Liechtenstein Account Open Concept Recording 2009

Narrominded Split LP No. 4 Narrominded 2009

Vatos Locos Crème Organization 2009

Slompy Jitt EP M>O>S> Recordings 2009

Bayville Cove Clone West Coast Series 2010

Gardens of the Ghetto Crème Organization 2010

Sark Island Acid EP Long Island Electrical Systems 2011

Moves For CeeCee Clone Store Only Series 2011

The Teac Life Self-Released 2011

Poverties Paradise EP Echovolt Records 2011

The Paranormal Soul Clone 2012

Crystal Cult 2080 Crème Organization 2012

Legendary Freaks in the Trash of Time Clone 2017
Pancakes with Mist, Nightwind Records 2020

Remixes

Raginakudo Parto Een NN Eat This Records 1999

Fwd: Dedication Transit Eat This Records 2000

The Synthesizer Greatest Vol. 1 White BMW KVY pHinnMilk Records 2003

Fire Works Design Music Get:On Superstar Recordings 2003

Get:On Get:On Superstar Recordings 2003

Human Shield vs. Multiplex Space Human Shield Record Company 2003

Junge Dame Remixes Junge Dame Mit Freundl... Crème Organization 2003

We Are HE-Men EP Maschine In Mir KVY Delta B Recordings 2004

Radio Ga Ga Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 My Radio Ghostly International 2004

Radio Ga Ga Pt. 2 My Radio Sunshower You Kiss Mental Groove Records 2004

Elevators And Oscillators My Radio You Kiss Shake That Thing Shake That Thing Data Kontroll No Turning Back Cherry Unknown to the Unknown 2015

Other aliases

Polarius

Pagan Sector