Legowelt (real name Danny Wolfers) 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." Already 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 when in the early 1990s
after he came in contact with the sounds of Detroit's Underground Resistance,
Model 500, Blake Baxter (probably his all-time favourite producer) and Chicago
heroes such as Farley Jackmaster Funk, Armando Gallop and Mr. Fingers. Later on
this palette of influences grew with early µ-Ziq, Aphex Twin, Drexciya, 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 learnt that this music came out of The Hague, Holland, the
very same city he lived in. He then later visited the Bunker Records office
where he was taken under the wing of such musical mentors as I-f and Melvin
White (aka pametex).
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". Most 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 Danny Wolfers started hosting this show on the
Cybernetic Broadcasting System, the predecessor of Intergalactic FM.
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01. Intro from Brother From Another Planet
02. Actress – Ascending
03. Xamiga – Untitled
04. Legowelt – Rave Till Dawn
05. Legowelt – On The Tiger train
06. Legowelt – Griffith Park Murder Mystery
07. XOSAR – Nitejam
08. Polygon Window – Untitled
09. Legowelt- Time Waits For No Man
10. Legowelt – I Only Move For U
11. Legowelt – Forever Esta Par Siempre feat. Rolad-O
12. Legowelt – What Can U Do For Me
13. Legowelt – Transformation Of The World
14. Legowelt – How It Is III
15. Trackman Lafonte & Bonquiqui – Pacific House
16. Legowelt – On A Cold Winter’s Day
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