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LEGOWELT - OMNIBUS BABYLON EP`
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Omnibus Babylon EP`
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4 Track EP OF Techno House - Dusty grooves from the dunes of Scheveningen! Inspired by myth, legend and scifi; Legowelt conjures up four ancient mysticism and space odyssey themed tracks that will take you on another journey through psychedelic space and paranormal rituals.
Danny Wolfers' music as Legowelt tends to fall within defined parameters, but it seems like he takes influences from right across the cosmos. When he performed an RA Session last summer, his attention fell close to home: "I live by the sea, so when I was preparing this I heard seagulls outside and [the sample] fit the music perfectly." On Omnibus Babylon, his first Legowelt EP for a couple years, he broadens his gaze, drawing from "ancient mysticism" and "myth, legend and sci-fi," themes he's returned to continually over his long career.
It's great to see "Golem Memory Bank" get a release almost a year after it appeared in the RA Session. This is Wolfers at his best. It's the track here that most closely fits the mysticism description, with glassy melodies and strings interlocking with a breakbeat DJ Shadow would approve of. A four-on-the-floor pulse powers the other tracks. "Omnibus Babylon" is notable for its high-pitched vocal sample and acid madness towards the end. "Learning To Fly" is more mellow and has pads that likely inspired the track's name, while "Miskatonic Trimester" is both dreamy and relentless. It's not always clear how Wolfers' stated influences show up in these tracks, but as one of the scene's most prolific and best-loved artists, it's an approach that's definitely working for him.
Danny Wolfers' music as Legowelt tends to fall within defined parameters, but it seems like he takes influences from right across the cosmos. When he performed an RA Session last summer, his attention fell close to home: "I live by the sea, so when I was preparing this I heard seagulls outside and [the sample] fit the music perfectly." On Omnibus Babylon, his first Legowelt EP for a couple years, he broadens his gaze, drawing from "ancient mysticism" and "myth, legend and sci-fi," themes he's returned to continually over his long career.
It's great to see "Golem Memory Bank" get a release almost a year after it appeared in the RA Session. This is Wolfers at his best. It's the track here that most closely fits the mysticism description, with glassy melodies and strings interlocking with a breakbeat DJ Shadow would approve of. A four-on-the-floor pulse powers the other tracks. "Omnibus Babylon" is notable for its high-pitched vocal sample and acid madness towards the end. "Learning To Fly" is more mellow and has pads that likely inspired the track's name, while "Miskatonic Trimester" is both dreamy and relentless. It's not always clear how Wolfers' stated influences show up in these tracks, but as one of the scene's most prolific and best-loved artists, it's an approach that's definitely working for him.
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Legowelt is the name under which Danny Wolfers (aka Danny Blanco) releases most of his music. The music is a hybrid form of slam jack electronix combined with deep chicago trax, obscure & romantic ghetto technofunk, EuroHorror Soundtracks, Italo disco and such.
Legowelt began producing music in the early '90s when the adolescent schoolboy came in sporadic 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 on this palette of influences grew with early Mu-Ziq, Aphex Twin, Drexciya, various stuff from The Irdial Discs label and virtually every type of freaked deep music he could get his hands on.
But nothing had quite the influence of when he first heard a band called 'Unit Moebius' on the radio. 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. Shocked in awe he heard that this music came out of The Hague, Holland, the very same city he lived in! Put on the right track by this fact he stumbled into the Bunker Records office and discoverd a world of contemporary autistic freaked music lovers who looked beyond all the bland house and dance music that ruled the media and clubs. Musical mentors such as IF and Melvin White (aka pametex) lectured him with even more unknown sounds such as early electro and the obscure pre-1983 Italian disco which production secrets were closely studied. In 1998 Bunker released the first vinyl of Legowelt : Pimpshifter, a 6 track mingled Italo Chicago combi which became an instant cult hit with tracks such as 'Sturmvogel' and 'Total Pussy Control'.
Other aliases under which Danny Wolfers has produced records include Africa Jet Band, Catnip (with Luke Eargoggle), The Chicago Shags, Legowelt vs. Orgue Electronique & Macho Cat Garage (with Orgue Electronique), Dickie Smabers & The Moerwijk Crew, Florenza Mavelli, Franz Falckenhaus, Gladio, Klaus Weltman, Los Hermanos Rodriguez (with Guy Tavares of Unit Moebius/Orange Sunshine), Mr. Clavio (with TLR), Nacho Patrol, Phalangius, Polarius, Raheem Hershel, Salamandos, Sammy Osmo, Smackos, Smackulator (with Grackle), Squadra Blanco, Twilight Moose, and Venom 18, among other collaborations.
Already a few years in the business, Legowelt has released a dozen or so projects on various formats, most of them released through Bunker Records and Legowelt's own label, Strange Life Records, both based in The Hague, Holland.
Legowelt's best known track is probably "Disco Rout", which was voted track of the year in 2002 by german magazine Groove. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
