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Today we are kicking off our brand-new mix series! From now on we will be blessing your life with a new mix, every two weeks.

The first mix is done by the man, the legend, The Hague hometown hero: Legowelt!

‘’Electronic music from The Hague and beyond’’

The Crave Mix 001: Legowelt

This recording was selected for a guest spot on Dublab Radio, that aired on Saturday, January 29th, 2022 and was accompanied with a brief interview that was lead by Lottie, which is posted here below. 

What has been the biggest challenge and more positive outcome you’ve experienced through extended time at home?

Being alone with my record collection and contemplating how different I am feeling, and considering which slabs of vinyl that I want to spend more time with. Rekindling relationships with certain sonic objects that are saturated with memories and have the power to transport me to a different space.

Thank you for the recording this mix for dublab – I know its been a while since you put a mix into the ether – can you speak about your process?

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and wandered blindly into the void. This recording is a document of a moment in time, while smothered in an atmosphere that is as beautiful as it is ugly. The outcome is a true sonic image that is unmolested, unedited, and honest. An automatic drawing where one action responds to the next without any shadow of a doubt, and then preserved in its total form.

How did you approach the mix, did you have an idea in your mind of how it was going to go – or did you just trust your instinct?

Every time it is like traveling on autopilot with an empty mind that is prepared to accept the laws of chance while powered by an engine of chaos. I am a beacon rupturing from my life experiences. One light turns out, while another one flickers on. It is a very vehement ritual activity that depends on the action of call and response, while embracing the limitations that I set for myself by the tools that I choose to use. There is nothing but blind trust.

A lot of your art focuses on magic, ritual practice – but I would also say storytelling, a lot of the music in this mix, seems to spell some hidden meanings, can you go into any of those?

One of the strongest qualities of music, and all art in general is its subjective nature. Meanings can change continually through an endless scope of variables. The original intent of the artist can be transformed completely by the one that is digesting it. An important character of a successful work of art is its power to present open narratives shrouded in unlimited possibilities. And the closer and harder you look, the more questions will arise.

Wandering Blindfolded Within The Liminal Spaces Where Light Meets Dark

My new Smackos - Fables from a Silent Wave album conveniently mixed in one giant mix for deep listening, falling asleep to, trip to, wander, hike, work, code, paint, do fitness, forest bathing or whatever you want to do…Available at the Legowelt bandcamp in all sorts of hi quality formats here for paywhatuwant-> https://legowelt.bandcamp.com/album/fables-from-a-silent-wave

Most of this album was recorded around 2017 at the North Sea Institute for the Overmind in The Hague Holland. Early 2022 I finally had some energy to get the artwork, tracks and "mastering" etc. together. 

I went for a bit of a “mid century weird tales Clipper Flying boat LA science Fiction fanclub” vibe with this one as I was reading a lot of that stuff. Synthwise its all over the place... ‘Supernova Cherry Dessert’ is nothing but the Novation Supernova pushing its 12 DSP succulent dripping filter to the max. Also heavy use of the Waldorf Pulse 2 & Blofeld (like on Fluttering into a Pulse storm) There is some JV2080 in there too. “Where the endless minds go” = just one loop on the Roland boutique mini JP08 you can hear the notes cut off sometimes because it can’t cope with too much polyphony and the hands on control gets a bit mucky due do its microscopically sized faders ah well…. “La chaleur sombre d’un S900” which is something like the Dark brooding warmth of the S900 is just that, all sounds sampled into the lower kHz rates of an AKAI S900 for those mesmerizing undusted digital artefacts. The artwork is a painting I made called ‘The golden age of Flying boats’.

Nightwind Records NW032 ©2022 NIGHTWIND RECORDS 
All tracks written and produced by Danny Wolfers 
Instruments used: Novation Supernova, Akai S900, Waldorf Blofeld, Waldorf Pulse 2, Roland JP08 & JV2080 and probably lots more. 
Vocals on Volons Près des Vagues by Cassiopeia Blumenthal
Artwork by Danny Wolfers

Get it here

Smackos 'Fables from a Silent Wave'  complete album in one deep listening mix

Ron Morelli's exclusive mix for Rainbow Disco Club 2022 podcast:

"This mix is pure energy straight from the guts, nothing pretty, nothing refined, just a DJ doing what a DJ is supposed to do...rip the cut!!!!! Let the music take control..as the song says...this is it!!!... Do you control the music or does the music control you? Unreleased straight from cassette cuts, rare Windy City artifacts, unreleased new material, classic old material, L.I.E.S. from the archives, forget the pleasuredome back to the terrordome!!!! -RM 2022"

"このミックスは、自分の感覚に任せた純粋なエナジーで、きれいごとや洗練されたものは何もなく、ただDJがやるべきことをやっているだけだ...カマしていくぜ!!!!! Let the music take control…と歌詞にあるように...これだ!!!...と。あなたが音楽をコントロールするのか、それとも音楽があなたをコントロールするのか？カセットテープにしか収録されていない未発表曲、シカゴからレアな楽曲、発売前の新譜、クラシックス、L.I.E.S.のアーカイブからのトラックなどなど。アンダーグラウンドからお届けするぜ!!!! -RM 2022"

RDC 041 - Ron Morelli

TASCAM DR-40

2022-11-12 Live At Power House 5th Birthday (DJ Pete, Finn Johannsen)

TASCAM DR-40X

Serge @ RSO Berlin - 220923

Further information and tracklist: https://bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-252--nathan-fake-ai-mix

"This mix is intended to evoke the original spirit of the Artificial Intelligence series - electronic music intended for close listening, which can also cross over into a club music aesthetic. This is also my relationship with the AI compilations, I always saw them as a benchmark in electronic music which was "danceable" but also you could sit still and be immersed in it, listening loud on headphones. This has been my ethos for making music since the 1990s. Autechre ‘The Egg' is my fav on the 1st AI comp." - @nthnfk

Bleep Mix #252 - Nathan Fake - Artificial Intelligence Mix

Danny Wolfers aka Legowelt is irrepressible. Creativity flows from the Dutchman like water from a tap: if he’s not making his own fan magazines, writing and performing in web movies about space weed, drawing album art based on his own dreams or making his own synths, he’s probably making music. That music comes under an intricate web of aliases on labels all over the world , and at Dekmantel we recently signed him up as Occult Orientated Crime, one of his more ambient leaning projects, for the May album Just a Clown on Crack. It was a dark and abstract affair and in that spirit Legowelt recorded us a podcast of similarly subversive and immersive sounds. 

Over the course of 80 minutes, the mix has you suspended in outer space as all manner of spaceships and alien life forms drift by your window. Rippling synths and smeared pads, gurgling machines and silky melodies all stretch out into the distance and range from rueful and reflective to rather more meaning later on. It is the perfect soundtrack to sooth busy modern minds. 



Dekmantel Podcast 078 - Legowelt

Some tunes to make your life go forward into a more blissfull direction - mixed with the Nomium transistor DJ mixer with parapsychotic EQ function. Tracklist is in the new Issue of the SHADOW WOLF CYBERZINE http://www.legowelt.org/ShadowWolfCyberzineIssueIV.htm <3

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Recording of an all nighter set for Rhythm Section at Corsica Studios 02.12.2017

Intergalactic Gary for Rhythm Section - Corsica Studios 02.12.2017

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DJ TLR @ACME - Aquarius, Zagreb April 2019

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Dekmantel Podcast 078 - Legowelt

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