On The Floor! - Live at Levontin7, Tel Aviv

Legowelt

Strange Life Records, Netherlands

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Danny Wolfers. Meet Transylvanian Airlines pilots, Manuel Noriega, Alf, Professor Malbador and a chess-playing chimpanzee called Albert, while you listen to some of the most exciting, emotive and challenging music ever made by men. Legowelt began producing music when in the early 90ies the adolescent autistic 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 unusual deep music he could get his hands on. But nothing had quite the influence of the moment when, somewhere in the early 90ies, he came across a band called 'Unit Moebius' on the radio dial. 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 discovered a world of contemporary autistic weird music lovers who looked beyond the loads of 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 'Stumvogel' and 'Total Pussy Control'. From there on Legowelt was unstoppable. Tracks like 'Disco Rout' became unexpected super hits, his label Strange Life Records releases anything the picky possessor likes and Wolfers' miraculous Nacho Patrol moniker currently makes big waves. Apart from collecting vintage music making machines and using them to produce more retro-futuristic super sounds, Legowelt has been playing live all over the world for the last 5 years. Often together with Orgue Electronique and the infamous Bunker Team. Levontin7 recently presented the man's solo performance in Tel Aviv and was kind enough to conserve it for the rest of the world.