Legowelt - LIVE @ Electric City
Thursday April 29th
Legowelt - LIVE [Bunker - The Hague]
Alan Carbery [Electric City]
Simon Conway [electricity]
April 29 sees Electric City morph into Legoland with the debut Irish
appearance of The Hague's Legowelt. Legowelt aka Danny Wolfers will be
breaking out a killer live performance featuring his unique take on [in his
own words] "a hybrid form of slam jack The Hague electronix combined with
deep Chicago trax,obscure ghetto technofunk, EuroHorror Soundtracks and
lots -a- more!". Legowelt has been one of the leading names in the electro
scene for many years, now releasing dynamite tracks on labels such as
Bunker, Clone, Eat This, Ghostly International, Viewlexx and Cocoon.
Sometimes these tracks spin out of the obscurity like an asteroid from a
spacebelt and fly straight into the charts; such an event happened with
'Disco Rout' which was voted track of the year 2002 by the acclaimed German
Groove magazine. This track was picked up by Sven "rhymes with mate" Vath
and was one of the stand out tracks on the Vath / Hawtin 'Sound of Third
Season' Mix CD and he has also remixed the likes of Sven Vath, I-F, Speedy J
and Hong Kong Counterfeit. Legowelt's live show has rocked the dancefloor at
leading clubs worldwide in places such as Japan, Spain, Germany, USA, UK and
now, fantastically, - he's on his way to Dublin, Ireland.
Legowelt began producing music when in the early 90ies 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
discovered 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
'Stumvogel' and 'Total Pussy Control'. Apart from producing Legowelt has
been playing live all over the world for the last 5 years. Most of the time
together with Orgue Electronique and the infamous Bunker Team with DJ TLR
and Bunker Label boss DJ Schmerzlabor. Check out www.legowelt.com for
complete information and photographs on the Legoman.
Support on the night comes from resident Simon Conway who will be opening up
proceedings with some low slung Chi-town House Traxx, while also playing
will be Alan 'Go F*ck Yourself' Carbery - ready to drop some electro and
Italo bombs.
Electric City
Metropolitan, 11 Eden Quay, Dublin 1.
Doors - 11 until late
Admission - e10 / e9 with flyer
Tickets available from Selectah Records, Temple Bar.
Supported by Tiger Beer - Bottles of Tiger Beer e3.50
Forthcoming Guests:
May 6th - e8
Magda [Minus - Berlin]
Ross Carew [Full Stop]
Giles Armstrong [electricity]
May 13th - e10
Damon Wild [Synewave - New York]
Pat Hyland [Rogue]
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