Danny Wolfers – The Land Is Entranced With Peace [NW021TAPE]

Nightwind records is Legowelt’s own recordlabel releasing cassettes, cd’s, digital, graphic novels, zines and vinyl LP’s since 2014. A spiritual – but more advanced and freaked out – successor to the defunct Strange Life records that ran from 2004 to 2010. The music on this tape was recorded on 21 October 2017 during a live soundtrack performance for Werner Herzog’s 1972 Fata Morgana film at the LAB111 cinema in Amsterdam. A few months later the tracks were cut loose, edited and put on tape. With the visual content vanished from sight only a few fragmentary voiceovers remain that remind us of the movie. Rearranged as hypnotic samples they give the listener some sparse poetical guidance in the metaphysicial porridge that is this cassettetape.

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Danny Wolfers – The Land Is Entranced With Peace [NW021TAPE]

Audiosport 8 – De Diepe Wereld [NW018TAPE]

This Animistic Beliefs & Legowelt collaboration tape started out as a scene in Anna Bogomolova’& Dammes Kieft’s upcoming full length ‘Stroboscopes & Smokemachines’ documentary – a film in which they research the Dutch West Coast electronic music landscape. The scene however soon morphed into its own mini film – documenting the entire process on how this tape was conceived. Packed with Animistic Beliefs & Twilight Moose style electro, amateur space jazz ambient with a touch of G-funk and a very intense trip-infused hypnotic techno track. Written and produced by Linh Luu, Marvin Lalihatu and Danny Wolfers at the North Sea Institute For The Overmind.

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Audiosport 8 – De Diepe Wereld [NW018TAPE]

Danny Wolfers – Loch Ness Expanded Soundtrack [NW019]

Loch Ness was originally composed as a soundtrack for a – never finished – 2012 Commodore 64 Loch Ness ‘Spotter Simulator’ videogame. An adventure / simulator / RPG in which the player takes the role of a cryptozoologist trying to proof the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. The sounds on this soundtrack come from the mighty Commodore 64 itself. This computer, released in 1982, came with a state of the art soundchip – the MOS technologies SID. Far ahead of its competition it sported advanced functions like waveforms with Pulse Width Modulation, envelope generators and a filter. With this chip the commodore 64 had a real 3 voice synthesizer build in – lightyears removed from the spartan primitive unmusical blips and beeps of the Ataris or Apple II’s. The cassette version of the Loch Ness videogame remastered soundtrack comes with new artwork and extra unreleased tracks.

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Danny Wolfers – Loch Ness Expanded Soundtrack [NW019]

Sammy Osmo – Schaduw Horizon [NW017]

Digital re-issue coinciding with the tape release of this 2007 Strange Life CDR DX7 drenched cult spywave album. Very much influenced by real locations in the vicinity of the The Hague dune studio where this was recorded – this imaginary soundtrack scores a hypothetical story of a Cold War animal parapsychologist living in an abandoned zoo.

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Sammy Osmo – Schaduw Horizon [NW017]

Danny Wolfers – Unfolding The Future With Amateur Space Jazz [NW014]

What is Amateur Space Jazz One could call it a Lo-Fi Minimal Wavish version of Cosmic Space Jazz and anything closely related to it…from spiritual soul, G-FUNK, ethiopian jazz to ambient and everything in between…no knowledge of musical theory is required…Played with a D.I.Y punk approach on crappy digital synthesizers – preferably with dubious renditions of real instruments. Warmed up to the right temperature with some offbeat effectsbox. Multitracking is a technique widely used…to Create a “one person band with all its members oneself’s multidimensional copies in time.”…….Comes with a 24 page graphic novel written and drawn by Danny Wolfers himself and a Nightwind Amateur Space Jazz gummy domed sticker…….Let’s enter world of Amateur Space Jazz!!!

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Danny Wolfers – Unfolding The Future With Amateur Space Jazz [NW014]

Smackos – A Vampire Goes West [NW011]

Seven years after his last release as Smackos, music making machine Legowelt surprises us all with ‘A Vampire Goes West,’ a brand new and ever-experimental ambient album. It comes on his own Nightwind label and was made in total isolation on the North Sea coast last Christmas. As for the music, it is smudgy and cosmic; an “all out amateur spacejazz spiritual ambient eruption on smudgey cassettetape” that will take you far away from reality across 14 absorbing and atmospheric cuts. It includes some extra fun treats too: a fridge magnet and microzine with a map in ASCII art that has a quest attached to it which, if decoded, reveals a password that unlocks some secret and special prizes.

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Smackos – A Vampire Goes West [NW011]

Zandvoort & Uilenbal – Geruis Uit Somberdorp [NW010]

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Geruis Uit Somberdorp’ (Rustlings from Somberville) is a concert for Harmonium, Mixtur Trautonium & Synthesizer, originally commissioned for the dutch classical Concertzender broadcast corporation in early 2016. Zandvoort & Uilenbal are Danny Wolfers and Jimi Hellinga.

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Zandvoort & Uilenbal – Geruis Uit Somberdorp [NW010]

UFOCUS – Guidance For The Puzzled [NW009LP]

Danny Wolfers aka Legowelt with a new project UFOCUS on his own label Nightwind Records. 11 Tracks with a mix of electronix and more club ready tracks, typical Legowelt style. A double-album set that explores the paranormal themes that were once a major part of the early ’90s ambient techno scene. Musically, much of Guidance For The Puzzled recalls those halcyon days, with Danny’s drawing inspiration from a mixture of classic Detroit techno, intergalactic electronica, intelligent techno, stargazing ambient house and – on the fine “Archetypes & Myths” – dreamy deep house/acid house fusion.

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UFOCUS – Guidance For The Puzzled [NW009LP]

Danny Wolfers – Swan Song Of The Skunkape Original Soundtrack [NW008]

The soundtrack for Brad Abrahams documentary on South Florida’s strangest bipedal resident, as told by the rare few who claim they’ve encountered the creature. At over 1.5 million acres, the ‘Glades are the largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi, with thousands of acres untouched by man. If indeed something this strange could exist, it would surely be here. Cassetape comes in faux leather luxurious plastic case and with a micro-zine included.

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Danny Wolfers – Swan Song Of The Skunkape Original Soundtrack [NW008]

Nomad Ninja – Avond Sluimer [NW006]

Fourth in the Nightwind Records Cassettetape series. Dozing snuggy amateur synth jazz for the serious psychonaut. Oozing cloudy Rhodes electric pianos and saturated trip synthesizers. Comes in the usual luxurious vintage c64/zxspectrum style microVHS video game box . Also includes free professional dome sticker and “Nomad Ninja” Microzine/map.

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Nomad Ninja – Avond Sluimer [NW006]

Saab Knutson – Electronic Music From The Faroe Islands 1993 [NW005]

The second tape on Legowelt’s Nightwind Records Cassette series. Through his remote viewing powers Danny Wolfers channeled the music of Saab Knutson of Faroe Islands circa 1993. 60 Minutes of Nordic Ambient with a disturbing undertone of dark melancholia with vague notions of distant happiness. Saab Knutson is a man with many issues, but on the Faroe Islands there is no time for issues. To stay of sound mind, Saab plays his synthesizers in the few spare hours he manages to find, unmistakenly influenced by Faroe’s spellbinding landscapes and grim climate. Though Danny has never been to the Islands he has a definite puzzling calling to them, a ‘luring’ force, so to speak. Hopefully he will sell enough Saab Knutson albums so he can fund an expedition and find out more about this mysterious destiny… Played on Yamaha DX100, Roland JX3P, Alpha Juno 2, EMU 16 bit digital sampling keyboard. Ruby metallic cassette tape in luxurious faux plastic case.

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Saab Knutson – Electronic Music From The Faroe Islands 1993 [NW005]

Calimex Mental Implant Corp. – El Saber Del Arpavor [NW003]

Danny Wolfers comes again with a new project, Calimex Mental Implant Corp., on his label Nightwind Records. 13 summer cruising tracks very much in the style of Legowelts PPU release from last year. Gold plated cassette in faux plastic luxurious case.

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Calimex Mental Implant Corp. – El Saber Del Arpavor [NW003]

Rising Sun Systems – Oberheim Space [NW002]

Time to hit the vape and embark on the journey of your lifetime, or at least a most pleasant trip this week…or as long as your attention span can handle it. Rising Sun Systems – Oberheim Space, 11 tracks of ambient g-funk slow jams and psychedelic space muzak. Using special frequencies to alter your brain waves and make u a smarter and better human being. Written, produced and performed by Danny Wolfers on Roland Juno 106 KIWI, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Korg DW8000, Yamaha SY35, EMU EMAX II etc.etc.etc.

Rising Sun Systems – Oberheim Space [NW002]

Occult Orientated Crime – The Occult Orientated Crime Album [NW001]

The first Occult Orientated Crime album on Nightwind Records. Extremely trippy PRO ambient not just some jumbled up random chiliwave overcompressed 80s retro soggy biscuit jerkoff — this is PROFESSIONAL AMBIENT – 100% psychedelic drug music with perfectly finetuned selected frequencies to alter your state of mind and take you to complete loss of subjective self-identity: the result of years of experimentation and research. Korg Microstation, Golden Microkorg, X5D, MS20, Moog Little phatty, Doepfer synthacon-EML101 modular.

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