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Out Now: LEGOWELT - UNCONDITIONAL CONTOURS (smem+ous no.01)

Legowelt — Unconditional Contours — OUS023 — Album

Release: October 2, 2020 Format: vinyl LP + digital Pre-order on Bandcamp Pre-save on Spotify

«When I first saw this collection, I was truly flabbergasted. Endless rows of synthesisers - some so obscure I had not ever seen nor heard of them. This place will probably turn into the world’s most magical place for synths.» - Legowelt

«Unconditional Contours» captures Legowelt’s stint at the Swiss Museum for Electronic Music Instruments (SMEM), after he was invited to be the first artist in residence at the institution’s «Playroom» project.

Possessing an extensive collection of synthesizers himself, he used hand-picked synthesizers from the museum’s archive: the rare Farfisa Synthorchestra, the EVS-1 Evolution, the «shittiest rompler ever made», amongst many others. The 10-track album «Unconditional Contours» is both a probe into the vast collection of SMEM, and a display of Legowelt’s well established composi­tional qualities. Leaving ample space for new sounds to unfold, Legowelt invokes gentle trips, brooding excursions, bleep heavy soundscapes, and reimagined elements of dance music classicism.

___Tracklist

01     Legowelt - Unconditional Contours Memorymoog - 4:10 02     Legowelt - Châteaux dans le ciel Farfisfa Synthorchestra 2 - 3:44 03     Legowelt - Swiss Fairytales - 2:28 04     Legowelt - Little Music with a Big Synth - 2:27 05     Legowelt - Evolution EVS-1 Promars and Prophet 5 - 3:56 06     Legowelt - Prophet Vector Synth Dazzling in the Sun - 4:09 07     Legowelt - These Phenomena Are Not Well Understood - 4:14    08     Legowelt - SMEM23 Digital Clap Trap Promars Prophet - 4:04 09     Legowelt - Roxannes Magic Watch - 2:43 10     Legowelt - FBT Synther 2000 - 1:46

___Release

Release: October 2, 2020 Format: vinyl LP + digital

___Credits

Written and produced by Danny Wolfers Recorded in the Playroom (SMEM, Fribourg, Switzerland)  Mixed by Danny Wolfers Mastered by Adi Flück @ Centraldubs Graphic Design by Sarah Parsons This is OUS023

Synthesizers used: Moog Memorymoog, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Sequential Circuits Prophet VS, Evolution EVS-1, Pulser Dual Voice Synthesizer, Roland Promars Compuphonic, Farfisfa Syntorchestra, Simmons Digital Clap Trap, FBT Synther 2000

___Shops

-OUS Bandcamp / Kudos / Juno / Boomkat / Bleep /  Norman Records / Redeye Records / HHV.de / Decks.de / Serendeepity / Disk Union / Sounds of the Universe

___Streaming/Digital

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / Beatport 

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WE ARE +1 (series)

-OUS and SMEM (Swiss Museum & Center for Electronic Music Instruments) are teaming up to launch the series «smem+ous», documenting the residencies at the SMEM Playroom. 

The first record comes from Legowelt, who was the first artist in residence in the SMEM Playroom in early 2019. His album «Unconditional Contours» will be released in early fall.  Legowelt has been a key figure in the Dutch electronic music scene since the early nineties, steadily releasing timeless music that merges influences from the Detroit and Chicago pioneers with his interest for sci-fi culture. He was invited by the Swiss Museum for Electronic Music Instruments (SMEM) to be the first artist in residence in their «Playroom».  SMEM and -OUS are launching the series «smem+ous» to document the «Playroom» residencies. A limited edition of this album was already sent out to early supporters of the «Playroom». Founded in 2016 and based on a collection of more than 5000 synthesizers, organs, drum machines and effects that had been collected over 35 year by Klemens Niklaus Trenkle, SMEM offers residencies, studio sessions, talks and workshops.