Strange Life Records Officially Closes Up Shop
Dutch electronic music iconoclast Danny Wolfers, AKA Legowelt, is selling off the remaining stock from his Strange Life record label. Fans and collectors can pick up original copies of jacking classics and utopian synthscapades like his own Dark Days pts 1 and 2, Rotterdam dark-matter specialist (and Academy alumnus) Ian Martin’s Defused Nights, or DMX Krew’s The March to the Stars.
Established in 2006, the now-defunct label was an outlet for a multiplicity of Wolfers’ projects over the years. Making a sport out of evading categorisation, Wolfers is a synth specialist who is not averse to using plug ins – and a vinyl romanticist who embraces everything that is either futuristic or obsolete. He released much of the Strange Life catalogue on CD-R, when not giving his music away for free on his Legowelt website. His The Teac Life LP was released to much acclaim in 2011 as a free download, and was subsequently released as a 4xLP set on Strange Life.
Legowelt recently appeared on a Bandcamp compilation released in support of Russian LGBT rights, alongside likeminded artists such as Hieroglyphic Being and Rude 66.