With A Field Guide to the Void, Legowelt returns to Rotterdam's Clone Records' Jack for Daze, providing an extraordinary journey through cosmic landscapes, existential reflections, and nostalgic echoes. 

Through its deft traversing of the house, techno, electro, and ambient genres, Legowelt crafts an immersive voyage through past and future, humor and depth, solitude and community. With the album, Legowelt (aka Danny Wolfers) doesn't just reinforce his master-level hardware credentials but also his storytelling ability, unafraid of taking the piss out of his own genres along the way. On November 15, the Dutch West Coast legend will highlight the 14th Black Rhino Residency at Control Club.

A Field Guide to the Void opens with Blaze of Fame, a lush track with retro-futuristic overtones that sit on the edge of interdimensional travel and dancefloor prowess. There’s an unmistakable nostalgia, a warmth reminiscent of late-night broadcasts on The Hague's Intergalactic FM, where Legowelt has been a pillar for two decades. But he doesn't let the past dominate; he weaves these familiar sounds into an exploratory vision of the present with aggressively playful electrified vocals: "fuck your life/fuck your school/fuck your job/fuck your virtue/we all want to go to a new place /another time/another story/just close your eyes/and there we fly/from the ruins of a dead world/no more sorrow/no more pain/ we're all gonna go/in a blaze of fame".

Then comes Racefiesten in de Polder, a wink to the audience that he also knows how to have fun as if to decry electronic music's frequent overly serious nature. Tracks like this infuse a sense of acceleration, echoing works like Crystal Cult 2080 (Crème Organization, 2018) while continuing the tongue-in-cheek titles and themes.

Throughout A Field Guide to the Void, Legowelt puts forth energetic pieces that each capture this irreverent, whimsical side of his trademark analog warmth. Ghost Stories from a New House and Satyricon Pandemonium pulse with freneticism, capturing the inevitability of chaos teetering on the edge of control. Doing so through a crisp layering of atmosphere, melody, lush synths, stacattoed percussion, and genre-bending. It's almost offensive to compare, but it (as well as the album) exists as something of the microchipped child of Aphex Twin and The Orb.

Yet, for all its intensity, the album also has a critical side. Tracks like Come and See Your Misery return the doomed-nature vocalizations: "come and see your misery/In the land of the eternal damned/life is a hell until you die/ for what it's worth, it's all you get". Unlike the hard-hitting rhythms that defined The Paranormal Soul (Jack For Daze, 2017), this track is subdued, its rhythmic backbone almost hesitant.

A Vast Comfortless Universe further explores solitude, this time against a breakbeat core. It uses space to amplify the sense of isolation, each blip echoing across an expansive sonic galaxy. Once its wobbly melody kicks in, you wouldn't be adrift to feel a psilocybin-infused venture through the depths of (cyber)space.

That cosmic exploration may lead you to A Million Exoplanets without DJs and the robotic arpeggiations of Ritmo Siniestro Embrujado. They feel like a destination. The landing on a lonely, distant world, vast and comfortless yet buzzing with possibility. Here, Legowelt lets his sci-fi edge soar in places where technology and mythology seamlessly blend.

Wolfers also draws on a strong sense of place down here on Earth. In North Rhine Westphalia Theme, he pays homage to this populous German region home to Cologne and Düsseldorf. Its simple flute melody feels calm amidst the cosmic drift—a grounding into the cultural legacy of the future.

The album closes with Tears from a Manta, a serene ambience that gently descends to Earthside. With a soft return to flute-driven melody, it’s a bittersweet ending to a journey that spanned nostalgia, humor, introspection, and space-faring adventure.

A Field Guide to the Void invites us to lose ourselves in a world where nostalgia and futurism coexist, humor and darkness intertwine, and the cosmos feels both vast and strangely intimate. In Legowelt’s DIY hands, electronic music becomes a vibrant, groovy journey through memory, imagination, and the spaces between galaxies. It also makes A Field Guide to the Void one of the year's best electronic albums.