David Wojciechowski - Olympics in Space [FULL ALBUM]

David Wojciechowski - Olympics in Space (1986)

00:00 Blockyeen Entretainment Logo
00:12 VK01
01:00 Spaceship Battle
05:45 Computer
10:49 Puss in Boots
14:43 Tower
19:19 Laserwolf
23:49 Microplanet
27:11 VK02
30:04 The Game
35:17 Spacecraft
39:02 Cat Comet
44:31 Darius
48:56 VK03

Bandcamp: https://nobonoko.bandcamp.com/album/o...

Olympics in Space is an album by David Wojciechowski released on November 1st, 1986. Unlike the likes of Gato, it features heavy use of digital samplers and synthesizers and sequencers, notably being one of the first uses of the iconic metal pipe sound ever. It features guitars from Victor Fritzsche and Leopold Põldma—also known as Loopy Leopold—and the programming help from electronic musician Torahiko Inoue. It was recorded through the year of 1986.

The idea for this album came during a trip to Japan in June 1985. David bought a vinyl from a shop of I REIN FOR REIN's Plastic Generation and was enchanted by its melancholic, cold, digital synth sounds, as well as its metal pipe samples. He came back to the UK and started playing around with the stupid expensive synthesizers that he impulsively accumulated over the years.

Among the gear that is used on the album are the Roland CR78, TR-707, TR-808 and Linn 9000 drum machines, the Roland MC-500 sequencer, a couple of analog synths, a metal pipe and a wonderful computer with software capable of anything the musician’s mind desired. It's a pretty Roland heavy record and the album stands out on how it heavily uses MIDI and programmed lines, making it deliberately feel much more robotic. David says this is either what music might sound like in 2000 years, or maybe just 2020.

He needed help from a few friends. Leopold Loop is a pine weasel from Estonia and composer who specialized in easy listening and orchestral pieces who eventually found his love in guitars, modular synths, tape samplers and avant garde music. Torahiko is a tiger from Japan, long friend of Leo and electronic musician who has been working with synthesizers before David, and has a lot of expertise on the technical side. People keep making jokes about him and calling him "Terry the Tiger" which makes his life very miserable. Both of them have even partaken in a band with David and Victor in the mid-80s.

The album was released by Blockyeen Records on 1 November 1986. To clarify, Blockyeen is an entertainment company from the UK. The logo from the beginning comes from Blockyeen's television channel during the mid-80s and may look horribly 80s to some.

Production, composition, keyboards, synthesizers: David Wojciechowski
Guitars: Loopy Leopold, Victor Fritzsche
Programming: David Wojciechowski, Torahiko Inoue
Photography: Jackal Golden
Design: Lola Twift, Blockyeen Design Team