Danny Wolfers – the Hague-based artist best known for his work as Legowelt – has a new album out this week under his Smackos alias.

Smackos’s UFO Onderzoek 1983 is in fact a “lost” album – its existence was first announced over three years ago, but the masters were misplaced, found only recently “floating around in a cupboard in the IFMX studios”. The album is now available on CD courtesy of Powerman, a subsidiary of I-f’s Hotmix Foundation.

Wolfers, who has a winning penchant for attaching shlocky stories to his atmospheric, synth-based musical offerings, offers this short introduction:

“Autumn 1983. UFO fever has come to the desolated parts of the Netherlands. Rumours of strange sightings and abductions are plenty. Q & D, two students at the astronomy faculty in a small-town university trace the sightings back to the polar regions. They take the plane to the norwegian island of Svalbaerd were they discover the shocking truth…Twenty-seven tracks of adventure, mystery, romance and cosmic horror.”

For the lengthy (Dutch)  tracklisting, audio clips and more reading on the album’s themes and influences, visit Wolfers’ Strange Life blog here.