It’s no secret that we’re fans of Strange Life, the label run out of The Hague by Danny ‘Legowelt’ Wolfers.

A home primarily for Wolfers’ own woozy electronic concept albums, over the years it’s brought us wonderful CD-Rs like Smackos’s Computer Day (2007), Karl Lindh’s Bortom’s E4 Horrisont (2005) and Franz Falckenhaus’s Stories From My Cold War (2006), as well as 12″s from the likes of Faceless Mind, $tinkworx and DJ Overdose. Its pairing of creepy synthesizer music with vivid fictional backstories is matched only by the UK’s own Ghost Box.

Strange Life has just announced the release of three brand new albums. The first, credited to The Psychic Stewardess, is a collection of “woolly and smudgey Detroit electronics”, entitled Spiritual Foundation. Though we’re told that it’s the work of a “part-time stewardess and psychic from the Californian desert town of Palm Springs”, it’s got Wolfers’ fingerprints all over it, and features his previously available re-rub of the Shinobi video game theme. It also boasts perhaps our favourite cover art of 2010 so far. Listen to sound clips here.

Next up is The March To The Stars, a full-length from DMX Krew, AKA London’s Ed DMX, who last year compiled FACT’s list of the 20 Best Acid House Records Ever Made and is best known for releases on Rephlex and his own Breakin’ imprint. According to Strange Life, this CD’s 19 tracks were recorded between 1997 and 2009, and range in style “from rural 70s British TV programme intro tunes to his unresistable (sic) electrofunk sound”. Clips here.

The third and final of these new releases has the most winning backstory: Portopia, credited to Japanese Satomi Taniyama, supposedly a garbage man from Oda in the Shimane prefecture. Apparently Taniyama sent Strange Life a bunch of cassette tapes featuring music made from old instruments found during his working day, and “influenced by the Portopia serial murder case (one of Japan’s first and most famous text adventures).” It’s safe to assume that the recordings are in fact the work of Wolfers or one of his European cohorts, but that needn’t spoil the fun. Clips here.

For more info, or to buy any of these albums, visit the Strange Life shop. You can catch Danny Wolfers performing live as Legowelt at the Big Chill Bar London this Saturday 27 March. Entry is free; more info here.

Psychic Stewardess – Spiritual Foundation tracklist:

1 Frosty Wings
2 Stratocumulus
3 Spiritual Foundation
4 Night Service
5 Detroit – Rainbows Of Darkness
6 Telepathic Synthesis System
7 Defused Nights Falcon Watch
8 Ghost Apparitions
9 Winter Wonderland Tape Smudge
10 E.S.P. Training Center
11 Paranormal Section
12 Routes
13 Shinobi Theme
14 Green Lands

DMX Krew – The March To The Stars tracklist:

1 A New Man
2 All Aboard
3 Channel Pressure
4 String Theory
5 Lip Chime
6 Happy Birthday
7 MS10 Breathing
8 Digitally Controlled Oscillator
9 Tension
10 Memory Theme
11 Sync Interlude
12 Holding Pattern
13 PH-830
14 Bel 189 Trax
15 Soundmaster 88
16 The March To The Stars
17 Iridium Flares
18 AM Adventure
19 Hellfire

Satomi Taniyama – Portopia tracklist:

1 Window Fish
2 Renzoku Satsujin Jiken
3 Bar Soda Cherise
4 Maritime Jazz
5 Century
6 Simulations Of A Garbage Truck
7 Phillipine Sea
8 Hotel Five Star
9 Assistant Yazu
10 Kyoto Blues
11 Macau Connection
12 Shimane Dreams, Foxes and Secret Squirrels
13 Sensual Cocktail Lounge
14 Across The Japanese Sea
15 Unfamiliar Tango
16 Speculations By A Man