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Every week, Axehole looks for the most unusual music news or site we can find, the one thing that gives us that WTF? moment.

This week, we bring you the mobile music-making Tie Fighters of Weltklang, a German electronic electronic music duo.

The group was founded in Munich by Richard Aicher and Andreas Merz, and has created unusual live performances since then. They came up with the idea of Mobile Electronics performances in 1995 with a creation for the Universal Arts Gallery Munich that involved 8 MD Players. At more recent events, Weltklang has used JVC RV-B99 Ghetto Blasters as mobile amplification systems.

The image above captures a Aicher and Merz as Tie fighter pilots for a performance of Electronic Street Music in the Subway and TUBE presented by Munich Kulturreferat. Weltklang dressed in black and used for the first time scifi helmets.

The event started in the subwaystation then weltklang and the audience went to the nearby T-U-B-E Location (Klangwanderung). Special Guest at this event was Dieter Doepfer, of Doepfer modular synth fame, with two racks of his Doepfer A100 analogue synth system.

Here’s an image from another performance:

Their site has more photos of Weltklan live electronic music events.