Tolouse Low Trax - Fung Day

Highly regarded as a former resident at Düsseldorf’s iconic Salon des Amateurs, Tolouse Low Trax (aka Detlef Weinrich) has spent the past 15 years crafting one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary leftfield club music.

Known for his hypnotic arrangements and deeply unconventional grooves, Weinrich returns with Fung Day—his first full album of entirely new material since 2022’s Leave Me Alone, released via Bureau B.

Fung Day was written and recorded over two years, evolving slowly and organically from one state to another. Mixed, produced, and finally mastered in Paris—his chosen home—the album reflects both a personal and sonic transformation.

A few words from Yvan Smagghe on Fung Day:
“He pretended he was in exile from Germany, but he was a French lover like all of us. His MPC sampler was smoking hot—an Enigma machine, an ashtray full of ghosts. I had left Paris for the same reasons he came. I could strangely relate.

We’d met before he left Düsseldorf, and I knew of him through his oeuvre—his art over words (they were few) and piercing blue eyes. He was now texting me on a night train from Warsaw going east, like something out of a Graham Greene novel, asking me to go over his file.

He sent me a spontaneous, fun, brave, and bold record—his new album. One that curiously smelled of mechanical grease: machinery of the soul, broken transport rhythms, samples like memories, noise at peace. Referenced yet uncoded.

I don’t believe in ulterior motives or complex explanations—not here, at least. On the other hand, I do believe works can be exposure—especially for the silent type or mistaken identities. And I knew about these too.”
—London, 2024