Nov 3, 2008

PYROLATOR "Wunderland" (GER,1984)


Member of famous Neue Deutsche Welle bands like DAF, DER PLAN... solo artist, producer... KURT DAHLKE (a.k.a. PYROLATOR) is one of the cult figures of the genre. Pioneer of electronics, he was based on kraftwerklike synthetic structures to create a kind of german muzak which seems to play with sense of past (early electronics, exotica, 50`s easy listening), present ( 80`s, synth pop, ambient, minimal, abstraction) and future (new noises, mechanistic forms, explorations of technology sound abilities).
This third solo LP is a luminous, colourful, and surrealistic work. Pyrolator mixes computer sounds with natural, "exotic" noises and the result is an emphasized artificial world, whimsical but friendly, a parody of paradise perhaps, a wonderland balanced more on playfulness and dreams and less on an ideal reality.
WUNDERLAND (53mb)

7 comments:

bravo juju said...

a rewarding listen - thank you

Anonymous said...

dead linx :(

Anonymous said...

thank you, really refreshing.

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file not found.... :(

paramo said...

Wunderland reuped!

northern wind said...

Nice LP ...from the past!
Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Hey, great band. Would appreciate an up on any Pyrolator stuff. Thanks B