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01. PYROLATOR - Im Zoo
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02. PYROLATOR - Große Welt, Kleine Welt
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03. PYROLATOR - Der Geruch der Stadt
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04. PYROLATOR - Rush Hour in Singapore
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05. PYROLATOR - Die Hängebrückenbauer
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06. PYROLATOR - Hal’s Dream
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07. PYROLATOR - Am Morgen & ein Spaziergang
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08. PYROLATOR - Ein Herrenzimmer in Schottland
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09. PYROLATOR - Blick durch eine Zeitlupe
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10. PYROLATOR - Atlantisches Intermezzo
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11. PYROLATOR - Gespräch mit der Erde
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12. PYROLATOR - Passage to Melilla
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13. PYROLATOR - Augenblick (Bonus track)
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14. PYROLATOR - Programm 15 (Bonus track)
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15. PYROLATOR - Pisang (Bonus track)
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16. PYROLATOR - Abschied von einer schönen Zeit (Bonus track)
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17. PYROLATOR - Ein Spaziergang (lange Version) (Bonus track)
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ARTIST
PYROLATOR
TITLE
Pyrolator's Wunderland
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 159LP
BB 159LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/10/2013
LP version, on 180 gram vinyl. Bureau B reissues
Pyrolator's Wunderland
, originally released on Ata Tak in 1984. Quote 1: "I have always strived for the opposite of whatever is hip at the time." (
Pyrolator
in June 2013) Quote 2: "
Wunderland
is so beautiful -- the first time I heard this record, I cried." (
Andreas Dorau
). New York City, 1983. Andreas Dorau has a gig at Danceteria and Pyrolator accompanies him as sound engineer. Back then, it really looked as if Ata Tak could make a go of it in the USA. "We had a New York office," Pyrolator recalls. Not bad at all -- possibly the first and only German independent label to set up shop. "Sadly, it was short-lived." A shame indeed, but the costs were too high. Still, Pyrolator was able to take advantage of the label's sporadic expansion to stay a while longer in the city that, famously, never sleeps. And he made the most of it. Right place, right time. "I was searching for new rhythms." It was in 1983 that rap, electro and hip-hop emerged from New York to take over the world -- styles and approaches to music and sound which were not so alien to the Ata Tak crew. But: look back at the Pyrolator quote before this text. The opposite of what happens to be hip, wouldn't that mean steering clear of electronic beats? Which, of course, is what Pyrolator did on
Wunderland
. Instead of checking the hottest sounds in record shops, he copied out bossa novas, cha-chas and mambos in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and scoured stores and second-hand dealerships for sheet music. After these forays, he returned to his Lower East Side apartment and sat down at the piano to compose melodies and modify his newly-acquired rhythms. The foundations of
Wunderland
were laid. Pyrolator recorded birds and other animals, used hollow wood as a marimba and now, with his modified Latin rhythms, had the conditio sine qua non for
Wunderland
. Modern technology (Emulator 1, serial number 13!) and hollow tree trunks, and melodies on a par with
Ennio Morricone
or
Burt Bacharach
. Includes five bonus tracks.
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