Pyrolator - Inland

Vinyl - unavailable for 10 years. Recorded in 1979, shortly after Pyrolator/Dahlke left D.A.F. The musician: Pyrolator, born Kurt Dahlke in 1958, co-founder of the legendary German label and publisher Ata Tak, member of various seminal post-punk bands such as D.A.F. and Der Plan, also released solo albums under his artist name from 1979 onwards. His latest album Neuland appeared in 2011. The music: Cold, urbane, disconcerting synthesizer sounds and aural collages, imbued with the post-punk/industrial zeitgeist as the seventies segued into the eighties. Yet sounding so fresh, it might have been recorded today. Inland provides the musical commentary on the late seventies in West Germany, with its undercurrent of paranoia and violence. Inland is one of the most radical, modern and unconciliatory albums of its, or any other, time. The cover for Inland perspicaciously illustrates this atmosphere: tones of grey and brown instead of seventies bliss.