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01. RUDIGER LORENZ - ...38-17-34...
02. RUDIGER LORENZ - Flashing Eyes
03. RUDIGER LORENZ - Chamomilla Sabinae
04. RUDIGER LORENZ - Competition:Bach - Seq
05. RUDIGER LORENZ - Nebisa
06. RUDIGER LORENZ - Angst (Fear)
07. RUDIGER LORENZ - Silver Steps
01. RUDIGER LORENZ - Dankar
02. RUDIGER LORENZ - Space Flight
03. RUDIGER LORENZ - Dreaming of Saba
04. RUDIGER LORENZ - Asanisimasa
05. RUDIGER LORENZ - Runette
01. RUDIGER LORENZ - Queen of Saba
02. RUDIGER LORENZ - Waldweben
03. RUDIGER LORENZ - Als Die Mädchen Noch Miniröcke Trugen
04. RUDIGER LORENZ - Aufzug (Demo)
05. RUDIGER LORENZ - Improvisation
06. RUDIGER LORENZ - In den Sternen
07. RUDIGER LORENZ - September
08. RUDIGER LORENZ - Silly Green
01. RUDIGER LORENZ - Independance
02. RUDIGER LORENZ - Wonderflower (Solaris Pt. 1)
03. RUDIGER LORENZ - Solaris (Pt. 2)
04. RUDIGER LORENZ - Hmmm...
05. RUDIGER LORENZ - Oriental Anapher & Climax
06. RUDIGER LORENZ - Promise of Sigma
07. RUDIGER LORENZ - Improvisation Beta
08. RUDIGER LORENZ - Solaris (Pt. 3)
01. RUDIGER LORENZ - Earthrise
02. RUDIGER LORENZ - Karena
03. RUDIGER LORENZ - Dakar
04. RUDIGER LORENZ - Jamaica
05. RUDIGER LORENZ - Anigre
06. RUDIGER LORENZ - Wagkowsky's Startrip
ARTIST
TITLE
The Syntape Years 1981-1983
FORMAT
5LP BOX

LABEL
CATALOG #
VOD 134LP VOD 134LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/12/2015

Rüdiger Lorenz was a German electronic synthesist and inventor of several modular synthesizer systems, who, over three decades, produced unique, exceptional electronic soundscapes in the manner of Conrad Schnitzler, Edgar Froese, Dieter Moebius, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. He is one of a very few outstanding artists who seem to never have received the recognition and fame they deserved for their artistic output. This five-LP box set focuses on his earliest self-released cassettes from the early '80s: Queen of Saba (1981), Silver Steps (1981), Wonderflower (1982), and Earthrise (1983), none of which have been reissued before now. Queen of Saba was also licensed and released on Werner Pieper's Transmitter Cassetten, which also distributed many of Conrad Schnitzler's tape releases. Earthrise, a compilation of his early works and several newer compositions, was released on the British label YHR Tapes (York House Recordings), run by David Elliott. Rüdiger Lorenz became interested in electronic music and Moog synthesizers in the late '60s. By 1972 he had built his own first Wersi Organ, followed by various amplifiers and effects boxes. In 1977 he had constructed his first synthesizers from an Elektor Formant kit. At the time of his death in 2000, he owned 38 synthesizers including three large self-built modular systems. In the late '70s and early '80s he became a member of the IEMA (International Electronic Music Association), which was established by James Finch of The Nightcrawlers, and also began running his own Lorenz Park Studio. He then became an essential part and pioneering member of the international DIY cassette culture community in the early '80s and contributed to several INKEY$ compilation tapes and the On-Slaught series on the Idiosyncratics label. With their well-established international contacts, he and another German synthesist, Peter Schäfer, started the tape label Syntape and released more than 30 cassettes between 1981 and 1985. In 1983, he began releasing musical on vinyl via his Syncord label; many of these limited records have since become in-demand collectors' items.