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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Fly Rocket Fly: From The Jungle To The Stars
FORMAT
LP+CD
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 300LP
BB 300LP
GENRE
SOUNDTRACK
RELEASE DATE
9/7/2018
LP version. Includes CD. Long before
Elon Musk
reached for the stars with his SpaceX project, a Swabian engineer by the name of
Lutz Kayser
harbored his own childhood dream of a voyage into space.
Fly Rocket Fly - Mit Macheten Zu Den Sternen
("To The Stars With Machetes") tells the remarkable story of how he and a dedicated band of Stuttgart engineers founded the world's first private space exploration enterprise: Orbital Transport-und Raketen Aktiengesellschaft, or OTRAG (Orbital Transport and Rockets Inc.). Having enlisted
Wernher von Braun
as scientific adviser, this early start-up developed a rocket in the late 1960s on the principle of low cost rather than high tech. Windscreen wiper motors were deployed in valve control systems, for example. Kayser's search for a suitable development site led him to African dictator
Mobutu Sese Seko
who signed off on a deal to allow OTRAG to establish a launch facility in the Congolese jungle. OTRAG built their very own German Cape Canaveral in an area the size of the former GDR, complete with its own butcher's shop and marijuana plantation. They successfully launched several rockets to suborbital altitude before the global political crisis of the mid-1970s put an end to OTRAG's activities. Nobody wanted to see German rockets in the skies over the African jungle (or anywhere else) 30 years after the war --
Fly Rocket Fly
is a madcap mix of adventure, political thriller, farce and economic drama -- somewhere between
Fitzcarraldo
(1982),
The Wages of Fear
(1953) and
Tintin: Explorers On The Moon
. The documentary's soundtrack, to be released on Hamburg-based label Bureau B, features songs by the likes of
ESB
,
Camera
,
Conrad Schnitzler
,
Günter Schickert
,
Die Wilde Jagd
, as well as new productions from film composer
Heiko Maile
. Also features
Solyst
,
Dennis Young
,
Rolf Trostel
, and
Moebius Neumeier Engler
. CD includes three bonus tracks.
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