Pulsator: Dino-Writers.

Pulsator launch Ballads & Dinosaurs at the Pavilion Pool Hall on Sunday.

Brisbane can be a pretty lazy town. So local rockers Pulsator would at a glace seem to be taking a bit of a risk by lining up their CD launch late in the weekend. Guitarist Clayton puts forth the bands viewpoint.

“We wanted to it at an easy time for people to come. It’s not a late night. We’ve got friends that work on the weekend, and earlier in the week there’s things on. We kind of though at late Sunday afternoon, early evening would be an easy time for everyone to make it.”

Regardless of motivations, there’s little doubt Pulsator’s debut Ballads & Dinosaurs is quite a fine piece of work.

“It was something very much to test the waters. We recorded very early on in the band. Dan and I have been playing together for a few years now. We were in a band before Pulsator. That came to an end about at the start of 2000. So we had some time off, and he gave me a call from the Big Day Out at Homebush in Sydney and suggested we get back together and start doing some more stuff. We put the band together, an the CD was recorded only about two months after we got the final line up.”

“Things were pretty much together when we went into the studio,” Clayton confirms. “We’ve got a lot of new material that we’re really happy with that was put together after the CD was recorded, but I guess that always happens…”

Considering the formative stages the band were in at the time of recording, Ballads & Dinosaurs is quite an impressive disc. It’s five tracks happily genre hop from metallic guitars to funky basslines, hip-hop and more.

“It comes a lot from the vision that Ben (bass) had of a kind of electronic influenced hard rock band. Something along the lines of something like Rammstein, but we always wanted to maintain some more traditional vocal sounds. I suppose my influences are really sort of funk and things like maybe the Chili Peppers. Our singer is into things like Limp Bizkit and Korn and Danie is into bands like Afro Celt Sound System.”

While Danie and Clayton have been working together for some time, the music they’re putting together in Pulsator is of quite a different nature to their past projects.

“It’s a fresh start from the band we were in before hand. We were kind of trying to head down this kind of path before with the last band we were in, but it just wasn’t going to happen, which probably contributed to it’s demise.”

After their CD launch, the band are looking to take their disc out on the road.

“We haven’t organised all the details yet, but we’re heading down to Sydney for a couple of nights, and Melbourne for a couple of nights in late July. It will be our first tour off on our own. We don’t really know what to expect from the experience just yet. Hopefully it will be good for the band. Time for a bit of bonding on the road. Notch up a couple more experiences.”

Songs have also been accumulating since the recording of Ballads & Dinosaurs, and all going to plan the band should find themselves back in the studio in the not to distant future.

“We’d like to try and record again before the end of the year, and look at getting it out at the beginning of next year. We’re kind of tossing up wether to do another EP or do a full-length album. Or just a single.”