July 20, 2012
Der Plan (the plan) is one of the greatest German bands playing new wave electronica. That is to say ‘greatest’ right behind Kraftwerk who first introduced me to electronica and I’ve been a sucker for that genre ever since I heard Trans Europe Express. Anyway getting back to Der Plan, it was
formed back in 1979 by Moritz Reichelt, Frank Fenstermacher, Robert Gorl and Chrislo Haas. After the release of their very first album, Robert Gorl and Chrislo Haas left and were replaced by Kurt Dahlke.
I have read their music described as Avant-Garde, experimental, technopop etc. They're all of that and much more. Read the lyrics of the Single, Gummitwist, I've provded below and you’ll understand what I mean. Even though I didn’t ‘get’ some of it but blame that on poor German to English translation. Der Plan produced 10 albums together and broke up in 1993. They did get back together temporarily but with a different cast and crew and released their last album "Die Verschwörung" (The Conspiracy) in 2004.
The cover art is probably done by Moritz Reichelt or Moritz R®, a founding member of the band who went to art school in Munich. He was exposed to the ‘punk’ scene when he travelled to Dusseldorf, a new cultural phenomenon at that time. There he ran a Punk/New Wave art gallery in Wuppertal, a suburb of Duesseldorf along with two of his friends. The "Galerie Art Attack" became a melting point for the new art scene where painters, musicians and multi-media artists rubbed shoulders.
After Der Plan broke up Moritz R® who did the artwork for the band’s record covers, dedicated himself full-time to his art. He also wrote a book about his experiences as a member of Der Plan, entitled: Der Plan - Glanz und Elend der Neuen Deutschen Welle (Der Plan - the Splendor and Misery of the New German Wave). After the foundation of the independent label Ata Tak in Duesseldorf in 1980, he began to produce music. Besides painting, making music Moritz R® also created set designs for several films and TV productions. His second book is dedicated to Postpsychedelic Art: Pop Katalog Vol 1 is a coffee table book and a documentation of all his works including photos and descriptions, theoretical essays about his own work. He blogs at http://moritzreichelt.blogspot.com/
Lyrics - Dance the Gummitwist!
Where blows the wind of the future,
What is that thing constructed?
That screams of the man of today,
who has stolen my brain?
I ask people on the street,
in the subway, in the Office,
all woll'n computers have,
No one knows exactly why.
Parallel interface, give me 64 Bit processor,
Fortram, logo, CPU and VisiCalc and RAM module.
Interslip and floppy chip, Pershing II and Apple panic,
are our enemies, the Russians
Alas, the world is so confusing!
Daddy, give me a computer!
Help for the whole family!
Take honey, the arms race!
Dance the Gummitwist!
Can I no longer live tomorrow
without personal computers?
No longer can my flowers
pour without the computer?
Can I Cook no soup without LCD display.
and when I wash my socks, do I need an interface?
Wool ' n the Russians destroy us, or are the Americans blame?
Crazy shoot out, space invaders,Snack attack and Roach hotel.
Of all things on Earth,
There is and should be,
I know completely safe one
What was it identical, grad there Is still?
Daddy, give me a computer!
Help for the whole family!
Take honey, the arms race!
Dance the Gummitwist!
Ta ta ta ta dance dance dance!
Dance dance the rubber the rubber!
Co co co co com com com!
Computer computer!
'Ne small housefly,
Nothing learned and don't know much.
Do not understand anything of micro chips,
Nuclear bombs and stuff ' n stuff.
Simply fly to the lamp, a thousand times, day in, day out,
don't know anything about good and evil,
do I need more to happiness!
Not enough around there to life, so then, for a day?
Must I seek the higher,
What will I Müh and Plag?
Yes, that you have to, little fly!
I am the hacker in the system,
I sneak into NATO,
I could be a Russian.
Daddy, give me a computer!
Help for the whole family!
Take honey, the arms race!
Dance the Gummitwist!
This Record:
Gummitwist by Der Plan
12”single, 45 rpm
WEA Musik GmbH, German Import, 1983
Design by AtaTak Design
Go to www.ricsrecordsrack.com for more information. My records
are in super mint condition and still available, unless specified otherwise. Email if you require a detailed description of the condition of a particular item (ricsrecordrack@yahoo.com)
Der Plan (the plan) is one of the greatest German bands playing new wave electronica. That is to say ‘greatest’ right behind Kraftwerk who first introduced me to electronica and I’ve been a sucker for that genre ever since I heard Trans Europe Express. Anyway getting back to Der Plan, it was
formed back in 1979 by Moritz Reichelt, Frank Fenstermacher, Robert Gorl and Chrislo Haas. After the release of their very first album, Robert Gorl and Chrislo Haas left and were replaced by Kurt Dahlke.
I have read their music described as Avant-Garde, experimental, technopop etc. They're all of that and much more. Read the lyrics of the Single, Gummitwist, I've provded below and you’ll understand what I mean. Even though I didn’t ‘get’ some of it but blame that on poor German to English translation. Der Plan produced 10 albums together and broke up in 1993. They did get back together temporarily but with a different cast and crew and released their last album "Die Verschwörung" (The Conspiracy) in 2004.
The cover art is probably done by Moritz Reichelt or Moritz R®, a founding member of the band who went to art school in Munich. He was exposed to the ‘punk’ scene when he travelled to Dusseldorf, a new cultural phenomenon at that time. There he ran a Punk/New Wave art gallery in Wuppertal, a suburb of Duesseldorf along with two of his friends. The "Galerie Art Attack" became a melting point for the new art scene where painters, musicians and multi-media artists rubbed shoulders.
After Der Plan broke up Moritz R® who did the artwork for the band’s record covers, dedicated himself full-time to his art. He also wrote a book about his experiences as a member of Der Plan, entitled: Der Plan - Glanz und Elend der Neuen Deutschen Welle (Der Plan - the Splendor and Misery of the New German Wave). After the foundation of the independent label Ata Tak in Duesseldorf in 1980, he began to produce music. Besides painting, making music Moritz R® also created set designs for several films and TV productions. His second book is dedicated to Postpsychedelic Art: Pop Katalog Vol 1 is a coffee table book and a documentation of all his works including photos and descriptions, theoretical essays about his own work. He blogs at http://moritzreichelt.blogspot.com/
Lyrics - Dance the Gummitwist!
Where blows the wind of the future,
What is that thing constructed?
That screams of the man of today,
who has stolen my brain?
I ask people on the street,
in the subway, in the Office,
all woll'n computers have,
No one knows exactly why.
Parallel interface, give me 64 Bit processor,
Fortram, logo, CPU and VisiCalc and RAM module.
Interslip and floppy chip, Pershing II and Apple panic,
are our enemies, the Russians
Alas, the world is so confusing!
Daddy, give me a computer!
Help for the whole family!
Take honey, the arms race!
Dance the Gummitwist!
Can I no longer live tomorrow
without personal computers?
No longer can my flowers
pour without the computer?
Can I Cook no soup without LCD display.
and when I wash my socks, do I need an interface?
Wool ' n the Russians destroy us, or are the Americans blame?
Crazy shoot out, space invaders,Snack attack and Roach hotel.
Of all things on Earth,
There is and should be,
I know completely safe one
What was it identical, grad there Is still?
Daddy, give me a computer!
Help for the whole family!
Take honey, the arms race!
Dance the Gummitwist!
Ta ta ta ta dance dance dance!
Dance dance the rubber the rubber!
Co co co co com com com!
Computer computer!
'Ne small housefly,
Nothing learned and don't know much.
Do not understand anything of micro chips,
Nuclear bombs and stuff ' n stuff.
Simply fly to the lamp, a thousand times, day in, day out,
don't know anything about good and evil,
do I need more to happiness!
Not enough around there to life, so then, for a day?
Must I seek the higher,
What will I Müh and Plag?
Yes, that you have to, little fly!
I am the hacker in the system,
I sneak into NATO,
I could be a Russian.
Daddy, give me a computer!
Help for the whole family!
Take honey, the arms race!
Dance the Gummitwist!
This Record:
Gummitwist by Der Plan
12”single, 45 rpm
WEA Musik GmbH, German Import, 1983
Design by AtaTak Design
Go to www.ricsrecordsrack.com for more information. My records
are in super mint condition and still available, unless specified otherwise. Email if you require a detailed description of the condition of a particular item (ricsrecordrack@yahoo.com)
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