Lieblingsplatte Festival: Der Plan "Geri Reig"

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The band Der Plan and their legendary label Atatak are generally associated with the Düsseldorf new wave and electro scene. But it all began at the end of the seventies in Wuppertal. Moritz Reichelt, alias Moritz R, and Frank Fenstermacher founded the Art Attack gallery there. Inspired by the DIY attitude of the English punk movement and equipped with the free spirit of Dadaism, the two do what they like. And that is suddenly music, after they had actually aspired to a career as visual artists and painters. Pyrolator, the third member of Der Plan, met Fenstermacher and Reichelt at the opening concert of an exhibition in their gallery. He
was already a busy mastermind at the time, co-founding the band DAF (Deutsch-Amerikanische-Freundschaft), touring solo as Pyrolator and running Warning Records, a label that soon cooperated with Art Attack and merged to form Atatak. The first releases by Der Plan ("Das Fleisch" EP) and Pyrolator ("Inland" album) are dark electronic industrial compositions. However, the trio soon discovered irony, lightness and intellectual spinning. This became their trademark and was celebrated on their debut album "Geri Reig", released in 1980. The band became a pioneer and source of ideas for the New German Wave, which would dominate the country's music scene and its charts for several years. The music portal allmusic.com writes aptly about the group's debut album: "Pop music has never sounded stranger than on "Geri Reig", a unique mixture of experimental pop inspired by The Residents and innovative electronics."
Meanwhile, Andreas Dorau had the biggest hit on the Atatak label with "Fred vom Jupiter" in 1981, which was already a guest on Lieblingsplatte with its accompanying album "Blumen und Narzissen". The plan also had its biggest chart success in the same year with "Da vorn steht 'ne Ampel". But the band was denied a major commercial breakthrough, no doubt due to their independent ethic: the Atatak label was always to remain independent, the focus was to be on art and selling out was to be avoided.
To this day, the plan is to remain the free spirits and colorful avant-gardists of the German music scene. They will bring their special spirit to the stage during the album performance of "Geri Reig", in backdrops and stage outfits made especially for this evening.