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01. DER PLAN - Leb doch
02. DER PLAN - Renate
03. DER PLAN - Meine Freunde
04. DER PLAN - Sie hat mich verlassen
05. DER PLAN - Pausen-Sassa
06. DER PLAN - Wenn der Sonne ist verblüht
07. DER PLAN - Kleine Schlager-Revue
08. DER PLAN - Frl. Nicol
09. DER PLAN - Ich bin ein Komputer
10. DER PLAN - Robot-Bolero
11. DER PLAN - Generäle essen gerne Erdbeereis
12. DER PLAN - Das Insekt
13. DER PLAN - Wat's dat?
14. DER PLAN - 4 Stapfen im Schnee
15. DER PLAN - Zurück in die Atomsphäre
16. DER PLAN - Da vorne steht ne Ampel
17. DER PLAN - Rot Grün Tod
18. DER PLAN - Einfachheit, Brot, Klarheit, Liebe, Tod
19. DER PLAN - 8 1/2 B
20. DER PLAN - Der Regen tropft
21. DER PLAN - Es ist das Glück
22. DER PLAN - Film Noir 1979
23. DER PLAN - Rosarote Schweinchen
ARTIST
TITLE
Normalette Surprise
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BB 105LP BB 105LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/14/2012

2023 repress; 180 gram LP version. 1980 the zeitgeist played into the right hands. And who held the aces? In Bureau B's game, Moritz R®, Frank Fenstermacher and Pyrolator aka Der Plan. Tired of convention and full of enthusiasm, they encountered an audience who felt just the same. And with record companies too ponderous to sign up Der Plan, the wonderful Ata Tak label was born of necessity. Normalette Surprise is the second album by Der Plan, released in 1981, a good year after their Geri Reig debut. It is immediately recognizable as a Plan album, yet Normalette Surprise does contain a few, well, surprises. The first number, "Leb doch," is a brilliant pop song. One can say many (good) things about Geri Reig, but it does not contain any pop songs. "Leb doch" is built on a captivatingly taut rhythm, sub-cooled vocals and German lyrics. Hang on a minute, taut rhythm, sub-cooled vocals, German lyrics? Yes exactly -- Der Plan drew up the blueprint for what would soon become known as "Neue Deutsche Welle" -- the German New Wave. Although, "blueprint" sounds a little too benign. It was more like a big bang. Moreover, there was something new about it. Or rather, something old. Bizarrely, Der Plan were introduced by their American artist friends, including the controversial elocutionist Boyd Rice, into the amazing world of the German Schlager, a colorful universe of the absurd awaited exploration. "Kleine Schlager-Revue" and "Sie hat mich verlassen" are the clearest indications of this newfound passion on Normalette Surprise. Hence, Normalette Surprise presents the full range of attributes which would define Der Plan and the Ata Tak label: electronics and Schlager, noise and pop. And Der Plan's protagonists succeeded -- unlike so many -- in their mission of creating something original, something of their own.