Appealing to genuine fans of Krautrock with their mix of avant-garde, post-punk and urban soul tendencies, and to the mindless NME reading, bandwagon hopping ignorami half-hearted journalists with their prefix of 'nu'.
Die Plankton are avaliable to perform, we are happy to play theatre, bar, wedding, bar mitzvah, rave, art opening, fetish ball.
To book contact Die Plankton through myspace, www.myspace.com/dieplankton.
Die Plankton are looking for band for a split single.
"Is this jazz made by mongaloid insects?" -Absolute Leeds
"I like your work very much. The avant garde is alive and well. " - Laurence Gartel, Digital Art Pioneer
"Like listening to farts" -Captain Claire Cherry, of Leeds band The Mooglefrruckers
"Die Plankton operate in the space between musicality and performative intervention - the centre of the work is always in constant flux. When one listens closely to the track 'Never in a Million Years Would I Kill a Child, Please Forgive Me' we can hear an audible demonstration of Jacques Derrida's discussion of the 'remain(s)' as illustrated in Glas. The remain(s) are that point of the Hegelian dialect where nothing is quite what it seems, it represents that moment of choice – an ever present potentiality. We have two distinct parts of music playing together. One piece is reminiscent of some post-industrial clatter (perhaps a reference to their East German heritage). The other is the slow, Japanese inspired bells. Both lines of music are in different timings forcing the listener to escape from their fixed centre. This is the ever alienated 'I' that Lacan so beautifully discusses with reference to the 'mirror stage'. The two lines of music represent perhaps a conversational dialogue involving class struggle – both are operating independently of each other, but at points the sounds mesh creating perfect synthesis…"
" - Judy Butler, Parallax (forthcoming)
"If leeds was the ocean, the kaisers would be like a big blue whale, the biggest band around, and Die Plankton would be..........er.........very small." - Trev, Leedsmusicforum.co.uk
"It makes me sit back and ask myself, why am I even listening to this" -Nick Kent
"Is this bizzare music, or merely better music? Or neither? -Noam Chimpsky
'i love the plankton.' - Tony Bone
"Your music sounds like Nightmares!" Mad Sam Flint, one legged front man of Road Krew
"Sounding like the Princess Diana car wreck meets George Orwell... classic stuff" - Wire
"If Bob Hoskins made music, it would sound like this" - NME
"Ich muss in meinem Herzen von Herzen sagen, ich finde, dass "Die Plankton das am meisten fantastische erstaunliche Band, um jemals zuzuhören." - Krautrock Superzeitschrift
"Pointless" - Sandman Magazine
"Genius" -Metro
"According to Green, pop's assertion of rhythm, its interruption of language, its sexuality, the way in which it presents identity and dissolves identity, and the means with which it does so, converges with many postmodern philosophical concerns. 'It is possible to think about music as something that undoes. In as much as it is not semantic, does not have that bedrock of meaning, other than having other ways of circumscribing it, it is a deconstructive mood' (Green in: Toop, 1988). 'When I met Derrida he said that Die Plankton was part of the same project of undoing and unsettling that he's engaged in. He's written that what sets the musician apart is the possibility of meaninglessness. That unsettling has always been my experience of Die Plankton, from the earliest moments - Die Plankton is about the abuse of language' (Green in: Reynolds, 1988)." - Scritti Politi, 'a short note about Die Plankton'
"There is something certainly amazing about the musicmanship of this group." - Harry Greysham, Look North
"Die Plankton are like the twin towers of pop" - Leeds Guide
"We heard the demo and were like, yeah right" - leedsmusicscene.com
"combining the dynamism of Faust with the avant garde pretensions of the 1920s, Die Plankton are certainly an enigma. One can detect the feel of John Coltrane's more experimental failings..." - The Guardian
Die Plankton don't have "songs" as such - they use and subvert song forms within the context of an expressive whole that includes the entire texture of vocal and instrumental rock sounds in exciting ways - not so much experimental as exploratory, finding what can energise a crowd, and drawing them into otherwise "difficult" terrain. Like all genuine art, they ask their audiences to perceive things differently. - Sam Saunders. Leedsmusicforum
"They ironed on stage, it looked like a cow's udder that was being ironed, but it sounded beautiful, we were lost in the moment like cherry blossom petals floating in the breeze" - The Observer Music Monthly
