Then we went to London’s Mayfair Studios to mix the album with Alex Silva who has also worked with the Manic Street Preachers.”
We brought back what we had created and changed the samples for real sounds – a string orchestra, guitar, bass, horn-player. It had a grand piano so we took a microphone, a computer and a sampler and composed. “We went to a house for a month in a little village called Strobl, hence the title,” Stoya explains, “It was by a lake in the mountains in Austria. So how do they end up with an album that sounds variously like Syd Barrett, Bright Eyes, Nick Drake, Love & Rockets, Snow Patrol, Julian Cope, Leonard Cohen and even the Pet Shop Boys? An album comparable in quality, even, to some of the above. In his time he’s been a record shop owner, a Brixton squatter, a musical collaborator with Gang Of Four’s Andy Gill, a DJ at Germany’s most famous punk club, a member of the band Trash Museum whose ‘I’d Rather Die Young Than Grow Old Without You’ was a John Peel favourite, and he’s currently a successful painter (one of whose exhibitions was named after the King Tubby album ‘Dub Like Dirt’). So what of Stoya? Stoya is the voice, the wordsmith, and known only by his single name. Dahlke is the man who manipulates the machines in Bombay1.
Since then Dahlke has been running the futuristic Ata Tak label (home to Oval and Holger Hiller, amongst others) as well as producing the next wave of post-rock electronic acts such as To Rococo Rot and Kreidler. …the imagery and other worldliness of Syd Barret as interpreted by a glimlet- eyed Trent Reznor.īecause their lyrics are in German, Der Plan aren’t much known outside their own country but at home their amalgamation of Residents-style surrealism and Visage-esque electro-pop garnered a strong following throughout the 1980s.
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