Light-footed, almost prancing, the diamond moves through the grooves of the red plastic. Suspended from the record player, it takes a journey through noise, melodies, choruses, and verses—and sometimes even silence.
Somewhere, the diamond suddenly senses the late sixties and vaguely glimpses The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol. Later, it will also encounter the aftertaste of David Bowie, a noisy, whining Iggy Pop, and the pounding, dry beats of Joy Division. Wait a minute: on the horizon, one can even glimpse Duran Duran... at the end of the red plastic...
That's probably how the record player's diamond needle would describe the "red plastic" experience. With several years of band experience and countless performances from basement to festival stage, the five Osnabrück musicians have distilled "nezzer" and pressed it onto 180-gram vinyl. In red! Because red is a real pop.
And red is also blood, life, and death. That's what "red plastic" is about—that a simple piece of plastic can be anything and nothing to the listener—a Bible or a simple everyday object. Red plastic, that is...
01 Radius
02 Controls
03 Send me out
04 Red Plastic
05 Wasted
06 Lipsticks
07 And I
08 Insight
09 Lord of Lies
10 Matt
11 Dirt
