This is Der Plan's legendary lost album Save your Software that was mainly recoded in 1989 using Japanese Fanuk Man Machines in Dusseldorf. The Machines were built with the help of Second Life Inc and programmed to be a band capable of going on a world tour more endless than Bob Dylan's one. The technical issues proved a bit insurmountable, and the tour never happened, but thankfully the music has been found in Der Plan's archive and in 2021 this sounds like the roots of Deep Fake and thus totally relevant.
The album opens with Copy Copy Machine that has a motoric beat and computer robot vocals that make this sound like a robo-pop song in the Kraftwerk or Telex vein, it's super catchy and danceable and the percussive breakdown has a very 80's drum machine sound to it that it easily rises above as you start to dance robotically around the room.
Cyberspace is a jaunty cyber-disco floor filler, with our robot overlords shouting out the dance moves, as we all get on down to the sounds of cyberspace, as they dial up a new age of interaction between man and machine.
Uin Uin Mum Kona Bap Uin is I guess a message to us in Fanukian that we need to get down and funky on the dancefloor, as the odd robotic noises and drum pattern drill home the need to be ready to obey the robots in our lives.
LP3 is a bit like Will Power but is a love letter for a prototype robot and what he was able to do, including doing the washing up, in places this seems loosely based on Everybody's Slimming by Slapp Happy as they talk about fake ID's.
Repair Yourself is a song about programming your robot or computer to Repair Itself and well that is now mostly the case these days so this was ahead of the game and has a funky dancefloor robo-dance edge to it with vocals that sound culled from the oddest of robocalls.
Save Your Software is always good advice and yes get it saved to floppy disc as you glide across the dancefloor body popping to the motoric beats and insistent groove.
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Die Geschichte Der Fanuks is a 12-minute history of Fanuks that explains the concept of the man-machines and how they were developed and used by George Lucas, Kraftwerk and with the musical interludes and spoken word explanations in German it actually ends up sounding like one of the spoken work pieces on Zammla Mammaz Mannas album Familjesprickor I think.
I Can Love is deep dark cyber love tune, that should be heard on a huge club system at about 4 in the morning, so you can all fall robotically into each-other's arms while shouting I Can Love repeatedly.
I Want To Sing Like Ella is the robots aim and he tells us what he wants, what he really wants and he gets deeper and deeper into his fake life, smoking a joint, hating technology, being a robot hippy, who loves deep digi-dub sounds, while he mutters, I Love Sex, yes they want Freedom and democracy for robots, who will deny them.
Fanuk Rock is the band's theme tune and a great get up and dance and chant along cyber-rock anthem to do the robot too and is a great way to end a very entertaining and fun album as the robots have now taken over. This should be used as soundtrack music on as many histories of deep fakes in art and music as are made.
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