Operating along the borders of electronic music and rock, Marcus Schmickler's Pluramon project has always been an unpredictable highlight of the Cologne music scene. Its most recent album 'The Monstrous Surplus' on Karaoke Kalk, which features Julee Cruise and Berlin-based musician and actress Julia Hummer on vocals, Schmickler has gone further in the direction of slow and intense rock music than ever before.