| Pluramon with Julee Cruise

Pluramon, one moniker of the Cologne based Marcus Schmickler released 4th album Dreams Top Rock in 2003 on the Karaoke Kalk label. This is Pluramon's most accessible work and features "the voice of Twin Peaks" actress Julee Cruise. The songs on Dreams Top Rock have a powerful yet almost melodramatic "wall of sound" impact that at points almost drifts away to return with a darker, even more striking song.

The work for the album was very extensive and the collaboration between Julee and Marcus was intense not to say manic. The man behind the scenes, Marcus Schmickler, is well known in a lot of different contexts related to electronic music, let it be techno, improvised music or even classical music.

As well as earlier Pluramon albums featured appearances of guest musicians by Jackie Liebeziet (Can) or Jan Werner (Mouse on Mars), Dreams Top Rock features Kevin Drumm, Jochen Rueckert, Hayden Chisholm, Felix Kubin and Keith Rowe.