Mariken Smit delivered drums and drum loops in Seedling. The band started to take root when Mariken Smit met up with Marg van Eenbergen. They played together in two pre-incarnations of Seedling, but felt they could achieve more than they were getting. Mariken Smit may not be very visible on stage, hidden behind all her cymbals, but she is all the more present in the sound.
She still keeps her old drum kit as a museum piece at home: it is a greatly admired 1970s blue see-through Sonor kit.