Uwe Schmidt
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Uwe Schmidt (aka Señor Coconut; born in Frankfurt, Germany) is a German DJ and producer of electronic music.
Uwe Schmidt, also known as Atom Heart, as well as a number of other aliases, produced dance music during the first half of the 90s.
In 1994, Uwe started his own label, Rather Interesting with the aim of developing music that doesn't follow the "traditional paths of electronic music".
By 1996 he was thoroughly bored by European dance music and moved to Santiago, Chile to explore Latin music. He quickly adopted the intentionally ridiculous Señor Coconut moniker, and soon released "El Gran Baile", finding time afterwards to do a little remix work for Towa Tei, formerly of the multi-national Deee-Lite.
His next release, in 2000, was the delightful Latin-Kraftwerk fusion of "El Baile Alemán". The album featured several Kraftwerk classics reworked with Latin instrumentation and rhythm. "El Baile Alemán" was intended as a salute to, and a parody of Kraftwerk as evidenced by the intro to "Autobahn" which featured the sound of a car that wouldn't start.
The album was credited to Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto, but the album was entirely the work of Schmidt on synthesizers and samplers, with the aid of three vocalists. It received just enough critical acclaim in the US for Schmidt to put together a short headlining tour. In March, 2001, Señor Coconut, complete with a seven-piece backing band, set off for North America, but visa problems with some of the Chilean musicians forced Schmidt to cancel the tour. Anyway he was able to play in Latin American venues in countries like Mexico.
Aliases
- Almost Digital
- Atom™
- Atom™ feat. Tea Time
- Atom Heart
- Atomu' Shinzo
- Bass
- Bi-Face
- The Bitniks
- Brown
- Bund Deutscher Programmierer
- CMYK
- Coeur Atomique
- Datacide
- The Disk Orchestra
- Dos Tracks
- Dots
- Dr Mueller
- Dropshadow Disease
- Erik Satin
- Flanger
- Flextone
- Fonosandwich
- Geeez 'N' Gosh
- Gon
- HAT
- H. Roth
- i
- Interactive Music
- Jet Chamber
- Lassigue Bendthaus
- LB
- Le Diapason
- Lisa Carbon
- Lisa Carbon & Friends
- The Lisa Carbon Trio
- Los Samplers
- Machine Paisley
- Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance
- Midisport
- Mike Mc Coy
- Millennium
- Mono™
- M/S/O
- +N
- Naturalist
- Ongaku
- Pentatonic Surprise
- Pornotanz
- Real Intelligence
- The Roger Tubesound Ensemble
- Schnittstelle
- Second Nature
- Semiacoustic Nature
- Silver Sound
- Slot
- Softcore
- Soundfields
- Subsequence
- Superficial Depth
- Synthadelic
- Urban Primitivism
- VSVN
- Weird Shit
Partial Discography
- Binary (1992) (as Lassigue Bendthaus)
- Cloned (1992) (as Lassigue Bendthaus)
- Datacide II (1993) (as Atom Heart)
- Coeur Atomique (1993) (as Atom Heart)
- Experimental Post Techno Swing (1993) (as Lisa Carbon)
- Orange (1994) (as Atom Heart)
- Live at Sel I/S/C (1994) (as Atom Heart)
- +N - Plane (1994) (as Atom Heart)
- Dots (1994) (as Atom Heart)
- Softcore (1994) (as Atom Heart)
- Aerial Service Area (1994) (as Atom Heart)
- Render (1994) (as Lassigue Bendthaus)
- VSVN (1995) (as Atom Heart)
- Mu (1995) (as Atom Heart)
- Semiacoustic Nature (1995) (as Atom Heart)
- Silver Sound 60 (1995) (as Atom Heart)
- Bass (1995) (as Atom Heart)
- Real Intelligence (1995) (as Atom Heart)
- Polyester (1995) (as Lisa Carbon)
- Matter (1995) (as Lassigue Bendthaus)
- Machine Paisley (1996) (as Atom Heart)
- Hat (1996) (as Atom Heart)
- Brown (1996) (as Atom Heart)
- Apart (1996) (as Atom Heart)
- Gran Baile Con...Señor Coconut (1997) (as Atom Heart)
- Digital Superimposing (1997) (as Atom Heart)
- Trio de Janeiro (1997) (as Lisa Carbon)
- Schnittstelle (1998) (as Atom Heart)
- Midnight Sound (2000) (as Flanger)
- My Life With Jesus (2000) (as Geeez 'N' Gosh)
- Pop Artificielle (2000) (as lb)
- El Baile Alemán (2000) (as Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto)
- Outer Space/Inner Space (2001) (as Flanger)
- :) (2002) (as Dos Tracks)
- Dos Tracks (2002) (as Dos Tracks)
- Nobody Knows (2002) (as Geeez 'N' Gosh)
- Fiesta Songs (2003) (as Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto)
External link
- Global Village Idiot article (http://www.globalvillageidiot.net/coconut.htm)
- Senor Coconut official site (http://www.senor-coconut.com/)
- Atom Heart official site (http://www.atom-heart.com/)pl:Uwe Schmidt