Uwe Schmidt
Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart, Atom™, Señor Coconut; born August 27, 1968), is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and acitón (acid-reggaeton) music.
Career
Schmidt was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. During the early 1990s, he produced dance music under a number of monikers including Atom Heart. In 1994, Schmidt started his own label, Rather Interesting, with the aim of developing music that doesn't follow the "traditional paths of electronic music".
In 1996 he invented the Señor Coconut moniker, and released the album El Gran Baile in 1997, right after he had moved to Santiago, Chile, in order to detach from the European music scene.
His next release, in 2000, was El Baile Alemán, which featured several Kraftwerk classics reworked with Latin instrumentation and rhythms.
He has often stated Latin American, and particularly Brazilian, music as a big influence.[1]
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 U.S. 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.
Aliases
- Almost Digital
- Atom™
- Atom Heart
- Atomu' Shinzo
- BASS
- Bi-Face
- The Bitniks
- Brown
- Bund Deutscher Programmierer
- CMYK
- Coeur Atomique
- DATacide (a collaboration with Tetsu Inoue)
- The Disk Orchestra
- Don Atom
- DOS Tracks
- Dots
- Dr. Atmo
- Dr. Mueller
- Dropshadow Disease
- Erik Satin
- Flanger (a collaboration with Burnt Friedman)
- Flextone
- Fonosandwich
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- Geeez 'N' Gosh
- Gon (a collaboration with Dandy Jack)
- HAT (a collaboration with Haruomi Hosono and Tetsu Inoue)
- H. Roth
- i
- Interactive Music
- Jet Chamber (a collaboration with Pete Namlook)
- Lassigue Bendthaus
- Le Diapason
- Lisa Carbon
- Lisa Carbon & Friends
- The Lisa Carbon Trio
- Los Negritos
- Los Sampler's
- Machine Paisley
- Masters of Psychedelic Ambiance (a collaboration with Tetsu Inoue)
- Midisport
- Mike Mc Coy
- Millennium
- Mono™
- M/S/O
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- +N (a collaboration with Victor Sol)
- Naturalist
- Ongaku
- Pentatonic Surprise
- Pornotanz
- Real Intelligence
- The Roger Tubesound Ensemble
- Schnittstelle
- Second Nature (a collaboration with Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell)
- Semiacoustic Nature
- Señor Coconut
- Silver Sound
- Slot
- Softcore
- Soundfields
- Subsequence
- Superficial Depth
- Surtek Collective (a collaboration with Original Hamster)
- Synthadelic
- Urban Primitivism
- VSVN
- Weird Shit
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Partial discography
As Lassigue Bendthaus
- The Engineers Love (1988)
- Matter (1991)
- Cloned (1992)
- Cloned:Binary (1992)
- Overflow (1994; single)
- Render (1994)
- Render (U.S. Remixes) (1994)
- Pop Artificielle (2000; credited as LB)
As Atomu Shinzo
As Atom Heart
- Elektroniikkaa (1992; with Pink Elln)
- Coeur Atomique (1993)
- Orange (1994)
- Live at Sel I/S/C (1994)
- ex.s (1993) (with Victor Sol & Alain "Stocha" Baumann, credited as +N)
- plane (1994) (with Victor Sol, credited as +N)
- Second Nature (1994; with Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell, credited as Second Nature)
- Dots (1994; credited as Dots)
- Softcore (1994)
- Aerial Service Area (1994; with Victor Sol and Niko Heyduck, credited as Aerial Service Area)
- VSVN (1995; credited as VSVN)
- Mu (1995; credited as Masters of Psychedelic Ambience)
- Semiacoustic Nature (1995; credited as Semiacoustic Nature)
- Silver Sound 60 (1995; credited as Silver Sound)
- Binary Amplified Super Stereo (1995; credited as BASS)
- Real Intelligence (1995)
- Machine Paisley (1996; credited as Machine Paisley)
- Tokyo - Frankfurt - New York (1996; with Haruomi Hosono and Tetsu Inoue, credited as HAT)
- Brown (1996; credited as Brown)
- Apart (1996)
- Real Intelligence II (1996)
- built. (1996; Victor Sol, credited as +N)
- Digital Superimposing (1997; credited as Superficial Depth)
- Schnittstelle (1998; credited as Schnittstelle)
- DSP-Holiday (1998; with Haruomi Hosono and Tetsu Inoue, credited as HAT)
- Real Intelligence III (1998)
- Real Intelligence IV (2002)
As Lisa Carbon ("& Friends" or "Trio")
- Stereo Cocktail (1993; titled Experimental Post Techno Swing in the US)
- Polyester (1995)
- Trio de Janeiro (1997)
- Standards (2003)
As DATacide (with Tetsu Inoue)
- DATacide (1993)
- DATacide II (1994)
- Flowerhead (1995)
- Ondas (1996)
As Flanger (with Bernd Friedmann)
- Templates (1999)
- Midnight Sound (2000)
- Inner Spacesuit (2001; single)
- Outer Space / Inner Space (2001)
- Spirituals (2005)
- Nuclear Jazz (2007; compilation)
As Geeez 'N' Gosh
- My Life with Jesus (2000)
- Nobody knows (2002)
As Bund Deutscher Programmierer
As Señor Coconut ("y Su Conjunto", later "and his Orchestra")
As The Disk Orchestra
As Midisport
- 14 Footballers in Milkchocolate (2001)
As Dos Tracks
As Atom™
- CMYK (2005)
- iMix (2005)
- Re-invents the Wheel (2006)
- Son of a Glitch (2007)
- Liedgut (2009)
- Muster (2009)
- Music Is Better Than Pussy (2010)
As Los Negritos
- Speed-Merengue Mega-Mix 2005 (2005)
As Surtek Collective (with Original Hamster)
- The Birth of Acitón (2007)
References
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