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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 multinational Deee-Lite.
His next release, in 2000, was the delightful Latin- KraftwerkKraftwerk ( German for "power plant") is a German avant-garde electro-pop group from Dusseldorf who largely contributed to much of the subsequent uptake of, and interest in, electronic music. The techniques that they introduced and the equipment that they fusion of " El Baile AlemánEl Baile Aleman is a 2000 album by Senor Coconut Y Su Conjunto ( Uwe Schmidt). It is an album of Kraftwerk covers done in a Latin American style. Track Listing # "Introduction" (Senor Coconut y su Conjunto) 1:15 # "Showroom Dummies" (Huetter) 5:29 # "Tran". 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 " AutobahnThis article is about the German road system. For the Kraftwerk album, see Autobahn (album). Autobahn (pronounced OW toh bahn, SAMPA "A to bQn) is the German word for a major high- speed road usually linking one or more cities and towns, similar to motorw" 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 synthesizerThe term "synthesiser" is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. This article is about the musical instrument. A synthesizer (spelling var. synthesiser is an electronic musical instrument designed to produces and samplersA sampler is an electronic musical instrument that uses stored audio signal samples, generally recordings of existing sounds, and plays them back at a range of pitches. An early form of sampler was an instrument called the Mellotron' (later Novatron due t, with the aid of three vocalists. It received just enough critical acclaim in the USThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in for Schmidt to put together a short headlining tour. In MarchFor alternative meanings, see March (disambiguation). March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. Named for Mars, the Roman god of war. In ancient Rome, March was called Martius. It was named after the war god ( Mars) and, 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.