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Uwe Schmidt
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Background information
Birth name	Uwe H. Schmidt
Born	August 27, 1968
Origin	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Genres	Electronic music Postmodern music Glitch IDM Latin Dance Techno Experimental Easy Listening
Occupations	composer, programmer, musician, producer, graphic designer
Years active	1990-present
Labels	Rather Interesting, Raster-Noton
Website	www.atom-heart.com/ www.senor-coconut.com/

Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart, Atom™, Señor Coconut; born August 27, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany), is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and aciton (acid-reggaeton) music.

Career

During the early 1990s, Schmidt 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 the Latin-Kraftwerk fusion of El Baile Alemán. The album featured several Kraftwerk classics reworked with Latin instrumentation and rhythm.

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

Partial discography

As Lassigue Bendthaus

• The Engineers Love (1988, N.G. Medien, Germany, Cassette Tape)
• Matter (1991, Parade Amoureuse, Germany, CD/LP)
• Matter (1st re-release) (1992, Contempo Records, Italy, CD)
• Cloned (1992, Contempo Records, Italy, CD/LP)
• Cloned:Binary (1992, Contempo Records, Italy, CD)
• Matter (2nd re-release) (1993, KK Records, Belgium, CD)
• Cloned (1st re-release) (1993, KK Records, Belgium, CD)
• Overflow (1994, KK Records, Belgium, MCD/12")
• Render (1994, KK Records, Belgium, CD/LP)
• Render (U.S. Remixes) (1994, KK Records, Belgium, CD/LP)

As Atom Heart, Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell

• Second Nature (1994)

As Atomu Shinzo

• Act (1993)

As Atom Heart

• Atom Heart & Pink Elln - Elektroniikkaa (1992)
• Datacide II (1993)
• Coeur Atomique (1993)
• Orange (1994)
• Live at Sel I/S/C (1994)
• +N - ex.s (1994) (with Victor Sol & Alain "Stocha" Baumann; guest appearance by Chris & Cosey)
• +N - plane (1994) (with Victor Sol)
• Dots (1994)
• Softcore (1994)
• Aerial Service Area (1994) (with Victor Sol and Niko Heyduck)
• VSVN (1995)
• Mu (1995)
• Semiacoustic Nature (1995)
• Silver Sound 60 (1995)
• Bass (1995)
• Real Intelligence (1995)
• Machine Paisley (1996)
• Hat (1996)
• Brown (1996)
• Apart (1996)
• +N - built. (1996) (with Victor Sol)
• Gran Baile Con...Señor Coconut (1997)
• Digital Superimposing (1997)
• Schnittstelle (1998)

As Lisa Carbon

• Stereo Cocktail (1993, POD Communications, Germany, CD/LP)
• Stereo Cocktail" (U.S. release, entitled 'Experimental Post Techno Swing') (1993)
• Polyester (1995, Rephlex, U.K., CD/LP)
• Trio de Janeiro (1997, Rather Interesting, Germany, CD)
• Trio de Janeiro (1997, Daisy World Discs, Japan, CD)
• "Standards" (2003, Rather Interesting, Germany, CD)

As Flanger

• Templates (1999, Ntone, Cat. no: NTONECD33, CD)
• Midnight Sound (2000, Ntone, Cat. no: NTONECD40, CD)
• Inner Spacesuit (2001, Ninja Tune, Cat. no: ZEN12105, 12")
• Outer Space / Inner Space (2001, Ninja Tune, Cat. no: ZEN61/ZENCD61, 2xLP/CD)
• Spirituals (2005, Nonplace, Cat. no: NON18, CD)
• Nuclear Jazz (Templates/Midnight Sound) (2007, Nonplace, Cat. no: NON21, CD)

As Geeez 'N' Gosh

• My Life With Jesus (2000)
• Nobody Knows (2002)

As lb

• Pop Artificielle (2000)

As Bund Deutscher Programmierer

• Stoffwechsel (2000, Rather Interesting, Germany, CD)

As Señor Coconut ("y Su Conjunto", later "and his Orchestra")

• El Gran Baile (1997, Rather Interesting, Germany, CD)
• El Gran Baile (1997, Akashic Records, Japan, CD)
• El Baile Alemán (2000, Akashic Records, Japan, CD)
• El Baile Alemán (2000, Multicolor Records, Germany, CD/LP)
• El Baile Alemán (2000, Emperor Norton, U.S.A., CD/LP)
• El Baile Alemán (2000, New State Recordings, U.K., CD/LP)
• El Baile Alemán (2001, Independent Records, Mexico, CD)
• El Baile Alemán (2001, EMI, Hong Kong, CD)
• El Gran Baile (2001, Multicolor Records, Germany, CD)
• El Gran Baile (2001, Emperor Norton, U.S.A., CD/LP)
• Fiesta Songs (2003, Multicolor Records, Germany, CD/LP)
• Fiesta Songs (2003, Emperor Norton Records, U.S.A., CD/LP)
• Fiesta Songs (2003, Third ear, Japan, CD)
• Fiesta Songs (2003, New State Recordings, U.K., CD/LP)
• Fiesta Songs (2003, Naïve, France, CD)
• Fiesta Songs (2003, Zakat, Russian Federation, CD)
• Fiesta Songs (2004, EMI, Korea, CD)
• Fiesta Songs (2004, Mutante Discos, Chile, CD)
• Fiesta Songs (2004, Ping Pong, Brazil, CD)
• Señor Coconut presents Coconut FM (2005, Essay Recordings, Germany, CD)
• Yellow Fever! (2006, Essay Recordings, Germany, CD)
• Yellow Fever! (2006, Third-ear, Japan, CD and limited edition CD)
• Yellow Fever! (2006, New State Recordings, U.K., CD)
• El Gran Baile (2006, Third ear, Japan, CD)
• El Baile Alemán (2006, Third ear, Japan, CD)
• Around the World (2008, Third ear, Japan, CD)
• Around the World (2008, Essay Recordings, Germany, CD)

As The Disk Orchestra

• [k] (2001)

As Midisport

• 14 Footballers In Milkchocolate (2001)

As Dos Tracks

• :) (2002)

As Atom™

• CMYK (2005)
• iMix (2005)
• Re-invents the Wheel (2006)
• Son Of A Glitch (2007) (with Mikrosopht, Audiocrip, Original Hamster, The Machinist, and Yoshi)
• Liedgut (2009)
• Muster (2009)

As Los Negritos

• Speed-Merengue Mega-Mix 2005 (2005)

As Surtek Collective (with Original Hamster)

• "The Birth Of Aciton" (2007)

External links

• Atom™ news official site
• Atom™ fan site
• Senor Coconut official site
• Atom Heart discography
• Atom™ at Discogs

• Senor Coconut at RockEnEspanol.com