Uwe Schmidt

Uwe Schmidt ( * 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German musician who produced mainly in the field of electronic music. Schmidt published his own productions so far a total of more than 60 different pseudonyms, of which Atom Heart, Atom ™, Lassigue Bendthaus, LB and Señor Coconut among the best known. These names come in numerous project collaborations with other artists such as Alain Baumann, Pascal Dardoufas, Tetsu Inoue, Martin Schopf, Haruomi Hosono, Jörg Henze, Peter Kuhlmann, Olaf Finkbeiner and Bill Laswell.

Life

First musical experiences collected Schmidt from the mid-1980s as a drummer. At that time, he founded with other artists the cassette label NG media and produced as Lassigue Bendthaus and under other pseudonyms various ambient and Industrial tracks. In the 1990s came the first international publications in the UK, France, Belgium and Spain. Together with Ata and Marc Trauner he published as a killer loops, with Ata and Heiko M / S / O as Ongaku. His own label, Rather Interesting, he founded in 1994.

Three years later he moved, bored with the European music world, after Chile and settled there in the capital Santiago de Chile. Influenced by the rhythms of Latin American dances such as the Cha -Cha -Cha or Rumba, he published in 2000 as Señor Coconut album " El baile ingles ", on which he coverte pieces of the German band Kraftwerk as Latin versions. The single " Tour de France" reached the German dance charts.

Appeared in 1998 under the alias LB album " Pop Artificielle " with cover versions and Others by James Brown, Prince and David Bowie in the 1980s. In 1999 Schmidt published together with Bernd Friedmann several albums under the project name Flanger.

Followed in 2003 under the project name Señor Coconut and his Orchestra album " Fiesta Songs " on the Schmidt among other songs by Michael Jackson (Beat It) and Deep Purple ( Smoke on the Water) reinterpreted. Three years later he published also as Señor Coconut and his Orchestra Album "Yellow Fever" with 20 cover versions of pieces of the Japanese electropop trio Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Schmidt was co-founder of MACOS ( Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples), a composite artist who rejects any copyright of samples. Meanwhile, he distanced himself from MACOS and is also no longer a member.

Publications

Albums ( selection)