SENOR COCONUT
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producer and DJ Uwe Schmidt aka Senor Coconut had released dance music
in his homeland under a number of different aliases during the first
half of the 1990s, but he'd become bored with the European music scene
and in 1996 transferred his base of operations to Chile in order to
begin exploring the possibilities of Latin music, which was, he said, "a
pretty much undiscovered planet to me. it unveils lots of interesting
musical worlds to me."
His first album, El gran baile, a distinctly Latin-favoured groove-a-thon,
is a collector's item. Later he tested the possibilities of a German-Latin
fusion, and found his material in the unlikeliest of places: the greatest
hits of man-machine band Kraftwerk, famous for unemotional approach
to music, the very opposite of Latin passion. The result was El
baile Alemán. although credited to Senor Coconut y su conjunto, it was purely
the work of Schmidt and three vocalists, who took the Kraftwerk machine
ideal and tipped it on its head, putting in programmed cumbia and merengue.
His last CD, Fiesta Songs, features covers versions of rock classics
like Smoke on the Water, (Deep Purple), Riders on the Storm (Doors).
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Discography:
El Gran Baile (Rather Interesting, 1997)
El baile alemán (Emperor Norton, 2000)
Fiesta Songs (Emperoror Norton, 2003)
Web:
www.emperornorton.com
www.multicolor-recordings.de
allmusic.com
- El Baile Alemán
allmusic.com
- Fiesta songs
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