Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom™, Señor Coconut; born 1968 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a German DJ and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino and aciton music.

Career

Schmidt produced dance music during the 90s 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 decided to move 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 multi-national Deee-Lite.

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. El Baile Alemán was intended as a salute to, and a parody of Kraftwerk as evidenced by the intro to "Autobahn" 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 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, but he was able to play in Latin American venues in countries like Mexico.

Aliases

• Almost Digital
• Atom™
• Atom™ feat. Tea Time
• 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
• Dos Tracks
• Dots
• Dr Mueller
• Dropshadow Disease
• Erik Satin
• Flanger (a collaboration with Burnt Friedman)
• Flextone
• Fonosandwich
• Geeez 'N' Gosh
• Gon

• HAT (a collaboration with Haruomi Hosono and Tetsu Inoue)
• H. Roth
• i
• Interactive Music
• Jet Chamber
• Lassigue Bendthaus
• LB
• Le Diapason
• Lisa Carbon
• Lisa Carbon & Friends
• The Lisa Carbon Trio
• Los Negritos
• Los Samplers
• Machine Paisley
• Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance
• Midisport
• Mike Mc Coy
• Millennium
• Mono™
• M/S/O

• +N (a collaboration with Victor Sol)
• Naturalist
• Ongaku
• Pentatonic Surprise
• Pornotanz
• Real Intelligence
• The Roger Tubesound Ensemble
• Schnittstelle
• Second Nature
• 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

Partial discography

As Lassigue Bendthaus

• Matter (1991)
• Binary (1992)
• Cloned (1992)
• Render (1994)

As Atomu Shinzo

• Act (1993)

As Atom Heart

• 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

• Experimental Post Techno Swing (1993)
• Polyester (1995)
• Trio de Janeiro (1997)
• "Standards" (2003)

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)

As Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto

• El Gran Baile (1997)
• El Baile Alemán (2000)
• Fiesta Songs (2003)
• Señor Coconut presents Coconut FM (2005)
• Yellow Fever! (2006) (as Señor Coconut and His Orchestra)
• Atom™ presents: Around the world with Señor Coconut and his Orchestra (2008)

As The Disk Orchestra

• [k] (2001)

Style: experimental/indus/noise

As Midisport

• 14 Footballers In Milkchocolate (2001)

As Dos Tracks

• :) (2002)
• Dos Tracks (2002)

As Atom™

• CMYK (2005)
• iMix (2005)
• Son Of A Glitch (2007) (with Mikrosopht, Audiocrip, Original Hamster, The Machinist, and Yoshi)

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™ official site
• Senor Coconut official site
• Atom Heart discography

Video links

• Atom Heart RBMA video lecture session Pt.1
• Atom Heart RBMA video lecture session Pt.2