Uwe Schmidt (musician)

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Uwe Schmidt at MUTEK10 in Montreal (2009)
Schmidt (left) with Thomas Fehlmann at MUTEK10 in Montreal (2009)

Uwe Schmidt (* 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German musician who primarily produces in the field of electronic music . Schmidt has published his own productions under more than 60 different pseudonyms so far , of which Atom Heart , Atom ™ , Lassigue Bendthaus , LB and Señor Coconut are among the best known. There are also numerous project names for 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

Schmidt gained his first musical experience as a drummer in the mid-1980s . At this time he founded the cassette label NG Medien together with other artists and produced various ambient and industrial tracks as Lassigue Bendthaus and under other pseudonyms . In the 1990s, the first international publications followed in Great Britain, France, Belgium and Spain. Together with Ata and Marc Trauner he published as Killerloops , with Ata and Heiko M / S / O as Ongaku . He founded his own label Rather Interesting in 1994.

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

In 1998 the album Pop Artificielle was released under the alias LB with cover versions a. a. by James Brown , Prince and David Bowie from the 1980s. Since 1999 Schmidt has released several albums together with Bernd Friedmann under the project name Flanger .

The album "Fiesta Songs" followed in 2003 under the project name Señor Coconut and his Orchestra , on which Schmidt reinterpreted songs by Michael Jackson ( Beat It ) and Deep Purple ( Smoke on the Water ), among others . Three years later he also released the album Yellow Fever as Señor Coconut and his Orchestra with 20 cover versions of pieces by the Japanese electro-pop trio Yellow Magic Orchestra . In 2008 he brought out another album with cover versions on Around the World , this time, for example, of Da Da Da I don't love you you don't love me aha aha aha by Trio and Kiss by Prince .

The end of 2013, together with founded Schmidt Material Object label No. as a "platform for audio adventures".

Schmidt was a co-founder of MACOS (Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples), an artist association that rejects all copyright of samples . He has since distanced himself from MACOS and is no longer a member.

Publications

Albums (selection)

  • 1987: H. Roth - Cromlech (NG Medien)
  • 1988: Lassigue Bendthaus - The Engineers Love (NG Medien)
  • 1991: Lassigue Bendthaus - Matter (Parade Amoureuse)
  • 1992: Atom Heart - V1 (Pod Communication)
  • 1992: Lassigue Bendthaus - Cloned (Contempo Records)
  • 1993: Atomu Shinzo - Act (Pod Communication)
  • 1993: Coeur Atomique - Coeur Atomique ( FAX + 49-69 / 450464 )
  • 1993: Urban Primitivism - 684 (Pod Communication)
  • 1994: Atom Heart - Orange (FAX + 49-69 / 450464)
  • 1994: The Lisa Carbon Trio - Polyester ( Rephlex Records )
  • 1994: Almost Digital - AD (Hypnotism)
  • 1994: Atom Heart - Morphogenetic Fields (Rough Trade Germany)
  • 1994: Flextone - Flextone (Rather Interesting)
  • 1994: Dots - Dots (Rather Interesting)
  • 1994: VSVN - Very Synthetic Virtual Noise (Rather Interesting)
  • 1994: Lassigue Bendthaus - Render (KK Records)
  • 1995: Interactive Music - Interactive Music (Rather Interesting)
  • 1995: Silver Sound - 60 (Rather Interesting)
  • 1995: Semiacoustic Nature - Semiacoustic Nature (Rather Interesting)
  • 1995: BASS - Binary Amplified Super Stereo (Rather Interesting)
  • 1996: Machine Paisley - Machine Paisley (Rather Interesting)
  • 1996: Mono ™ - Mono ™ (Rather Interesting)
  • 1996: Jet Chamber (Schmidt and Namlook - Jet Chamber II (Rather Interesting)
  • 1997: Lisa Carbon - Trio De Janeiro (Rather Interesting)
  • 1997: Fonosandwich - Fonosandwich (Rather Interesting)
  • 1997: Señor Coconut - Gran Baile Con ... (Rather Interesting)
  • 1997: The Roger Tubesound Ensemble - Pentatonic Surprise (Rather Interesting)
  • 1998: LB - Pop Artificielle (KK Records)
  • 1998: Dropshadow Disease - Dropshadow Disease (Rather Interesting)
  • 1998: Naturalist - Naturalist (Rather Interesting)
  • 1999: DOS Tracks - :) (Rather Interesting)
  • 1999: Erik Satin - Light Music (Rather Interesting)
  • 2000: Señor Coconut - El Baile Alemán (Emperor Norton)
  • 2000: Geeez 'N' Gosh - My Life With Jesus ( Mille Plateaux )
  • 2000: Association of German Programmers - Metabolism (Rather Interesting)
  • 2001: The Disk Orchestra - [K] (Rather Interesting)
  • 2001: Midisport - 14 Footballers In Milkchocolate (Rather Interesting)
  • 2002: Geeez 'N' Gosh - Nobody Knows (Mille Plateaux)
  • 2002: The Roger Tubesound Ensemble - Plays Just Notes (Rather Interesting)
  • 2003: Lisa Carbon - Standards (Rather Interesting)
  • 2003: Señor Coconut and his Orchestra - Fiesta Songs (Emperor Norton)
  • 2003: The Stereonerds - HD Endless (Rather Interesting)
  • 2005: Señor Coconut - Senor Coconut presents Coconut FM ( Essay Recordings )
  • 2006: Señor Coconut and his Orchestra - Yellow Fever! (Essay Recordings)
  • 2007: Atom Heart - Volume 1 - The Singles 1991-2000 (Rather Interesting)
  • 2008: Señor Coconut - Around The World (Essay Recordings)
  • 2009: Atom ™ - Liedgut ( Raster-Noton )
  • 2009: Atom ™ pattern (Rather Interesting)
  • 2010: Atom ™ - Music Is Better Than Pussy (Rather Interesting)
  • 2011: Atom ™ - Winter Journey (Raster-Noton)
  • 2011: Atom ™ - Atom ™ programs the shit out of itself. (A popular science piece collection) (Rather Interesting)
  • 2012: Atom ™ & tobias. - Grand Blue (Mule Musiq)
  • 2012: Atom ™ - Cold Memories ( Sähkö Recordings )
  • 2013: Atom ™ - HD (Raster-Noton)
  • 2013: Atom ™ - Radetzky Loops Vol. 1 (Hueso Records)
  • 2013: Atom ™ - Radetzky Loops Vol. 2 (Hueso Records)
  • 2014: Atom ™ - Alpha Txt Live At Labyrinth 2012 (No.)
  • 2014: Atom ™ + Jacek Sienkiewicz - Zero Time Collapsing (Live at MSN Warsaw, 08/10/2014) (No.)
  • 2014: Atom ™ & Marc Behrens - Components ( Editions mego )
  • 2015: Atom ™ - Textures I (No.)
  • 2016: Atom ™ - Textures II (No.)
  • 2018: Atom ™ - Textures III (No.)
  • 2020: Atom ™ & Jacek Sienkiewicz - Stal (More Music Agency)
  • 2020: Atom ™ - <3 (grid)

Web links

Commons : Uwe Schmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. No. Idea. at no-wa.re, accessed on September 14, 2015