Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom?, Señor Coconut; born 1968 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a German DJ and producer of electronic music. 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

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