señor coconut (13. 076)

By turns curses and blessed, we are introduced to the concept album by the eponymous cultural appropriator, a techno and euro-dance producer by the name of Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart), titled El Baile Alemán (The Dance of the Germans) that sought track by track to force and fuse two polar opposite genres with Latin covers of Krautrock standards—calling it electrolatino, it’s Kraftwerk meets Buena Vista Social Club. Issued in 1999 on his private label Rather Interesting, a catalogue of his solo projects under various aliases, Schmidt was inspired to experiment after living in Costa Rica for six months, having exported the rave canon he’d helped to create.