Finally the wait is over. Played for years as an unreleased weapon – not only by Priku - Ave is this kind of track where you just can’t forget the synths. You will still hum them while walking the streets months after. The mighty melody can catch the whole crowd creating memorial moments on the dancefloor.

B1 with „For your love“ is an older track but old is gold, right? It fits perfectly with its house beat and sexy vocals on the B-Side. The track gets even more love on top from Bärtaub with an excellent sounding remix – as usual for their work - completing the Ep as the B2. Thank you guys.

Paul Walter, who definitly defined producing as his lifestyle, runs also Meduka Records and has released music on labels such as Do Easy Records and Neostrictly.

DBH Music welcomes SSLA Records from Los Angeles to the distribution family! Watch our for this very promising and motivated label. First release is a strong Various Artists package with music by
Franky A , Laura peck, Krane, Zalapa & Mr. Santer - higly recommended!
Teaser: https://lmy.de/LanzqyVy
Direct oreder: dbh-music.com/shop/release_view/15692

Label: SSLA Records
Cat: SSLA001
Title: SSLA001 - Various Artists
Genre: House/ Techno/ Electronica
Format: 12"
Release date: 26.06.2023
Tracklisting:
A1. Franky A - Aquamarine
A2. Laura Peck - Subtle Dominance
B1. Krane - Fleita
B2. Zalapa - Mental Drift
B3. Mr. Santer - Put Some Acion on Paper

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Rockets Audio is back wit a stunning compilation called "As Above So Below".
Part 1 contains tracks by Anton Kubikov, Cesar Merveille aka C.S.R., Matheiu, Max Jacobson and Wareika.
Vinyl only & highy recommended!
Teaser: https://bit.ly/3wtrZOB

Artist: Various
Title: As Above So Below Compilation Part 1
Label: Rockets Audio
Genre: Minimal techno
Cat: ROCKBCE004
Format: 12" (Vinyl only)
Release date: 05.06.23
Tracklisting:
A1. Anton Kubikov - Yellow Dee
A2. Cesar Merveille aka C.S.R - So Bring It Here
B1. Matheiu, Max Jacobson - Five in one (Aint No Mountain)
B2. Wareika - VX

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Rose Cornelius – Here – Disco Bizarre 003

Here we‘ve got two tunes that come with a fascinating story. Recorded in the late 70’s, but never released, this music was thought to be lost.But let’s go back to the beginning. Rose was originally a member of family affair called „The Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose“ heralding from Dania Beach, Florida. The group had early success with a recording contract with United Artists, which produced two albums in 1972 & 73 respectively, plus an extensive number of single release taken from these albums, which included the million seller ‘Too late to turn back now’. But Rose’s story starts even further back, singing solo and as part of the Gospel Jazz Singers in the late 60’s, with even a solo appearance on The Ed Sullivan TV show. In 1970, at her mother’s request, she returned home to form the family group and to use her contacts in the music industry to move things forward. The group stayed together until 1976. Soon after Rose returned to a solo career, but few further releases appeared. During this time she recorded a number of tracks in Miami at The Music factory with producer Shirley Cowell, who later received a grammy nomination for her work with Lena Horne. Arrangement was done by gold-certified studio veteran Frank Owens. By this time the Disco sound had taken over much of the music industry and these tracks had a Hi-Energy feel that was much in favour at the time. This session produced the titles ‘Here’ and ‘I want you to stay with me’ but no release was forthcoming. For many years they became almost forgotten, until the next chapter of the story.In 2018 DJ and record collector Dave Thorley saw an old & dusty acetate disc for sale online, credited to Rose Cornelius. When listening to it he realised that this was indeed Sister Rose of the aforementioned group and purchased it, initially with the intention of simply playing it in his DJ sets. Dave offered the disc to his friends of the Disco Bizarre crew from KitKatClub / Berlin for their record label. Rose, in turn, was contacted and she was kind enough to give permission for its release and additional contemporary remixes/ re-edits. Thus New York producer veteran DJ Duke and San Francisco Disco authority Jim Hopkins landed on the bill. You now have the results of this story on Disco Bizarre’s latest release - a story that has spanned fifty plus years. We at Disco Bizarre are excited about the final results and are happy we‘re able to share it with you.

It happened 1992 when Uwe Schmidt aka Atom Heart teamed up with Ata and Heiko MSO as Ongaku to produce one of techno's holy grails - Mihon! Especially "Mihon 3" is one the be best acid tracks which was ever produced. We are delighted to present you the 25 Years Anniversary vinyl only edition!

Special thanks to Uwe Schmidt, Ata Macias, Heiko Schäfer & Jörg Henze for the realization!

Artist: Ongaku
Title: Mihon
Lable: Only One Music
Genre: Acid/ Electronica/ Ambient
Cat: Only8
Format: 12" (vinyl only)
Rel. date: 03.04.2017
Tracklisting:
A. Mihon 3
B1. Mihon 1
B2. Mihon 2

teaser:
https://soundcloud.com/dbh-music/only8-ongaku-mihon

W+P by Uwe Schmidt, Ata Macias, Heiko Schäfer
Cut by W. J. Henze @ LH Audio
Worldwide Distribution www.dbh-music.com

Pop, Dip and Spin - big rerelease from 1995 by Ron Trent!

CHIWAX PRESENTS GEMINI - TRAXX PART ONE - FORMER "UNTITLED"CAJUAL RELEASE FROM 1995.
RE-MASTERED AND RE-DESIGNED MUST HAVE RECORD!

Communique Records USA re-issues propably the most known release from the entire label cataloque.
Woody McBride's "Basketball Heroes" from 1996 in the re-bound. Recorded from original DAT (re-mastered)!
Highly recommended!

Teaser: https://bit.ly/3JgjBGy

Artist: Woody McBride
Title: Basketball Heroes
Label: Communique Records
Genre: Techno/ Acid
Format: 12"
Cat: C020
Release date: 22.05.2023
Tracklisting:
A. Dr J
B1. The Birdman
B2. Darrin Houston

W+P by Woody McBride
Re-mastered by Oliver Lieb @ Lhaudio.com
Vinyl cut by W. J. Henze @ Lhaudio.com
Worldwide exclusive distributed by www.dbh-music.com

After the great success of Italo Brutalo´s debutalbum „Heartware“ it was quite obvious to let some of the
hottest artists around rework some of the songs. Kafkactrl, who released some great EPs on Vortex Trax took „You are welcome“ to another – his very own
dimension. While the original is quite straight his remix is dominated by electro beats paired with his stunning
micro editing. „Reach Horizon“ has been remixed by CYRK, who are without any doubts one of the best live acts these
days. Mufti from Mexico made a very dancefloor-ish remix out of „Dream Machine“, which will be heard at festivals
athis summer for sure. None other than one of the two Slow Motion Label heads, Fabrizio Mammarella, made a great dancefloor
version of „Into a sampler“. South Korean´s Shubostar created a great cosmic disco remix of „Heat of the Knight“, that can be played
any time in a cool DJ set. Last but not least Italo Brutalo´s longterm friend Kris Menace turned „Into a Sampler“ into a powerful bass-inyour-
face version.

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http://soundcloud.com/italobrutalo
http://youtube.com/italobrutalo
http://instagram.com/bungalo_disco
http://facebook.com/bungalodisco
http://soundcloud.com/bungalo-disco

Communique Records USA is going to re-issue SO25 - DJ E Tones - Detergent For The Soul from 1998 on the sublabel SOUNDS. !!!
Re-recorded from original DAT, re-mastered & on 180 Gramm vinyl.
Highly recommended!

Teaser: https://bit.ly/3NakbHA

Artist: DJ E Tones
Title: Detergent For The Soul
Label: SOUNDS.
Cat: SO25
Genre: Deep House
Format: 12"; 180 Gramm vinyl
Release date: 15.05.2023
Tracklisting:
A. Soul Detergent
B1. Black Shampoo
B2. More And More

Re-mastered by Oliver Lieb @ Lhaudio.com
Vinyl cut by W.J. Henze @ Lhaudio.com
Worldwide exclusive manufacturing & distribution by www.dbh-music.com; info@dbh-music.com

We are happy to welcome back FEROX Mastermind, Mr. Russ Gabriel!
His second release on RAWAX MOTOR CITY EDITION will be out in May 2023.
Work It EP a Masterpiece for deepnes. Highly recommended!
Teaser: https://bit.ly/3iE1Ybb

Artist: Russ Gabriel
Title: Work It EP
Label: Rawax Motor City Edition
Cat: RMCE021
Format: 12"
Genre: Detroit/ Deep House
Release date: 15.05.23
Tracklisting:
A1. Mordax
A2. The Multicoloured Mind
B1. It's All Pam's (Marseille)
B2. Into Week Two

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We are very happy to welcome Jordan Gcz aka Jordache, member of fantastic Juju & Jordash and Magic Mountain High to the RAWAX family!
This red limitedy vinyl edition is only available exclusively in the dbh music shop.
Direct order: https://dbh-music.com/shop/release_view/15681
Enjoy!

Artist: Jordan GCZ
Title: Dizzy Dizzy Dizzy
Label: RAWAX
Cat: RX4
Genre: Techno
Release date:
Format: 12"
Release date: 10.05.2023
Tracklisting:
A1. Jordan GCZ - Making Me Dizzy
A2. Jordan GCZ - Making Me Dizzy Dub
B1. Jordan GCZ - Tongue-Twister
B2. Jordan GCZ - Tongue-Twister Dub

Mastering by Oliver Lieb @Lhaudio.com
Vinyl cut by W.J. Henze @ Lhaudio.com
Worldwide exclusive distribution: www.dbh-music.com

Artists: Florian Meindl
EP Name: Galaxy Storm EP

Label: FLASH Recordings
Catalogue Number: FLASH-X-21
Vinyl Style: Black, Blue Splatter - Limited Edition of 200.
www.flash-rec.com

Mastered by Riemann Mastering

A1 Florian Meindl - Galaxy Storm
A2 Florian Meindl - Creator Of A Better World
B1 Florian Meindl - Mental Atmosphere
B2 Florian Meindl - Chord Raider (Dub Version)

Label owner Florian Meindl delivers the first Limited Edition Splatter Vinyl on FLASH Recordings featuring the title track of the 300. release on the label "Galaxy Storm" as well as one unreleased electro track called "Creator Of A Better World".
On the B Side a 2015 production named "Mental Atmsphere" found its way on vinyl as it was only digital before and Chord Raider is a fairly new track which has been produced live on a Twitch stream together with Sinee from Cologne.

MISBHV004
Label: MISBHV
Artist: Wirski
Titel: MISBHV004
Format: 12"
Release date: 12.05.23

A1 Inside The Dark Echo
A2 Warszawa
B1 Warm Waters of Eternity
B2 Inside The Dark Echo (Pépé Bradock's Polkabradpeepremix)


Wirski’s debut on MISBHV Recordings offers a nuanced narrative operating in its own genre of Eastern European rough-edged club melancholy.

MISBHV004 opens with Inside The Dark Echo – a claustrophobic, stifling, relentless, sensual dance with desire. Darkroom complexity with heavy surface tension built on an EBM undercurrent flirt with subtle psychedelia and traces of acid that slowly firm up their multi-layered grip through its running time of six and a half minutes.

Warszawa paints a stripped-back, tantalizing picture. Opening with a brutalist, militant drum programming and surprisingly spacious, warm bassline, its rigid rhythm, tightened up by a repetitive, cold breath mantra eventually opens up to bright, shimmering synth flickers evoking olibanum – the sacred scent of altar candles. Warszawa is looking at the multilayered melody of its landscape – from eerie Soc-realist blockhouses, through neon-lit, seedy strip clubs of the 90s to opulent sacral architecture.

Warm Waters Of Eternity subtly weave a cinematic, Carpenteresque soundscape with a sense of overpowering, ecstatic innocent euphoria that invokes a dream of an early 1990s rave deep in the dark woods of Poland.

DBH Music proudly welcomes D1 Recordings, founded by Eamonn Doyle in 1994 to the distribution family! We are very happy to present you soon some new and past releases on vinyl!
Starting with a timeless beauty from 1999, produced by Visitor aka Mr. Mark Broom: Done012 - Visitor - Basement Life (12")
(Re-mastered)
Not to be missed!
Teaser: https://bit.ly/3NxWWYT

Artist: Visitor (Mark Broom)
Title: Basement Life
Label: D1 Recordings
Format: 12" (180 Gramm vinyl)
Genre: Techno/ Electro
Release date: 10.05.2023
Cat: Done012
Tracklisting:
A. Visitor - Model Two
B. Visitor - The Last Time


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DBH MUSIC welcomes Ampere to the distribution family!

RAWAX proudly welcomes Mr. Frederick Schmid aka Freddy Fresh to the label Family!
We are very happy to present you one of the true pioneers of Electronic Music on the RX - series.
"The Harvest" marks only the beginning of a journey which hopefully takes a long path.
More to come!

Teaser: https://bit.ly/3HqYBMw
Artist: Freddy Fresh
Title: The Harvest
Label: RAWAX
Cat: RX3
Format: 12" Vinyl
Release date: 09.05.2023
Genre: Ambient Techno/ Electronica
Tracklisting:
A1. Freddy Fresh - The Harvest
A2. Freddy Fresh - House - Spanner
B1. Freddy Fresh - Misunderstood
B2. Freddy Fresh - Twain
B3. Freddy Fresh - Horlywagon

W+P by Frederick Schmid
Worldwide exclusive distributed by www.dbh-music.com, info@dbh-music.com

DBH MUSIC PRESENTS CONFLICT 2112-12 BY ANDREAS LEIFELT - MOVE (12")
RE-MASTERED RE-ISSUE FROM 1998
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

RAWAX proudly welcomes MOVE D to the family!
We are very honored to present you the legend from Heidelberg
on the sixt edition of our RX Series!
Highly recommended!

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3oEVbB8
Teaser: https://bit.ly/420MXls

Artist: Move D
Title: Circle To The Square
Label: RAWAX
Format: 12"
Cat: RX6
Genre: Deep/ Techno/ Detroit/ House
Rel. date: 23.06.2023
Tracklisting:
A1. Circle To The Square
A2. Sweet Heini (Feat. Bouillabass)
B1. Drone (2023 Version)
B2. Ripples


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BAL005 - Bastian Balders – Time In Progress

Release Date (Vinyl): 01.06.2022
Press Text:
Bastian Balders is back on his label with two deep techno tracks including one experimental.
Time In Progress is about the current time we all go through.
No more words to say.
95% white / 5% green vinyl.
Every record looks different,
every record is unique.

Worldwide exclusive distribution: www.dbh-music.com

Bastian Balders / Anton Kubikov – Split 1.0
https://www.discogs.com/release/16063246-Bastian-Balders-Anton-Kubikov-Split-10

Label: Balders Audio – BAL007
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, White Label, hand-stamped
Country: Germany
Released: 2023
Genre: Electronic
Rel. date: 10.05.2023
Style: Techno, House, Experimental
Tracklisting:
A1 Bastian Balders– Energies
A2 Bastian Balders– Kaamos
A3 Bastian Balders– Machinery
B1 Anton Kubikov– Night Shift
B2 Anton Kubikov– Introland
B3 Anton Kubikov– Spring Reverce Echo Delay

Distribution: www.dbh-music.com

RAWAX proudly welcomes Atom heart to the family!

Atom™ (also known as Atom Heart and often confused with Señor Coconut, real name Uwe Schmidt) is a German composer, musician and record producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and aciton (acid-reggaeton) music.

1983-1990

Atom™ began making music in the early 1980's, first playing drums, then switching to programming a drum computer after he had heard a Linn Drum on the radio. In 1986 he co-founded the cassette label "N.G. Medien", on which various tapes of international artists, including the Canadian Electronic Body Music act "Frontline Assembly" and his first musical work under the name "Lassigue Bendthaus", entitled "The Engineer's Love", were released. Soon after, he started to work on what would become his first official Lassigue Bendthaus record release, the album "Matter". The recordings and production for "Matter" began in 1986 and took almost 4 years, until the album finally came out in 1991 on the German "Parade Amoureuse" label. "Matter" as well as it's related singles and maxi-singles were recorded and mixed by Tobias Freund (Pink Elln). "Lassigue Bendthaus" until that point, was musically categorized as "Electronic Body Music" (EBM), even though part of the success of "Matter" may have been the fact that it didn't quite fit the category and already incorporated musical elements of the 1990's. Uwe Schmidt played his first live show as "Lassigue Bendthaus" as the opening act for the british group "Meat Beat Manifesto" at the Frankfurt "Batschkapp" in 1989.

1991-1994

Still living in Frankfurt, Uwe Schmidt was directly influenced by the emerging "pre-techno" movement of the late 1980's known as house and acid house. A sub-label of "Parade Amoureuse" released some of Schmidt's dance floor oriented productions under the alias "Atom Heart" which he adopted as his main artist name from then on. The early 1990's saw a series of 12-inch vinyl productions, mainly aimed at the dance floor, which were released under a variety of different project titles such as Atom Heart, Slot, etc.

In 1992 he was in charge of producing a series of tracks for the yet to be widely known DJs Pascal F.E.O.S. (Resistance D), Ata and Heiko M/S/O (Ongaku). Uwe Schmidt produced and co-wrote titles such as "Ongaku" and "Cosmic Love", which became successful prototypes for the appearing "Trance" movement. His activities as a music producer continued with the Austrian multimedia artists "Station Rose" whom had just moved from Vienna to Frankfurt in 1992. The 12-inch "Digit Eyes" was produced by Schmidt and Station Rose the same year. During the production of "Digit Eyes" he was introduced to Tetsu Inoue, a New York based japanese electronic music producer, with whom he founded the "Datacide" project in 1993.

Out of the "N.G. Medien" nucleus the record label "POD Communication" was founded in 1992. After the bankruptcy of "Parade Amoureuse" and its sub-labels in 1992, Schmidt moved his activities to the "POD Communication" label on which he released a series of 12-inches and albums under the guises of Atom Heart, Lisa Carbon and Atomu Shinzo. Also releasing on "POD Communication" was the German artist Pete Namlook whom Uwe Schmidt first met at the "POD" office in Frankfurt. Due to his releases on "Parade Amoureuse" and "POD Communication" and his successful production works, Schmidt had quickly obtained a reputation that let him play live concerts all around the world. Together with Tobias Freund, who by then still used the "Pink Elln" pseudonym, Schmidt played a live show at one of the first "rave" parties ever in Finland in 1992. The live concert was recorded and released on "Ongaku Music" in 1992 known as "Elektronikkaa - Atom Heart & Pink Elln live in Montreux and Helsinki" and became one of the first released live Techno live recordings.

A vast amount of productions were released worldwide due to the licensing activities of "POD Communication", "Ongaku Music" and a variety of other Frankfurt based record companies. After "Parade Amoureuse" closed down in 1992, his first album "Matter" was re-released by the Italian record label "Contempo Records" from Florence.

By 1993 Schmidt released the follow up album to "Matter" : Lassigue Bendthaus - "Cloned". "Cloned" was produced and licensed to "Contempo Records" together with a sample CD titled "Cloned:Binary" which contained the sounds used on the original "Cloned" release. "Contempo Records" went bankrupt in 1993.

Due to open payments by those labels, lack of a recording studio and unresolved recording contracts, Schmidt decided to take some months off and lived for half a year in Costa Rica (end of 1992 until early 1993). On the way back from Costa Rica, he stopped over in New York City, where he visited Tetsu Inoue to record the first "Datacide" album. Back home in Frankfurt, his interest in Latin Music started to grow and in fact the birth of the "Señor Coconut" moniker can be allocated somewhere around that time. Even though "Lassigue Bendthaus" had not brought him much luck until then, he decided to start recording his third album during 1993 entitled "Render". Because of the stagnation and inherent ignorance of the "Techno" movement that surrounded Schmidt's work, he soon began to distance from this musical format and scene. He also felt that the DJ and the dance floor where very limiting targets for his musical output and that many of his musical ideas would not be compatible with it. As a consequence he founded his own record label "Rather Interesting" in 1994.

Bt this time, Pete Namlook had founded his "FAX Records" label and a new scene of musical styles appeared, such as "Ambient", "Jungle", "IDM" and others. Uwe Schmidt, apart from his monthly release on "Rather Interesting", continued recording with Tetsu Inoue ("Datacide"), Pete Namlook ("Jet Chamber") and Victor Sol ("+N") during 1994. That same year, the "Lassigue Bendthaus" albums "Render", "Render - U.S. Remixes", "Matter (second re-release)", "Cloned" (first re-release) and the 12-inch "Overflow" were released by the Belgian "KK Records", a label that would officially declare bankruptcy in 2000. Right after the release and re-release of the "Lassigue Bendthaus" albums, Schmidt began to work on the last album to be released under that project name called "Pop Artificielle".

1995-1998

In 1995, Uwe Schmidt collaborated with Bill Laswell and Tetsu Inoue on the FAX release "Second Nature" which was recorded at Laswell's studio in Brooklyn. Towards the end of 1995 another collaboration was concretized in Tokyo where Schmidt, Inoue and "Yellow Magic Orchestra" founder Haruomi Hosono recorded the first "HAT" album. "HAT" was released on Schmidt's "Rather Interesting" label and Haruomi Hosono's "Daisy World Discs". In an effort to escape the German winter, Schmidt spent the ends of 1994 and 1995 in Australia. A man with the same idea was the German music producer Bernd Friedmann whom he met in Melbourne in 1995.

Two more "+N" and "Datacide" albums were produced between 1993 and 1996 as well a one album each month on "Rather Interesting", all of them under different names which Schmidt later refers to as "working titles", "headlines" or simply "words that label a musical idea" rather than being "aliases" or "projects" in the traditional sense. Logically all works of Uwe Schmidt would later be summarized under just one name: "Atom™". With a lot of traveling, playing live shows world wide such as Love Parade in 1994 and Sonar Barcelona in 1994, as well as the stagnation to be felt in his european surroundings, Schmidt prepared for his departure from the old continent. Together with Dandy Jack, with whom he formed the project "Gon", two live shows were played in Santiago de Chile in March and October of 1996. Schmidt and the Chilean Dandy Jack, whom lived all his life in Germany and Spain, on their way back from Chile, decided to "try to relocate" to Santiago in 1997.

1996 finally sees Uwe Schmidt's "Señor Coconut" idea come to realization. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts during 1993-1995, still living in Frankfurt, he recorded 8 tracks in the later declared "Electrolatino" style. In a fever vision the name "Señor Coconut", placed on top of a coconut texture, a design that would become the artwork of the first "Señor Coconut" album appeared to him. Even though Schmidt tried to complete the album in Frankfurt, the preparations for his move to Chile prevent this plan. In March 1997, Schmidt together with his colleague Dandy Jack, moved to Santiago de Chile where they shared a rented house and installed their studios. During March and April he finished the "El Gran Baile" album, which would be the first work bearing the name of "Señor Coconut".

Uwe Schmidt continued releasing one album per month on his Rather Interesting label, though due to the difficulties of adaptation in Chile, decided to reduce his output. "Akashic Records", a Tokyo based label owned by Towa Tei, licensed "El Gran Baile" for the territory of Japan. Towa Tei further requested a remix by Uwe Schmidt. By the end of 1997 Uwe Schmidt and Dandy Jack's ways split and Uwe moved out of the shared house (while Dandy Jack moved back to Germany one year later).

During 1998, Tetsu Inoue and Haruomi Hosono visited Uwe in Santiago. The second "HAT" album was recorded. Towards the end of 1998, on his way back from Australia to Germany, Bernd Friedmann stopped over in Santiago and together with Uwe Schmidt they recorded their first "Flanger" album called "Templates". "Templates" was recorded in a programming "tour de force" of one week at Uwe's "Mira, Musica!" studio and released in 1999 on the british "Ninja Tunes" label.

1999-2003

"Lassigue Bendthaus'" last album, "Pop Artificielle" was finally finished and released in 1999. Due to a record company decision the album was released under the name of "LB", an abbreviation that stands for "Lassigue Bendthaus". "Pop Artificielle" caused quite a media reaction worldwide, due to the fact that the album contained electronic cover versions of famous Pop and Rock songs. "Pop Artificielle" stylistically may be considered as being one of the first productions that merged "Song" structures with sounds coming from a 90's techno background. Many refer to it as an initial point for the development of the "glitch" genre.

During the production process of "Pop Artificielle", the idea was born to cover the German electronic pioneers "Kraftwerk" in a yet to be defined style and as a different production. Meant to be rough sketches, Uwe Schmidt started to program a couple of Kraftwerk cover versions in traditional "cha cha cha" arrangement and decided to make this the second "Señor Coconut" album. Entertained by the result of the first programmings, he produced a total of 4 songs which he sent to some record companies. One of those companies, Towa Tei's "Akashic Records", immediately licensed the album, entitled "El Baile Alemán", releasing it upon completion of the production in 2000. European and North American record companies remained uninterested until triggered by the hype "El Baile Alemán" had caused in Japan. Soon a European, North American, Mexican, Hong Kong and a Russian release followed and the title "Showroom Dummies" was featured in the Mexican movie "Y tu Mamá también". Uwe Schmidt obtained official permission by Kraftwerk themselves to release "El Baile Alemán", though had to remove his version of "Radioactivity".

"Señor Coconut"s first european tour started the 19th of August 2000 in Germany. A U.S. headlining tour was scheduled, but had to be canceled because of visa problems of one of the 7 chilean musicians that accompanied Schmidt. In parallel to "Señor Coconut" project, Schmidt continued working on rather obscure ideas, some for Rather Interesting, some that were released on other labels, such as the "Geeez 'n Gosh" (2000 and 2002) albums which musically merge abstract electronic programmings and gospel vocals. "Geeez 'n' Gosh was released on the german "Mille Plateaux" label, which went bankrupt in 2004, leaving Schmidt as well as many fellow musicians, unpaid. The "Flanger" project was also continued, Friedman and Schmidt recording the "Inner Space/Outer Space" album in Santiago de Chile, which was then released in 2001.

2004-2008

Apart from his own productions and various collaborations he was solicited to remix artists such as Depeche Mode, Martin L. Gore, Air, Cesaria Evora, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Sktech Show, Towa Tei, Moreno Veloso, Merzbow and many others. An exclusive track entitled "White Car" was produced for and released on the Japanese anime movie, "Appleseed". Still, Uwe Schmidt spent most of the time touring with his "Señor Coconut" moniker, which had grown to a full 9-man orchestra. The "Señor Coconut" album "Yellow Fever" was released in 2006. The album contained cover versions of "Yellow Magic Orchestra" songs and became a very successful release in Japan. Amongst the "YMO" members themselves (Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi) a vast amount of guest musicians appeared on this album such as "Mouse on Mars", "Akufen", Jorge Gonzalez and others. "Yellow Fever!" was performed live at "Sonar Sound Tokyo" the same year, with both Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi performing each one song with the full orchestra on stage. The Señor Coconut album "Around the World" was released. It contains guest participations of Stephan Remmler ("Trio: DaDaDa") and the austrian crooner Louie Austen.

2009-Today

Uwe Schmidt's "Rather Interesting" label remains his largest unified body of work. To date, R.I. alone has over 46 full-length releases under numerous aliases and styles, of which most of them are written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Schmidt himself. Additionally, Schmidt handles all the label management and most all of the album artwork and design.
Remixes for Les Baxter, Perez Prado, Jamie Lidell, Plaid and Japanese superstar Kumi Koda have been continuing to garner attention for Uwe Schmidt. The collaboration "Surtek Collective" with Vicente Sanfuentes, invented yet another musical style called "aciton", a blend of "acid" and "reggaeton". "Surtek Collective" mainly tours Latin America, playing shows in Mexico, Venezuela, Brasil, Argentina and Chile.
The "Flanger" album "Sprituals" was released in 2005 on Bernd Friedmann's label "Nonplace" and the "HEADZ" label for the Japanese territory. A couple of years later songs from "Spirituals" got licensed for the Hungarian movie "Bibliotheque Pascal".
From 2007 until 2010, collaborating with Japanese composer Masaki Sakamoto, he produces the album "Alien Symphony" and the modified (online) version of it, called "Meteor Shower" which was released in 2010. The same year sees Atom™ acting a mini-role in the Mexican movie "Orol". By the end of 2010 a short South American tour is played with the "Sr. Coconut" project.
Atom™, in collaboration with Japanese musician Toshiyuki Yasuda produces a cover version of the brazilian Bossa Nova classic "Aguas de Março", pre-released on the compilation "Red Hot 2" in June 2011. The vocals on this song are performed by Fernanda Takai and Moreno Veloso.
A photo exhibition called "Winterreise" was unveiled in Tokyo in May 2011, accompanied by a"Playbutton" release. "Atom™" performances at the Lincoln Center in New York City, "Communikey Festival" in Boulder, the "Raster-Noton"/"Mute" festival at the Roundhouse in London, Labyrinth Festival in Japan plus many others.
Exclusive contributions to Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Kizunaworld" project and Towa Tei's "Mach" online platform.
A second "Winterreise" exhibition was held in Frankfurt (Germany) in October 2011 as well as the "Winterreise" soundtrack was released in May 2012 through "Raster-Noton". "atom-tm.com" was launched in July 2012 and serves as Atom™'s official news platform and archive. As a result of the "Winterreise" release, Atom™ received an invitation from Richie Hawtin, to play an ambient set at his club in Ibiza. The invitation was accepted and the then entitled "Alpha txt" ambient set created, which was then again performed, opening the "labyrinth" festival in September the same year. An initially abandoned album, which in 2005 carried the working title "Hard Disc Rock" (as a self-reference to the 1997 Atom™ title with the same name), re-surfaced as "HD", after some of the unfinished tracks raise interest at the Raster-Noton label. The album was finished during the second half of 2012, and mixed down during January 2013. The release of "HD" was then scheduled for March 2013. In the middle of the "HD" production, the terrible news of Pete Namlook's sudden death reach Atom. Months later, as a practical consequence of Namlook's passing away, the "Rather Interesting" label, which both Pete and Atom ran together since 1994, was shut down forever. Early 2013 see Atom™ playing various live shows, such as the double opening feature at Berlin's "CTM.13", where he first performs "Bauteile" with colleague Marc Behrens, and later on, together with "Material + Object", plays a 3 hour "Alpha txt" set. Extensive promotional activities for "HD", which, amongst other results, bring Atom™ on the front page of Germany's "De:bug" magazine and the preparation for the "HD" and "Ground Loop" live sets keep Atom™ busy during the first couple of months of 2013.


(written with kind help of Jahnavi Stenflo and Nathan Jantz, movin' levers!)

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