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ARTIST
SENOR COCONUT
TITLE
El Gran Baile
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MULTICOLOR
CATALOG #
MCR 111CD
MCR 111CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
9/26/2006
[no longer available for the US] This is the CD reissue of Señor Coconut's debut album originally released in 1997 on his own Rather Interesting label.
El Gran Baile
, released after he moved from Frankfurt to Santiago, Chile, is where the world first got a taste of the electrolatino mayhem that is Señor Coconut (
Atom Heart
,
Uwe Schmidt
). This record is a collection of tracks that reveal the scope of Schmidt's classic Latin records, cut-up and mixed-up with electronic fizz and pop. Frenetic electronics jut against hyperspeed Latin rhythms on some tracks, while mambo lounges with German coolness on others. Uwe Schmidt has crafted entirely new genres -- Nova Raro, Jive Eclectico, Samba Virtual -- that previously only existed in his expansive imagination. The results sound like a fusion of
Perez Prado
and
Raymond Scott
, tinged with triple-time breaks. Along with his rearrangements of
Kraftwerk
and
Yellow Magic Orchestra
, this debut release marks the first evidence of Schmidt's genius in rudimentary form. As Schmidt himself reveals, "[El Gran Baile]
...became the prototype of the Electrolatino genre. Latino samples fused with the track logic of European electronic music.
"
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