Atom TM - iMix miniLP

Atom™ is well know as Señor Coconut and Flanger (Ninja tune)... “When I come home, I rest!” Atom™ moans on this mini-LP but that hardly seems to be the case: Could there be another electronic artist as prolific as Uwe Schmidt? Yet in spite of his remarkably vast discography, iMix miniLP is his first solo outing under the Atom guise since 1996, not to mention his first album for Ryo and Miho’s Berlin-based Laboratory Instinct (though he did contribute “He1 10” to the label’s premiere release, the compilation Advanced Public Listening, alongside a veritable who’s who of electronic artists). Presented in his inimitable and unique Atom™ style, Schmidt brings da funk on the rocking dance-club outing iMix miniLP. Over the course of seven sample-heavy tracks, Schmidt distills stylistic traces of his various aliases—Señor Coconut’s spicy rumbas, Flanger’s mutant space jazz, and Geeez’n’Gosh’s spindly click-hop—into lush slices of sexy acid funk. The title track kicks off the album with jittery, pinprick electro-funk, Atom™ indulging in some characteristic DJ braggadocio while a sycophantic fan repeatedly yelps “It sounds great!” He injects the percolating Kraftwerk-meets-Santana mix of “Hallo, wie geht es dir?” (“Hello, how are you?” a cover version of Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va”) with Coconut flavour, even finding room for a manic organ solo before dropping his best Barry White impression into “When I come home.” The album turns really steamy with “iLove (Easy Love),” a sexy march caressed by a female singer’s seductive exhortations, and the acid-house “Sexuality” where Atom™’s protestations of sexual indifference confront orgasmic moans and gasps that suggest otherwise. In its latter moments, the album moves out of the bedroom and on to the dance floor with skanky machine grooves (“Party Shuffle”) and skittish electro-funk (“Sorry I’m not the DJ, baby!”). Consider iMix miniLP one more infectious stop along a rather interesting and always remarkable journey. Bio Around 1985, Schmidt acquired a drum machine, a 4-track recorder, and synthesizer, jumpstarting a career that would see him issue innumerable tracks under various guises, including Atom Heart (with Atom™ its official successor) and Geeez’n’Gosh, alongside collaborations with kindred spirits like Tetsu Inoue, Pete Namlook, Haruomi Hosono (YMO), Bill Laswell, Dandy Jack, and Burnt Friedman (Flanger). In 1994, he established the label Rather Interesting to act as a personal playground of sorts and in 1997 moved from Germany to the remote city of Santiago de Chile, a change that allowed him to distance himself from the prevailing trends and hypes of the electronic music scene. Subsequent releases Pop Artificielle and the Señor Coconut Kraftwerk homage El Baile Alemán brought Schmidt international recognition, as did numerous Señor Coconut performances in Europe and the Central, South, and North Americas. Recent releases include Señor Coconut’s 2003 Fiesta Songs, Flanger’s Inner Space/Outer Space, and Geeez’n’Gosh’s Nobody Knows. Atom™ has contributed to over 300 releases, including remixes for artists like Merzbow, Depeche Mode, Kid 606, Air, and Cesaria Evora.

Track List : 1. iMix 2. 2. Hallo, wie geht es dir? 3. When I come home 4. iLove(Easy Love) 5. Sexuality 6. Party Shuffle 7. Sorry I'm not the dj, baby!

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