subota, 21. srpnja 2012.

Atom TM - Apstraktna romantika




Atom TM (Uwe Schmidt, Nijemac koji živi u Čileu i nastupa pod mnoštvom različitih imena) otac je pojava koje se zovu electrolatino, electrogospel i aciton (acid-reggaeton). Stvara soundtrack za fotografije. Romantična verzija Kraftwerka.














ATOM TM   Winterreise

At this point in his career, and with more pseudonyms then anyone can be rightly expected to keep track of, you'd be forgiven for being a bit blasé about the work of Uwe Schmidt. Gone are the days back in the late 90's and early noughties when pretty much every month saw a new Scmidt alter ego appear on his own Rather Interesting imprint, eventually leading to huge commercial success under the Senor Coconut guise and headline appearances at numerous music festivals. The output started to slow down, restricted to a number of new recordings and collaborations for various labels, as well as old…
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ATOM TM - Winterreise, raster-noton
ATOM TM - Cold Memories, Sahko Recordings
Two hours of stunning music from Uwe Schmidt, rescued from the Sahko tape archive and now available on 2xCD and digital. Recorded for the Ambient City radio project at Helsinki’s Museum of Modern Art in 1994, back when he was working as Atom Heart, Cold Memories reminds us of Schmidt’s peerless mastery of post-techno electronic musical modes. You get two hour-long, very eventful compositions for your buck. ‘Cold Memories pt.1’’s more sedate, gently undulating passages variously recall Budd and Eno, Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze, and the precious drone abstractions of Eleh, but there are fo…


We're completely blown away by Raster Noton at the moment. There used to be a time, back in the mid-late 90's, when we had a total obsession with the work of Uwe Schmidt, aka Atom Heart, aka Atom Tm. His seemingly endless series of albums for his own 'Rather Interesting' label not only displayed a visionary ability to harness technology into an ever-changing series of pseudonyms and personalities, but also somehow managed to do so with the kind of attention to detail and brilliance that would soon make him a true musician's musician - a real connoisseur's choice. His work ranged from the uncompro…
ATOM TM - Liedgut, raster-noton
ANDRèS GARCìA / ATOM TM - Ballad Ep, KALK PETS
Swiss house producer Andés Garcia blends classic jazzy fucntions with a sharper pop sensibility and neon fizzing electro synths for the latest from Kalk Pets, backed with remixes from Atom tm and Los Updates. The original is a tody groover, but is overshadowed by the sexy-but-sleazy Rhodes keys and Latin vibes of the Los Updates remix, and of course by the exceptional Atom TM version, featuring Uwe Schmidt on great form with a dry-humoured and heavy swinging house version done in his inimitable style. Make sure to check this!!
ATOM TM - Winterreise, raster-noton
At this point in his career, and with more pseudonyms then anyone can be rightly expected to keep track of, you'd be forgiven for being a bit blasé about the work of Uwe Schmidt. Gone are the days back in the late 90's and early noughties when pretty much every month saw a new Scmidt alter ego appear on his own Rather Interesting imprint, eventually leading to huge commercial success under the Senor Coconut guise and headline appearances at numerous music festivals. The output started to slow down, restricted to a number of new recordings and collaborations for various labels, as well as older amb…
ATOM TM - Winterreise, raster-noton
ATOM TM - Cold Memories, Sahko Recordings
Two hours of stunning music from Uwe Schmidt, rescued from the Sahko tape archive and now available on 2xCD and digital. Recorded for the Ambient City radio project at Helsinki's Museum of Modern Art in 1994, back when he was working as Atom Heart, Cold Memories reminds us of Schmidt's peerless mastery of post-techno electronic musical modes. You get two hour-long, very eventful compositions for your buck. 'Cold Memories pt.1''s more sedate, gently undulating passages variously recall Budd and Eno, Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze, and the precious drone abstractions of Eleh, but there are forays t…
ATOM TM - Cold Memories, Sahko Recordings
ATOM TM - Liedgut, raster-noton
Back in stock! We're completely blown away by Raster Noton at the moment. There used to be a time, back in the mid-late 90's, when we had a total obsession with the work of Uwe Schmidt, aka Atom Heart, aka Atom Tm. His seemingly endless series of albums for his own 'Rather Interesting' label not only displayed a visionary ability to harness technology into an ever-changing series of pseudonyms and personalities, but also somehow managed to do so with the kind of attention to detail and brilliance that would soon make him a true musician's musician - a real connoisseur's choice. His work ranged from the…
ATOM TM - Liedgut, raster-noton
ATOM TM - Atom TM Re-Invents The Wheel, Risquee
Mr Atom, man of a hundred guises returns on this six tracker - any momentary senor coconut objections or concerns should be left at the door, as on "Insulting the dj" we're far closer to his b-boying Stereonerds alter-ego than anything else. From the top of the twelve, "Form swallows function" proceeds to devour itself from within - the bass drum gaining momentum over the lumpy rhythm. During the second part of the tune, the elements begin to cohere, finally syncing into a spangled micro-banger, all percussive aura and big room in a hurry. Part 3 beggars around, dubbing it up, pul…
ATOM TM - Atom TM Re-Invents The Wheel, Risquee
ATOM TM - ACID Evolution Volume 2 1988-2003, Logistic
Part two finally available!! Atom TM will have you believe that this is a collection of some lost Acid classics from all manner of characters with names as likely as “DJ Roxy”, “XOX Crrew” and “MC Unknown”, though anyone who’s been addicted to the man’s seemingly endless Zelig-like qualities will have probably guessed that in actual fact all these “lost” jack trax come from his very own vaults. Uwe Schmidt seems to be able to successfully turn his head to any generic forms that take his fancy, from the chart-busting Kraftwerk cover-versions of Senor Coconut to the Jazz reconf…
ATOM TM - ACID Evolution Volume 2 1988-2003, Logistic
ATOM TM - ACID Evolution Volume 1  1988-2003, Logistic
Atom TM will have you believe that this is a collection of some lost Acid classics from all manner of characters with names as likely as “DJ Roxy”, “XOX Crrew” and “MC Unknown”, though anyone who’s been addicted to the man’s seemingly endless Zelig-like qualities will have probably guessed that in actual fact all these “lost” jack trax come from his own sealed vaults. Uwe Schmidt seems to be able to successfully turn his head to any generic forms that take his fancy, from the chart-busting Kraftwerk cover-versions of Senor Coconut to the Jazz reconfigurations of Flanger and t…
ATOM TM - ACID Evolution Volume 1  1988-2003, Logistic
ATOM TM - ACID Evolution 1988-2003, Logistic
Finally available on cd!! Atom TM will have you believe that this is a collection of some lost Acid classics from all manner of characters with names as likely as “DJ Roxy”, “XOX Crrew” and “MC Unknown”, though anyone who’s been addicted to the man’s seemingly endless Zelig-like qualities will have probably guessed that in actual fact all these “lost” jack trax come from his own sealed vaults. Uwe Schmidt seems to be able to successfully turn his head to any generic forms that take his fancy, from the chart-busting Kraftwerk cover-versions of Senor Coconut to the Jazz reconfigurations o…
ATOM TM - ACID Evolution 1988-2003, Logistic
ATOM TM - Replicant Rumba Rockers, Nonplace
Back in stock. Good move Nonplace, this is a collection of some of Atom Heart’s harder-to-find latin inspired moments, all lovingly mixed in by his Flanger partner in Crime Burnt Friedman. Notable for it’s inclusion of tracks from the almost-too-good ‘Erik Satin’ LP, this brings to light the genius of Uwe Schmidt, a man so prolific under his Atom Heart and countless other alter-ego’s that you’d be forgiven for failing to keep up. Rest assured, skip into the second track here ‘Follow Me To San Jose’ and drift away, Atom’s most deliciously warm work exposed in all its glory next to moments …
ATOM TM - Replicant Rumba Rockers, Nonplace
Now available on vinyl! Good move Nonplace, this is a collection of some of Atom Heart’s harder-to-find latin inspired moments, all lovingly mixed in by his Flanger partner in Crime Burnt Friedman. Notable for it’s inclusion of tracks from the almost-too-good ‘Erik Satin’ LP, this brings to light the genius of Uwe Schmidt, a man so prolific under his Atom Heart and countless other alter-ego’s that you’d be forgiven for failing to keep up. Rest assured, skip into the second track here ‘Follow Me To San Jose’ and drift away, Atom’s most deliciously warm work exposed in all its glory next …
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ATOM TM - Replicant Rumba Rockers, Nonplace
ATOM TM & TOBIAS - Grand Blue, MULE MUSIQ
'Grand Blue' is something very different from two artists who've periodically collaborated together for the last 20 years. In September 2011 they found themselves in the lobby of a hotel in Niigata, Japan "confronted and intrigued" by a midi and acoustic piano. In the moment, a small flash recorder was placed on a chair and recorded what would become a 2 hour improvisation played "back to back", and capturing their delicately attuned performance replete with the sounds of hotel guests passing through and even chatting to the players. The mood is serenely naïve: following an entirely unplanned…
ATOM TM & TOBIAS - Grand Blue, MULE MUSIQ
ATOM TM & PINK ELLN - Live At Berghain, Pomelo
Atom ™ (Uwe Schmidt) and Pink Elln (Tobias Freund) lay down nearly 25 minutes of raw and hypnotic acid techno, recorded live at Berlin's Berghain on November 14th, 2009. Genuinely killer styles on both sides: pure, intuitive, engrossing and highly infectious grooves.
ATOM TM & PINK ELLN - Live Volume 7 Paris 08.09.2005, Logistic
Oh yes, more classic ACID goodness from Atom Heart and longtime cohort Pink Elln - Volume 7 is a crushing doublepack of absolutely relentless, crisp, analogue JACK trax perfected by two producers who've been doing it long enough to know how it SHOULD be done. These two have known each other for about 20 years, utilising a set of prepared sequences, samples and rythms altered, recombined and morphed. An ongoing, unpredictable flow of sound. The technical set up is a reduced one. Back then it was a couple of analogue sequencers, synths, drum machines and effect units. Fo…
ATOM TM & PINK ELLN - Live Volume 7 Paris 08.09.2005, Logistic
TWERK / AKUFEN / ATOM TM / MATHEW JONSON / VARIOUS - 111 Lock Grooves, NTD
It’s been some time since a proper lock groove collection landed with us, gone are the days when these were ten a penny. What we have here is a killer set, featuring “The Crème Of The Minimal Techno Underground” offering up 111 locked loops of tight beats, effects and riddims. So, if you wanna get a glimpse at the production methods of Atom Heart or Mathew Jonson, or if you just wanna rip their beats for your own misuse, give this a go. Lovingly cut by Dublates and Mastering in Berlin (though not by Rashad – the loop Master!) - the cuts are super tight and as locked on as you’d expect from the best cutting plant in the world. Ace.
TWERK / AKUFEN / ATOM TM / MATHEW JONSON / VARIOUS - 111 Lock Grooves, NTD
ATOM HEART / ATOM TM - Dots : Limited Edition 10th Anniversary Box II, Rather Interesting
**second installment in Rather Interesting's strictly limited reissue series - all copies hand numbered and signed by Atom himself - 900 copies only for the world.** Originally released in 1994 'DOTS' is Uwe Schmidt's minimal and warm ambient classic ala classic period Plastikman, Global Communication, Brian Eno and Gas. It makes a very special and welcome reappearance as part of Rather Interesting's 10 year anniversary. Glacial electronics with a perfect amount of sweetness and light amongst the darker passages with deep basslines and gorgeous melodies, I…
ATOM HEART / ATOM TM - Dots : Limited Edition 10th Anniversary Box II, Rather Interesting
ATOM TM / THE RIP OFF ARTIST / SMALL ROCKS - Dub tribunl, Inflatabl Labl
Coming out on Matt Haines (aka The Rip Off Artist) own imprint: the Inflatabl Labl - after several albums to his name, and well over 100 tracks released so far. This debut release, dub tribunL, a unique spin on the concept of compilation album. Three like-minded artists agreed on a style of music they're not currently known for, something challenging and outside their current remit. From this starting point, each creates four tracks. The result: three different interpretations and lots of interesting music. dub tribunL uses dub music as its source material, but it find…
ATOM TM / THE RIP OFF ARTIST / SMALL ROCKS - Dub tribunl, Inflatabl Labl
ATOM TM / ATOM HEART - 10th Anniversary Box, Rather Interesting
Atom Heart's hugely influential and always fresh 'Rather Interesting" imprint has now reached the ripe old age of 10. What we have here is a seriously essential collectors item - limited to 900 copies only for the world, hand numbered and signed by Atom himself. The package includes the first ever release on the label "Flextone" - originally limited to 500 copies only and worth a tidy sum through auctions in recent years, plus a bonus cd full of some incredible previously unreleased gems from one of the true visionaries of electronic music production. Those of you who have follow…


 


 

 

 


 

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Atom™ (formerly known as Atom Heart and often confused with Señor Coconut, real name Uwe Schmidt); allegedly born August 27, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, (West Germany), 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 1990 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.

1990-1994

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.
 

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