Tune of the Week: Senor Coconut

Senor Coconut is one of seemingly endless aliases of electronic musician Uwe Schmidt. After moving to Santiago, Chile in the mid-90s Schmidt became enamored with Latin rhythms and set up this alias as a means to explore this new fascination, as well as pay tribute to some of his favorite musicians. On his second full length outing, “El Baile Aleman”, Coconut pays homage to Kraftwerk. Senor Schmidt displays in fine style that not all intricately programmed electronic music needs to be earnest. (Oh yeah, and this was made all on an MPC!)