In The Studio: Señor Coconut

German-Chilean techno vet Uwe Schmidt surprised many a decade ago when he stepped into the spotlight shaking his maracas as Señor Coconut. On Coconut’s debut 2000 album, El Baile Alemán, he revised German electro-pop godfathers Kraftwerk as a very un-robotic Latin dance band, stitching together samples of Latin dance records to unleash merengue, cumbia, and cha-cha-cha covers of “Trans Europe Express,” “Autobahn,” and other classics. read more

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