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SEÑOR COCONUT
AROUND THE WORLD
By David Day
GENRE
| MAMBO-TRONIC
VERDICT | GENUS GENIUS
RELEASE | 11.18.style="display:none" gauntlet_tokenizer_reserved=""/>08
LABEL | NACIONAL RECORDS
SENOR-COCONUT. COM ..>Geniuses come in many flavors, but generally they hold their own style amongst the riff-raff. Uwe Schmidt is one such mind, still with his garish mustache and out-of-phase three-piece suit. He is Señor Coconut, but also Atom. As Herr Kokosnuss, he takes famous electronic music and Latinizes it. As a lover of South American style (and long- time resident of Chile), he's recontextualizing his life as he reconstructs the music. Around the World is the next logical step, taking classics like the Daft Punk song of the same name, "Kiss" by Prince and "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics and remaking them in his own image. This isn't kitsch or cliché, but an artist at work. The extent of Schmidt's vision is great, and these rumbas, mambos and cha cha chas would sound right at home in our most authentic Latino nightclubs.
¡Ay, Mami!=
8:11 PM
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