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Atom™


Chile-based Atom™, is the alias of Uwe Schmidt, born in Frankfurt, Germany. Atom™ (aka Atom Heart, Señor Coconut) is a composer, musician and producer and one of experimental electronic music's most prolific and prodigious post-techno experimentalists. 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 1991 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 198...

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