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Formats and Editions
1. Introducción [1:15]
2. Showroom Dummies (Cha-Cha-Cha) [5:26]
3. Trans Europe Express (Cumbia) [5:56]
4. The Robots (Cha-Cha-Cha) [5:07]
5. Autobahn (Cumbia Merengue) [6:32]
6. Neon Lights (Cha-Cha-Cha) [4:52]
7. Homecomputer (Merengue) [3:51]
8. Tour de France (Merengue) [4:32]
9. The Man Machine (Baklán) [4:26]
10. Music Non Stop (Cumbia) [4:47]
More Info:
After 25 years out of print, El Baile Alemán - the cult album by Señor Coconut (one of AtomT's many aliases) - returns on vinyl via Transamericas. What began as a half-joke ("The only way I'd cover Kraftwerk is as chachachá or death metal...") became a fever-born epiphany: Kraftwerk's electronic minimalism recast through a tropical imagination - where chachachá, mambo, and cumbia intertwine with glitch, breakbeats, and distressed samples. Long before reggaeton and trap filled stadiums and playlists, Señor Coconut was already mapping the fault lines between Latin rhythm and electronic form. Originally released in Japan in 2000, El Baile Alemán caught the ear of Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider, who unexpectedly championed the project. This reissue has been cut from AtomT's 2022 remasters, preserving the album's detail for a new generation of listeners. In the second half of 2026, Transamericas will also reissue El Gran Baile (1997), his first outing - a rawer but equally idiosyncratic fusion of what AtomT was going to frame as electrolatino.
