El Baile Alemán
El Baile Alemán ("The German Dance" in Spanish) is a cover album by Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto which was released on 23 December 1999 on vinyl in the US and released on other formats and regions on 26 January 2000. It consists of Kraftwerk covers done in a Latin American style.
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| Released | July 4, 2000 | |||
| Recorded | December 1999 at Mira, Musica!, Santiago de Chile | |||
| Genre | Latin dance, electronic | |||
| Label | Emperor Norton | |||
| Producer | Atom Heart | |||
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| Allmusic |   link |
| The Guardian |  link |
| The Metro Times | link |
| Pitchfork | (6.0/10)link |
Although mostly note-for-note covers, some tracks add embellishments such as "cha-cha-chas", or minor changes to the song, like incorporating Latin Radio into the radio transmission in "Autobahn". The song "Home Computer" also has some lyrics from "It's More Fun to Compute" from the album Computer World.
"Tour de France" was released as a remixed single. The single release also includes vocal and instrumental cover versions of "Expo 2000", which are not included on the album.
Early copies of the album opened with "Showroom Dummies" and included a cover of "Radioactivity" as the second track. At the request of the original songwriters, "Radioactivity" was taken off the album.[1] All subsequent issues of the album were resequenced, placing "Showroom Dummies" as the second track and inserting a spoken track "Introducción" at the start of the album.
Track listing
Adapted from CD liner notes.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Introducción" | Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto | 1:15 |
| 2. | "Showroom Dummies (Cha-Cha-Cha)" | Ralf Hütter | 5:26 |
| 3. | "Trans-Europe Express (Cumbia)" | Hutter, Emil Schult | 5:55 |
| 4. | "The Robots (Cha-Cha-Cha)" | Karl Bartos, Hutter, Florian Schneider | 5:07 |
| 5. | "Neon Lights (Cha-Cha-Cha)" | Bartos, Hutter, Schneider | 4:52 |
| 6. | "Autobahn (Cumbia Merengue)" | Hutter, Schneider, Schult | 6:32 |
| 7. | "Homecomputer (Merengue)" | Bartos, Hutter, Schneider | 3:50 |
| 8. | "Tour de France (Merengue)" | Bartos, Hutter, Maxime Schmitt, Schneider | 4:31 |
| 9. | "The Man-Machine (Baklàn)" | Bartos, Hutter, Schneider | 4:26 |
| 10. | "Music Non Stop (Cumbia)" | Bartos, Hutter, Schneider, Schult | 4:48 |
| Total length: | 46:42 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 11. | "Electrolatino (Main Mix)" | Atom Heart | 4:09 |
| 12. | "Expo 2000 (Mambo)" | Fritz Hilpert, Hutter, Schneider | 3:56 |
| 13. | "Tour De France (Radio Edit)" | Bartos, Hutter, Schmitt, Schneider | 3:46 |
| 14. | "Expo 2000 (Mambo Instrumental)" | Hilpert, Hutter, Schneider | 3:24 |
| 15. | "Electrolatino (Short Mix)" | Atom Heart | 2:49 |
| Total length: | 1:04:46 | ||
Singles
Tour de France (Multicolor Recordings / EFA | EFA 56007-6 / MCR 107.3):
Tour de France (Radio Edit & Album Version)/ EXPO2000/ EXPO2000 (Instrumental)
Tour de France / Showroom Dummies (Multicolor Recordings / New State Recordings | NSERCD001):
Tour de France (Radio Edit & "Good Grooves' 501 Vocal Mix" & Video)/ Showroom Dummies (Radio Edit)
Personnel
- Jorge González – vocals
- Lisa Carbon – background vocals
- Atom Heart – keyboards, producer
- Argenis Brito – vocals
- Ricardito Tambo – shaker, MIDI
References
- "Atom™ (Red Bull Music Academy)". Red Bull Music Academy. Red Bull. 31 December 2004. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
[Florian Schneider] said they really liked the work I did, which was quite an honour, of course, but they didn't like my version of "Radioactivity" and they would really like not to see that released. I tried to convince them that it would be a good idea to release it actually and they got a bit stiff on that.