Señor Coconut El Gran Baile con... (Emperor Norton, 1997)

As I'm tired from work, I'm not going to post much tonight; also, I should be recieving some new records to talk about soon, so no reason to fill space here with crap. Except for to tell you that, as I periodically do, I was going through some of my less-listened-to records and rediscovered this delightful gem. Señor Coconut, aka Atom Heart, aka Flanger, aka German producer Ewe Schmidt, is probably best known for his 2001 album of Kraftwerk via Esquivel covers under the same name as this record. By all means, if you own more than two Kraftwerk records, pick that one up (called El Baile Aleman). However, this record is much more musical than the aformentioned one. It's filled with Latin instrumentals, glitched-out and messed up in the clicks-and-cuts style (though, not as glitched out as, say, Prefuse). Even 8 years later, it still sounds great, which is something I can say about only a handful of electronic records.

And, as much as I hate to direct anyone to Amazon, you can find El Gran Baile here, as I can't figure out what the hell is up with the Tigersushi/Emperor Norton site and I don't know who else carries this record. But there's probably a good chance you can find it in a used bin somewhere.

Highlights:
Track 2: "Supertropical (Neo Tradicional)"
Track 7: "La Noche Cool (Cha Chambiento)"
Track 8: "Suavito (Jive Eclectico)"
Track 11: "4-D Cha Cha (Cha-Cha-Delic)"