All that's needed for you to begin appreciating this is to say it's an album of classic Kraftwerk covers done in a puffy-sleeved Latin style.
Brain child of Uwe Schmidt, a German living in Chile, the beauty about this album is it's a great concept, extremely funny and very well executed.
Kraftwerk of course have a habit of taking themselves a tad seriously, so putting the pathos of, for example, the haunting opening melody of 'Trans Europe Express' over lightly skipping cumbia beats is comic genius.
It then becomes tear-jerking when a bunch of sham Spanish singers begin singing the chorus of "Trans-Europe-Express". Kraftwerk suddenly seem less lyrically talented than 2 Unlimited.
'Show Room Dummies', which is set to a cha cha beat, is equally exposed to a new harsh reality and 'The Robots' is significantly lampooned , with a chorus that now ends "We Are The Robots…" cha, cha, cha.
Originally this was programmed but, in a case of life imitating comedy, Uwe has now created a proper 'Conjuto' (band) to perform his work live and will be appearing at this year's Creamfields.
Senor Coconut refuses to take the grand traditions of either Latin music or Kraftwerk's electronic legacy seriously. Given the import given to both of these in the history of dance music, this is little short of blasphemy.
