Pop Artificielle is a 1999 album by "lb" (which refers to "Lassigue Bendthaus", one of the many aliases of musician Uwe Schmidt

Uwe Schmidt

Uwe Schmidt , is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and acitón music.- Career :...

). All of the songs are covers of pop songs from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. The entire album, as the title implies, is designed to sound very synthetic, incorporating special vocal processing and elements of glitch music

Glitch (music)

Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The glitch aesthetic is characterized by a deliberate use of glitch based sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted disturbances reducing the overall sound quality and are thus...

.

It was originally released on KK Records in Europe in 1999; it was released in the U.S. by Shadow Records

Shadow Records

Shadow Records was launched in 1995 as an Instinct Records sub-label to focus on the more organic side of the underground electronic music scene...

 in 2000.

Track listing

1. "Superbad" (Soul Substitute) – 3:18
2. "Be Near Me" (Backup Read Error) – 3:50
3. "Sunshine Superman" (Stereo Phase Update) – 3:45
4. "The Future" (Spiritual Surface Noise) – 4:14
5. "Jealous Guy" (Poeme Syncope) – 4:19
6. "You Are in My System" (Funky Linear) – 4:31
7. "Ashes to Ashes" (Digital Spacepop Replicant) – 4:34
8. "Thatness and Thereness" (Mental Organic) – 3:17
9. "Angie" (Miniature Numerique) – 4:18
10. "Silence is Golden" (Moral Morph) – 3:29

Personnel

• Uwe Schmidt
  Uwe Schmidt
  Uwe Schmidt , is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and acitón music.- Career :...
  
   (lb) - Programming, arrangement, vocals, vocal raw material, Raw software development
• Raw software - Vocals
• Lisa Carbon - Moog solo on "Superbad", backing vocals on "Silence is Golden"
• S3200 - Datadump noises, fills, breaks
• MPC3000 - Rhythm

Additional information

Schmidt designed and programmed the software (called "Raw") that creates the unique vocal effect heard on the album. From the liner notes: "Raw does vocal simulation based on vocal resynthesis generated from original vocal raw material."

External links

• Hyperreal: Atom Heart Discography entry