''Pop Artificielle'' is a 1998 album by "lb" (which refers to " Lassigue Bendthaus", one of the many aliases of musician

Uwe Schmidt Uwe H. Schmidt (born 27 August 1968), also known as Atom™, Atom Heart, or Señor Coconut, is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel, and aciton musi ...

). 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

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, incorporating special vocal processing and elements of glitch music. It was originally released o
KK Records
in Belgium in 1998 (cat. no
KK 141
; it was licensed to various companies. The album was released in the U.S. by

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in 2000 and peaked at #32 on the

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RPM Charts.

Track listing

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

Personnel

(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

Notes

Songwriting credits for the songs, followed by the group that performed them (if different): # "

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" (

James Brown James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to by the honor ...

); 1970 # " Be Near Me" ( Mark White / Martin Fry);

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; 1985 # " Sunshine Superman" (

Donovan Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelic rock and world mus ...

); 1965 # " The Future" ( Prince); 1989 # " Jealous Guy" ( John Lennon); 1971 # "

You Are in My System "You Are in My System" is a 1982 song recorded by American band the System. The song, written by Mic Murphy and David Frank, was released in August 1982 by Mirage Records. The song is also included on their debut studio album ''Sweat'' (1983). Th ...

" ( Mic Murphy / David Frank); The System; 1982 # " Ashes to Ashes" ( David Bowie); 1980 #
Thatness and Thereness
( Ryuichi Sakamoto); 1980 # " Angie" ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards); The Rolling Stones; 1973 # " Silence is Golden" (

Bob Crewe Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. He was known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for the Four Season ...

Bob Gaudio Robert John Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, and the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the pop/rock band the Four Seasons. Gaudio wrote or co-wrote and produced the vast majori ...

); The Four Seasons; 1964 Recorded at Sel I/S/C ( Frankfurt) and Mira Musica ( Santiago de Chile).

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."

References

External links

Hyperreal: Atom Heart Discography entry
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