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German machine music pioneers Kraftwerk go cha-cha? It's not as unlikely a combination as it might sound, especially to Chile's Senor Coconut, who has just released El Baile Aleman, which is nothing other than a set of Kraftwerk tunes gone Latin, performed as cumbias, merengues, and, of course, cha-cha-chas. "I think that it's not just a covers album," explained Coconut, who's also known as Atom Heart and Uwe Schmidt, a longtime veteran of the German electronic dance scene. "It also unveils quite a lot about the original compositions and their significance as well as it is able to cause a huge question mark to pop up in your mind."