Lb (aka
Lassigue Bendthaus) is none other than
Uwe Schmidt, the man who did a whole album of Latin versions of
Kraftwerk songs under the name
Señor Coconut. Who else in the electronic music world would have the courage to produce this entire album of pop hit covers and pull it off without looking like an ass? On
Pop Artificielle,
Schmidt reverses the
Señor Coconut technique, taking a variety of classic pop songs and converting them into angular glitch pop. But far from attacking these staples of the pop music cannon,
Schmidt cradles these gems in his own warm musical blanket.