The Stereonerds

Biography

German electronic musician Uwe Schmidt, most known as Atom Heart.

"My idea was to create characters, The Stereonerds, and I imagined them being two white guys, from Australia that really like Kraftwerk, and want to sound like them, but they can’t. Because they are not. Very simple. [laughs] That was my mindset. Make Kraftwerk-inspired tracks, which are kind of … Anglo-Saxon, still, because they’re not German. It was a two-step process – myself, thinking like somebody else, thinking like somebody else. It was like triple schizophrenia, kind of. So, how would somebody else, that was not me, imagine Kraftwerk’s music? I think what the “techno” world has seen of Kraftwerk is not actually what Kraftwerk intended."

Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.