El Baile Alemán

El Baile Alemán
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 4, 2000
RecordedDecember 1999 at Mira, Musica!, Santiago de Chile
GenreLatin dance, electronic
LabelEmperor Norton
ProducerAtom Heart
Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto chronology
El Gran Baile
(1997)
El Baile Alemán
(2000)
Fiesta Songs
(2003)
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El Baile Alemán ("The German Dance" in Spanish) is a cover album by Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto which was released on 23 December 1999 on vinyl in the US and released on other formats and regions on 26 January 2000. It consists of Kraftwerk covers done in a Latin American style.

Although mostly note-for-note covers, some tracks add embellishments such as "cha-cha-chas", or minor changes to the song, like incorporating Latin Radio into the radio transmission in "Autobahn". The song "Home Computer" also has some lyrics from "It's More Fun to Compute" from the album Computer World.

"Tour de France" was released as a remixed single. The single release also includes vocal and instrumental cover versions of "Expo 2000", which are not included on the album.

Early copies of the album opened with "Showroom Dummies" and included a cover of "Radioactivity" as the second track. At the request of the original songwriters, "Radioactivity" was taken off the album. All subsequent issues of the album were resequenced, placing "Showroom Dummies" as the second track and inserting a spoken track "Introducción" at the start of the album.