Pop Artificielle

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Pop Artificielle is a 1998 album by "lb" (which refers to "

It was originally released on 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 Shadow Records in 2000 and peaked at #32 on the CMJ RPM Charts.^[2]

Track listing

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

Personnel

• Uwe Schmidt (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):

1. "
   James Brown
   ); 1970
2. "Be Near Me" (Mark White / Martin Fry); ABC; 1985
3. "Sunshine Superman" (Donovan); 1965
4. "
   Prince
   ); 1989
5. "Jealous Guy" (John Lennon); 1971
6. "
   David Frank); The System
   ; 1982
7. "Ashes to Ashes" (David Bowie); 1980
8. "Thatness and Thereness" (Ryuichi Sakamoto); 1980
9. "Angie" (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards); The Rolling Stones; 1973
10. "
    The Four Seasons
    ; 1964

Recorded at Sel I/S/C (

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."^[3]

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