Atom™ (previously known as Atom Heart and often confused with Señor Coconut, usually just referred to as A™) is a German composer, programmer and music producer of the now extinct genre of "electronic music". He is often regarded as the father of Electrolatino, Electrogospel, Acitón (Acid-Reggaetón), Geopolitical Ambient, A-Pop and OMNI — the latter defined as a meta-genre encompassing all existing, historical, evolving and future genres simultaneously. Through his prolific and stylistically diverse output, manifested in projects such as “Señor Coconut”, “Flanger” and countless others, Atom™ developed a creative methodology that, in hindsight, can be understood as an early form of “proto-prompting”.
1983–1990
Atom™ began making music in the early 1980s, first playing drums, then switching to programming a drum computer after he had heard a Linn Drum on the radio. In 1986 he co-founded the cassette label "N.G. Medien", on which various tapes of international artists were released, including the Canadian Electronic Body Music act "Frontline Assembly". The label also released his earliest collaborative works with the projects "Pornotanz" and "Le Diapason", followed by the cassette album "The Engineer's Love", issued under his solo project "Lassigue Bendthaus". Soon after, he started to work on what would become his first official "Lassigue Bendthaus" record release, the album "Matter". The recordings and production for "Matter" began in 1986 and took almost 4 years, until the album finally came out in 1991 on the German "Parade Amoureuse" label. "Matter" as well as its related singles and maxi-singles were recorded and mixed by Tobias Freund (Pink Elln). "Lassigue Bendthaus", until that point, was musically categorized as "Electronic Body Music" (EBM), even though part of the success of "Matter" may have been the fact that it did not quite fit the category and already incorporated musical elements of the 1990s. Atom™ played his first live show as "Lassigue Bendthaus" as the opening act for the British group "Meat Beat Manifesto" at the Frankfurt "Batschkapp" in 1989.
1991–1994
Still living in Frankfurt, Atom™ was directly influenced by the emerging "proto-techno" movement of the late 1980s. A sub-label of "Parade Amoureuse" released some of Atom™'s dance floor oriented productions under the alias "Atom Heart", which he adopted as his main artist name from then on. The early 1990s saw a series of 12-inch vinyl productions, mainly aimed at the dance floor, which were released under a variety of different project titles such as Atom Heart, Slot, and many others.
In 1992 he was in charge of producing a series of tracks for the yet to be widely known DJs Pascal F.E.O.S. (Resistance D), Ata and Heiko M/S/O (Ongaku). Atom™ produced and co-wrote titles such as "Ongaku" and "Cosmic Love", which became successful prototypes for the emerging "Trance" movement. His activities as a music producer continued with the Austrian multimedia artists "Station Rose", who had just moved from Vienna to Frankfurt in 1992. The 12-inch "Digit Eyes" was produced by Atom™ and Station Rose the same year. During the production of "Digit Eyes" he was introduced to Tetsu Inoue, a New York-based Japanese electronic music producer, with whom he founded the "Datacide" project in 1993.
Out of the "N.G. Medien" nucleus the record label "POD Communication" was founded in 1992. After the bankruptcy of "Parade Amoureuse" and its sub-labels in 1992, Atom™ moved his activities to the "POD Communication" label, on which he released a series of 12-inches and albums under the guises of Atom Heart, Lisa Carbon and Atomu Shinzo. Also releasing on "POD Communication" was the German musician Pete Namlook, whom Atom™ first met at the "POD" office in Frankfurt. Due to his releases on "Parade Amoureuse" and "POD Communication" and his successful production work, Atom™ had quickly obtained a reputation that let him play live concerts all around the world. Together with Tobias Freund, who by then still used the "Pink Elln" pseudonym, Atom™ played a live show at one of the first "rave" parties ever held in Finland in 1992. The live concert was recorded and released on "Ongaku Music" in 1992 as "Elektronikkaa - Atom Heart & Pink Elln live in Montreux and Helsinki", and became one of the first released live techno recordings.
A vast amount of productions were released worldwide due to the licensing activities of "POD Communication", "Ongaku Music" and a variety of other Frankfurt-based record companies. After "Parade Amoureuse" closed down in 1992, his first album "Matter" was re-released by the Italian record label "Contempo Records" from Florence.
By 1993 Atom™ released the follow-up album to "Matter": Lassigue Bendthaus — "Cloned". "Cloned" was produced and licensed to "Contempo Records" together with a sample CD titled "Cloned:Binary", which contained the sounds used on the original "Cloned" release. "Contempo Records" went bankrupt in 1993.
Due to outstanding payments by those labels, lack of a recording studio and unresolved recording contracts, Atom™ decided to take some months off and lived for half a year in Costa Rica (end of 1992 until early 1993). On the way back from Costa Rica, he stopped over in New York City, where he visited Tetsu Inoue to record the first "Datacide" album. Back home in Frankfurt, his interest in Latin music started to grow and in fact the birth of the "Señor Coconut" moniker can be traced to somewhere around that time. Even though "Lassigue Bendthaus" had not brought him much luck until then, he decided to start recording his third album during 1993, entitled "Render". Because of the stagnation and inherent ignorance of the "Techno" movement that surrounded Atom™'s work, he soon began to distance himself from this musical format and scene. He also felt that the DJ and the dance floor were very limiting horizons for his musical output and that many of his musical ideas would not be compatible with them. As a consequence he founded his own record label "Rather Interesting" in 1994.
By this time, Pete Namlook had founded his "FAX Records" label and a new set of musical styles had appeared, such as "Ambient", "Jungle", "IDM" and others. Atom™, apart from his monthly releases on "Rather Interesting", continued recording with Tetsu Inoue ("Datacide"), Pete Namlook ("Jet Chamber") and Victor Sol ("+N") during 1994. That same year, the "Lassigue Bendthaus" albums "Render", "Render - U.S. Remixes", "Matter" (second re-release), "Cloned" (first re-release) and the 12-inch "Overflow" were released by the Belgian "KK Records", a label that would officially declare bankruptcy in 2000. Right after the release and re-release of the "Lassigue Bendthaus" albums, Atom™ began to work on the last album to be released under that project name, called "Pop Artificielle".
1995–1998
In 1995, Atom™ collaborated with Bill Laswell and Tetsu Inoue on "Second Nature", released on Pete Namlook's FAX label and recorded at Laswell's Brooklyn studio. Later that year, Atom™, Inoue and "Yellow Magic Orchestra" founder Haruomi Hosono convened in Tokyo to record the first "HAT" album, released on Rather Interesting and Hosono's Daisy World Discs imprint. During winter stays in Australia in 1994 and 1995, Atom™ met German producer Bernd Friedmann in Melbourne, beginning a long-running collaboration and ongoing friendship.
Two more "+N" and "Datacide" albums were produced between 1993 and 1996, as well as one album each month on "Rather Interesting", all of them under different names which Atom™ later referred to as "working titles", "headlines" or simply "words that label a musical idea", rather than being "aliases" or "projects" in the traditional sense. Logically, all works of Atom™ would later be summarized under just one name: "Atom™". With a lot of traveling, playing live shows worldwide such as Love Parade in 1994 and Sonar Barcelona in 1994, as well as the stagnation to be felt in his European surroundings, Atom™ prepared for his departure from the old continent. Together with Dandy Jack, with whom he formed the project "Gon", two live shows were played in Santiago de Chile in March and October of 1996. Atom™ and the Chilean Dandy Jack, who had lived all his life in Germany and Spain, decided on their way back from Chile to relocate to Santiago in 1997.
1996 finally saw Atom™'s "Señor Coconut" idea come to realization. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts during 1993–1995, still living in Frankfurt, he recorded 8 tracks in what would later be declared the "Electrolatino" style, both the "Señor Coconut" project and the "Electrolatino" genre thus having their origins in Germany, predating his move to Chile by a year. In a fever vision, the name "Señor Coconut", placed on top of a coconut texture — a design that would become the artwork of the first "Señor Coconut" album — appeared to him. Even though Atom™ tried to complete the album in Frankfurt, the preparations for his move to Chile prevented this plan. In March 1997, Atom™, together with his colleague Dandy Jack, moved to Santiago de Chile where they shared a rented house and installed their studios. During March and April he finished the "El Gran Baile" album, which would be the first work bearing the name of "Señor Coconut".
Atom™ continued releasing one album per month on his Rather Interesting label, though due to the difficulties of adaptation in Chile, decided to reduce his output. "Akashic Records", a Tokyo-based label owned by Towa Tei, licensed "El Gran Baile" for the territory of Japan. Towa Tei further requested a remix by Atom™. By the end of 1997 Atom™ and Dandy Jack's ways split and Atom™ moved out of the shared house, while Dandy Jack moved back to Europe one year later.
During 1998, Tetsu Inoue and Haruomi Hosono visited Atom™ in Santiago. The second "HAT" album was recorded, entitled "DSP Holiday". Towards the end of 1998, on his way back from Australia to Germany, Bernd Friedmann stopped over in Santiago and together with Atom™ they recorded their first "Flanger" album, called "Templates". "Templates" was recorded in a programming tour de force of one week at Atom™'s "Mira, Música!" studio and released in 1999 on the British "Ninja Tunes" label. The album is still considered a precursor to simulated Jazz and other meta-genres which only years later started to emerge.
1999–2003
"Lassigue Bendthaus'" last album, "Pop Artificielle", was finally finished and released in 1999. Due to a record company decision the album was released under the name "LB", an abbreviation standing for "Lassigue Bendthaus". "Pop Artificielle" caused quite a media reaction worldwide, due to the fact that the album contained electronic cover versions of famous pop and rock songs. Stylistically, "Pop Artificielle" may be considered one of the first productions to merge "song" structures with sounds coming from a 1990s "Techno" background. Many refer to it as an initial point in the development of the "glitch" genre.
During the production process of "Pop Artificielle", the idea was born to cover the German electronic pioneers "Kraftwerk" in a yet to be defined style and as a separate production. Meant to be rough sketches, Atom™ started to program a couple of Kraftwerk cover versions in a traditional cha-cha-cha arrangement and decided to make this the second "Señor Coconut" album. Entertained by the results of the first programmings, he produced a total of 4 songs which he sent to several record companies. One of those companies, Towa Tei's "Akashic Records", immediately licensed the album, entitled "El Baile Alemán", releasing it upon completion of the production in 2000. European and North American record companies remained uninterested until triggered by the hype "El Baile Alemán" had caused in Japan. Soon a North American label (Emperor Norton Records) licensed the album, followed by licenses in Europe, Mexico, Hong Kong, Russia and many others. The track "Showroom Dummies" was featured in the Mexican movie "Y tu Mamá también". Atom™ obtained official permission from Kraftwerk themselves to release "El Baile Alemán", though had to remove his version of "Radioactivity".
Coinciding with the turn of the millennium and the release of "El Baile Alemán", Atom™ defined OMNI, a meta genre described as one that includes all previously existing, historical, currently evolving and future genres equally and universally. All music produced from this point onwards could therefore be considered part of OMNI. In his December 1999 newsletter he wrote: "The herewith founded genre of OMNI™, is defined as a genre which includes all previously existing, historical-, currently evolving-, or future genres equally and universally."
"Señor Coconut"'s first European tour started on the 19th of August 2000 in Germany. A U.S. headlining tour was scheduled but had to be cancelled due to visa problems affecting one of the 8 musicians accompanying Atom™. In parallel to the "Señor Coconut" project, Atom™ continued working on more experimental ideas, some for Rather Interesting and some released on other labels, such as the "Geeez 'n' Gosh" albums (2000 and 2002), which musically merge abstract electronic programming and gospel vocals. "Geeez 'n' Gosh" was released on the German "Mille Plateaux" label, which went bankrupt in 2004, leaving Atom™ as well as many fellow musicians unpaid. The "Flanger" project was also continued, with Friedmann and Atom™ recording the "Inner Space/Outer Space" album in Santiago de Chile, which was released in 2001.
2004–2008
Apart from his own productions and various collaborations, Atom™ was solicited to remix artists such as Depeche Mode, Martin L. Gore, Air, Cesaria Evora, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Sketch Show, Towa Tei, Moreno Veloso, Merzbow and many others. An exclusive track entitled "White Car" was produced for and released on the Japanese anime film "Appleseed". Atom™ spent most of this period touring with his "Señor Coconut" project, which had grown to a full 9-piece orchestra. The "Señor Coconut" album "Yellow Fever!" was released in 2006, containing cover versions of "Yellow Magic Orchestra" songs, and became a very successful release in Japan. Amongst the YMO members themselves — Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi — a large number of guest musicians appeared on the album, such as Mouse on Mars, Akufen, Jorge Gonzalez and others. "Yellow Fever!" was performed live at "Sonar Sound Tokyo" the same year, with both Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi each performing one song with the full orchestra on stage. The Señor Coconut album "Around the World" was also released during this period, featuring guest appearances by Stephan Remmler (of "Trio: DaDaDa") and Austrian crooner Louie Austen.
2009–2013
Atom™'s "Rather Interesting" label remained his largest unified body of work, with over 46 full-length releases under numerous aliases and styles, of which most were written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Atom™ himself, who also handled all of the album artwork and design.
Remixes for Les Baxter, Perez Prado, Jamie Lidell, Plaid and Japanese superstar Kumi Koda continued to garner attention for Atom™ during this period. Together with Vicente Sanfuentes he formed "Surtek Collective", a collaboration that invented yet another musical style called "Aciton", a blend of "acid" and "reggaeton", and which mainly toured Latin America, playing shows in Mexico, Venezuela, Brasil, Argentina and Chile.
The "Flanger" album "Spirituals", recorded with Bernd Friedmann, had been released in 2005 on Friedmann's "Nonplace" label and the "HEADZ" label for the Japanese territory, and a couple of years later songs from the album were licensed for the Hungarian film "Bibliothèque Pascal". Between 2007 and 2010, Atom™ collaborated with Japanese composer Masaki Sakamoto on the album "Alien Symphony" and its modified online version "Meteor Shower", released in 2010. That same year Atom™ played a minor role in the Mexican film "Orol" and closed out the year with a short South American tour under the "Sr. Coconut" moniker.
In collaboration with Japanese musician Toshiyuki Yasuda, Atom™ produced a cover version of the Brazilian Bossa Nova classic "Águas de Março", pre-released on the compilation "Red Hot 2" in June 2011, with vocals performed by Fernanda Takai and Moreno Veloso. A photo exhibition called "Winterreise" was unveiled in Tokyo in May 2011, accompanied by a "Playbutton" release, and was followed by live performances at the Lincoln Center in New York City, the "Communikey Festival" in Boulder, the "Raster-Noton"/"Mute" festival at the Roundhouse in London and the Labyrinth Festival in Japan, among others. Exclusive contributions were made to Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Kizunaworld" project and Towa Tei's "Mach" online platform. A second "Winterreise" exhibition was held in Frankfurt in October 2011, and the "Winterreise" soundtrack was released in May 2012 through "Raster-Noton". "atom-tm.com" was launched in July 2012 as Atom™'s official news platform and archive.
As a result of the "Winterreise" release, Atom™ received an invitation from Richie Hawtin to play an ambient set at his club in Ibiza. The set, then entitled "Alpha txt", was subsequently performed again as the opening of the "Labyrinth" festival in September of the same year. An initially abandoned album, which in 2005 had carried the working title "Hard Disc Rock" as a self-reference to the 1997 Atom™ title of the same name, resurfaced as "HD" after some of the unfinished tracks raised interest at the Raster-Noton label. The album was finished during the second half of 2012 and mixed down in January 2013, with its release scheduled for March 2013. That same year, Atom™ began working on music together with Florian Schneider, a project that would remain unfinished due to Schneider's death in 2020. Peter Kuhlmann, known under his artist name Pete Namlook, with whom Atom™ had co-run the "Rather Interesting" label since 1994, passed away that year. As a consequence, Atom™ shut down the label. Early 2013 saw Atom™ playing various live shows, including a double opening feature at Berlin's "CTM.13", where he first performed "Bauteile" with colleague Marc Behrens, and later played a 3-hour "Alpha txt" set together with "Material + Object". Extensive promotional activities for "HD", which among other results brought Atom™ to the front page of Germany's "De:bug" magazine, along with preparations for the "HD" and "Ground Loop" live sets, kept Atom™ busy during the first months of 2013.
2014–2018
After crossing paths on "Fax Records", Atom™ and Material Object founded the label "No." in 2014, with a focus on ambient and adjacent genres. Since its inception, "No." released works by creators such as France Jobin, Gary Bradbury, Tobias Freund, Max Loderbauer and Jacek Sienkiewicz, among others, accumulating a catalogue of over 30 releases. In May 2014, both founders began a collaborative project under the moniker "No. Inc.", releasing the album "Early Reflections" and two EPs of the same title through the label.
Around the same time, Atom™ and Robin Fox developed the audiovisual project "Double Vision", which premiered live at the Krakow edition of Unsound in October 2014. The project continued to be performed at festivals internationally through 2018.
In June 2015, Atom™ completed his contribution to "Sonidos de ALMA", a project curated by Sónar in collaboration with the ALMA observatory in Chile. Working with a dataset of sound waves collected by the telescope, Atom™ produced "Off the Shores of Orion", a track blending the collected cosmic audio with his own sonic processing.
Later that year, Atom™ released "Texturen I" on "No.", an hour-long ambient piece described as a "positive slow motion zoom into a limitless white void". "Texturen II" followed in 2016 and "Texturen III" in 2018, completing a trilogy that was subsequently performed as a live set under the same name.
Also in 2015, Friedmann and Atom™ resumed the "Flanger" project after a five-year silence with the album "Lollopy Dripper", their eighth collaboration under that name. The "Spinner EP" followed in May 2016, both released on Friedmann's "Nonplace" label and accompanied by live performances.
During 2016, "No. Inc." produced the album "G@ng5t@", in which Atom™ and Material Object explored a style they termed "Gangster Ambient". Between 2017 and 2018, a number of shorter releases appeared, among them "Future Nights", a three-track EP released on "The Bunker New York" label in September 2017. Closing out 2017, Atom™ released "Walzerzyklus", a collaboration with Russian artist Lisokot on "Raster-Media", regarded as the concluding chapter of a trilogy that had begun with "Liedgut" and continued with "Winterreise".
In July 2018, "Música Moderna (Vol. I & II)" was released digitally, a compilation gathering remixes and rare tracks from the Señor Coconut project. Simultaneously, the complete Señor Coconut catalogue was made available through the Japanese label "U/M/A/A", featuring collaborations with Ricardo Villalobos, Martin L. Gore and Rubén Rodríguez, among others.
2019–2023
Though Atom™ had met Jahnavi Stenflo and Nathan Jantz some years prior, it was not until February 2019 that the three began working together under the name "nuuun". Their first composition as a trio, "Current Suite No. I", consisted of four audiovisual pieces built around waveforms generated by analog video synthesizers, recorded using a scan-processing technique that fused audio and visual output into a single live composition.
Concurrently, Atom™ launched "NN", a creative platform he has hosted and curated since. "Current Suite No. I" served as its first release. The platform subsequently became home to remastered hi-res editions of the complete Señor Coconut catalogue, the "Atom™ & Tobias — Live 1992–2014" collection, and the first edition of Natalie Menard & Keith Fisher's book "DJ Culture as a Function of Neoliberal Capitalism".
Early in 2020, Atom™ decided to pause live performances and touring. Shortly after, the pandemic-related lockdowns began. The first months of the Covid-19 restrictions saw the release of the album "<3" in April 2020 through "Raster Media", produced in close collaboration with X1N, a trans-human object capable of generating human voice and natural language content. The album explored algorithmically driven realities as its central theme. A remix EP titled "0.9 EP" followed, featuring contributions from Peter van Hoesen and Esplendor Geométrico.
In October 2020, Atom™ completed and announced the AtomTM_Audio_Archive, a collection of nearly 2,000 titles and over 200 remastered albums representing the total sum of his output to that date, made available through his official website and Bandcamp. In 2021, the "No." label, which Atom™ and Material Object had run since 2014, closed down.
In April 2022, Atom™ contributed to the album "Lovotic" by Soundwalk Collective, a concept album produced in collaboration with Charlotte Gainsbourg, actor Willem Dafoe, singer Lyra Pramuk and philosopher Paul B. Preciado, released on the Berlin-based Analogue Foundation label. The album explored the emerging field of human-robot relationships through eleven tracks, with Atom™ contributing both production and vocal elements.
In June 2022, the album "Neuer Mensch" was released on Raster-Media, marking a sharp stylistic departure from "<3". Described as a projection of the meta-human horizon, the album was presented as the work of an autonomous algorithmic process, its eleven tracks built around abrasive textures, wiry rhythmic structures and recombinant vocal fragments. The EP "Widerstand" followed on December 24, 2023, also on Raster-Media, extending the sonic and conceptual territory of "Neuer Mensch" through three tracks of distorted sine waves and relentless repetition. That same year, the collaborative album "Radial" was released on Raster-Media under the project name ASA, a trio formed by Atom™ together with Arturo Lanz and Saverio Evangelista of the Spanish industrial group Esplendor Geométrico. The album, released on CD in September 2023 and on vinyl towards the end of that year, drew on decades of shared sonic territory between the three artists, merging rhythmic industrial structures with abstract electronic processing.
In 2023 Atom™ contributed production to two tracks on "Bauhaus Staircase", the fourteenth studio album by "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark", released in October 2023 and issued in an expanded Complete Edition in May 2025. Atom™'s production work appears on "Evolution of Species" as well as "Healing", the album's closing track, on which he collaborated with Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys.
2024–Today
The year 2024 opened with the publication of "Atom™, el virtuoso inconformista" by the Valencian label and publishing venture Industrial Complexx, written by Ximo Noguera and based on hours of interviews with the artist. The book traces Atom™’s artistic evolution from the mid-1980s to the present day, drawing on his own memoirs as well as testimonies from long-standing collaborators. An English-language edition, "Atom™, the nonconformist virtuoso", was published simultaneously. That same month, the AtomTM_Audio_Archive issued "Wavetables 12023", consolidating Atom™’s twelve monthly recordings from 2023 into a single album. The Bandcamp edition included twelve short video pieces originally produced for promotional purposes.
“Live Volume 9” followed in February 2024, documenting a 6-hour live performance by Atom™ and Tobias. at Metrónomo, Santiago, recorded on 28 January 2023. That same year, Atom™ handled the mixing of “Qui parle ombre”, the fourth album by the Brussels-based duo Midget!, composed of Mocke and Claire Vailler and released in September 2024 on the French label Objet Disque. The album draws on the French chanson tradition, with instrumentation ranging from guitars and bouzouki to flute, bassoon and harmonium.
Concurrent with these releases, the ongoing remastering and re-releasing of back catalogue material continued in earnest through the “NN” platform, encompassing the complete “Atom™ & Tobias” productions, “Radetzky Loops Live”, the “Future Nights EP” and the “Ground Loop EP”, as well as a newly remastered edition of “Bauteile”, the collaboration with Marc Behrens first performed at CTM.13 in 2013. From the remastered “Bauteile” material, a dual EP titled “Copyleft/Copyright” was produced and released together with Behrens. Data patches for the Bitwig DAW were also released alongside “Sex Tape”, marking one of Atom™’s first forays into software instrument distribution.
The “Texturen” series, which had begun with “Texturen I” in 2015 and continued through “Texturen II” (2016) and “Texturen III” (2018), was further developed and consolidated during this period, with all eleven parts released as a unified digital box set. The “Exotrax” EP appeared on Adam X’s New York-based “Sonic Groove Records”, marking Atom™’s first release on that label.
Running alongside this catalogue activity, the NN label sustained a continuous sequence of new work across 2024 and into 2025. May 2024 brought “Generic Frontiers (A Rather Interesting Featurette of Audio Hallucinations)”, a twelve-track album created using AI-based audio generation tools and conceived as a personal investigation into creativity and the stochastic nature of human existence at a particular moment in the development of that technology. The fifteen audio pieces Atom™ had shared as standalone blog posts throughout 2024 under the title “Future Archive Diary” were subsequently gathered into a single album and issued through the AtomTM_Audio_Archive; the single releases put out on NN during that same year were compiled into “NN Singles 12024”. The three-part “Stations” series, an experiment in algorithm-driven composition using public domain audio networks, was compiled and issued as the meta-album “Stations I-III”. The same period saw Sektion — Atom™’s project with Siegmar Fricke, whose shared working history stretches back to 1992 — make its public debut with the single “Kopplung” (NN86), comprising the tracks “Kopplung A” and “Kopplung B”. Their album “Druck” was released on “Geometric Records” in June 2026.
In May 2025, “Señor Coconut and his Orchestra” made their first and only US appearance in New York City, performing with the full band and vocalist Argenis Brito.
“Schism” appeared in June 2025 on NN, a 54-minute composition described as the sonic embodiment of a rupture. Raw and austere, the piece stands apart from the rest of the AtomTM Audio Archive as a deliberate severance from what Atom™ described as moribund foundations, combining the role of a firewall with that of a provocation.
That year, Korg invited Atom™ as the sole artist to program one of the PS-3300 FS’s internal memory banks, comprising 16 sounds pre-installed on every unit shipped. The PS-3300 FS is Korg’s full-scale reissue of their legendary 1977 polyphonic synthesizer, originally produced in a run of 50 units. For several weeks, Atom™ worked with an almost-finished prototype placed alongside his own PS-3100, a unit that had once belonged to Kraftwerk’s Kling Klang studio in Düsseldorf.
The single “Aufruf zur Gewalt” appeared on Raster-Media in 2025, presented as a direct continuation of the “Neuer Mensch” and “Widerstand” series. Atom™ also performed an 8-hour closing set under the name “Sync.”, a project formed with Peter van Hoesen, at the Labyrinth festival in Japan, one of the most extensive live performances of his career. A physical calendar for 2026, entitled “REAL”, was released through the Chilean outlet “Grieta”.
October 2025 brought “Rheinmetall” to the NN label, a 65-minute composition Atom™ described as inaugurating the genre of “geopolitical big-room ambient”. The piece takes as its subject self-guiding missiles, framing what Atom™ described as the absence of enlightenment values and the cognitive collapse of a civilisation.
The “NN” platform continued to expand its catalogue throughout this period, gathering an increasingly diverse body of work under a single curatorial umbrella, including new productions, archival releases and remastered editions spanning Atom™’s entire output across all aliases and projects in the spirit of OMNI.
In 2026, Atom™ performed with “Señor Coconut and his Orchestra” at a private event for the Hermès brand in Berlin, marking one of the project’s rare European appearances in recent years.
Upcoming
Looking ahead, Atom™ and Peter van Hoesen will continue their collaboration under the name "Sync." with a trilogy of EPs scheduled for release between July and October 2026, building on an already extensive history of live performances together. September 2026 will also see the release of "Eastern Sunrise" on the "Concentric" label. Meanwhile, two archival collections are in preparation, including "The Pre-NGO Years (1988–2011)", which assembles previously unreleased and newly unearthed recordings and serves as a counterpart to the earlier anthology "The NGO Years (2013–2021)". Also forthcoming is Atom™'s first book, "Síntesis", a Spanish-language work exploring creative processes, to be published by the Argentine publishing house "Caja Negra", with an English-language edition under consideration.
