Pop Artificielle

Pop Artificielle is a 1998 album by "lb". All of the songs are covers of pop songs from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. The entire album, as the title implies, is designed to sound very synthetic, incorporating special vocal processing and elements of glitch music.
It was originally released on in Belgium in 1998 ; 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.

Track listing

"Superbad" – 3:18
"Be Near Me" – 3:50
"Sunshine Superman" – 3:45
"The Future" – 4:14
"Jealous Guy" – 4:19
"You Are in My System" – 4:31
"Ashes to Ashes" – 4:34
"Thatness and Thereness" – 3:17
"Angie" – 4:18
"Silence is Golden" – 3:29

Personnel

Uwe Schmidt – 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

Additional information

Schmidt designed and programmed the software 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."