
Kinder Atom - Bubble
Video by Steve Hillman for exhibita.tv :::
Kinder Atom - Soft Hand Feel
Video by Lisa Santonato at FTP media Inc. :::
Kinder Atom - Car Audio
Video by Chris Drost and Heiki Sillaste for nicesmooth.com:::
Shot on the streets of Toronto and uses over 10,000 still jpg images!!!
Kinder Atom - Eagle Sprouts (nuwavdiskomix) - 6:22
Video by Erin Lewis for audiovisualizers.com :::
Kinder Atom - Sangria 7:37
Video by Steve Hillman for exhibita.tv :::
Kinder Atom - Ascension -
Video by Jeun Lee at jeunlee.com :::
Kinder Atom - Eagle Sprouts (album mix) - 6:22
::: This work was created by Tracy Lovitt Drost :::












Kinder Atom are:
Heiki Sillaste
Musician and award-winning graphic design superstar has released an impressive catalogue of well over 45 synthesizer-based records and made over 150 compilation appearances since 1987. Heiki began his musical career fronting the internationally acclaimed industrial-tekno group Digital Poodle in the late 80’s and early 90’s, and ran the now infamous Shadow Canada Records label.
Gerald Belanger
A regular DJ through Asia, Europe & North America, he has worked over 140 albums and singles through his previous DOVe label and the current nice+smooth imprint. Still spinning and hosting on the weekly 'Unfortunate Sonic Casualties' show on Toronto's top radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 since 1990!
Christopher Drost
Television and radio producer, digital photographer and musician, Chris brings techno-savvy and fatherly kharma to the nice+smooth studios. Chief scientist of all technical and electroacoustic research at nice+smooth ultramedia.
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Kris Helstrom
Original Digital Poodle drummer from the farmlands of Ontario. He has recently taken up permanent residency at chateau nice+smooth
since moving to Toronto at the end of 1999. Kris is about to release his second full-length CD under his funky breaks pseudonym, Chromosphere.

Album Reviews

MMM!
The first disc of this release features 73 minutes of peppy electronic techno music. Hordes of E-perc rhythms cavort with rhythmic abandon while electronics and slippery keyboards establish engaging melodies. The tuneage churns with dynamic verve, cooking with super-cool sensibilities and playing the rave routine with slick results. Tribal gone urban collides with sneaky technological urges. Add some sultry fem vocals, then tweak those voices into robotic chipmunk range.
The second disc of this release features 57 minutes of dub remixes (by Shine and Benji Perosin, Trigg, Heiner Kruse, Frank Heise, and the members of Kinder Atom) of material from the first disc (specifically, a pair of versions of "Ladies", a retake of "Left Leg", and six different dubs of "Illegal"). These tracks are exposed to overt Drum and Bass stylings, with rap-heavy vocal overtracking, transforming these techno tunes into deep jungle.
Matt Howarth - soniccuriosity.com
MMM!
Roll up the carpets, and make yourselves a
nice little dance floor, because you won't be
standing still to this one. Toronto's Kinder
Atom manage to sound like three bands in
one as they slip, slide and romp through sexy
and sophisticated grooves, bangin' elec-techno,
and chilled ambient excursions. Kinder Atom's
sound has, in fact, solidified with Mmm!, their
third full-length since 1995. They have a uniquely
warm and organic touch no matter what direction
they point their sequencers and keyboards in.
"Chic" is some sleek, orchestral next shit; a
slice of aptly titled tech-house, it's deep, dubby
dance floor material with full on beats and melodic
chords. "Slinky" and "Left Leg" take it harder while
highlighting the Kinder love for electro. The sound
is quirky and playful, with "Left Leg" in particular
hamming it up, twisting, turning and coming out
on top. The title track is a super-fine example of
how jazzy and rolling drum & bass sounds can
come together wonderfully. "Mmm!' is bouncy
and beautiful with a bite, featuring lush, layered
instrumentation, spot-on programming, and
sensual, hooky vocals. "Ladies" shows yet
another side to the Atom, playing it up to the
max as a not-so-straight forward, funkdafied
chunk of four on da floor. Here, filtered disco
percussion meets strong diva vocals and guitars.
Keep your eyes peeled for the accompanying
twelve-inch, titled reMMMixes, which features
two mixes of "Ladies" created by jazz-house
producers Directions. Their gorgeous, hypnotic
and hooky "soft mix" shuffles and sways while
the Rhodes lead the way.
- Denise Benson Exclaim! May 3rd 2000
Ever since the birth of our "Freestyle" concept we've been trying to focus on good music regardless what genre or style the music was. Not that categorizing is a bad thing -it can be helpful to explain a certain sound or to help find a certain record in the shops- but we shouldn't judge music on genre alone. After all it's the diversity of music that keeps things interesting.
It's always fun to discover labels or records that share this philosophy and nice+smooth is one of them. The album from Kinder Atom is a good example, almost every track explores a different style of electronic music. Commencing with deep-house, electro and disco-house the first half of the album is focused on the dance floor friendly variants and then the second half dives into more laidback genres like drum 'n bass, atmospheric house, downtempo and ambient.
freestyle.com
Kinder Atom - Slinky Slurpy 12" (nice+smooth/Hypnotic)
Lazer Caps - Rubber Jazz 12" (nice+smooth/Hypnotic)
Toronto's nice+smooth crew offers up a pair of platters that
touch on a few different sounds, but are based mainly around
some sexy and jazzy tech-house grooves. Bodes well for the
upcoming Lazer Caps full-length, Asskicker.
- Tribe, summer '99

Rapoon Vs. kinder Atom
Toronto techno/house trio Kinder Atom collaborate with Britain? Robin
Storey on this exclusive Austrian release. It's really a sequel of sorts
because Storey had done a special remix of their previous incarnation,
Digital Poodle, while in Toronto in 1991 with his former group, Zoviet
France. When he toured North America again on his own in 1996 work was
begun on this cd, which continued for four years through the mail.
Storey is a master of dark-ambience, so the combination of Kinder Atom's
techno-tribal beats and his deep atmospheres is a very evocative one.
There are also a couple of deep bass grooves for those of you like to
rock steady. Kinder Atom also have a new cd out of mellow house and
rolling drum & bass tracks called MMM!.
- Chris Twomey, Tandem June 2000

Super Nice Hippy Pants
KA covers many bases on their hefty double disc epic,
so this reviewer recommends breaking it down into it's
component parts for maximum enjoyment. When you're
in one of those mellow moods, break out Super Nice, an
enveloping, beatless journey of analogue bleeps and
warm synth washes that harkens back to a time when
ambient music really was ambient. Hippy Pants,
meanwhile, breaks out the funky breakbeats and
squelchy acid techno, before chilling out in the final,
fading moments.
- Greg Clow Immerse UK/ Feedback Moniter 1998
Super Nice Hippy Pants
A shiny effort from our local digital playground.
Just one look at the glossy CD case, and you'll
understand exactly what I mean....Super Nice
Hippy Pants comes as a double CD - "Super Nice"
lies on the extremely quiet chill-out ambient side of
things, while "Hippy Pants" takes on a more up-tempo
sound, incorporating the occasional drum-and-bass
and even jungle component. But even the latter CD
could not be described as harsh by any means.
Probably would be best prescribed for those
who want to medicate themselves with something
trippy to accompany a relatively relaxed but groovy
evening, puntuated by bursts of energy.
- Synaptic Paradox March 1997

Atomika
"...Kinder Atom continually manage to
find romance among the oscillators."
- Keyboard Magazine, September 1996
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VARIOUS - Hypnotic Sounds
"...My favourite tracks are "Expander" by the Future Sound
of London, Juno Reactor with "Feel the Universe," and
Kinder Atom's "Space Laxative."
- Real Groove 1997
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Dead Voices On Air-How Hollow Heart CD-
A change in personnel and direction for
Mark Spybeys DVOA project, this time
with guests like DJ Sheldon Drake and
members of KINDER ATOM. The sound is
more electronic/ ambient than Marks
previous works, and there is a semblance of
melody/structure seeping in as well.
Maybe his best DVOA album yet. (Invisible)
-godsend 1997
Full length albums:
Atomika, CD - Hypnotic Records 1996
Super Nice Hippy Pants, 2xCD - Hypnotic Records/nice+smooth 1997
Live at Soundsphere CDR (100 copies) - nice+smooth 1998
MMM! CD - nice+smooth 2000
MMM! 2xCD - Hypnotic Records/nice+smooth 2001
Soft Hand Feel, cd+dvd - nice+smooth 2006
Collaboration albums:
Dead Voices On Air "How Hollow Heart" CD - Invisible Records 1997
Kinder Atom vs. Rapoon CD - Klanggalerie, Austria 2000
Kinder Atom vs Rapoon: Heart Beatz CD - Klanggalerie, Austria (upcoming 2006)
12" singles:
Slinky/Slurpy - Hypnotic Records/nice+smooth 1998
Illegal 12" (with Michael Rose) - Basswerk Records 1999
ReMMMixes 12" - nice+smooth 2001
Slonice 12" ep - nice+smooth 2004
Eagle Sprouts 12" - nice+smooth 2006
Compilation Appearances:
Ambient Rituals - Music For Soul Braiding 1995
Ambient Rituals 2 - Trip Into Dub - 1996
Acid Genetiks - 1996
Elektro Genetiks - 1996
Into The Mix - 1997
Hypnotic Sounds - 1997
Sci-Fi Cafe - 1997
Drug Test - 1997 Invisible
Ultimate Drum 'N Bass - 1997
Metro Breaks - Selected Drum n' Bass From Toronto - 1998
Technicians Of Electronica (3 CD) - 1998
Drug Test 2 - 1998 Invisible
Metro Breaks 99 - 1999
Groove 103.1-Hypnotic 12 Inch mix - 1998
Pure Electronica Euro Classix - 1999 (euro?)
Electronica Vibe Box - 1999
Klublife Kompilation Vol.1 - 2000
Metro Breaks NXT Level - 2000 nice+smooth
Better Living Through Circuitry Soundtrack - 2001
This Is Drum and Bass - 2001
Chillout Zone - 2002
Oscillate - 2002
Nice One - 2002
Slonice - 2004
Sitta Vol.1 - 2004
Breezy Beats & Sunny Breaks - 2005

Remixes:
Kraftwelt "Deranged" remix cd - Hypnotic Records, USA
Snow "Boom Boom Boogie" remix 12" - Warner Brothers, Japan
Dead Voices On Air "Drumme+Basse" - collaboration track - Invisible
Records,
Leahy "The Opening" - Virgin Records, Canada (unreleased remix)
Releases under the name Lazer Caps:
Asskicker, CD - Hypnotic Records/nice+smooth 1998
Rubber Jazz/Harmony, 12" - Hypnotic Records/nice+smooth 1998
Rubber Jazz, CD - nice+smooth 2002

Added May, 2002
Click here to link to the great video & audio recordings of Kinder Atom live on the 19th floor for CBC's Just Concerts website.

Added May, 2001
MMM!
Kinder Atom "MMM!" released worldwide as a double cd or digital download.
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