October 2003 - Yello - mailman.xmission.com

Yello Site has been updated!
by Jonathan Kamm 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Check It Out!

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Goodie-URL
by David Hansen 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Check out http://www.yello.ch/yello_mp3/ Here you'll find what appears to be all the soundclips and loops used on the site :-)

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New Maxi single of The Race!
by Dario 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Ocean Trax records have published a new maxi-single with 2 track by Palm Spring. 1 Palm Spring Club mix 2 Bini & Martini Daytona mix record code: Cat.N.ocn096 Only available on 33', distributed by level one srl - Italy Very good! Dario

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Planet Dada Maxi-CD
by Jonathan Kamm 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Here is the cover. I made it big so you can read everything http://homepage.mac.com/jonathankamm/PlanetDadaMaxi.jpg ,Jonathan

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Yello Site
by Jonathan Kamm 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Some of the songs sound different................ Cool!

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Wow!
by David Hansen 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Man... Those soundclips really are a great appetizer for the album. I already think that "Unreal" is my new Yello fav - sounds IMO like the best they've made since The Rythmn Divine or Drive/Driven... Weee! Unreal doesn't sound like Dieters kind of lyrics though - wonder who wrote them... Can't wait to hear more :-) Thanks for the notice on the site's update Jonathan. PS. The yello.ch webmasters should really mute the eye-menu in the lower right corner while the songs are playing.

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to the sea vid clip
by Shaun Turner 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Hi all Thanks to a hard drive failure and no backup (you would think i would know better by now) i have lost nearly all the stuff i'd download from the last ftp site. i'd like to get my hands on the clip of "to the sea" that was on there again for something i'm doing in the comming week. If someone who has it and prepared to send it to me could they contact me off-list at sajt(a)tvsched.com so we might make muitualy suitable arangements to get me the clip thanks shaun

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Where DO They Live
by Rory Filer 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

So does anyone know how Dieter and Boris actually spend their time. That article from 20 minutes.com makes Boris look pretty repetitive - in the studio all day and then swimming at night. Dieter "lives abroad" - where? - and visits Boris occasionally to add in the vocal tracks. They could almost make their music by emailing files back and forth from the sound of it. I assume Boris lives in or near Zurich.

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Back On Track - The Race 2003
by Daniel B 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

there ya go all finnished now http://www.jeans-direct.com/backontrack.mp3 enjoy :) Daniel B

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German Yello interview - my English translation
by Franz Gall 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

Jonas published this link on his mailing list: http://www.20min.ch/unterhaltung/musik/story/15153041 Here is my translation of this German interview. Please understand, I am not a professional translator; I am just used to business English in my job. I had to dig into several dictionaries, because of Dieter's ideology. Have fun! Published on October 16th, 2003 The yello of the eye Early November the yello album "the eye" will be released. "20 minutes week" chatted with Dieter Meier (58) and Boris Blank (50) about their works. Interview - Ralph Hennecke - Photo - Dina Haas Dieter and Boris, why did you call your new album "The eye"? Blank: Because the listener can close his eyes hearing the sound and will see pictures showing up in front of his inner eye. Meier: I found the title, because I can imagine a figure with every song. This was also mostly the way to create the lyrics for our new album. How do you work together? Dieter is living abroad most of the times. Blank: I am in the studio every morning at 9am and always go swimming in the evening. If Dieter is visiting me, we feed in (sing in?) the lyrics of the songs. This takes one to two days per song. Meier: Philosopher Kant lived 40 years at the same place and followed an absolute strict sequence every day. He lived in and for his huge philosophic works. According to this, Boris is the Immanuel Kant of synthetic music. Is politics part of your music? Blank: We had some religious lyrics in the past, but politics never played a role in the music. Meier: Good music is politic itself, because it tracks down the individual at a location, where he learns about himself and where he emancipates himself. Every good work of art impersonates humanity, identity and therefore it is much more politic compared to the so called politic art. Blank: With which (political) party would you associate our music? Meier: Unfortunately, you did not listen. Blank: Correct. But where do you affiliate the message of our music? Meier: For example, I think, that our music would have been banned during the era of fascism. Good art is anarchy. Anarchy in a meaning, that the individual is in the foreground, not a superior idea of state. How is this shown at Yello? Meier: Our music is not created out of an academic composition building, but through Boris, who is basically an anarchist. He is resisting the constraints of Rock'n'Roll, which ran down whole Europe as an imperialism of culture. So you are successful as anarchist for more than 25 years. Did you ever think of stopping? Blank: No. No second. I can bluster in my occupation like a kid in a sandpit. If I enter the studio, this is like daily meditation for me. My fascination for sound research is unbroken. Meier: If you want to be successful, you must listen to the pulse of time. My 90 year old father is a banker and pursues the share prices daily because of fascination and hungry for success. Do you stay faithful to yourself also in the visual way? Or asking different: When will your moustaches fall? Meier: Once Boris stops coloring his (laughing). No, this moustache belongs to my face. It will stay - although my daughters say repeatedly, I should cut it off. Blank: (grinning) as long as Dieter does not separate from his toupee, I will keep my moustache in every case. I

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