My dear fellow Yello addicts :-))

First of all thank you for the warm welcome (back)! Don't worry, I'm not breaking down in tears :-), but it did send a twitch through my system... sigh... cewl...

And Jonn, thank you for all those links, they will indeed get me up to speed!! Very nice!!

So cool to "see" all you people are still around, exactly where I met you!! Briliant!

Yes, Yello... I must say that in the time that passed STELLA was with me. Personally my favorite album, perhaps because I saw this Derrick episode (German Cop series) in 1985 where they used Desire. And I can still remember sitting in my parents old 1969 white Mercedes Benz 220 Benzin with its black hard plastic roof top, and black leather seats and all that chrome, listening to a German radio station who was playing... Desire. Which then instantly links to my school "schedule booklet" with a Yello Band photo in it. Black and White, with the then somewhat young Boris and Dieter. To then have me go to 1987 where I listen to the "Soul Show" on Dutch Radio (Arno, you must remember) and hear Dr. van Steiner and the Rhythm Devine. One Second would be the next favorite album. Even more because I watched a documentary on ZDF about Yello making the Desire video in Havana Cuba. Seeing a young Anton Corbijn taking pictures of Yello (for example the one used for The New Mix in One Go). Remembering that I taped the documentary on a not that bright Yoko/Bondstec video recorder my dad had got in a trade for a model ship he had build out of cheap wood and copper thread. And I lost the video casette. But if I'm not mistaken, it is the choreographer in the Havana Club that we hear on "Santiago". But what I also remember is having taped "One Second" on a casette, and listened to it on my trusty and blue Silver 3000 humble getto blaster, during the three week holiday, yet again somewhere in the German Mountains (Harz), where I also listened to Desire, in that 1969 white Mercedes Benz 220 Benzin with black hard plastic roof top.

Actually, what brought me back to Yello some time ago, and I mean to a full extend, was the fact that I gave my girlfriend a Re-Watch. A bit too big for her tiny wrist, but she loves it and treasures it, when I told her about the phenomena we know as Dieter Meier. I bet this guy has a 1000 ideas per day, picks a couple and makes them happen. There is more involved with the watch in particular, but trust me, it is all about meaning and personal value.

And it is right there where my relation with the music of Yello starts to rise high above all the other 3675 songs I have in my iTunes library.

And then to think that in a moment of momentarely insanity I was ready to throw it all away. My whole music collection. Everything. From And One to Yello. A to Y (since I have nothing in my collection with a Z). All the vinyl, all the CD's.

I didn't, in the end, but did give away half of it. I kept Yello, Depeche Mode, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, And One, Nitzer Ebb and a couple of others. But the rest is all gone. Oh and Kraftwerk, of course!

Now, I'm still in total congruency with that decision. But I also did wipe my entire personal archive of my own music. That was a big mistake. I found most of it back on some back up cd's. However, my remix of Planet Dada is gone and my Soul on Ice version of the Remix Contest (where I scored to be 125 orso, which is still quite unfair... HAHA!!, I should have won, of course... :-))

So... please, pretty please...

I am on my knees and praying to whatever god is listening...

Does any one of you have these files, somewhere, tucked away on a harddrive? On that note, I also remember I once uploaded some other songs, but I forgot the titles. The tracks were highly electronic... sort of... I don't mean the Bathtub song, that one I had on a back up cd. Oh yes... the tracks are jam packed with samples from the Matrix, and one of them has in the beginning the purring of Laurens his cat! A detail :-)

I really hope one of you has these files, cuz I'd love to hear them again myself. Even more, because I haven't been able to squeeze a single note or tune out of my brain for a good year and half now, I think. The musician in me died I think, with some other things. The other things dead is good, the musician part not, let that be sure!

And I really think it is briliant you people are still "On Track" with Yello!