From: owner-yello-digest@lists.xmission.com (yello-digest) To: yello-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: yello-digest V2 #78 Reply-To: yello-digest Sender: owner-yello-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-yello-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes yello-digest Monday, October 12 1998 Volume 02 : Number 078 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 11:51:46 +0100 From: "James Gillett" Subject: (yello) Yello Interview Hi all, Jonas suggested to me that I share this submitted interview with Yello with the list. It's from NME (a UK music newspaper) March 1995 at the launch night of Hands On Yello. The text's below, but if it has not wrapped properly in your E-Mail I've included the same text as a file attachment. Regards, James - -------------------------------------- NME March 1995 THIS YEAR'S YODEL "I was raving before the word was invented," boasts Yello's 50-year-old and ridiculously rich figurehead Dieter Meier, brimming with amiable eccentricity. "I've always been a slave to the rhythm," our immaculately dressed host continues, "and tonight is our way of thanking these young producers for the wonderful things they've done to our music." It's one of those shindigs where if the roof caved in, half of dance music's most happening figures would go down with it. A night in Zurich's Kaufleuten club, where a quirky twist of fate in club culture's past, present and future is being spectacularly and vociferously celebrated. Despite concerned efforts from DJ Westbam's neogabba patterns and Isla Gold's nutcore live noise, the ceiling stands its ground while the likes of Carl Craig, Carl Cox, Oliver Lieb and The Orb's Alex Paterson and Thomas Felhmann indulge in a raucous bid to drink the town dry of champers. The launch bash for 'Hands of Yello' - the pioneering Swiss duo's remix LP - is in full throttle. The sound of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank's prodigious 18-year output lent to the best of the current club/chill-out generation, ' Hands on Yello' bears qualities extending well beyond the usual nature of this kind of project - compared to the mixes they've been subjected to in the past (by Andrew Weatherall, for instance) this is far superior stuff, Dieter enthuses. "It felt strange messing about with something that's already perfect," admits Carl Cox, before delivering the evenings mightiest DJ set to a volley of well-earned applause. "But it's great to work with music that's got substance, feeling and emotion. Charismatic, interesting and mad that's Yello! We're paying tribute to them. Even my mum likes them. They've worked with Shirley Bassey, what else can you say?" "I blame it on the elephants," adds Alex Paterson, somewhat cryptically. Later he mixes up reggae, electro and abstract beats, confusing the house-hungry crowd while glaring peevishly at the club's red boiler-suited pseudo-erotic dance troupe. "If this was a Mike Oldfield project," the Orbmeister continues, "we'd have stripped away everything and just left one of his annoying little loops. But this was different. Anyone who's ever dropped an LSD tab will understand me when I say the Orb's ambience and humour is in equilibrium with Yello's - it only ever goes up its own bottom, never anyone else's." "There's a sexual feel to their music," Carl Craig decides. "There's nothing mechanical about it - it's got the funk and the flavour. Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Watkins and myself, we're all die-hard fans of their weird sense of comedy." After the backslapping and adulation, there's much frenzied partying to be done. Oliver Lieb plays live, kicking off seductively in rampant tribal zones before descending into a dingy pit of ruthless stomping and savage riffing. Blimey, aren't Dieter and Boris a bit old for all this? "At least in their heads they're still party animals," reckons Craig. "Maybe if they have a nap half way through they'll last to when I'm on." "You're only old when you can no longer make a fool of yourself and act like a little idiot," laughs wild-eyed Dieter in retort, "I'm proud to say I'm still a very childish man." Carl Craig comes on very late, a little anxious that his subtle funk sounds will go over the audience's collective head after so much turbo charged Euro vinyl. He needn't have worried - he spins 'French Kiss' and 'I feel Love' alongside deep disco-ish Detroit techno to a suitably enthralled audience showing. Poor old Dieter on the other hand is looking well weary. It's past his bedtime and he's off. Not, however, before dishing out some advice to the techno whippersnappers he's befriended today. "We're bombastic sound jugglers who emerged from the splendid isolation of Switzerland. If we can do it, anyone can" he proclaims. "Like us, these guys have to bang against the door and gain entry to the cave of holy creation. My advice is never stop: just keep on banging." Interview by Andy Crysell begin 666 Yello Interview.doc MT,\1X*&Q&N$`````````````````````/@`#`/[_"0`&```````````````! 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M_P8)`@``````P ```````$88````36EC Subject: (yello) To the sea lyrics! Hi! Could anyone send me or us the lyrics for "To the Sea" (the album version= ). The ones I have seems to be incorrect in my ears. But on the other hand, = my ears can=B4t hear what poor girl is singing either. Daniel Svensson # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info yello" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email yello@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ End of yello-digest V2 #78 **************************