From: owner-yello-digest@lists.xmission.com (yello-digest) To: yello-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: yello-digest V2 #85 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, November 9 1998 Volume 02 : Number 085 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:38:01 +0100 From: Roger Schweizer Subject: (yello) Re The Yello Remix Album (Mark Pully) Hi Mark I heard Who's Gone Notre Dame Remix !! It is not a New Remix I have it on 12'' Maxi UK Promo greeting Roger >Subject: (yello) The Yello Remix Album >Sent: 5/11/98 8:09 PM >Received: 5/11/98 8:34 PM >From: James.Gillett@iceland.co.uk >To: Yello, yello@xmission.com > >Well, I thought there would be frivolous excitement and discussion about >the forthcoming album.. But there you go.... Yiiippppeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! [happy now? :-) ] Since it's a 'best of' remix album I assume it won't have any or many new remixes (apart from Boris') - unless one of the Hardfloor mixes get in. Remixes I'd like to see: Trego Snare Part 2, Vicious Games (Vicious Remix), any rare remixes I haven't heard yet (like the Who's Gone Notre Dame Mixes - anyone heard these?). Remixes I don't want to see: Any of the To The Sea Remixes (particularly not the UK 12" - I haven't heard the German 12"), Tremendous Pain, Tied Up In Africa / In African Beats, Blazing Saddles. (That should hopefully spark some controversy) Mark # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:35:11 +0000 From: James.Gillett@iceland.co.uk Subject: (yello) The Yello Remix Album >>>>One thing we here in the states can count on is paying import prices for it. Mmm. Distribtion is a bit scarce in the UK with Yello. No reason why it should be any different to future releases. :-( James # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:28:00 +0100 From: "Mathias af Jochnick" Subject: Re: (yello) Remix Album I really like the Tremendous Pain mixes, especially the Bible mix. It's a bugger of a mystery that the mix wasn't included on the Playstation WipeOut soundtrack! regards, Mathias af Jochnick # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:29:23 EST From: JULZMON@aol.com Subject: Re: (yello) The Yello Remix Album In a message dated 11/5/98 4:44:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, mrpulley@ix.net.au writes: > (like the Who's Gone Notre > Dame Mixes - anyone heard these?) its verry good. Julian # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:31:52 EST From: JULZMON@aol.com Subject: Re: (yello) The Yello Remix Album In a message dated 11/5/98 9:32:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, FGriego@aol.com writes: > One thing we here in the states can count on is paying import prices for it. You appreciate it so much more though and I find import CD's a much higher quality then it is here in the states artwork and all. Julian # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:51:36 +0100 From: "Jonas Warstad" Subject: (yello) A unique listening experience Thanks, Travis, for the most interesting posting lately. Here's what Dieter said in 1989: "The character’s name is Snootie Paulson. He’s the guy who wants something but instead of starting somewhere and really doing it, he dreams of it. Snootie Paulson takes this steering wheel and sits in his chair in his room and dreams of winning ‘the big race’ - but he’s not even started a race on a bicycle. This is the mistake most young artists make, they always think of doing something fabulous insted of doing something very small and unimportant that’s right for them. It’s like climbing a mountain - of course it’s fabulous to be on top of Mount Everest, but doing it starts with lifting your first foot. In the video a charcter comes in and pulls Snootie Paulson back from his dream and says ‘OK I give you a prize, now come back to the real world’ - and his name is Willie Ratio. [Music Technology 1/89]" You also wrote: > In almost every remix of Yello songs, they have to be almost > re-written from scratch, and just re-use the samples. I have a funny store to tell: remixers are often quite surprised to find out that when Yello's tapes arrive, someone forgot to include the track sheets (the list of what sound is on each track). They phone back only to be told that there are no! Boris is not using track sheets. Now this wouldn't be *that* strange if it was a 16-track tape or so - but we're talking about over 100 tracks here!! By the way, don't expect the "mystery" album before February next year. I will give you all the details before it's out (unless Roger is faster). JW # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 01:33:07 EST From: FGriego@aol.com Subject: Re: (yello) A unique listening experience In a message dated 11/5/98 10:21:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, jonwar@algonet.se writes: << I will give you all the details before it's out (unless Roger is faster) >> Another Race? # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 08:49:55 +0000 From: James.Gillett@iceland.co.uk Subject: (yello) Yello Peril Thanks Travis for great message to the list. I think on a philosophical note - what sums up Yello for me is what Boris is quoted as a saying: - "Yello is like a huge experimental field on which anything can happen." You could take this as a healthy attitude towards being open-minded, and prepared to accept change - not just in music but in life itself. James # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 03:33:50 EST From: tmetro@vl.com (Tom Metro) Subject: Re: (yello) complexity of Yello's music Travis Schneider writes: > ...most Yello songs...do not lend themselves to remixing easily. > > Take a listen to any Yello song, and imagine where you could cut it > and loop a sequence over and over again. Even a song like Oh Yeah, > which at first glance looks like they set the drum machine on > auto-repeat and went for coffee, is quite complex. I was thinking along these lines when I was recently listening to "To The Sea" and noticing how simplistic the music sounded in comparison to other Yello tracks. (A comparison to a Madonna track would not be unreasonable, though even Madonna, with help from William Orbit, is getting more complex.) It wouldn't hold up well as an instrumental. This would be my guess as to why fans of Yello-past haven't been too excited over "To The Sea." -Tom - -- Tom Metro Venture Logic tmetro@vl.com Newton, MA, USA # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:32:13 +0200 From: Juhana K Kouhia Subject: Re: (yello) A unique listening experience >From: Travis Schneider > >Compare this with a song by Madonna for instance, that can be cut in any >number of places and stitched back in seamlessly. I did record the How How (The Premix) to computer and cut the patterns to separate waves. I wrote a kind of tracksheet since I wanted to re-assemble the song by using the remix samples only. Your observation about the complexity of the mixes is what I have found too. Yours, Juhana # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 98 21:53:30 +1100 From: Mark Pulley Subject: Re: (yello) The Yello Remix Album >Subject: (yello) The Yello Remix Album >Sent: 6/11/98 2:35 AM >Received: 6/11/98 8:39 PM >From: James.Gillett@iceland.co.uk >To: Yello, yello@xmission.com > >>>>>One thing we here in the states can count on is paying import prices >for it. >Mmm. Distribtion is a bit scarce in the UK with Yello. No reason why it >should be any different to future releases. :-( If you can't get it locally when it's released, you can always buy it = over the net. I have a list of shops on my web site, and I know Jonas = W=E5rstad and Nik Upphed do as well. Mark - --------------- mailto:mrpulley@THEANTISPAM_ix.net.au --------------- "O joyous lump of sustenance, after the struggle to get you, to consume you seems almost criminal. Tough luck. I'm starving." (The 6th Doctor, "Doctor Who: Business Unusual") - ------------------ ----------------- # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 10:10:59 -0800 From: Travis Schneider Subject: Re: (yello) complexity of Yello's music > I was thinking along these lines when I was recently listening to > "To The Sea" and noticing how simplistic the music sounded in > comparison to other Yello tracks. (A comparison to a Madonna track > would not be unreasonable, though even Madonna, with help from > William Orbit, is getting more complex.) It wouldn't hold up well as > an instrumental. This would be my guess as to why fans of Yello-past > haven't been too excited over "To The Sea." Same reason why the "Live at the Roxy" track on their 1981-1985 compilation was disappointing. You can't just plug a bunch of yello samples into a synthesizer and just hammer away and out comes a tune. It has to be thought out and pieced together like some great painting - layers upon layers over the canvas. - -Trav! - --- You see in this world there are two kinds of people my friend - those with loaded guns and those who dig - you dig. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:25:53 -0600 From: "Shane Foss" Subject: (yello) Madonna Poket Universe William Orbit Funny Though. With the Help of William Orbit, Madonnas Most Recent Offering "Ray of Light" Was EPIC Compared To Pocket Universe. Only Opinion. Sure I'll Catch Hell...... Rocket # 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 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:10:34 +0000 From: James.Gillett@iceland.co.uk Subject: (yello) Madonna etc. In addition to the comment about the Madonna album, I must say that the new album by the UK pop-combo 'Steps' certainly does put 'Pocket Universe' in the shade. Well worth a listen. : - ) James # 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 #85 **************************