MAN RECORDINGS INSPIRATION SERIES #13 : YELLO
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
A steady source of inspiration is the music by swiss trio Yello. In the late 80s they became world famous for their track “Oh Yeah” which was featured in various of Hollywood movies, most notably in “Ferris Buelers Day Off”. Yello´s body of work however comprises several albums containing a breathtaking range of musical blends, supported by analogue electronic music and the incredible sound library of one of it´s core members, Boris Blank. At a time, when computer memory would limit the length of a sample to two seconds, Yello collaged sounds from movies, industrial machines or everyday life with their middle European version of electro funk, spicing their music with a twisted passion for Mambo or Cha Cha. Parallel to their cutting edge production approach, Yello heavily supported the idea of the classic pop song, creating classics like “Vicious Games”, “Lost Again”, “Oh Yeah” or “I Love You”, making them regulars in Euroland´s pop-charts from 1983-1989. Yello also was one of the first groups to embrace the music video as an art form, with Yello´s lead singer Dieter Meier producing and directing all of the videos. Two of my favourite two songs from Yello are “Pinball Cha Cha” and “I Love You”:
