The Katie Melua Collection

Dødheimsgard - The Crystal Specter

Clutch
Pure Rock Fury
Wildhearts
Stop Us if You've Heard This One Before
Psychedelic Furs
Here Come Cowboys
yELLO
Stella

You know about Yello?! But ... but how?!

Boris Blank is one of my three most favorite producers,along with Chris Goss(Masters of Reality{QOTSA})and of course Devin Townsend
I'm suprised and pleased you know YELLo !!
This guy can explain it well
Alittle Context from a Forty Year Old.
by T. Norton
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Later I would do the back-research and come to fully appreciate the full importance of this group. If you hear ANYONE in pop music using a synthesizer in such a way that you can't tell it's a synthesizer, it is a direct result of Boris Blank's contributions and it's extremely hard to argue otherwise.

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Mr. Blank was inventing his own sounds and loops and using them exclusive of "normal" instruments before even having a group to work with (this would place in the mid 70*s somewhere) and Yello's career begins in 1979 with obvious inventiveness and mischievous part-swapping between organic instrumentation and machine-made mayhem: all fully-formed and ready for public consumption. Blank arranged music fundamentally from found and manipulated sounds, using live instruments as a "garnish": exactly the opposite of others who would use the synthesized sounds to pepper their classically arranged instrumentation, often with a purist attitude that kept the synth "in it's place".
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Oh cool! Nice article. Yeah my dad knew a guy who had met Boris... so I guess that's how I've heard of Yello. That article just about sums it up - there are sounds on Yello albums that I've never heard anywhere else. True visionaries, eh?

The second paragraph there spot on - "normal" instrumentation can be hard to find on a Yello album. Tell me, how did you hear about them? It seems that everyone knows the song, "Oh Yeah" from Farris Bueller's Day Off lol but no one seems to know the band that did the song - it's just one of those ubiquitous oddity songs, you know what I mean? xD

YELLo was one of the first concerts I ever saw back in 81' or maybe 82 Solid Pleasure' (I was pretty fried in those days so afew years are kinda blurred together )along with the imortal Gary Neuman and Ultravox. It actually was Neumans concert but eveyone got a long set.
Well I developed a life long fondness for all three amazing first gen.Techno/dancetrance but YELLo simply blew us all away.
Not even Gary's HUGE synth stack sound (also light years ahead of the pack reguarding new sounds) could compare to the weight of the rythem divine that is YELLo. They were shooting coloured streamers in time to the music which was very cool. Much of the
set had this green/blue atmosphere that went with the music perfectly. The percussion set used and partly shared that night was HUGE.
I must say somthing about Ultravox. They also were so heavy with the pre new wave sound before it had been denatured.And they were incredibly emotional and talented.
Being a metal head, I'm not the worlds greatest dancer but it's hard not to move when you listen to YELLo
PS the crowd that night was a freaktabulous trip. Many were painted and freaked out. One guy was walking around on stilts!!
Each band had total control of the audience from the beginning which is rare.

Massive Attack - Danny the Dog

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

Immortal - In My Kingdom Cold

George Lynch tunes

Howling Willie C***- world of filth

edited - wasn't aware there was a swear filter on here. Howling Wille Cake just didn't make any sense.

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

Givin it a try eh?

Massive Attack - Danny the Dog

Awesome

Massive Attack - Danny the Dog

Awesome

love that soundtrack

Playing Now: Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase.

Pretty bland. Lots of fancy guitar work, but nothing terribly interesting. Reminds me of Chris Impellitteri mixed with Nevermore.

Cued next: The Fall of Troy - Phantom on the Horizon

I'm looking forward to hearing this one.

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes.

I'm not a huge PT fan (I like them, I've just never been crazy about them), but this is a pretty awesome album. Very epic.

PS: To any who care, Phantom on the Horizon is a pretty awesome album as well (some not-so-great parts, but excusable in light of the good parts).

Pisschrist - Fear Factory

"Come with me if you want to live..."