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Yello is a popular Swiss electronic band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their single

Oh Yeah, which featured a rich mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals. The song became famous after being featured in the American movies Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Secret of My Success, and more recently Soul Plane. The song is the theme for Duffman on The Simpsons. In the UK they are probably best known for the Number 7 hit

The Race.

Yello was originally formed by Boris Blank and Carlos Perón in the late 1970s. Dieter Meier, a millionaire playboy with a very versatile career, was brought in when the two founders realised that they needed a singer. Meier and Blank joined forces in 1979 to release a single called I.T. Splash. The LP Solid Pleasure, featuring the hit dance single Bostich, was released the following year. It wasn’t until 1983 that Yello received substantial media attention, with the release of

I love you and

Lost Again. Peron left the band in 1983 to start a solo career.

Yello takes great pride in their original sound, which is mainly characterised by weird samples, a heavy reliance on rhythm and Dieter Meier’s dark voice. Every track on a Yello album has been created by the band from scratch. Every instrument has been sampled and engineered by Boris Blank, who over the years has built up an original sample library of over 100,000 named and categorized sounds.

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tivesant wrote:
10 hours ago

Check it out, you'll know what I mean -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE

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abrigodesign wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

out stand dank

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loadminik88 wrote:
17 days ago

hat definitiv was :) Super!

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Jureiko wrote:
21 days ago

New version of bostich sucks. Good album though

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p-5-5-5-5-5 wrote:
23 days ago

Хотя при отправлении ритуалов полезно иметь под рукой эти физические "орудия", полезно знать, как они разменяют квартиру,.

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LordBrixton wrote:
24 days ago

A great great band, and the two best moustaches in pop

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tangerman wrote:
last month

It`s just you Jade. Don`t even try to drag these two fantastic musicians down in the mud!

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Merlin-of-Chaos wrote:
last month

no, jade, it's only you, who looks for paedophiles everywhere. Better check with dada art and a number of Yello clips (featuring Dieter Meier's daughter Eleonore Meier-Leuthold), then you might find some other explanations apart of peadophilia. Leave that to Pollanick

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Slavomir wrote:
last month

GREAT MUSIC!!!

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jade_amanda_ wrote:
last month

anyone else think these guys are paedophiles? "such a goood child, yeah gooood child, oooohhh yeahhh, beautiful" amazing film clip. visually brilliant, but something about this song is very very disturbing.

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remyxiscalling wrote:
last month

drive driven..

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Zeitgeist1980 wrote:
last month

the new album, very funky

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Darkchef wrote:
last month

Anyone know when the album will be available in the UK??

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Underhertz wrote:
last month

Listen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this wonderfully http://www.lastfm.ru/music/The+Duchess+Jaguar

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Mister_Good wrote:
last month

New album is pretty good. but it's not their best.

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faith_fractured wrote:
last month

not bad)

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kurtbaebi wrote:
last month

Toll, fein extra.........Kurt

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ERM0NIA wrote:
last month

Beautiful new album!

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Killerdwarf wrote:
last month

wow wow wow ... great new album!

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saferdrunk wrote:
September 2009

Could someone send me their new single? Part Love?

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