German music industry honors Yello
Swiss pop duo Yello will be honored with the German Music Award Echo for their lifetime achievement this year. The Deutsche Phono-Akademie, the cultural institute of the German Music Industry Association (BVMI), is honoring the duo as "one of the most internationally influential formations in electro-pop".
With titles like Oh Yeah, The Race or Vicious Games Yello, consisting of Boris Blank and Dieter Meier, made music history and enjoyed worldwide success. As pioneers of sampling technology and creators of unusual rhythm structures, they inspired artists from a wide range of genres, from hip-hop and funk to electro-pop and techno.
The band's first recording session takes place in a car test laboratory. Among other things, the original trio recorded the sounds of a steel crusher on tape and incorporated them into their music. In the course of further experiments, for example, gorilla sounds are mixed with Latin American cha-cha beats.
With the album You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess In the 1980s, Meier and Blank were instrumental in defining the serene and cool sound of the time, which was subsequently copied by many bands.
The two band members will receive the Echo in person at the big awards ceremony at Messe Berlin on March 27. First German Television will broadcast the award ceremony live on March 27 at 8:15 pm.
