Dieter Meier and Boris Blank show no signs of giving up on their eccentric modus operandi on their first new music for seven years
There are countless fabulous stories about the Swiss electronic duo Yello, particularly about their frontman, Dieter Meier. One of the best-known is the one about the time in 1972 – years before Yello became popular – when he installed a commemorative plaque at Kassel railway station in Germany which read “On 23 March 1994, from 3-4pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque.” And 22 years on from that unveiling, Meier kept his promise, to the delight of fans (at least one of whom had traveled specially from England) and general befuddlement of curious passersby.
My own favourite Meier story is the one about him being refused entry to a fetish club in London in the 1990s, because he wasn’t wearing the specified rubber outfit. Meier duly reached into his elegantly tailored suit pocket and pulled out a pencil, at the end of which was a small rubber eraser. He was allowed into the club.
It's been claimed Dieter Meier is a millionaire industrialist, poker player, golfer … but he is also a conceptual artist
Boris Blank was a truck driver, and transformed himself into a pioneer of sampling using found sounds. He has 100,000
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by Dave Simpson via Electronic music | The Guardian
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