Boris Blank (of pioneering electronic duo Yello) reaches Kickstarter target
· Electrified’ Box set confirmed for September 15th release date
Boris Blank
Box set: ‘Electrified’
Format: 3 X 12” vinyl // 2 X CD // 1 X DVD // 1 X MC // 36 page booklet
Label: Blank Media
Release date: September 15th 2014
‘Electrified’ is a collection of soundtrack work from the celebrated composer. This limited edition solo box-set will contain 3 hours of unreleased music spanning 5 decades, from 1977 to 2014.
Alongside machine music cornerstones like Africa Bambaata, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, and the Bellville three (Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson) the influence of Boris’ music (as one half of Swiss duo Yello) has been immeasurable since their inception in the late 70s on pop plus house, techno, electro, and the myriad sub genres proliferating to this day.
“The music of Boris helped to mold all the music I would conceive in the future” Carl Craig
“Boris Blank – it always sounds like a bit more than just music” Carl Cox
“Boris Blank – he started it all” David Morales
Yello’s unique combination of music, video, art and humour has left a lasting impression on a generation of artists and fans, with subsequent intelligent avant pop purveyors indebted including Lady Gaga, Pet Shop Boys, Metronomy, Peaches, The Knife, Björk and the KLF.
Boris Blank (along with Dieter Meier) as Yello are one of the most influential electronic bands of the last 40 years, with pioneering tracks like ‘The Race’, ‘Oh Yeah’ and ‘Bostich’ impacting as hip leftfield dancefloor anthems and world-wide hits alike. Their music also made big waves in the movies – most notably on John Hughes’ ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ and Michael J Fox’s ‘Secret of My Success’.
Over the years, Boris wrote many soundtrack ideas that were never publicly released. ‘Electrified’ is a collection of 58 unreleased soundtracks presented across four formats. In the analog domain, there are 3 vinyl LPs (180gm) and one metal-reel audio cassette. For those who prefer CD, the mini-box contains the 3 vinyl LPs as a double CD. Twelve films and animations are included on the DVD.
‘Electrified’ contains the songs, remixes and extended versions from the Avant Garden soundtrack series. There are new pieces written this year plus ‘Rote Fabrik’, a rare album from the 1977-83 archive and a fascinating insight into the building blocks of ‘Solid Pleasure’ and ‘Claro Que Si’. Finally, there’s a 36-page booklet of rare personal Boris Blank photographs, biography and comments.
Moving effortlessly through genres with the most advanced studio techniques and sampling, sound-collage is an interesting path. Without exaggerating, you can easily trace the roots of this development to Yello.
Boris Blank, never set out to be a rock musician. He never learned to play an instrument or read music. For him the world – whatever he heard, a motor, a clock – was still music. When Yello started recording, the sampler hadn’t even been invented. Boris diligently sampled sounds by recording directly onto tape loops. No-one had heard such innovative electronic music before, not even the masters of the genre.
Boris Blank ‘electrified’: http://borisblankelectrified.com
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