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Album: Electric Day
Released: May 27, 2011
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  • Genre: Ambient / Electronica / Live Electronics

    Location De

    Profile Views: 68878

    Last Login: 2/26/2012

    Member Since 6/27/2008

    Website www.facebook.com/YOUrovision

    Record Label bureau b. & IBZred

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Spring 1978, Udo Hanten collaborated with Ulrich Weber and brought up the band "YOU". Hanten on synths and Weber on electric guitar. In December 1978, first songs were presented in Berlin at the "Paragon" studio of Peter Baumann. Later a conversation with Conny Plank tipped the scales, to do a production by them self. The first album "Electric Day" was recorded between May and August 1979 at Udo Hanten's Spiegeltraum Studio (2 floors over North Sea). The production emerged from a collaboration between Udo Hanten, Ulrich Weber and Harald Grosskopf (at that time living in West-Berlin and member of Ashra). Albin Meskes completed the party during the production. Harald Grosskopf owned an eight-track tape recorder (which he got from Klaus Schulze) while Hanten supplied a couple of synthesizers and sequencers. In this recording environment, the team produced two records: Harald Grosskopf's debut LP "Synthesist" and "Electric Day". The line up included Udo Hanten and Albin Meskes on synthesizers, sequencers and Mellotron, Ulrich Weber on electric and acoustic guitars and some percussion; on acoustic drums and some synths-lines the famous "Lhan Gopal". (Drums on the title track "Electric Day" is a "first take" recording.) Mixdown took place at Panne-Paulsen Studio in Frankfurt/Main with the legendary Eberhard Panne at the desk from August 1 to 4, 1979. The young "Cain" label released the debut album of YOU. Design and front cover painting was done by Albin Meskes. Photographs on the cover backside by HRay/Holger Heine (San Francisco). On May 1981 YOU releases the 12" EP "Scanner part 1 & 2", again on "Cain" Records. The track was recorded in the AVC Studios in Ratingen and featured heavy guitar work by Ulrich Weber and was mixed in two, slightly differend versions. The line up was the same as on "Electric Day". The engineer was Helmut Brueker, an ex-partner of Udo Hanten from the synth-duo "Brueker and Hanten" in 1977. "Time Code" is the second album from Hanten and Meskes and appeared on the scene in summer 1983. It was released on the newly formed "Rock City Records" label by the late Merlin W. Frank. "Time Code" was the YOU album which took the longest recording time - between March 1982 and February 1983 and was the first production as a Synth-Duo. Guest musicians were ex-YOU member Ulrich Weber on guitar (track 8) and Helmut Brueker on electronic devices (track 1, 4, 8). Mixdown took place at MTK Studio with Bardo Kox. The LP-cover shows an air brush painting by Albin Meskes, the CD shows a computerized rendering of the same scene done on an Apple Macintosh with the program (you guessed it) KPT Bryce (special thanks to Kai and Eric)... Original release June 6th, 1983 on Rock City Records. In 1996 the song "Live Line" from the "Time Code" album has been covered by Italian dance project DIOLAC DUVAI (aka Claudio Diva) in a Robert-Miles-style manner. The cut is available on maxi-CD and 12-inch vinyl. In August 2004, the same artist added a new version. Further cover versions were done by the Italien DJ "Gigi D'Agostino" in a Synth-Pop style entiteld "Elektro Message" and as a "Hardcore-Trance" version by the Italians "Julian DJ and David Sonar". The third album, "Wonders From The Genetic Factory", was recorded between December 1983 and Janaury 1984 at the YOU studio by Udo Hanten and Albin Meskes (all compositions, production, arrangements and instrumental performance). Mixing was done again at Panne Productions/Frankfurt-Main with engineer Eberhard Panne. The guitar track on "Isotopic Moments" features Michael Dommers ("Wallenstein") and was recorded in his own studio. On vinyl side "B" is the "one-piece" title "Yourovison" which gave the inspiration for the band name change in 2000. Originally released on Rock City Records in 1984. The additional track #7 on the later released CD version, was inspired by Godfrey Reggio's movie "Koyaanisqatsi" and recorded live on December 24th, 1984 after midnight at Casablanca Cinema in "one go" while the film was shown on the big screen. Line up was just Udo Hanten and Albin Meskes on analog synthesizers and sequencers. No playback tapes, no computer-sequencing was involved. The original whole piece had the length of the film. (about 90 minutes). The front cover videographics were designed with a video-synthesizer by Udo Hanten, photograph by Dr. Christine Otto, retouching and layout by Albin Meskes. The Digitally Remastered Version of the debut LP "Electric Day" from 1979 was re-released in 1984 on Rock City Records, this LP remastered under the heavy use of Aphex Aural Exciter (remember that wonder machine from the early eighties?) with Eberhard Panne in his studio, on a Sony F1 digital recorder. The music is identical to the original LP except that the last track "Zero-Eighty-Four" was replaced by "Zereo-Eighty-Five", which is a different mix of the same piece. The later released CD-version of "Electric Day" brings back the original master tapes from the 1979 mix. "Laserscape" is the last album from YOU in the first period of their existence. It was recorded between November 1985 and February 1986 at the YOU Studio/ACA except track 8 which was recorded live at the "Philips Laserscape Krefeld" event (Laser by Host H. Baumann) on August 31th, 1985 and track 4, with the basic tracks performed and recorded at the Tangerine Dream Studio of Christoph Franke, Berlin, June 1985. "Laserscape Live" is a bonus track, available only on the CD-version of "Laserscape". The album was the first recording, that has been produced and mixed by the band entirely in their own studio without the help of external facilities. Guest musicians on "Laserscape" were Jaime M. Zenamon (Emulator & acoustic guitar on track 4 & 5) and Klaus Gertken (acoustic piano on track 4). Production by Hanten and Meskes. Cover design by Albin Meskes, the front cover photograph [taken from "Philips Laserscape Berlin"] by Horst H. Baumann, backcover photo taken by Frank Ebeling. The original record was released April 18th, 1986 on Racket Records. The term "Laserscape" is used by courtesy of the artist Horst H. Baumann. The LP "Breakfast In The Ruins" was a CENTRAL EUROPE PERFORMANCE production. A band project, wich was formed by Udo Hanten, Harald Grosskopf and Albin Meskes in 1987. During these times, different musicians participated in this project; e. g. Mike Pelzer and Markus Maria Jansen from "M. Walking On The Water", Sibi Siebert and Ralf Aussem from "Twelve Drummer's Drumming", Hans-Jörg Böckeler and his Choir, Lucian Zäyn, Marco Cancian, Frank Mevissen and Jaime M. Zenamon aka "Señor Canuto". Today's line up is: Hanten, Meskes and Mevissen. The YOU production "00:1996:00 - Electric Images Revisited", compiled in late 1995, features music from a period between 1992 and 1995, recorded under different circumstances by Albin Meskes and Udo Hanten. The CD is not just an audio CD featuring 45 minutes of electronic music, but an interactive CD-ROM unveiling the visual side of the two YOUrovision artists, who are concentrating more and more on multimedia work in addition to their music. The record is mixed mode and hybrid, so it works on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Recorded at Neo-Spiegeltraum, Robot City and Telecope Film studios. Mastered by Erik Matheisen. Cover design by Albin Meskes. "Era" - electronic music from 1978 to 1996 - is the almost complete collection of the musical works by Udo Hanten and Albin Meskes under the name YOU. This 5-CD-Box includes the original LP-work from 1979 to 1986 and additional tracks from this era.(Except the "Scanner" track.) After the name change to YOUrovion in 2000 the band released a "sequencer based tracks" CD from the time 1983-1985 recorded at the TD Studio of Christoph Franke in Berlin. The limited quantity release was sold out in 2002 and will be re-released in 2009. 2001 is the year of the "Dream Xperience" CD release, another production from the Berlin habitation in the mid 80s. Also to be re-released in 2009. YOUrovision "The Ambient Mixes" CD shows the past YOU music in future, ambient clothes. First time release was in the end of 2002. The CDR "Scanner part 1, part 2 and more" came up in 2003 . No new tracks but 5 different mixes find their place in digital bits. Unofficial YOU track releases.. were found on "The New Wave Complex - Volume 8" and "Electrounique Vol. 3 (12")" The 30th anniversary in 2009 of the first YOU release "Electric Day" will be celebrated with a special limited edition CD package "The Electric Box". April 2009: the Band re-change to the original band name: YOU . June 2009: Synch festival, Athens, Greec with YOU, live @ Benaki museum, MATIvision from Athens captured the live performance, using the unique multi-angle totally interactive spherical video technology. In December 2009 CD release of the live album BENAKI CYCLES on IBZred records. MellowJet.de distribution of BENAKI CYCLES in 2010. The label bureau b. from Hamburg re-relaesed the YOU album ELECTRIC DAY and TIME CODE on CD, 180gr. vinyl and download (Tapete Record shop) in May 2011. A new member also joint the band: Cosmic Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock on Guitar. A reason to return to the cosmic-electronic-krautrock style from the early day's...

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