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BIOGRAPHY
Back in 1975 Bob Blank produced one of the first 12" disco records - the popular "To Be With You" by Jimmy Sabater. Opening the famed Blank Tape Studios in New York in 1976 and producing hit records (with his wife Lola a former performer with the James Brown revue) such as "Over Like A Fat Rat" by Fonda Rae put Blank Productions in the center of the music biz. Bob, the engineer on over 500 charted records (including 19 gold and platinum titles such as "Nothing But The Sun" by Sting) has been intimately involved with the East Coast music scene for 26 years.One of the founders of the Hip Hop Scene via his production of such seminal titles as "Over Like A Fat Rat" by Fonda Rae and his remix work in the late 70s and early 80s with DJs such as Larry Levan and others, Bob has also received mention in The Rolling Stone "Book Of Rock and Roll" as the producer of some of the most important Punk and No Wave artists, such as Lydia Lunch, Aural Exciters, and others, including Lola's "Bango" (with Dinasaur L). He was involved with production bands such as : Instant Funk, Ashford and Simpson, the Beach boys, Talking heads, Donna Summer, Sting, Patti Smith, Eddie Palmieri, Machito, & Fania all stars. And Of course with lots of ZE recording artists such as Kid creole and the coconuts, Lydia Lunch ( he co-produce Queen of Siam), James Whites, The Contortions, lizzy Mercier Descloux, Marie et les gar?ons ect... While he was recording Sun Ra's Lanquitidy sets at his studios, at the same time many of the best ZE records were being produced, recorded also by Bob, as chief ingeneer or producer, which may explain a lot. Aural Exciters was Bob's afterhours party record. After the sessions finished Bob used to ask all theses brillant artists to do something on his own project Aural Exciters. August Darnel and Andy ' Coati mundi' Hernandez from Kid Creole & the Coconuts wrote almost all the songs, helped with Ron Rogers & Adriana Kaegi from the Coconuts. The best studio musicians were the house band, James Chance plaid sax, Pat Place from the Contortions some guitars, eveybody contributed this crazy fun project. And it realy sounds like an avant garde Latin flavored P-Funk party. The album begame over the years a cult mutan disco album played all overf the world.
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