Telex - This Is Telex (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

When Belgian musicians Dan Lacksman and Marc Moulin first joined forces as Telex in the late 1970s, the goal, Lacksman said last year, “was to do something not serious,” like taking a well-known French song and make it as slow as possible. It was Moulin who suggested couching their hijinks in synth pop’s minimalism.

Lacksman already had ample experience making slight and silly music with modular synthesizers. Recording with his EMS VCS 3 as the Electronic System, he scored a European hit with “Coconut,” a jaunty, bleep-heavy novelty in the mode of Gershon Kingsley’s “Popcorn.” With the royalties from that single, Lacksman bought a Moog module—Moulin already had his own MiniMoog—that became the central instrument on a series of albums that further blurred the lines between bubblegum pop and disco.

With vocalist Michel Moers in the mix, Lacksman and Moulin developed a sound that was both futuristic and slightly tacky—like dancing to “Autobahn” while sipping a frothy drink in a seaside disco. The six albums that the trio released were knowingly goofy yet thoughtfully composed, much like the work of Sparks, with whom Telex would collaborate. Along the way, the group managed to make a modest splash on the charts, represent Belgium in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest, and, as promised, slow Plastic Bertrand’s “Ça plane pour moi” to a sultry crawl.

TRACKLIST

1. Telex - The Beat Goes On/Off (Remastered)
2. Telex - Moskow Diskow (Remastered)
3. Telex - Twist à Saint-Tropez (Remastered)
4. Telex - Euro-vision (Remastered)
5. Telex - Dance To The Music (Remastered)
6. Telex - Drama Drama (Remastered)
7. Telex - Exercise Is Good For You (Remastered)
8. Telex - L'amour toujours (Remastered)
9. Telex - Radio-Radio (Remastered)
10. Telex - Rendez-vous dans l'espace (Remastered)
11. Telex - Beautiful Li(f)e (Remastered)
12. Telex - The Number One Song In Heaven (Remastered)
13. Telex - La Bamba (Remastered)
14. Telex - Dear Prudence



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