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artist: Telex
album: My Future
label: Hispavox / RKM Music
cat: 45-2283
year: 1982
genre: Synthpop
sub-genre: Electro
source: Vinyl 7inch
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.90 --Alt-Preset Standard
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 8,3 MB
link: http://www.telex-music.com
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
A 03:37 My Future
B 01:51 Tropical
total time: 05:28 min
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│release notes.
When radio DJ/jazz musician Marc Moulin, programmer/sound engineer
Dan Lacksman and vocalist Michel Moers got together in 1978 with
the deliberate goal of forming an all-electronic disco pop band,
they couldn't have chosen a better (or worse) moment: after all
this was a year when New Wave, guitars, seriousness and political
content were ruling. Telex expressed articulate, militant views on
the essential lightness of pop, and their tongue-in-cheek
championing of disco was not always well understood at the time by
the ideologically-correct rock press... which didn't keep their
first three singles ('Twist A Saint Tropez", "Moskow Diskow" and
"Rock Around The Clock") from becoming genuine hits in the UK and
in the rest of Europe.
Telex had a typically Belgian, self-deprecating sense of humour.
They were influenced by the famed Brussels school of comics (Tintin
etc.). For their initial press shots they had gone for a bizarre,
faceless image (later also to be assumed by the likes of Devo and
The Residents), but when one of their singles jumped into the UK
Top Forty, they soon found themselves appearing on Top Of The
Pops... Their career as performers hit an unparalleled peak when
they entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980, and performed for
millions of stunned viewers a synth+vocoder song appropriately
entitled "Eurovision", which actually talked about the fact that
they were performing on the Eurovision...
Telex went on to make five albums (the last one came out in 1986 on
Atlantic Records US), and many of their 12" achieved cult status in
the clubs, especially in America.
Telex had claimed at the time that "the best compliment anybody
could pay us is that our music is disposable - that's what all
music should be", and the press sometimes took the same view ("Of
course this is completely disposable music: next month it will hold
no interest. It says no more, and no less, than a pair of CourrΦge
peep-toe boots", wrote the Melody Maker in 79).
Ironically enough, the future proved them both wrong, as some of
their tracks just simply wouldn't go away... they seem to have
exerted a crucial influence on many eminent members of the Detroit
& Chicago house and techno crowd, who keep quoting them among their
all-time favourites...
Telex since 1986
Marc Moulin went on to produce many pop albums. He is one of the
head programmers on Belgian national radio. He writes plays and
books. His early jazz-funk albums (Placebo, Sam Suffy) are being
rediscovered by groove/breakbeat DJs, and have been recently
re-released.
Dan Lacksman has been running Synsound, a successful studio complex
in Brussels, where he recorded and co-produced scores of albums
(including the first Deep Forest album, and his own Pangea
project).
Michel Moers is a photographer, he's had several exhibitions and
works a lot for advertising. He also directs videos, and records
the sound of cicadas in Provence.
Enjoy!!. :p
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