01	Moscow Discow						04:12
	02	Ca Plane Pour Moi						05:21
	03	Something To Say						05:01
	04	Rock Around The Clock						03:53
	05	Twist A St.Tropez						03:18
	06	Tour De France						04:03
	07	Euro-Vision						02:43
	08	Dance To The Music						04:14
	09	Realite						03:31
	10	Cliche						00:44
	11	A/B						03:20
	12	My Future						03:35
	13	L'Amour Toujours						03:21
	14	Second Hand						03:27
	15	Tell Me It's A Dream						03:16
	16	Vertigo						03:41
	17	The Voice						03:37
	18	Radio, Radio						03:47
	19	Temporary Chicken						03:55
	20	We Are All Getting Old						03:41
	21	My Time						04:20

Telex
Formed 1978 in Brussels, Belgium
Disbanded 1988
Group Members Dan Lacksman Michael Moers Marc Moulin
Genres Electronica
Styles Euro-Pop, Synth Pop, Disco

by Steve Huey

Telex was a synth-disco trio formed in Brussels, Belgium, in 1978 by keyboardist Marc Moulin, who had previously performed with Cos. He was joined by vocalist Michel Moers and composer/synthesist Dan Lacksman, and together, Telex crafted a slick, stylish brand of Europop/disco with relaxed tempos and often-processed vocals. Their debut album, Looking for Saint-Tropez, was released in 1979, containing signature songs like the title track, "Moskow Diskow," and slowed-down covers of "Rock Around the Clock" and Plastic Bertrand's "Ca Plane Pour Moi." Neurovision (1980) and Sex (1981) followed, with the latter employing lyricists Ron and Russell Mael. (A 1982 U.K.-only release, Birds and Bees, contains all but three of Sex's tracks, plus several singles.) Nothing much was heard from the group after 1984's Wonderful World until 1988, when Looney Tunes displayed an about-face toward goofy, effects-laden electronic music somewhat akin to the Art of Noise or Yello. The band broke up soon after, though all three members also released material. Ten years later, long after all Telex material had gone out of print, the band received the remix-album treatment on SSR's I Don't Like Music (Remixes), featuring a host of new-school electronic producers like Carl Craig, Buckfunk 3000, Patrick Pulsinger, and Glenn Underground. A separate disc, I Don't Like Remixes, presented the Telex originals. The set proved so popular that a second remix disc, I (Still) Don't Like Remixes, Vol. 2, was released the following year.


1978 Looking for St. Tropez J'M2
1979 Looking for Saint-Tropez Sire
1979 Techno Kakumei King
1980 Neurovision Sire
1980 Neurovision [Expanded] J'M2
1981 Sex PVC
1982 Sex (Birds and Bees) Interdisc
1984 Wonderful World WEA
1988 Looney Tunes Atlantic
1994 Is Release a Humour?: We Love Telex Alfa
1994 Looking for Saint-Tropez [Japan] Alfa
1994 Neurovision [Japan] Alfa
1998 I Don't Like Music, Vol. 1 [Remixes LP... Crammed Discs
1999 I (Still) Don't Like Music, Vol. 2 [Remixes... Crammed Discs
1999 I (Still) Don't Like Music (Remixes, Vol. 2) SSR

1982 More than Distance RKM
1982 Sex/Sex (Birds and Bees) J'M2
1986 Wonderful World/Looney Tunes J'm2
1989 Les Rythmes Automatiques Magnetic
1993 Belgium...One Point VIVA Disc x
1998 I Don't Like Music (Remixes, Vol. 1) Disko B
1998 I Don't Like Remixes (Original Classics... SSR

1998 Moskow Diskow SSR s
1999 I Don't Like Music SSR s







Customer Reviews

Reviewer: Jeffrey J. Lyons (see more about me) from Pembroke, NH USA
Fun, fun, fun. Telex was a throughly unique band. Think of Kraftwerk and the Human League meeting Maurice Chavalier. I was pleased to find this in a relatively affordable CD. I had their material (rare as it is) on vinyl, which I purchased during the early 1980's. I was not aware of the French version of "B-Sides." I only knew the English version. That was a personal treat for me. This has a lot of the band's secondary "hits," not that they were producing Top 10 tunes every three months when they were together. It doesn't have their better known "Moscow Discow" or "Twist A Saint Tropez." But the selections here are definitive Telex.



The Best Album Ever from Telex, May 2, 2000
Reviewer: Paul Allaer (see more about me) from Cincinnati
Belgian electronic music group Telex issued its second album in 1980, and with it created its lasting legacy. This reissue contains all of the original 11 tracks, each one of them a classic, including the double "A" sided single We Are All Getting Old/En Route, the (modest) hit "Euro-Vision", as well as other classics such as Tour de France (years before the Kraftwerk single of the same name), Cliche (41 seconds of brilliance), and a rousing cover of Sly Stone's Dance to the Music. The reissue also contains 10 bonus tracks, including the non-album single Soul Waves (first time ever on CD), and various B sides and obscurities (check out the instrumental track Troppical). Never again would Telex equal its mixture of electronic dance tunes, humor, sarcasm and wits as well as displayed on "Neurovision". If you can buy only one Telex CD, look no further.