TELEX - Belgian synthpop pioneers share new version of 'Twist À Saint Tropez' from MAXI, out Dec 4 2026

TELEX BELGIAN SYNTHPOP PIONEERS SHARE NEW VERSION OF  ‘TWIST À SAINT-TROPEZ’,  THEIR DEBUT 1978 SINGLE   TAKEN FROM MAXI, A NEW ALBUM OF EXTENDED MIXES DOUBLE VINYL / CD OUT 4 DEC 2026    LISTEN TO THE TRACK HERE

“The Original Eurovisionaries” - Electronic Sound   “Telex’s work helped open up a new front for electronic music… and firmly placed it in the mainstream.” - MOJO   “… a vital bridge between Kraftwerk and arguably all subsequent EDM… New Beat’s ground zero.” – Classic Rock

[Telex, credit Xavier Lambours] Telex have shared a new track from their forthcoming release, MAXI, an album of 13 extended versions of beloved classic tracks from the Belgian trio, out on vinyl and CD on 4 December 2026 via Mute.   The track extends their 1978 cover of Les Chats Sauvages’ 1960s hit, ‘Twist À Saint Tropez’, which launched the Belgium synthpop originators into the world.

Listen to new maxi mix of their debut single, ‘Twist À Saint Tropez’  The Belgian synthpop trio - Marc Moulin (1942- 2008), Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers - launched in Brussels in 1978, as one of only a handful of synthpop pioneers at the time, bringing electronic pop to the mainstream. For the new album, the surviving members have revisited the original tapes to create new Maxi Versions. Featuring new mastering with updated mixes, the album stays true to what we know and love about Telex. Listen to their extended mix of ‘Moscow Diskow’ MAXI features extended mixes of tracks such as ‘Euro-vision’, which was famously entered into the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980, representing Belgium. Moers says he regarded their entry as “very Situationist International, the worm in the apple.” and they resolved either to come first or last. They quite didn’t achieve either goal, but became part of the Eurovision saga.    Also featured is their cover of Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around The Clock’, in which all of the rock is removed leaving nothing but the clock; a ticking, vocoderised, supremely deadpan robot parody of the original, earnt them an invitation to perform on Top of the Pops in 1979.   Later tracks in a career that saw them releasing albums up to 2006, include the Dadaist cut-up “rap” of ‘Peanuts’, and ‘Rendez-Vous Dans L’Espace’.   Telex announced their retirement in 2008, following Moulin’s death, and in 2021 began a new partnership with Mute beginning with the release of This Is Telex, featuring two unreleased tracks, and newly mixed and remastered catalogue reissues. Listen to This Is Telex here.   Telex MAXI is released on double transparent red & blue vinyl and CD on 4 December 2026. A digital release will follow in 2027. Pre-order MAXI TELEX MAXI TRACKLISTING (cat # TELEX7) Moskow Diskow (Maxi) Soul Waves (Maxi) L’Amour Toujours (Maxi) Rock Around The Clock (Maxi) Temporary Chicken (Maxi) Dance To The Music (Maxi) Eurovision (Maxi) En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventures (Maxi) Rendez-Vous Dans L’Espace (Maxi) Peanuts (Maxi) Twist À Saint-Tropez (Maxi) Spike Jones (Maxi) We Are All Getting Old (Maxi)   RECENT PRAISE FOR TELEX   “Telex were largely misunderstood during their time together in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, yet this boxset containing the arch Belgian synthpop trio’s six newly remastered albums suggests they deserve a closer listen.” - Uncut “Mute… is a natural home for the back catalogue of these Belgian surrealists…” - Record Collector   “This release is a must for all synth music fans.” – Blitzed magazine   Connect with Telex Instagram / Facebook / YouTube Connect with Mute INSTAGRAM | WEB | TIK TOK | FACEBOOK | BLUESKY | X

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul Announce New Album, Track & North American Tour Dates

CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY & BOLIS PUPUL

ACCLAIMED DUO ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM MAINLAND MADININA

OUT FEB 5TH VIA DEEWEE / BECAUSE MUSIC - PRE-ORDER HERE


SHARE ABSURDIST NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “FROM HEALER TO DEALER”

A deeply personal, riotous exploration of grief, friendship, parenthood,

family history and colonial legacy - LISTEN | WATCH


ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

ON SALE NOVEMBER 13TH - TICKETS HERE

PRAISE FOR EARLY SINGLE “GOOGOO GAGA”

Rolling Stone: "Songs You Need To Know"

Stereogum: "The Belgian musical duo knows a thing or too about artpop, and they prove it once again on new single ‘Googoo Gaga’... throbbing, strobing, high-energy dance track”

Consequence: "the song remains a buoyant, energetic introduction to the Belgian duo's left-field electronica and indestructible pop hooks"

The Needle Drop: "danceable synthy mom banger and I'm loving it"

Paste Magazine: "the throb of new parenthood distilled into a nursery rhyme… In Adigéry and Pupul’s vision, care is instead synonymous with power—with rhythm, survival, agency.”

Pitchfork: Included in "Pitchfork Selects"




‘Mainland Madinina’ Cover Art | download here


Today, acclaimed Belgian duo Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul announce Mainland Madinina, due February 5th via DEEWEE / Because Music. The new album is their first collaborative album in almost 5 years and follows their globally-praised 2022 debut Topical Dancer. More personal in its focus but no less ambitious, the new album explores grief, parenthood, lineage and colonial history through the duo’s distinctive blend of electronic pop, dance-punk delivered with their signature sharp, irreverent humor. They also share new single

“From Healer to Dealer” and announce 2027 North American and European tour dates (see all dates below).

Pre-order Mainland Madinina here: https://charlotteandbolis.lnk.to/MainlandMadinina.

The album also retains the satirical edge that defined Topical Dancer, including new single “From Healer to Dealer.” Produced with Stephen & David Dewaele, the track is a hilarious and ridiculous dialogue between “Grace” and “Ruben,” two wellness-obsessed maniacs who Adigéry and Pupul use to explore the complex and often confused vernacular of health culture.

Listen to “From Healer to Dealer” HERE and watch the Lennert Madou-directed video HERE.

WATCH & SHARE “FROM HEALER TO DEALER”



The album reflects on family, belonging and the histories we carry and is named for their respective places of origin - for Pupul, mainland China where his grandparents are from and Hong Kong where his mother is from; and Madinina, the Indigenous name for the Caribbean island of Martinique, where for Adigéry’s mother is from. Its title imagines a meeting point between two seemingly distant places, questioning the boundaries between mainland and island, and creating a shared space in which their stories can sit alongside one another.

The record grew out of conversations between the two friends as their lives changed. In the years since Topical Dancer was recorded, both have become parents, while Adigéry has also experienced the loss of her father to Alzheimer’s disease. Pupul’s solo album Letter to Yu, inspired by journeys to his late mother’s homeland of Hong Kong, brought his own family history into focus. Together, these experiences led the pair to explore the parallels between their backgrounds coming together in Belgium – from Pupul’s grandparents’ Chinese restaurant in Aalst to Adigéry’s mother’s cocktail bar, Madinina, in Ghent.

Written in Ghent and Martinique, Mainland Madinina moves between intimate songwriting and the duo’s familiar electronic intensity. The pair returned to the fundamentals of songwriting, working with little more than a guitar to create songs that could not hide behind production. The result is a record that makes space for vulnerability while retaining the energy, wit and unpredictability that have always defined their collaborations.

Soulwax once again assisted as mentors-slash-co-producers on Mainland Madinina, and Adigéry describes their contribution as invaluable. “They’re people who can really inspire us when we get stuck – they invite us to go deeper, to really grasp the intention behind the song,” she says. Adds Pupu,: “They’re still the musical chiropractors – they really know where to push when stuck.”

At its heart, Mainland Madinina is about what we inherit, what we choose to carry and how we find a sense of belonging. Where Topical Dancer confronted the absurdities of contemporary life through provocation and humour, the new album turns towards the duo’s own histories, finding connections between personal experience and wider questions of identity, memory and community. It is a record shaped by change and loss, but also by the sustaining power of friendship and the possibility of making something new from the past.

CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY & BOLIS BUPUL 2027 TOUR DATES

Feb 21 Cologne, DE - Club Volta

Feb 23 Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso

Feb 24 Antwerp, BE - De Roma

Feb 25 Brussels, BE - AB

Feb 26 Paris, FR - Élysée Montmartre

Mar 01 Glasgow, UK - Classic Grand

Mar 02 Manchester, UK - Gorilla

Mar 04 London, UK - Here @ Outernet

Mar 05 Bristol, UK - Lantern Hall

Mar 06 Lille, FR - Grand Mix

Mar 09 Hamburg, DE - Mojo

Mar 10 Copenhagen, DK - Vega

Mar 11 Berlin, DE - Astra

Mar 13 Warsaw, PL - Oczki

Mar 23 Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom

Mar 24 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall

Mar 26 Portland, OR - Polaris Hall

Mar 27 Vancouver, BC - Hollywood Theatre

Mar 28 Seattle, WA - Neumos

Mar 30 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall

Apr 02 Washington, DC - The Atlantis

Apr 03 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw




purchase tickets here

Hawkwind Legend Robert Calvert’s “Test Tube Conceived” Celebrates 40 Years of Prophecy

HAWKWIND LEGEND ROBERT CALVERT’S “TEST TUBE CONCEIVED” CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF PROPHECY

Los Angeles, California: When Robert Calvert released his fifth solo album, Test-Tube Conceived, in July 1986, the future that he foresaw was still unspooling… slowly.  Having led Hawkwind through two of the most significant eras in their long career, 1972’s Space Ritual tour, and a triumvirate of career-best albums at the other end of the decade, Calvert had long since established himself among the most visionary lyricists of his era. Two solo albums in between those times, 1974’s Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters and the following year’s Lucky Leif and the Longships, meanwhile, made it clear that there was far more to his work than the sci-fi tinged poetry and lyrics that characterized Hawkwind, with Henry Rollins just one voice among the many that still proclaim “Robert Calvert's album Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters should be in every record collection.” Calvert’s fifth solo album, 1986’s Test-Tube Conceived, deserves similar accolades, as the UK paper Melody Maker’s review declared. “Seven months into 1986, and the album of the year may already be with us.”  And, on December 18, Test-Tube Conceived returns to the shelves with a special 40th Anniversary edition, the original 10 song album joined by eight bonus tracks, replaying the majority of the album in Calvert’s original demo form - plus, streeting today as a single, a previously unreleased 2026 remix of the so-prophetically titled “On Line.” SINGLE: https://orcd.co/robertcalvert_online2026remix Releasing on slipcased CD and across three strikingly colored vinyl discs (clear, translucent blue and coke bottle green), Test-Tube Conceived finds Calvert still fascinated by the electronics that powered his previous album, Freq.  But whereas its predecessor feels minimalist, home-made even, Test-Tube Conceived sparkles throughout. The album was recorded at Foel Studios in Wales, with the studio’s owner, fellow Hawkwind alumnus Dave Anderson, guesting on bass, the album plays across a broad musical palette.  And when that aforementioned Melody Maker review proclaimed “side two [of the vinyl]… ranks among the strongest bodies of work Calvert has yet produced,” that was not hyperbole. Neither was the observation that Calvert’s vocals were “forever one of rock’s most lethal weapons.” Test-Tube Conceived was not Calvert’s first album to warn of what the future held. He had touched upon the titular subject before, in Freq’s “Acid Rain,” home to the blindingly brilliant observation that “heredity is chosen by anyone who wanks” (“jerks off” in American parlance).  Later in the song cycle, “Thanks To The Scientists” revisited a theme that Calvert first broached in the poem “The Starfarer’s Despatch” - the first piece he ever performed with Hawkwind, in 1971, and later to become Hawkwind’s “Spirit of the Age.”  “Thanks to the scientists… who made you / You’re always there right by my side / my biotronologic bride” What separated Calvert’s writings from so many other artists whose eyes were also fixed upon a future dystopia, however, was his refusal to preach. Like so much of his work, Test-Tube Conceived was observation, not condemnation, as Calvert explained in an interview in 1982.  “I do not attempt to put any political/social comment in my lyrics at all. What I’ve always done, I’ve used fantasy and sci fi elements to actually try to be relevant to more everyday things.”   It was just that this time, those “everyday things” released tendrils that are still unfurling today - meaning Test-Tube Conceived might well be more relevant in 2026 than it ever was forty years ago. CD/VINYL: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=robert+calvert+test-tube+conceived DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/robertcalvert_testtubeconceived  Track listing 1.In Vitro Breed 2. The Rah Rah Man 3. Telekinesis 4. I Hear Voices 5. Fanfare For The Perfect Race 6. On Line 7. Save Them From The Scientists 8. Fly On The Wall 9. Thanks To The Scientists 10. Test-Tube Conceived CD BONUS TRACKS 11. The Rah Rah Man (Demo) 12. Telekinesis (Demo) 13. I Hear Voices (Demo) 14. On Line (Demo) 15. Fly On The Wall (Demo) 16. Thanks To The Scientists (Demo) 17. Test-Tube Conceived (Demo) 18. On Line (2026 Mix)