Telex Shares New EP Collated From Forthcoming Career-Spanning Box Set

TELEX BOX SET THEIR 6 STUDIO ALBUMS NEWLY MIXED & REMASTERED DUE OUT APRIL 14th, 2023 LISTEN TO TELEX EP3, COLLATING A TRACK FROM EACH LP

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Telex are getting set to release a box set collating the long-awaited remastered reissues of their 6 studio albums, Looking for Saint-Tropez (1979), Neurovision (1980), Sex (1981), Wonderful World (1984), Looney Tunes (1988) and How Do You Dance? (2006). Pre-order here: https://mute.ffm.to/telex_boxset Remastered and newly mixed from the original tapes by Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, Telex will be out as a 6-piece vinyl box set, a 6xCD box set and digitally on Mute on April 14th, 2023. The Belgian synthpop trio, Marc Moulin (1942- 2008), Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, launched in Brussels in 1978 and, as one of only a handful of synthpop pioneers at the time, helped bring electronic pop to the mainstream.   The new EP includes tracks from across all 6 albums, including “Something To Say” from their debut, the single “We Are All Getting Old” from Neurovision, “The Man With The Answer” from their collaborative album with Sparks, Sex, “Vertigo” from Wonderful World, “Spike Jones” from Looney Tunes and “Move”’ from How Do You Dance? Listen to EP3 HERE Their debut album Looking For Saint Tropez contains covers of Plastic Bertrand’s pop-punk “Ça Plane Pour Moi” and Bill Haley’s “Rock Around The Clock”, in which, so to speak, all of the rock is removed leaving nothing but the clock, a ticking, vocoderised, supremely deadpan robot parody of the original. Had Telex merely confined themselves to such covers they might have been regarded as a rather clever comedy band. However, they also cut “Moskow Diskow”, a rollocking, swerving, dancefloor classic which laid down the railroad for as yet unimagined electronic music like house and techno. Ahead of its time, the album’s reputation has only been enhanced throughout the years.  The follow up, Neurovision, includes the track “Euro-vision” which was famously entered into the Eurovision Song Contest, 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 didn’t achieve that goal, but became part of the Eurovision saga.  For 1981’s Sex the trio teamed up with Sparks, a match made in heaven given both band’s determination to make electronic pop music suffused with conceptual wit. They got along tremendously, Ron & Russell Mael staying on in Brussels far longer than they’d originally intended and Sparks contributed lyrics for the entire album. Wonderful World followed in 1984 and the title track included here on the EP shows a band continuing to push a state-of-the art sound. 1988’s Looney Tunes, featuring the Dadaist cut-up “rap” of “Peanuts”, resulted in Motown among those vying to sign them. “It would have been great to have been the second white band on Tamla Motown. Iron Butterfly were the first.”, says Lacksman. That wasn’t to be, though, and the band instead worked on projects outside of Telex until 2006’s How Do You Dance?, an album that proves that Telex remained not only true to themselves but had grown with the new developments in musical software  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. Listen to the album here.       LOOKING FOR SAINT-TROPEZ (1979) – red vinyl Moskow Diskow Pakmoväst Café De La Jungle Ça Plane Pour Moi Some Day / Un Jour Something To Say Rock Around The Clock Victime De La Societe Twist À Saint-Tropez NEUROVISION (1980) – white vinyl  A/B Réalité Cliché En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventures Tour De France We Are All Getting Old My Time Plus De Distance (More Than Distance) Euro-Vision Dance To The Music Lakelele Soul Waves   SEX - lyrics by Sparks – orange vinyl  Brainwash Drama, Drama Haven’t We Met Somewhere Before Long Holiday The Man With The Answer Carbon Copy Exercise Is Good For You Dream-O-Mat Dummy Sigmund Freud’s Party WONDERFUL WORLD – blue vinyl  L’amour Toujours So Sad Raised By Snakes It Could Happen To You Second Hand Tell Me It’s A Dream Vertigo The Voice Radio-Radio Wonderful World LOONEY TUNES – yellow vinyl I Don’t Like Music Temporary Chicken Spike Jones Beautiful Li(f)e Dingo Bells I Want Your Brain Baby, When? Peanuts Happy End (I Wanna) Rendez-Vous Dans L’espace HOW DO YOU DANCE? - green vinyl On The Road Again How Do You Dance? This Is Your Song The Number One Song In Heaven J’aime La Vie White Noise Move! Jailhouse Rock Do Worry La Bamba-X   The vinyl Telex box set is released by Mute, and includes a 12-page booklet and audio download code. Pre-order: https://mute.ffm.to/telex_boxset   CONNECT WITH MUTE: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | WEB