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= TELEX = Belgium...One Point Telex was a Belgian synthpop group formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "making something really European, different from rock, without guitar — and the idea was electronic music."

History
In 1979, mixing the aesthetics of disco, punk and experimental electronic music, they released a stripped-down synthesized cover version of "Twist à St. Tropez" by Les Chats Sauvages. They followed up with an ultra-slow cover of "Rock Around the Clock", a relaxed and dispassionate version of Plastic Bertrand's punk song "Ça Plane Pour Moi", and a mechanical cover of "Dance to the Music", originally by Sly Stone. Telex built its music entirely from electronic instruments, employing joyously irreverent humor. The group's debut album, Looking for Saint Tropez, featured the worldwide hit single "Moskow Diskow".

In 1980, Telex's manager asked the group to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. The group entered and were eventually sent to the finals, although they apparently hoped to come in last.

""We had hoped to finish last, but Portugal decided otherwise. We got ten points from them and finished on the 19th spot." - Marc Moulin"

The group's song "Euro-Vision" was a cheerful bleepy song with deliberately banal lyrics about the contest itself. The Eurovision audience seemed unsure how to react to the performance, and after the band stopped playing, there was mostly stunned silence with scattered polite applause; Michel Moers took a photograph of the bewildered audience as the band walked off-stage. A sign of the confusion caused by the performance was during the vote-counting with Greece awarding Belgium three points and the announcer thinking that she had misheard the vote and trying to award the points to the Netherlands.

For their third album, Sex, Telex enlisted the US group Sparks to help write the lyrics. However, the band still refused to play live and preferred to remain anonymous&mdash;common practice in the techno music artists the group later inspired but, nevertheless, unusual in 1981. The fourth Telex album, Wonderful World, was barely distributed. In 1986, Atlantic Records signed Telex and released the album Looney Tunes in 1988. In 1989, Telex revisited their old tracks and remixed them to resemble house music and other genres then prevalent in electronic pop. The result was Les Rythmes Automatiques, released in 1989.

After a long hiatus, Telex made a comeback in March 2006 with How Do You Dance on EMI Records. It contained five original compositions as well as five covers. The group's last single was a cover of "On the Road Again", originally by Canned Heat. They also produced remixes for other artists' single releases, including "A Pain That I'm Used To" by Depeche Mode and "Minimal" by the Pet Shop Boys.

Following the death of band member Marc Moulin in 2008, the surviving members of the band announced their retirement from making music with the band's final release, a compilation album titled Ultimate.

Albums

 * 1979: Looking For Saint Tropez
 * 1980: Neurovision
 * 1981: Sex (released in some countries as "Birds and Bees" with a slightly altered track listing)
 * 1984: Wonderful World
 * 1988: Looney Tunes
 * 2006: How Do You Dance?

Compilations and remix albums

 * 1989: Les Rythmes Automatiques (album of re-recorded back-catalogue))
 * 1993:  (a box set of the first five albums plus bonus tracks)
 * 1994: Is Release A Humour? - We Love Telex (Japan only. remixed by Japanese DJs)
 * 1998:  (remixed by Carl Craig and others)
 * 1998: I Don't Like Remixes: Original Classics 78-86 (a 'best-of' compilation)
 * 1999: I (Still) Don't Like Music Remixes Vol. 2 (DJ remixes)
 * 2009: Ultimate Best Of

Neurovision
Neurovision est le deuxième album studio du groupe Telex, paru en 1980. L'album contient la chanson ""Eurovision"" avec laquelle Telex participa au Concours Eurovision de la chanson en terminant parmi les derniers avec 10 points du Portugal.

Sex
Sex est le troisième album du groupe belge Telex sorti en 1981.

Autour de l'album

 * Dans certains pays l'album est renommé "Birds & Bees"
 * L'album a été édité plusieurs fois et a connu des changements au niveau des morceaux
 * Les paroles ont été totalement écrites par les Sparks et l'album est entièrement composé par Michel Moers
 * ZZ Top, dont Billy Gibbons est un grand fan de Telex, avait l'habitude de terminer leurs concert en passant la chanson Exercise Is Good For You.

Birds & Bees
Par la suite, les morceaux "Mata Hari", "Dummy" et "L'amour Toujours ne furent pas présents sur l'édition CD de l'album. Ils seront néanmoins édités dans le box-set "Belgium One Point".

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 * Sparks

Wonderful World
Wonderful World est le quatrième album studio du groupe Telex, paru en 1984.

Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes est le cinquième album studio du groupe belge Telex. Malgré la présence de nombreux hits comme Spike Jones, Peanuts ou encore Temporary Chicken, l'album fut un échec commercial retentissant si bien que Telex ne fit pas de veritable nouvel album (excepté des remix) avant How Do You Dance? en 2006. L'album est aujourd'hui très recherché par les collectionneurs.

Les Rythmes Automatiques
Les Rythmes Automatiques est un album du groupe belge Telex. Cet album contient des chansons du groupe remixées selon le son house music et d'autres genres de musique qu'ils inspirèrent abondamment. L'album n' eu que peu de succès mais poussa Kraftwerk à faire pareil avec The Mix 2 ans plus tard.

How Do You Dance?
How Do You Dance? est le sixième album du groupe belge Telex. La première piste de cet album est une reprise de On The Road Again de Canned Heat. Il contient le clip de la même chanson.