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Bandcamp / Buy When Belgian musicians Dan Lacksman and Marc Moulin first joined forces as Telex in the late 1970s, the goal, Lacksman said last year, “was to do something not serious,” like taking a well-known French song and make it as slow as possible. It was Moulin who suggested couching their hijinks in synth pop’s minimalism. Lacksman already had ample experience making slight and silly music with modular synthesizers. Recording with his EMS VCS 3 as the Electronic System, he scored a European hit with “Coconut,” a jaunty, bleep-heavy novelty in the mode of...

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Christian Eede , January 22nd, 2021 03:01 The Belgian synthpop trio's back catalogue will first be highlighted with compilation 'This Is Telex' Mute is embarking on a series of reissues of classic works by Telex. The series gets underway in April with the release of This Is Telex, a 14-track retrospective compilation highlighting a number of the Belgian trio's singles, from 1978 debut 'Twist À Saint Tropez' through to their final album, 2006's How Do You Dance? Tracks on the compilation have been newly mixed and remastered from the original tapes by band members Dan Lacksman and Michel Mo...