The fourth Telex album, Wonderful World, was barely distributed. However, the band still refused to play live and preferred to remain anonymous-common practice in the techno music artists the group later inspired but, nevertheless, unusual in 1981. The group's song "Euro-Vision" was a cheerful bleepy song with deliberately banal lyrics about the contest itself.įor their third album, Sex, Telex enlisted the US group Sparks to help write the lyrics. We got ten points from them and finished on the 19th spot."-Marc Moulin "We had hoped to finish last, but Portugal decided otherwise. The group entered and were eventually sent to the finals, although they apparently hoped to come in last. In 1980, Telex's manager asked the group to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. The group's debut album, Looking for Saint Tropez, featured the worldwide hit single "Moskow Diskow". Telex built its music entirely from electronic instruments, employing joyously irreverent humor. 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.
In 1979, mixing the aesthetics of disco, punk and experimental electronic music, they released a stripped-down synthesized cover version of "Twist à St.
Today's artists are 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.N'Joy
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