The Belgian pop group Telex was formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, as a kind of elaborate joke. 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. See also: 1977 in music, other events of 1978, 1979 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 14 - The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Franciscos Winterland Ballroom. ... Musicien, (print, radio, tv) journalist from Belgium. ... A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. ... Aesthetics is another meaning for visual style, such examples are Realism , Documentary realism, Psychological realism, Expressionism, and Surrealism // Aesthetics in History and Philosophy Thinkers and sages have pondered beauty and art all over the world for millennia, but the subject was formally distinguished as an independent philosophical discipline in the... Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136 beats per minute) that originated in the early-1970s, a derivative of funk and soul music, popular with audiences in larger cities all over the world. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ... Cover may mean: Cover (container), a lid Cover (telecommunications), a communications concealment technique Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package Cover (law), a remedy for the breach of acontract for the receipt of goods. ...

They followed up with an ultra-slow cover of "Rock Around the Clock", a hilariously relaxed and dispassionate version of one-hit-wonder Plastic Bertrand's punk song "Ça Plane Pour Moi", and a perversely mechanical cover of "Dance to the Music", originally by Sly Stone. This article is about the song. ... Plastic Bertrand was a new-wave rock group and solo artist (Roger Jouret, born February 24, 1958) from Belgium, most famous for the new-wave parody Ça plane pour moi (roughly translated as The Life For Me). The group also appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest, representing Luxembourg. ... Sly & The Family Stone, circa 1969. ...

Like Kraftwerk, Telex built their music entirely from electronic instruments, and the sounds of the two groups have a certain similarity. However, unlike Kraftwerk's studied Teutonic irony, Telex favour a more joyously irreverent humour. Album cover of Trans-Europe Express (1977). ... The term synthesizer is also used to mean frequency synthesizer, an electronic system found in communications, or video synthesizer. ... A gymnasium with escalators. ...

In 1980 Telex's manager asked them to enter for the Eurovision Song Contest. They did so, and somehow managed to get sent to the finals. Their song "Eurovision" was a cheerful bleepy song with deliberately banal lyrics about the contest itself. See also: 1979 in music, other events of 1980, 1981 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January January 1 - Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. The only other pop music acts to be created MBEs are the Beatles and... Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Running since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest is an annual televised song contest with participants from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). ...

The audience clearly wasn't sure how to react to this self-referential joke, and after the band stopped playing there was a stunned silence. One of the members of Telex stepped forward and took a photograph of the bewildered audience. Finally, some polite but uncertain applause broke out, amidst sounds of muttering. When the vote-counting began, the verdict was so clear that when Greece actually awarded Belgium three points, the announcer thought she had misheard and tried to award the points to The Netherlands. An audience is a group of people who participate in and experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ... A camera. ... Applause (Latin applaudere, to strike upon, clap) is primarily the expression of approval by the act of clapping, or striking the palms of the hands together, in order to create noise; generally any expression of approval. ... The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ...

All of this was clearly bad news for the band's English record label, Virgin Records, who were trying to pass them off as part of the New Romantic movement. The self-mockery of tracks like "We Are All Getting Old" didn't help either. Virgin Records is a British recording label founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972 after a period of selling discount records via their small shop in London. ... New Romantic was a New Wave music subgenre and fashion movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. ...

For their third album, Sex, Telex enlisted the suddenly hip US group Sparks to help write the lyrics. However, the band still refused to play live and preferred to remain anonymous — common practice in the techno music artists they later inspired, but unusual in 1981. The fourth Telex album, Wonderful World, was barely distributed. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... ... Techno is a form of electronic music that emerged in the mid-1980s and primarily refers to a particular style developed in and around Detroit and subsequently adopted by European producers. ... See also: 1980 in music, other events of 1981, 1982 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 10 - Revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadways Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith February 14...

In 1986, Warner Brothers inexplicably signed Telex and released Looney Tunes. By then, the band's earlier sound had influenced many other groups, but they had abandoned it in favor of sampling (music) and a more up-tempo humorous style. "Temporary Chicken", for example, was a strange joke track about a man so desperate for work that he accepts a part time job in a chicken costume. It was social commentary, but so bizarre as to be almost incomprehensible to most listeners. Predictably, the album had no commercial success. See also: 1985 in music, other events of 1986, 1987 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 23 - The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee... Warner Bros. ... hello Sampling (music) Sampling (signal processing) Sampling (statistics) This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... [[{{{diversity_link}}}|Diversity]] {{{diversity}}} Binomial name Gallus gallus Trinomial name {{{trinomial}}} Type Species {{{type_species}}} {{{subdivision_ranks}}} [[Image:{{{range_map}}}|{{{range_map_width}}}|]] Synonyms {{{synonyms}}} A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. ... Yarkand ladies summer fashions. ... Social commentary is the act of expressing an opinion on the nature of society. ...

In 1989, Telex revisited all of their old tracks and remixed them to resemble the house music and other genres they had allegedly inspired. The result was Les Rhythmes Automatiques, which vanished into obscurity, but not before apparently inspiring Kraftwerk to do the same for their album The Mix in 1991. They are now finalizing an upcoming 10 tracks album, to go out in late 2005 on EMI. It will comprise 5 original compositions as well as 5 covers. See also: 1988 in music, other events of 1989, 1990 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 7 - Genesis 88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London January 14 - Paul McCartney releases Back in the... House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms beginning in the early- to mid- 1980s. ... Album cover of Trans-Europe Express (1977). ... The Mix is a 1991 album by Kraftwerk. ... See also: 1990 in music, other events of 1991, 1992 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events 1991 was the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith in London, in the United Kingdom. ...

Discography

• Looking For St. Tropez 1978
• Neurovision 1980
• Sex 1981 (released in some countries as "The Birds and the Bees")
• Wonderful World 1984
• Looney Tunes 1986
• Les Rhythmes Automatiques 1989
• Belgium...One Point 1993 (a box set of the first five albums plus bonus tracks)
• I Don't Like Music 1998 (a 'best-of' compilation)
• I Don't Like Remixes 1998 (remixed by Carl Craig and others)

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External links

Official website (www.telex-music.com)

TelexMania