Tracklist: 01. When You Can’t Go Clubbing Anymore And Have To Dance With Oaks
02. What Goes Around Comes Around (2020)
03. The All Clear
04. Pendula
05. Acido Amigo
06. Peace La Roche
07. Thuja
08. Ici Le Fantôme C’est Moi
09. New Born Wise
Tracklist Bandcamp: 01. When You Can’t Go Clubbing Anymore And Have To Dance With Oaks
02. What Goes Around Comes Around (2020)
03. The All Clear
04. Pendula
05. Acido Amigo
06. Peace La Roche
07. Thuja
08. Ici Le Fantôme C’est Moi
09. New Born Wise
10. Intro
Press Info:
So, here it is again. Cristian Vogel’s usual mind-blowing brand of high end, highly sophisticated and nuanced self-production. His songwriting and technical abilities build on over 25 years playing out and inventing sounds. When a producer like him gets to a position of defining their own sounds and styles, then it’s going to be hit after hit. Thats what ‘Rebirth Of Wonky’ represents. An exemplary power to re-define ourselves through music, through creative pursuits, through love, through imagination and through the politics of musical progress.
Cristian Vogel’s 25th album started off as a blueprint for a new style. Research and recording began in March 2020 and was completed in October. Musical styles used to emerge from complex synergies unfolding within people and spaces as a certain music embraces them and shapes them. What happens to an audience, and what happens in the studio are linked through style and identity. This album, like so many in 2020, has been crafted through solitude, anxiety and hope. Audiences are distant, yet still yearn for music in their lives. On the other hand, many creators are virtually erupting as a need to be heard. It remains to see what dancing synergies and styles will bloom in 2021 and beyond. We are sure that the ‘Rebirth of Wonky’ will be one of the defining post-clubbing albums of the year.
Format:
CD, CD (Japan), cassette, vinyl, download & streaming
Tracklist: 01. The Beat Goes On/Off
02. Moskow Diskow (New Mix)
03. Twist À Saint-Tropez (New Mix)
04. Euro-Vision (New Mix)
05. Dance To The Music (New Mix)
06. Drama Drama (New Mix)
07. Exercise Is Good For You (New Mix)
08. L’Amour Toujours (New Mix)
09. Radio-Radio (New Mix)
10. Rendez-Vous Dans L’Espace (New Mix)
11. Beautiful Li(F)E (New Mix)
12. The Number One Song In Heaven (New Mix)
13. La Bamba (New Mix)
14. Dear Prudence
Tracklist Japan Edition: 01. The Beat Goes On/Off
02. Moskow Diskow (New Mix)
03. Twist À Saint-Tropez (New Mix)
04. Euro-Vision (New Mix)
05. Dance To The Music (New Mix)
06. Drama Drama (New Mix)
07. Exercise Is Good For You (New Mix)
08. L’Amour Toujours (New Mix)
09. Radio-Radio (New Mix)
10. Rendez-Vous Dans L’Espace (New Mix)
11. Beautiful Li(F)E (New Mix)
12. The Number One Song In Heaven (New Mix)
13. La Bamba (New Mix)
14. Dear Prudence
15. Moskow Diskow (English Version)
16. Eurovision (English Version)
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Telex announce New Compilation ‘This Is Telex’
“Belgian synthpop eminences…” – MOJO
Telex and Mute have announced a new partnership that launches with the release of This is Telex, a brand new 14-track compilation – out on 30 April 2021. This is Telex will be released on limited edition coloured vinyl (shrimp pink and fern green), cassette and CD, with sleeve notes by David Stubbs, as well as digitally and in a limited edition t-shirt bundle.
his is Telex features singles from across the Belgian synthpop trio’s career, from their debut single, ‘Twist à Saint Tropez’ in 1978 (coincidentally the year Mute was formed with the release of Daniel Miller’s 7”, The Normal ‘TVOD’ / ‘Warm Leatherette’) through to their final album release, How Do You Dance? in 2006. Tracks on the compilation are newly mixed and remastered from the original tapes by band members Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, these new mixes often involved subtracting from, rather than adding to, the original multi-track recordings. “We simplify,” explains Lacksman. “We take away, to create something more efficient, more Telex.”
The newly mixed and remastered tracks on the compilation include their best known work, including ‘Moskow Diskow’ and ‘Euro-vision’, alongside two recently discovered and unreleased tracks, their take on The Beatles’ ‘Dear Prudence’ and Sonny & Cher’s ‘The Beat Goes On’, as well as their writing collaboration with Sparks and cover of the Sparks hit ‘The Number One Song In Heaven’.
Telex are Marc Moulin (1942- 2008), Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers. The band formed in 1978 in Brussels, just one of a handful of synthpop pioneers at a time when electronic pop was regarded as novelty, with suspicion, as a harbinger for future dystopia and alienation. Telex were concerned about the consequences of new technology for human communication, their name taken, ironically, from a now obsolete piece of communications technology, adding a retro-futurist air to their legend. And it was on their cover versions that they deliberately played up the disparity between the ice-cool electronic approach and the sweaty, fleshy, frenetic passion of pop. Their cover versions – from the Yé-yé of Les Chats Sauvages’ ‘Twist à Saint Tropez’ to the psychedelic soul of ‘Dance to the Music’ (Sly and the Family Stone) from the rock n roll of Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around the Clock’ and ‘La Bamba’ to the disco of Sparks’ ‘The Number One Song in Heaven’ and beyond – see Telex embrace a wide history of musical genre.
The band famously entered the Eurovision Song Contest, representing Belgium with ‘Euro-vision’. 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. Moers saw Johnny Logan (who went on to win the contest twice for Ireland) and told him, “you’re going to win”, Logan replied “Yeah. But if I win it’s good for me. If you win, it’s good for music.”
Telex announced their retirement in 2008, following Moulin’s death, this new partnership with Mute will see a comprehensive reissue series of the back catalogue, starting with This is Telex. “We’re so glad to have signed with Mute. We couldn’t have done better,” says Moers. “It’s like a dream, fantastic,” adds Lacksman.
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Steve Rachmad, aka Sterac returns to Luke Slater’s Mote-Evolver imprint this May to release the ‘Numbers’ EP.
Since his earliest days in the scene, Amsterdam’s Steve Rachmad has created a legion of monikers to cover his compositions’ variety and broadness. One of them being Sterac which focuses on the deeper and more obscure end of the techno genre. The Sterac discography consists of signature cuts, spread out over genre-defining labels such as M-Plant, Tresor, Klockworks, Afterlife, Mote-Evolver, Indigo Aera, and Delsin.
His ‘Numbers’ EP sees Steve drop the first release of 2021 under his Sterac alias as he makes a return to Luke Slater’s Mote-Evolver label with four tunnelling techno tracks.
Kicking off the release is ‘Ghost 37’, which employs vacillating grooves, ominous synths and intricate mechanics before ‘Lost Track 22’ fuses sizzling 303s, dynamic drums and mammoth, alien-sounding modulations.
On the flip, ‘Rey Fur 2.1’ keeps the energy flowing with a high-impact clapper featuring bustling fx and expansive tones until ‘Tr-15’ masterfully rounds off the EP with twisting synth flutters, rattling highs and hypnotic bass grooves intricately unfolding underneath.
