Vinyl Album - Telex - Looking For Saint Tropez - Sire - UK

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Artist:	Telex
Title:	Looking For Saint Tropez
Label:	Sire
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	SRK6072
Date:	Jun 1979
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Telex	Moskow Diskow	Telex	7.0 Rate
A2	Telex	Pakmovast	Telex	9.0 Rate
A3	Telex	Cafe De La Jungle	Telex	6.0 Rate
A4	Telex	Ca Plane Pour Moi	Lacomblez, Deprijck	8.0 Rate
A5	Telex	Some Day / Un Jour	Telex	8.0 Rate
B1	Telex	Something To Say	Telex, Jo Callis	7.0 Rate
B2	Telex	Rock Around The Clock	Friedman, De Knight	6.0 Rate
B3	Telex	Victime De La Societe	Telex	9.0 Rate
B4	Telex	Twist A Saint Tropez	A. Salvet, G. Lafitte, M. Solal	7.0 Rate

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Number: 2863335 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: Redpunk SUBS Description: Front Of Sleeve	Number: 2863336 Uploaded By: Redpunk SUBS Description: Back Of Sleeve	Number: 2863337 Uploaded By: Redpunk SUBS Description: Front Of Inner Sleeve	Number: 2863338 Uploaded By: Redpunk SUBS Description: Back Of Inner Sleeve
Number: 1452691 Uploaded By: swbcfc Description: Side One Label	Number: 1452693 Uploaded By: swbcfc Description: Side Two Label

Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 29th Mar 2023		Review Super electro-techno nugget! This is what I'm after when I go out on the dig for records in charity shops and the like... ...An inscrutable plain white sleeve, with only: "Telex" and "Test", concealing, as hoped for, and expected, a white label test pressing with the same on label, but also: SRK 6062, in biro. (Actually gives that wrong cat number with a 6 instead of the 7, which made for a temporary problem in trying to search online to find out what it was.) While the name is of course a familiar one, and it certainly alludes to what may be inside, and on the disc, I didn't know this group, or what the were about when I found it, so only thing left to do was play it! :) Delightfully surprised, for although the opening track is a bit so-so, fairly bland typical eighties electronica, it did have a vague scent of Kratwerk style about it, a good indicator, of what was to come, I thought... ...But it even exceeded these expectations, as although this very much comes from the same place as Kraftwerk, with a very strong whiff of them, it has much more besides! For the next track: Pakmovast, is a stonker! ...Right from the get go, it's heavy, pronounced beat which continues at a fair nodding pace, conjured heavy aromas of later electro-dance demi-gods Daft Punk, and I also detected a powerful sense of Jean Michel Jarre throughout the album too. But there's another note I caught in my audio nostrils too, that of certain instruments, and melodic phrases and motifs of the kind that Boards Of Canada would later allude to in their work, of a kind of undefined nostalgia for a fuzzy, out there, seventies electronic wildlife documentary vibe. If I had to guess, I I could easily say this may be one the albums that inspired them! (Especially, in the brief outro track to Side 2: Ca Plane Pour Moi) The Opening to Side 2 ise very strong, and sung in English: Something to Say, and the final track: Twist A Saint Tropez is a very jaunty upbeat piece of electronica (research show this to have been a single, and quite a well known one too!)... ...These two, bookending the other two tracks on Side 2; The... um... er... interesting take on Rock Around The Clock, which a slower, meditative, almost mesmeric version of the Rock and Roll classic (barely recognisable to begin with), and also another corker of a track: Victime De La Societe, which sounds like a low, evocative, work which might be suited to the opening or closing credits of a movie like the Ryan Gosling mood piece: Drive, or some other nightscape and neon based, city noir thriller soundtrack. Taking my tp as representative of the retail issue of this, I can report that unlike those aforementioned artists, this has a comparatively stripped down, minimalist approach to the same kind of music, which comes through excellently on this pressing, very solid, definite, fat bass, and broad sounding synths across the audio horizon and all on fairly standard 125g-ish vinyl. but lovely a press. In all, an absolute nugget of a find for me, and what I live to find among the neglected crates of dingy nooks in charity shops. :) (Should those RSD peeple happen upon this review perchance, I'd suggest this is a good pick for a new issue - certainly, I'd like a swanky new issue of it with the artwork, and maybe some guff about the band / group etc. - white labels are nice, but don't really tell a lot!) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Redpunk SUBS 18th Jan 2022		Added outer and inner sleeve scans.

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