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Reviews & Discussion: The title "Cermak & Central" comes from a street intersection in the town of Cicero Illinois, which neighbors the west side of Chicago. Many parties have been thrown in the hall on the northwestern corner of the intersection, which I'm assuming DJ Hyperactive had some involvement with at one point in time. Telex's second long-player, orignally released in 1980. I had been looking for this CD (as well as the remaining three discs from the "Belgium One Point" box set) since the mid-1990's, and finally found three of the four CDs in stock at Amazon France! They were definitely well worth the almost-a-decade wait, even if French is not my native language. Well recommended for those into early Human League and OMD.
Tracks 12-21 are bonus tracks (singles/b-sides/demos/etc.) Several of the bonus tracks are English versions of some of the original French album tracks: Plus de Distance = More Than Distance En Route Vers de Nouvelles Aventures = My Future A/B = B Sides The English-vocal Neurovision has the same lyrical structure as the French-vocal Euro-Vision, but the melody and instrumentation is completely different. Second (and most likely, final) long-player from Chicagoland natives Mitchell Adrian and David Michael, released on their own Magnetic Records label. (I picked my copy up in 1995 at Tower Records on Clark Street, under their "Local Artists" section.)
"Superstition" is a cover of the Stevie Wonder classic. The version of "Bass State Coma" is unique to this release. | ||||