Telekon

by Gary Numan

Telekon cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 September 1980
  • Label: Beggars Banquet
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:13:21
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Concluding his remarkably successful early trilogy, Gary Numan pushed his electronic paranoia to its absolute breaking point on 'Telekon'. Retaining heavy guitars alongside massive analog synthesizers, the album is a profoundly cold, deeply melancholic, and highly futuristic synth-pop masterpiece steeped in intense science-fiction anxiety and profound personal alienation.

Genres

Descriptors: science fiction, alienation, rhythmic, synth, electronic, synthesizers, melodic, minimal, retro-futuristic

Tracklist

  1. This Wreckage (5:26)
  2. The Aircrash Bureau (5:41)
  3. Telekon (4:29)
  4. Remind Me to Smile (4:03)
  5. Sleep by Windows (4:58)
  6. We Are Glass (4:47)
  7. I'm an Agent (4:19)
  8. I Dream of Wires (5:10)
  9. Remember I Was Vapour (5:11)
  10. Please Push No More (5:39)
  11. The Joy Circuit (5:12)
  12. I Die: You Die (3:47)
  13. A Game Called Echo (5:07)
  14. Photograph (2:27)
  15. Down in the Park - Piano Version (4:15)
  16. Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement) (2:44)

Credits

  • Gary Numan - primary artist, producer, composed by, written-by, vocals, synthesizer [minimoog, polymoog, a.r.p. pro-soloist, jp4, prophet 5], piano, synthesizer [prophet 5, jp4, a.r.p. pro-soloist, minimoog, polymoog, cp 30], synthesizer [polymoog, compurhythm], piano, synthesizer [minimoog, polymoog, synare, compurhythm, cp 30], synthesizer [polymoog, minimoog], bass [minibass], guitar, synthesizer [a.r.p. pro-soloist, minimoog, polymoog, compurhythm], guitar, synthesizer [jp 4, prophet 5, polymoog, cp 30], synthesizer [compurhythm, minimoog], synthesizer [jp 4, minimoog, polymoog], synthesizer [minimoog], piano, guitar
  • Paul Gardiner - bass, backing vocals
  • Ced Sharpley - drums, backing vocals, percussion
  • Graeme Myhre - engineer
  • Steve Smith - engineer
  • Melvyn Abrahams - mastered by, mastering
  • Jess Sutcliffe - mixed by
  • Nick Smith - mixed by, engineer
  • Geoff Howes - photography by, photography
  • James Freud - handclaps
  • John Webb - handclaps
  • Rrussell Bell - claves, backing vocals, rhythm guitar, violin, lead guitar
  • Simple Minds - handclaps
  • Denis Haines - synthesizer [prophet 5], piano, backing vocals, synthesizer [a.r.p. pro-soloist], synthesizer [cp 30], synthesizer [cp 30], whistle
  • Chris Payne - viola, piano [solo], backing vocals, synthesizer [minimoog], synthesizer [polymoog], piano, viola

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