That's what I always thought too, but a couple of years ago I bought a Razormaid comp which included their remix of Telex's "Raised by Snakes", and it has normal vocals instead of the vocoderised vocals of the original version. So they must've had access to the original tapes for that one at least.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 22 January 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link