Centered on singer Arno Hintjens and guitarist Jean-Marie Aerts,[1] the band played a kind of music sometimes referred to as "eurorock", containing various styles including new wave, blues, funk, hard rock, avant-garde and French chanson.
The band released four studio albums and attained a measure of commercial and popular success, and disbanded in 1986.
The band has its origin in the duo Tjens-Couter, composed of Arno Hintjens and guitarist Paul Couter,[2] which played rhythm and blues[3] since the early 1970s, and in 1974 were augmented with Ferre Baelen (bass) and Rudy Cloet (drums), and in 1977 with Serge Feys (keyboards).
[4] Decoutere was soon replaced by Jean-Marie Aerts, who cooperated with [6] Hintjens in the majority of the band's compositions and produced the first three albums.
He continued to cooperate with Jean-Marie Aerts, who went on to work mainly as a producer (for Jo Lemaire and the Urban Dance Squad, among others), and with two other ex-TC Matic-members, drummer Rudy Cloet and keyboard player Serge Feys.