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Metamatic - 2025 Reissue

    Recorded 1979 at Pathway studios, an eight-track studio in Islington, North London, this is an album of inventive, timeless electro-pop. Mastered from the original analogue tapes, the album still sounds incredible thanks to Foxx’s minimalist approach, which was partly inspired by his experience of watching Lee “Scratch" Perry produce records at Island Records’ studios in the 1970s. Engineer Gareth Jones - who later worked on some of Depeche Mode’s finest recordings - also proved to be a fantastic collaborator and innovator on this record.

    John Foxx:
    "I was in retreat from bands, touring, etc, mightily convinced that electronics were the future, and reading too much J.G. Ballard. I lived alone in Finsbury Park, spent my spare time walking the disused train lines, cycled to the studio every day and wobbled back at dawn, imagining I was the Marcel Duchamp of electropop. Metamatic was the result. It was the first British electronic pop album. It was minimal, primitive technopunk. Carcrash music tailored by Burtons.”

    TRACK LISTING

    Side One
    1. Plaza
    2. He’s A Liquid
    3. Underpass
    4. Metal Beat
    5. No-One Driving

    Side Two
    1. A New Kind Of Man
    2. Blurred Girl
    3. 030
    4. Tidal Wave
    5. Touch And Go

    John Foxx

    The Marvellous Notebook

      Spoken word album. Features John Foxx reading from his book, The Quiet Man, which was originally published in 2020. The stunning artwork by Barnbrook, includes a vinyl insert with images by Foxx. 

      TRACK LISTING

      Vinyl
      1. The Marvellous Notebook
      2. Remember
      3. The Quiet Man
      *bonus Track On Download Coupon, Under London

      CD
      1. The Marvellous Notebook
      2. Remember
      3. Under London
      4. The Quiet Man 

      John Foxx

      20th Century: The Noise

        Metamatic Records’ first major compilation of John Foxx material is the first part of a double release spanning 35 years as a solo artist. John Foxx – 20th Century: The Noise covers the years from his debut single ‘Underpass’ in January 1980 to the rest of the last century, up to his ‘comeback’ albums with Louis Gordon, Shifting City and The Omnedelic Exotour in 1997 and 1998.

        There’s also a precious Cathedral Oceans gem, ‘Splendour’ which has only ever been available on a rare album by various artists entitled Orphée and 20th Century also includes an unreleased instrumental track from the vaults, ‘Musique Electron’ – a melodic idea Foxx has had ‘for decades’. The Metamatic material is taken from the new 2014 master which is based on a set of 1979 analogue tapes recently discovered in John’s archive.

        20th Century also includes a Foxx/Gordon version of ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’, a track that featured on Ultravox’s second album, Ha! Ha! Ha! A follow-up album, 21st Century: A Man, A Woman And A City is scheduled for early 2016.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. 20th Century (B-side To Burning Car)
        2. Underpass (Taken From Metamatic)
        3. No-One Driving (Single Version)
        4. Burning Car (Single)
        5. He's A Liquid (Alternative Version)
        6. A Long Time (B-side To Miles Away)
        7. Miles Away (Single)
        8. Europe After The Rain (Taken From The Garden)
        9. This Jungle (B-side To Europe After The Rain)
        10. Dancing Like A Gun (Taken From The Garden)
        11. Endlessly (Single Version)
        12. The Hidden Man (Taken From The Golden Section)
        13. The Noise - Foxx/Gordon (Taken From Shifting City)
        14. Through My Sleeping - Foxx/Gordon (Taken From Shifting City)
        15. Hiroshima Mon Amour – Foxx/Gordon (Taken From Omnidelic Exotour)
        16. Musique Electron (previously Unreleased)
        17. Splendour (previously Only Available On A Compilation, Orphée)


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