Release Date: Jan 17, 2025
Discs: 1
Features a ltd edition ‘Metamatic’ print signed by John Foxx.
Foxx: "Recorded 1979-1980 at Pathway studios with Gareth Jones. Pathway was an eight-track cupboard in Islington, North London, owned by two characters who wrote ‘Fire' for Arthur Brown. Very basic, very scruffy, very good.
"Gareth was a hippy Freudian BBC drop-out, and these were his first real recording sessions. He soon became an innovator. 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.”
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Side One
Plaza
He’s A Liquid
Underpass
Metal Beat
No-One Driving
Side Two
A New Kind Of Man
Blurred Girl
030
Tidal Wave
Touch And Go
