JOHN FOXXUK DISCOGRAPHY
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10 Jan 1980 | 7"/promo 12" | Underpass |
Underpass 3.18 [single edit]/Film One 4.00 (Metal Beat/Virgin, VS 318)
Underpass 3.56 [full length]/He's a Liquid (alternative version) 3.01 (promo 12")
Comments by Robin Harris: 'Young Love' was going to be John's first single back in late 1979,
but it was changed (for reasons unknown) to an alternative mix of 'A New Kind of Man' backed with 'Metal Beat'
(planned catalogue number was VS 303, a copy of this sleeve appeared in issue 13 of Extreme Voice)."
Dave Crane informed me that before Underpass was eventually chosen as John's first solo single,
'Like a Miracle' was planned for release as a single after 'A New Kind of Man' was abandoned.
Dave: "The release date I have for this is December 1979, with 'Film One' as B-side. The catalogue number given is VS 318 - which was later used for Underpass.
I found this information in a 1982 Edition of the 'Music Master' catalogue, which I was lucky enough to get when I worked in a record shop in 1984."
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17 Jan 1980 | LP (+CD) | METAMATIC |
1980 LP:
- Plaza 3.54
- He's a Liquid 3.00
- Underpass 3.56
- Metal Beat 3.01
- No-One Driving 3.47
- A New Kind of Man 3.41
- Blurred Girl 4.19
- 030 (3.17)
- Tidal Wave 4.16
- Touch and Go 5.36
1993 CD:
- Plaza 3.54
- He's a Liquid 3.00
- Underpass 3.56
- Metal Beat 3.01
- No-One Driving 3.47
- A New Kind of Man 3.41
- Blurred Girl 4.19
- 030 (3.17)
- Tidal Wave 4.16
- Touch and Go 5.36
- Young Love 3.09 [previously unreleased; intended as his first single late 1979]
- Film One 4.00 [B-side Underpass 1/80]
- 20th Century 3.04 [B-side Burning Car 7/80]
- Miles Away 3.17 [non-LP single 10/80]
- A Long Time 3.49 [B-side Miles Away]
- Swimmer 1 (4.07) [B-side 12" Dancing Like a Gun 10/81] (CDV 2146)
2001 CD:
- Plaza 3.54
- He's a Liquid 3.00
- Underpass 3.56
- Metal Beat 3.01
- No-One Driving 3.47
- A New Kind of Man 3.41
- Blurred Girl 4.19
- 030 (3.17)
- Tidal Wave 4.16
- Touch and Go 5.36
- Film One 4.00 [B-side Underpass 1/80]
- Glimmer 3.35 [B-side No-One Driving 3/80]
- Mr. No 3.12 [B-side This City in double 7" set No-One Driving 3/80]
- This City 3.05 [2nd 7" in double 7" set No-One Driving 3/80]
- 20th Century 3.04 [B-side Burning Car 7/80]
- Burning Car 3.12 [non-LP 7" 7/80]
- Miles Away 3.17 [non-LP 7" 10/80]
(UK CD 30 July 2001: Edsel EDCD 702; Japanese CD 22 Oct 2003: Imperial Records TECI-23190)
2007 Deluxe 2-CD set:
- Plaza 3.54
- He's a Liquid 3.00
- Underpass 3.56
- Metal Beat 3.01
- No-One Driving 3.47
- A New Kind of Man 3.41
- Blurred Girl 4.19
- 030 (3.17)
- Tidal Wave 4.16
- Touch and Go 5.36
- Film One 4.00 [B-side Underpass 1/80]
- This City 3.05 [2nd 7" in double 7" set No-One Driving 3/80]
- To Be with You 4.24 [previously unreleased]
- Cinemascope 3.27 [previously unreleased]
- Burning Car 3.12 [non-LP 7" 7/80]
- Glimmer 3.35 [B-side No-One Driving 3/80]
- Mr. No 3.12 [B-side This City in double 7" set No-One Driving 3/80]
- Young Love 3.10 [planned as his first single in late 1979]
- 20th Century 3.04 [B-side Burning Car 7/80]
- My Face 3.22 [flexi disc 10/80]
- Like a Miracle 3.56 [previously unreleased; planned single after 'A New Kind of Man' was cancelled]
- A New Kind of Man (alternative version) 4.31 [previously unreleased; planned single after 'Young Love' was cancelled]
- He's a Liquid (alternative version) 3.01 [B-side Underpass promo-only 12" 1/80]
(UK 2-CD 3 Sep 2007: Metamatic / Edsel Records EDSD 2013)
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20 March 1980 | 7"/2x7" | No-One Driving |
No-One Driving (remix) 3.42/Glimmer 3.35 (7": Metal Beat/Virgin, VS 338)
- No-One Driving (remix) 3.42/Glimmer 3.35
- This City 3.05/Mr. No 3.12 (2x7": Metal Beat/Virgin, VS 338)
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11 July 1980 | non-LP 7" | Burning Car |
Burning Car 3.12/20th Century 3.04 (Metal Beat/Virgin, VS 360)
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2 Oct 1980 | flexi disc | My Face |
This flexi disc was included with 'Smash Hits' magazine Vol.2, No.20, 2-15 Oct 1980, and published by Island Music.
Thanks to Rodney Meiklejohn for giving me detalied info on this magazine.
My Face is included on the John Foxx compilation CD Modern Art.
The following text is taken directly from the 'Smash Hits' magazine:
"The John Foxx number, 'My Face', generously attached to the front page of this very publication, is just one of the forty or so tracks that the man has been working up while preparing for his second solo album.
Like most of his work, it began life as a demo made at his home and was later polished up in a proper studio. John explains that it's one of a number of songs he's written while working on a book to be called 'The Quiet Man', in which he tries to explore the idea of 'the people you pass in the street without noticing them.'
He's already used the idea of The Quiet Man as a point of view from which to write songs. The idea of the detached observer, he says, has great appeal for him.
At this point [1980] there is no release date for a new Foxx album. He currently has three projects in hand; a follow up to 'Metamatic', an album based on 'The Quiet Man' and some interesting experiments with a bunch of choral singers who go under the name of The Human Host.
'It's abstract music,' he [John Foxx] says, 'very uncommercial, but I love it.'
Rob Harris also added: "I've also got a scan of the front of the "My Face" 1/4" Production Master Tape Box (which I'll be putting up on the Metamatic website in the not too distant future) but unfortunately there's no note of the actual date it was recorded."
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29 Oct 1980 | non-LP 7" | Miles Away |
Miles Away 3.17/A Long Time 3.49 (Metal Beat/Virgin, VS 382)
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2 Dec 1980 | various artists MC/2-LP (+ CD 2007) | FROM BRUSSELLS WITH LOVE |
- John Foxx: A Jingle #1 (Musique D'Ameublement) 0.34
- John Foxx: A Jingle #2 (Musique D'Ameublement) 0.34
(cassette/2-LP 1980: Les Disques du Crepuscule, TWI-007; CD 12 Feb 2007: LTMCD 2479)
Recorded 29 Oct 1980. An OK atmospheric (but very short) instrumental. Fabrizio Bevilacqua informed me that 'Musique D'Ameublement'
is actually included three times on the 2LP set (first track on LP 1, 2 & 3) and it's apparently the same version used three times!
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20 Aug 1981 | 7"/12" | Europe after the Rain |
Europe after the Rain 3.37/This Jungle 4.41 (Virgin, VS 393)
Europe after the Rain 3.59//This Jungle 4.41/You Were There 3.49 (Virgin, VS 393-12)
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25 Sep 1981 | LP (+CD) | THE GARDEN |
- Europe after the Rain 3.59
- Systems of Romance 4.03
- When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman 3.37
- Dancing Like a Gun 4.11
- Pater noster 2.32//
- Night Suit 4.23
- You Were There 3.49
- Fusion/Fission 3.49
- Walk Away 3.53
- The Garden 7.08
1993 CD:
- Europe after the Rain 3.59
- Systems of Romance 4.03
- When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman 3.37
- Dancing Like a Gun 4.11
- Pater noster 2.32//
- Night Suit 4.23
- You Were There 3.49
- Fusion/Fission 3.49
- Walk Away 3.53
- The Garden 7.08
- Young Man 2.53 [B-side Endlessly 7/82]
- Dance with Me 3.31 [B-side reissue Endlessly 7/83]
- Woman on a Stairway 4.28 [B-side Your Dress 9/83]
- The Lifting Sky 4.44 [A-side bonus single 'Your Dress' double 7" pack 9/83]
- Annexe 3.04 [B-side bonus single 'Your Dress' double 7" pack]
- Wings & a Wind 5.17 [B-side 2nd 'Like a Miracle' single, late 1983] (CDV 2194)
2001 CD:
- Europe after the Rain 3.59
- Systems of Romance 4.03
- When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman 3.37
- Dancing Like a Gun 4.11
- Pater noster 2.32//
- Night Suit 4.23
- You Were There 3.49
- Fusion/Fission 3.49
- Walk Away 3.53
- The Garden 7.08
- A Long Time 3.49 [B-side Miles Away]
- This Jungle 4.41 [B-side Europe after the Rain]
- Swimmer 2 (3.30)
- Swimmer 1 (5.08)
- Young Man 2.53 [B-side Endlessly] (UK CD 30 July 2001: Edsel EDCD 703; Japanese CD 22 Oct 2003: Imperial Records TECI-23191)
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30 Oct 1981 | 7"/12" | Dancing Like a Gun |
Dancing Like a Gun 3.38/Swimmer 2 (3.30) (Virgin, VS 459)
Dancing Like a Gun 4.11//Swimmer 1 (5.08)/Swimmer 2 (3.30) (Virgin, VS 459-12)
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16 July 1982 | 7" | Endlessly [1982 version] |
Endlessly 3.51/Young Man 2.53 (Virgin, VS 513)
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May 1983 | various artists MC | TOUCH - MERIDIANS 1 |
Mastered 1 May 1983. See http://acme.highpoint.edu/~whood/meridians1.html
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May 1983 | various artists MC | TOUCH - MERIDIANS 2 |
See http://acme.highpoint.edu/~whood/meridians2.html.
Thanks to Nils Rundström for the information. It is a Maxell UD 60 cassette [mastered 6 May 1983]
with 16 songs by The Nocturnel Emission, Matador!, Virginia Astley, and some quite strange projects.
The John Foxx title is the first on side B (Copyright Control 1983 Quiet Man Music).
The cassette and the prints are packed in a A5 plastic bag with the title on it.
According to Nils 'It sounds like the material on Cathedral Ocean, very atmospheric.'
It includes an A5 print of artwork by John Foxx, and it was was distributed by Rough Trade.
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17 June 1983 | 7"/2x7"/12" | Endlessly [new version] |
Endlessly 4.18 [new version]/A Kind of Wave 3.39 (7": Virgin, VS 543)
Endlessly 4.18 [new version]/Dance with Me 3.31 (2nd 7": Virgin, VS 543)
Endlessly 4.18 [new version]/Ghosts on Water 3.12//
A Kind of Wave 3.39/Dance with Me 3.31 (2x7": Virgin VS 543)
Endlessly (12" version) 7.40/A Kind of Wave (12" version) 4.58 (12": Virgin, VS 543-12)
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Sep 1983 | LP (+CD) | THE GOLDEN SECTION |
- My Wild Love 3.42
- Someone 3.30
- Your Dress 4.24
- Running across Thin Ice with Tigers 5.38
- Sitting at the Edge of the World 4.19//
- Endlessly 4.18 [new version]
- Ghosts on Water 3.12
- Like a Miracle 5.11
- The Hidden Man 5.45
- Twilight's Last Gleaming 4.22 (LP: Virgin, V 2233; Japanese CD: VJCP 23198)
2001 CD:
- My Wild Love 3.42
- Someone 3.30
- Your Dress 4.24
- Running across Thin Ice with Tigers 5.38
- Sitting at the Edge of the World 4.19
- Endlessly 4.18 [new version]
- Ghosts on Water 3.12
- Like a Miracle 5.11
- The Hidden Man 5.45
- Twilight's Last Gleaming 4.22
- Dance with Me 3.31
- The Lifting Sky 4.44
- Annexe 3.04
- Wings and a Wind 5.17
- A Kind of Wave 3.39
- A Woman on the Stairway 4.28 (UK CD 28 Aug 2001: Edsel EDCD 704; Japanese CD 25 Feb 2004: Imperial Records TECI-23209)
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15 Sep 1983 | 7"/2x7"/12" | Your Dress |
Your Dress 3.59/Woman on a Stairway 4.28 (7": Virgin, VS 615)
Your Dress 3.59/Woman on a Stairway 4.28/
The Lifting Sky 4.44/Annexe 3.04 (2x7": Virgin, VS 615)
Your Dress 4.26/The Garden 7.14 (12": Virgin, VS 615-12)
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28 Oct 1983 | 7"/12" | Like a Miracle |
Like a Miracle 5.11/The Lifting Sky 4.44 (1st 7"/12": Virgin, VS 645/645-12)
Like a Miracle (Extended Version) 8.11/Wings & a Wind 5.17 (2nd 7"/12": Virgin, VS 645/645-12)
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summer 1985 | 7"/2x7"/12" | Stars on Fire |
Stars on Fire 4.52/What Kind of a Girl 4.40 (7": Virgin, VS 771)
Stars on Fire 4.52/What Kind of Girl 4.56/City of Light 3.38/Lumen de lumine 2.36
(2x7": Virgin, VS 771)
Stars on Fire 7.15//City of Light 3.38/What Kind of Girl 4.56 (12": Virgin, VS 771-12)
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20 Sep 1985 | 7"/12" | Enter the Angel |
Enter the Angel 3.58/Stairway 5.00 (7": Virgin, VS 814)
Enter the Angel 5.52/Stairway 5.54 (12": Virgin, VS 814-12)
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Oct 1985 | LP/MC (+CD) | IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS |
- Stars on Fire 5.32
- Lose All Sense of Time 4.16
- What Kind of Girl 4.40
- Shine on 3.58
- Enter the Angel 3.04
- In Mysterious Ways 5.00
- This Side of Paradise 4.38
- Stepping Softly 3.56
- Morning Glory 5.52
- Enter the Angel II 2.14 (LP: Virgin 2355; CD July 1987: CDV 2355)
CD BONUS TRACKS:
- Lumen De Lumine 2.36
- Stairway 5.54
- City of Light 3.38 (UK CD 28 Aug 2001: Edsel EDCD 705; Japanese CD 25 Feb 2004: Imperial Records TECI-23210)
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coll-VHS video [1980-85] | [TITLE UNKNOWN] |
- He's a Liquid
- Underpass
- No One Driving
- Miles Away
- Dancing Like a Gun
- Endlessly [1983 version]
- Stars on Fire [early fade]
- Lose All Sense of Time (VHS 1989: Virgin Music Video/Virgin Music Vault)
Thanks to Inge Tesdal for telling me about this video.
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coll-CD [1980-85] | ASSEMBLY |
- A New Kind of Man 3.41
- Underpass 3.56
- Burning Car 3.12 [first time on CD]
- This City 3.06 [first time on CD]
- Twilight's Last Gleaming 4.22
- Ghosts on Water 3.12
- This Jungle 4.41 [first time on CD]
- Endlessly 4.18
- Someone 3.30
- Sitting at the Edge of the World 4.19
- In Mysterious Ways 3.04
- Morning Glory 5.52
- Europe after the Rain 3.59
- Systems of Romance 4.03
- Walk away 3.52
- When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman 3.36
- Pater noster 2.33
- The Garden 7.08 (CD 1992: Virgin, CDVM 9002)
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1990 | 12" | Nation 12: Remember |
Remember 3.11/Remember (Sub Dub Mix) 4.21//
Listen to the Drummer 4.55/Remember (Club Edit) (Rhythm King, EBU 1T)
NATION 12 were John Foxx, Shem McAuley, Kurt Rogers, Simon Rogers and Tim Simenon.
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1991 | 12" | Nation 12: Electrofear |
Electrofear (Beastmix) 4.20//
Electrofear (Shemsijo Mix) 4.20/Electrofear (Dogmix) 3.56 (Rhythm King, EBU 2T)
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1991 | planned LP/CD (CD released 2005) | NATION 12: ELECTROFEAR |
- Nation 12 (5.27)
- She Was 5.43
- Shadow Dancing 4.43
- Florian 3.47
- Electrofear 3.56
- Listen to the Drummer 4.55
- Leaving 4.41
- Into the Wonderful 4.42
- Cities of Light 1 (5.19)
- Your Kisses Burn 4.51
- Remember 3.11
- Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible 5.37
- Invisible Women 6.48
Bonus tracks:
- Electrofear (Alternative Mix) 4.20
- Invisible Women (Electronic Mix) 4.59
- Remember (Sub Dub Mix) 4.21 (CD 14 Nov 2005: Tape Modern Records, TPCD8)
John Foxx News 12 Oct 2005 informed: "Nation 12's long-lost album, 'Electrofear', is going to be released by Tape Modern Records on the 14th of November
[although the record label's own page at eBay said "LIMITED EDITION 500 COPIES ONLY! RELEASE DATE IS 5TH NOV SO IF YOU PURCHASE EARLY YOU WILL RECEIVE A DAY ON THE 6TH NOV EARLIEST!
WONT BE IN SHOPS TILL DECEMBER!!!"]. The album includes John Foxx's collaboration with Tim Simenon, "Remember", plus Nation 12's second single, "Electrofear".
However, most of the material has never been heard before. In total there are seventy-seven minutes of music including vocal-led John Foxx songs
such as "Shadow Dancing", "Your Kisses Burn" and "She Was", as well as very different versions of "Cities of Light" and "Invisible Women".
The album was rescued from obscurity by a John Foxx fan and then restored and mastered at Serendipity."
CD liner notes say: "Nation 12 is a project that started life as a collaboration between
electronic pioneer John Foxx and Bomb The Bass's Tim Simenon back in 1989.
At the time the 21-year-old Simenon's hip hop beats and music cut-ups were
right at the cutting edge of British music, as he'd not only constructed his
own Number 2 single, 'Beat Dis' but in 1988 the dance innovator also
co-produced Neneh Cherry's Top 10 hits 'Buffalo Stance' and 'Manchild'. In
addition to his love for hip hop, the Brixton born producer was also a fan
of electronic music, especially Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget and John Foxx.
Although the latter hadn't made a record since 1985's In Mysterious Ways,
they met up via mutual acquaintances in 1989 to discuss the idea of a
collaboration. Foxx has drifted out of music as a reaction to the middle of
the road, Fairlight-tooled dross that had taken over the UK music scene in
the second half of the eighties which he felt left him 'no place to go'.
That was until acid house began to emerge, a new form of electronica that
Foxx felt immediately at home with. He started going to The Fridge in 1987,
where he saw the performance artist Leigh Bowery 'in full and bewildering
bloom' as a colourful club scene sprang to life animated by house rhythms.
According to Foxx, 'a sort of electro-punk techno-hippy had emerged to save
the day.' A little later the former Ultravox! founder started going down to
London's Wag club to hear Tim Simenon DJ.
"When Simenon went around to John Foxx's Highgate home to discuss working
together, 'John played me this new song, 'Remember' and I immediately loved
it. I thought it was great. In the end I just tweaked it a little.' Martin
Heath, owner of Bomb The Bass's label Rhythm King, also liked the track and
signed it up as the first single by a new project dubbed Nation 12. The
combination of icy electronics and tumbling beats comes together extremely
well on 'Remember', though bizarrely it's the only music that Foxx and
Simenon collaborated on together. 'Looking back on it, it would have been
interesting to have done some more work,' says Foxx. 'Tim's a creative
magpie - he has a beautiful instinct for beats and grooves and an
encyclopaedic knowledge of sounds and sources. He simply breathed it all
like air.' Although there's another Simenon mix of the track on the 12 inch,
the B-side 'Listen To The Drummer' is a full on, hip hop mash-up which the
dance producer had assembled with the help of co-producer/engineer Shem
McAuley. If anything, 'Listen To The Drummer' actually attracted more
attention at the time and still occasionally surfaces in the DJ sets of acts
such as the Plump DJs. As Simenon took on new producer projects and started
recording his second Bomb The Bass album, Nation 12 effectively became a new
team consisting of Foxx and McAuley, plus two more
co-producers/DJs/engineers/sound experimenters, Simon and Kurt Rogers.
Essentially Foxx wrote the lyrics and melodies, then played them to the
others who added beats, plundered and mutated from various obscure sources.
'The album began at home', says Foxx. 'Then it proceeded in various studios
around London, such as Matrix. I remember Mark E Smith from The Fall was
around at one point. Simon Rogers and he had worked together and I'd known
him previously. We often had glorious arguments about everything. After that
the project relocated to a beautifully tatty country house in the New Forest
where Simon set up just the Mac and sampler with keyboards - the first time
I'd actually recorded straight into a computer.' They'd sometimes listen
back to their work while 'zooming around Manchester's flyovers in this
artificially boosted car which contained the biggest internal sound system
ever contrived. The inside acted as a giant bass resonator and we resonated
to 'Kurt's Kruel Kutups' of every psycho-electro record worth resonating to.'
"Perhaps as a response to the underground success of 'Listen To The Drummer',
Nation 12's second single was another beat-fuelled club track, 'Electrofear'.
Yet the album itself was growing into a fascinating mix of styles, from the
affectionate, synthesizer-led Kraftwerk homage, 'Florian' to ambient,
uplifting psychedelia on 'She Was' and the exquisite 'Leaving'. There were even full blown,
Bowie-esque pop songs such as 'Your Kisses Burn', while 'Shadow Dancing'
mixes smoky electronics with a thrilling, sky-gazing chorus. 'My own brief
for the project was to unite electro beats with psychedelic via acid,'
remembers Foxx. 'I instinctively felt that the future was a kind of
psychedelic electronic music. Those elements weren't talking to each other
at that point. I remember playing 'Tomorrow Never Knows' by The Beatles to
Shem and some of the others and it was the first time they'd heard it. You
could really feel the weather changing. Later the Orb and the Chemical
Brothers etc made it all work like a dream, but this was a couple of years
before all that.'
"Although they'd worked on over a dozen tracks, unfortunately the Nation 12
album was never finished. The project imploded as 'Electro fear' (now also
the title of this CD) failed to match the impact of the first single,
leaving far more adventurous tracks on the cutting room floor. As the album
was never delivered and Rhythm King eventually closed, the tapes from those
recording sessions were also lost. 'I had one or two things on tape
somewhere, but essentially I thought it was gone for good,' admits Foxx.
Then three years ago, two cassettes appeared (courtesy of a long-time John
Foxx fan, Simon Blackmore) which contained most of the material recorded by
Nation 12. Not only that but the sound quality on these tapes is very good
and, apart from the two released singles they are the source for almost all
of the music on this CD release. Although there's the odd hiss and crackle,
both Foxx and Simenon believe it's part of the album's raw charm: 'The music
itself is primitive and promising', says Foxx of this snapshot of a work in
progress. 'It's like a little map of possible musics. Some of the elements
sit together like oil and water, some point to entirely new directions for
the period - many of these have since been fruitfully explored by others. If
we'd have continued, I'm sure it would have worked.' Thanks to Martin Heath's
support, Nation 12's fragments and songs are finally assembled into 77
minutes of music, described by Foxx as a mixture of 'film noir dance
routines, electropunk and psychedelic chant songs.'"
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24 March 1995 | CD | CATHEDRAL OCEANS |
- Cathedral Oceans 5.19
- City As Memory 5.43
- Through Summer Rooms 6.36
- Geometry and Coincidence 5.26
- If Only... 3.22
- Shifting Perspective 2.35
- Floating Islands 6.05
- Infinite in All Directions 5.49
- Avenham Collonade 6.17
- Sunset Rising 2.38
- Invisible Architecture 3.22 (Metamatic, META 0001CD)
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24 March 1995 | CD | JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: SHIFTING CITY |
- The Noise 4.17 (Foxx)
- Crash 5.24 (Foxx/Gordon)
- Here We Go 7.03 (Foxx/Gordon)
- Shadow Man 7.26 (Foxx)
- Through My Sleeping 5.03 (Foxx)
- Forgotten Years 5.43 (Foxx/Gordon)
- Everyone 5.48 (Foxx/Gordon)
- Shifting City 3.30 (Foxx)
- Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible 5.42 (Foxx/Gordon/Leven)
- An Ocean We Can Breathe 6.23 (Foxx/Gordon) (Metamatic, META 0002CD)
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15 Oct 1997 | limited live CD | EXOTOUR 97 |
- Burning Car 8.39
- Dislocation 4.39 (Foxx/Currie)
- Overpass 5.54
- This City 4.31
- Shifting City 8.43 (Metamatic, META003CD)
Numbered edition of 1000. Recorded live at rehearsals for the October 1997 UK tour.
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(29 Sep 2007) | live CD | JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: RETRO FUTURE |
- 20th Century
- Burning Car
- Overpass
- This City
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
- Just for a Moment
- The Quiet Men
- Dislocation
- Here We Go
- An Ocean We Can Breathe
- Shifting City (Metamatic Records, META15CD)
Recorded live at the Shrewsbury Music Hall on 10th January 1998, as part of the Exotour.
Was first exclusively available for sale at John's ICA show in London, Saturday 29 Sep 2007.
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10002697&pType=1
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15 April 1998 | limited live CD | SUBTERRANEAN OMNIDELIC EXOTOUR |
- 20th Century
- Burning Car
- Overpass
- This City
- Hiroshima mon amour
- Just for a Moment
- The Quiet Men
- An Ocean We Can Breathe
- Through My Sleeping
- The Noise
- Shifting City
- Endlessly (Metamatic, META004CD)
Numbered edition of 500. Recorded live at rehearsals for the April 1998 UK tour.
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15 July 2000 | various artists CD | ORPHÉE |
- John Foxx: Quiet Splendour (Catalogue number: Projekt 102)
More info about this CD can be found at http://www.projekt.com.
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4 June 2001 | coll-CD | MODERN ART - THE BEST OF JOHN FOXX |
- Underpass (1980 single edit) 3.18
- No-One Driving (1980 single remix) 3.42
- Burning Car (1980 single) 3.09
- 20th Century 3.02 [B-side Burning Car]
- Miles Away 3.14 (1980 single)
- Europe after the Rain (1981 single edit) 3.35
- Dancing Like a Gun (1981 single edit) 3.43
- Endlessly (1982 original single version) 3.46
- Your Dress (1983 single edit) 3.59
- Like a Miracle (1983 DJ edit) 4.50
- Stars on Fire (1985 single edit) 4.52
- Enter the Angel (1985 single edit) 3.58
- Sunset Rising 2.37 [from Cathedral Oceans, 1995]
- The Noise 4.14 [from Shifting City, 1997]
- Nightlife 5.47 [from the forthcomong CD The Pleasures of Electricity]
- Shifting City 8.39 [from Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour, 1997]
- My Face 3.21 [previously available on Smash Hits flexidisc 1980]
- He's a Liquid (alt. mix) 3.06 [B-side of Underpass promo-only 12" 1980] (Music Club, MCCD 454)
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21 Jan 2002 | CD | JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: THE PLEASURES OF ELECTRICITY |
- A Funny Thing 4.18
- Nightlife 5.54
- Camera 7.47
- Invisible Women 5.55
- Cities of Light 5 (5.26)
- Uptown / Downtown 6.34
- When It Rains 4.24
- Automobile 5.56
- The Falling Room 4.52
- Travel 6.57
- Quiet City 5.04 (Metamatic Records META 004CD)
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2 Dec 2002 | live 2-CD | THE GOLDEN SECTION TOUR + THE OMNIDELIC EXOTOUR |
- Running across Thin Ice with Tigers 7.03
- Walk Away 3.49
- The Hidden Man 6.20
- Slow Motion 3.21
- The Quiet Men 4.48
- I Can't Stay Long 5.39
- When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman 3.50
- Systems of Romance 4.05
- The Garden 7.36
- 20th Century 6.22
- Burning Car 8.37
- Overpass 5.53
- This City 4.34
- Hiroshima Mon Amour 4.59
- Just for a Moment 4.07
- The Quiet Men 5.08
- Dislocation 4.37
- An Ocean We Can Breathe 6.35
- Through My Sleeping 5.23
- The Noise 4.59
- Shifting City 8.35
- Endlessly 8.18 (Edsel, MEDCD 725)
CD 1 was recorded live during the Golden Section Tour at The Dominion Theatre in London on 21 Oct 1983 & The Lyceum in London on 11 Dec 1983.
CD 2 was recorded live with Louis Gordon in Ancoats & A Certain Ratio's Warehouse in Manchester in 1997.
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2 June 2003 | 2-CD | CATHEDRAL OCEANS I + CATHEDRAL OCEANS I II |
- Cathedral Oceans 5.19
- City As Memory 5.43
- Through Summer Rooms 6.36
- Geometry and Coincidence 5.26
- If Only... 3.22
- Shifting Perspective 2.35
- Floating Islands 6.05
- Infinite in All Directions 5.49
- Avenham Collonade 6.17
- Sunset Rising 2.38
- Invisible Architecture 3.22
- Revolving Birdsong 2.12
- Shimmer Symmetry 5.13
- Far and Wide 2 6.43
- Ad Infinitum 6.26
- Quiet Splendour 5.58
- Luminous and Gone 5.59
- Stillness and Wonder 6.23
- Return to a Place of Remembered Beauty 7.21
- Visible and Invisible 6.49
- Golden Green 7.11 (Edsel, MEDCD 726)
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30 June 2003 | CD | JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: CRASH AND BURN |
- Drive 6.55
- Cinema 5.09
- Broken Furniture 5.25
- Crash and Burn 4.03
- Once in a While 4.10
- Sex Video 5.00
- Sidewalking 6.12
- UltraViolet / InfraRed 5.14
- She Robot 4.46
- Dust and Light 6.45
- Ray 1 / Ray 2 (5.10)
- Smoke 7.11 (Metamatic Records/Artful Records META005CD)
Also available as a limited 8-track vinyl LP, from www.metamatic.com
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25 Aug 2003 | 2-CD | JOHN FOXX + HAROLD BUDD: TRANSLUCENCE + DRIFT MUSIC |
- Subtext 5.59
- Spoken Roses 6.20
- Momentary Architecture 1.40
- Adult 3.03
- Long Light 3.54
- A Change in the Weather 2.41
- Here and Now 3.57
- Almost Overlooked 2.30
- Implicit 5.25
- Raindust 7.08
- Missing Person 1.33
- You Again 3.24
- Sunlit Silhouette 3.15
- The Other Room 1.56
- Some Way through All the Cities 4.16
- Stepping Sideways 3.43
- A Delicate Romance 7.13
- Linger 1.58
- Curtains Blowing 3.06
- Weather Patterns 1.50
- Coming into Focus 5.01
- After All This Time 6.54
- Someone Almost There 1.33
- Resonant Frequency 2.45
- Avenue of Trees 1.16
- Underwater Flowers 6.05
- Arriving 1.25 (Edsel MEDCD 727)
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9 Sep 2003 | mail order CDM | John Foxx & Louis Gordon: The Drive EP |
- Drive (single edit) 4.13
- Broken Furniture (radio edit) 4.02
- Underwater Dreamsex 6.11
- Making Movies 9.22
- Your Shadow 4.48
- Broken Furniture 5.25
- Drive 6.55 (Metamatic Records/Artful Records META006CD)
Available from www.metamatic.com and www.sisterray.co.uk, and also directly at Foxx' current live UK concerts.
I quote Robin Harris: "The Drive EP first went on sale at John and Louis' recent live show
at The Fleece and Firkin in Bristol on Tuesday the 9th of September, 2003."
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11 Oct 2004 | various artists CD | MUSIC FOR HEROES - THREE |
- Metamatics: 4am on Spectre Canal (John Foxx Remix) (Hydrogen Dukebox Records Ltd, Duke129CD)
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13 Dec 2004 | remix 12" | Mr No |
Mr No 3.12 [original 1980 version]/Mr No [Joakim Remix] (12": New Religion/EMI REG 113)
A new remix of the 1980 B-side. Robin Harris informed:
"This is one in a series of releases which bring together 'Hard to find 80s electronic classics [which have been] remastered and updated'.
Order your copy on-line at either : http://www.phonicarecords.com or http://www.piccadillyrecords.co.uk"
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11 April 2005 | CD | JORI HULKKONEN: DUALIZM |
- Dislocated 7.40 [vocals by John Foxx]
This track (track 5 on the CD) has vocals by John Foxx.
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8 Aug 2005 | CD | CATHEDRAL OCEANS III |
- Oceanic 4.09
- Through Gardens Overgrown 2.39
- Spiral Overture 5.48
- The Shadow of a Woman's Hand 5.01
- Radial Harmonics 0.35
- Serene Velocity 4.31
- Fog Structures 4.04
- Eternity Sunrise 4.20
- Harmonia Mundi 4.44
- City of Endless Stairways 4.47
- In Rising Light 6.56
- Metanym 6.35 (Metamatic Records, META007CD)
Info from Robin Harris 14 June 2005: The album is partly inspired by John's childhood experiences:
"I sang in a church choir when I was small and the way different churches
altered our performance always intrigued me. I've spent the rest of
my life pursuing things I heard then - echoes, reverberations,
architectural spaces and the human voice - plus electronic
simulations and manipulations of both. I realised that with
technology you could have a cathedral in a suitcase. It's music for a
vast, half-submerged cathedral. Walls overgrown. Music would be
moving quietly through the walls. Almost imperceptible unless you
focus on it. Slowly but constantly changing."
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26 Sep 2005 | CD | METAMATICS: 3 JAK AND DIVE |
- Free Robot (Hydrogen Dukebox, DUKE 141 CD)
This track was written by John Foxx, who also sings. Metamatics is Lee Norris.
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5 June 2006 | CD | TINY COLOUR MOVIES |
- Stray Sinatra Neurone
- Lost New York
- Kurfurstendamm
- Skyscraper
- The Projectionist
- Looped Los Angeles
- Points of Departure
- X-Ray Vision
- Smokescreen
- Underwater Automobiles
- A Peripheral Character
- Shadow City
- Interlude
- Thought Experiment
- Hand-Held Skies (Metamatic Records, META009CD)
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2 Oct 2006 | live CD | JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: LIVE FROM A ROOM (AS BIG AS A CITY) |
- Intro
- Sex Video
- Making Movies
- Metal Beat
- No-One Driving
- Plaza
- Underpass
- Touch and Go
- He's a Liquid
- Broken Furniture
- UltraViolet/InfraRed
- Nightlife
- My Sex (Metamatic Records, META10CD)
Recorded live in June 2006 at Longwave Rehearsal Rooms. Was first exclusively available for sale on their UK tour 21-31 July 2006.
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2 Oct 2006 | interview/music 2-CD | THE HIDDEN MAN |
- John Foxx discusses Ultravox...
- Freeze Frame (Extended Version) 5.22
- Running in Traffic (Full Version) 5.27
- From Trash 4.36
- Interview about "Tiny Colour Movies", Nation 12 and John Foxx's work with Louis Gordon
- John reading an extract from "The Quiet Man", entitled "The Grey Suit" (Metamatic Records, META11CD)
Was first exclusively available for sale on their UK tour 21-31 July 2006.
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6 Nov 2006 | CD | JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: FROM TRASH |
- From Trash
- Freeze Frame
- Your Kisses Burn
- Another You
- Impossible
- Never Let Me Go
- A Room As Big As a City
- A Million Cars
- Friendly Fire
- The One Who Walks through You (Metamatic Records, META12CD)
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24 Nov 2006 | music/interview 2-CD | SIDEWAYS |
- And the World Slides Sideways
- Underwater
- X-Ray Vision
- Car Crash Flashback V2
- In a Silent Way
- Sailing on Sunshine
- Use My Voice
- Neuro Video
- Phone Tap
- Impossible (Extended Version)
- A Room As Big As a City (Extended Version)
- Interview (John discusses the ideas and inspiration behind the "From Trash" album) (2CD: Metamatic Records, META13CD)
"The 2-CD is a collection of psychedelic, electronic and sci-fi themed tracks that were recorded as part of the "From Trash" sessions.
One of the songs ("And the World Slides Sideways") was featured as the opening track on this year's July tour."
Was first exclusively available for sale on his UK tour 24 Nov to 3 Dec 2006.
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11 Dec 2006 | DVD | CATHEDRAL OCEANS |
- Oceanic
- Through Gardens Overgrown
- Spiral Overture
- The Shadow of a Woman's Hand
- Radial Harmonics
- Serene Velocity
- Fog Structures
- Eternity Sunrise
- Harmonia Mundi
- City of Endless Stairways
- In Rising Light
- Metanym (label: Metamatic)
"John Foxx's classic 'Cathedral Oceans' is a twenty year project combining ambient music with his own images that slowly morph
into each other to create the effect of a 'moving stained glass window'.
This is the perfect souvenir for anyone who attended the recent performance of "Cathedral Oceans" at the Holy Trinity Church in Leeds.
The music contained on this DVD is 'Cathedral Oceans III' - and is therefore different to the original 'Cathedral Oceans' DVD which was released back in 2003."
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29 Sep 2007 | interview/music 2-CD | METAL BEAT |
(Metamatic Records, META14CD)
Was first exclusively available for sale at John's ICA show in London, Saturday 29 Sep 2007.
"A double CD similar in format to "The Hidden Man". It includes an in-depth interview with John Foxx where he discusses the
"Metamatic" album. It also includes some previously unheard demos and studio experiments which give a unique insight into the 1979 / 80 sessions.
Disc One: The interview includes extracts from demos of "No-One Driving" and "Touch and Go" along with some early John Foxx
experiments with drums machines and analogue synthesizers.
Disc Two: The interview includes extracts from a demo of "Like a Miracle" and an extended version of "Plaza" alongside some tracks
retrieved from two 1980 tapes marked "Music For Film" and "Instrumentals". It also features a thirty second piece entitled Jane".
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10002696&pType=1
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9 March 2008 | collaboration MP3 | Jori Hulkkonen featuring John Foxx: Never Been Here Before |
- Never Been Here Before (Jori Hulkkonen Dub) 7.51
- Never Been Here Before (Sasse Dub) 10.16
- Never Been Here Before (Jeff Benett Mix) 7.22
- Never Been Here Before (Sasse Vocal Mix) 10.15
This track (not sure which version) is also included on Jori's album "Errare Machinale Est" (released 24 March in Finland only)
and on a double vinyl 12" (released 7 April). See www.jorihulkkonen.com for more info.
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21 April 2008 | live CD | JOHN FOXX: A NEW KIND OF MAN |
- Film One
- Plaza
- He's a Liquid
- Underpass
- Metal Beat
- No-One Driving
- A New Kind of Man
- Blurred Girl
- 030
- Tidal Wave
- Touch and Go
- Glimmer
- Mr No
- This City
- My Face
- Burning Car
- 21st Century (Metamatic Records, META16CD)
"This is the ultimate souvenir for anyone who was able to attend any of last years live shows based around the 'Metamatic' album.
Entitled 'A New Kind of Man', this album features the entire 'Metamatic' live set, as performed by John Foxx, Louis Gordon and Steve D'Agostino."
Copyright (c) 1997-06-08 Jonas Wårstad.
Last updated 2008-03-30.
Thanks to Janne Slätt and to Tapio Jämbeck for some vinyl durations.
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