JOHN FOXX

UK DISCOGRAPHY

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."

17 Jan 1980 LP (+CD) METAMATIC

    1980 LP:
  1. Plaza 3.54
  2. He's a Liquid 3.00
  3. Underpass 3.56
  4. Metal Beat 3.01
  5. No-One Driving 3.47
  1. A New Kind of Man 3.41
  2. Blurred Girl 4.19
  3. 030 (3.17)
  4. Tidal Wave 4.16
  5. Touch and Go 5.36
    CD 2 in 2007 Deluxe 2-CD set:
  1. Film One 4.00 [B-side Underpass 1/80]
  2. This City 3.05 [2nd 7" in double 7" set No-One Driving 3/80]
  3. To Be with You 4.24 [previously unreleased]
  4. Cinemascope 3.27 [previously unreleased]
  5. Burning Car 3.12 [non-LP 7" 7/80]
  6. Glimmer 3.35 [B-side No-One Driving 3/80]
  7. Mr. No 3.12 [B-side This City in double 7" set No-One Driving 3/80]
  8. Young Love 3.10 [planned as his first single in late 1979]
  9. 20th Century 3.04 [B-side Burning Car 7/80]
  10. My Face 3.22 [flexi disc 10/80]
  11. Like a Miracle 3.56 [previously unreleased; planned single after 'A New Kind of Man' was cancelled]
  12. A New Kind of Man (alternative version) 4.31 [previously unreleased; planned single after 'Young Love' was cancelled]
  13. 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)
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 (double 7": Metal Beat/Virgin, VS 338)

11 July 1980 non-LP 7" Burning Car

    Burning Car 3.12/20th Century 3.04 (Metal Beat/Virgin, VS 360)
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."

29 Oct 1980 non-LP 7" Miles Away

    Miles Away 3.17/A Long Time 3.49 (Metal Beat/Virgin, VS 382)
2 Dec 1980 various artists MC/2-LP (+ CD 2007) FROM BRUSSELLS WITH LOVE
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!

20 Aug 1981 7"/12" Europe after the Rain

    Europe after the Rain (single edit) 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)

25 Sep 1981 LP (+CD) THE GARDEN
    1981 LP:
  1. Europe after the Rain 3.59
  2. Systems of Romance 4.03
  3. When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman 3.37
  4. Dancing Like a Gun 4.11
  5. Pater noster 2.32
  1. Night Suit 4.23
  2. You Were There 3.49
  3. Fusion/Fission 3.49
  4. Walk Away 3.53
  5. The Garden 7.08
    CD 2 in 2008 Deluxe 2-CD set:
  1. Swimmer II 5.13 [full length] [B-side 12" Dancing Like a Gun, 10/81]
  2. This Jungle 4.41 [B-side Europe after the Rain]
  3. Miles Away 3.17 [non-LP 7" 10/80]
  4. A Long Time 3.49 [B-side Miles Away]
  5. Swimmer I 3.32 [B-side 12" Dancing Like a Gun, 10/81]
  6. Fog 5.54 [previously unreleased]
  7. Swimmer III 5.26 [previously released as "The Quiet Man 3" on cassette Touch Meridians 2]
  8. Swimmer IV 3.57 [previously released as "The Quiet Man 4" on cassette Touch Meridians 1]
  9. Dance with Me (early version) 3.53 [previously unreleased]
  10. A Woman on a Stairway (early version) 5.02 [previously unreleased]
  11. Fusion / Fission (early version) 3.53 [previously unreleased]
  12. Miles Away (alternative version) 3.23 (from the "Burning Car" Japanese mini-album)
    (UK 2-CD 6 Oct 2008: Metamatic / Edsel Records EDSD 2014)
30 Oct 1981 7"/12" Dancing Like a Gun
    Dancing Like a Gun 3.38/Swimmer II 4.05 [edit] (Virgin, VS 459)

    Dancing Like a Gun 4.11//Swimmer I 3.32/Swimmer II 5.13 (Virgin, VS 459-12)

16 July 1982 7" Endlessly [1982 version]

    Endlessly 3.51/Young Man 2.53 (Virgin, VS 513)
May 1983 various artists MC TOUCH - MERIDIANS 1
Mastered 1 May 1983. See http://acme.highpoint.edu/~whood/meridians1.html

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.

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)

Sep 1983 LP (+CD) THE GOLDEN SECTION
  1. My Wild Love 3.42
  2. Someone 3.30
  3. Your Dress 4.24
  4. Running across Thin Ice with Tigers 5.38
  5. Sitting at the Edge of the World 4.19//
  6. Endlessly 4.18 [new version]
  7. Ghosts on Water 3.12
  8. Like a Miracle 5.11
  9. The Hidden Man 5.45
  10. Twilight's Last Gleaming 4.22 (LP: Virgin, V 2233; Japanese CD: VJCP 23198)
    2001 CD:
  1. My Wild Love 3.42
  2. Someone 3.30
  3. Your Dress 4.24
  4. Running across Thin Ice with Tigers 5.38
  5. Sitting at the Edge of the World 4.19
  6. Endlessly 4.18 [new version]
  7. Ghosts on Water 3.12
  8. Like a Miracle 5.11
  9. The Hidden Man 5.45
  10. Twilight's Last Gleaming 4.22
  11. Dance with Me 3.31
  12. The Lifting Sky 4.44
  13. Annexe 3.04
  14. Wings and a Wind 5.17
  15. A Kind of Wave 3.39
  16. A Woman on the Stairway 4.28 (UK CD 28 Aug 2001: Edsel EDCD 704; Japanese CD 25 Feb 2004: Imperial Records TECI-23209)
    2008 Deluxe 2-CD set:
  1. My Wild Love 3.42
  2. Someone 3.30
  3. Your Dress 4.24
  4. Running across Thin Ice with Tigers 5.38
  5. Sitting at the Edge of the World 4.19
  6. Endlessly 4.18 [new version]
  7. Ghosts on Water 3.12
  8. Like a Miracle 5.11
  9. The Hidden Man 5.45
  10. Twilight's Last Gleaming 4.22
  1. Endlessly (1982 single version) 3.51
  2. My Wild Love (early version) [previously unreleased]
  3. A Long Time (alternative version) [previously unreleased]
  4. Annexe 3.04 [from Your Dress double 7"]
  5. Sitting at the Edge of the World (alternative version) [previously unreleased]
  6. A Kind of Wave 3.39 [B-side Endlessly 1983 7"]
  7. Twilight's Last Gleaming (early version) [previously unreleased]
  8. Running across Thin Ice with Tigers (extended mix) [previously unreleased]
  9. A Woman on a Stairway [B-side Your Dress]
  10. The Lifting Sky 4.44 [from Your Dress double 7"]
  11. Shine On Me [previously unreleased]
  12. Young Man 2.53 [B-side Endlessly 1982 7"]
  13. Wings and a Wind 5.17 [B-side Like a Miracle 12"]
  14. The Hidden Man (alternative version) [previously unreleased]
  15. Dance With Me 3.31 [alternate B-side Endlessly 1983 7"]
  16. Endlessly (extended mix) 7.40 (UK 2-CD 6 Oct 2008: Metamatic / Edsel Records EDSD 2015)
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)

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)

(2 Dec 2002) live 2-CD THE GOLDEN SECTION TOUR + THE OMNIDELIC EXOTOUR
    CD 1 - Live 1983:
  1. Running across Thin Ice with Tigers 7.03
  2. Walk Away 3.49
  3. The Hidden Man 6.20
  4. Slow Motion 3.21
  5. The Quiet Men 4.48
  6. I Can't Stay Long 5.39
  7. When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman 3.50
  8. Systems of Romance 4.05
  9. The Garden 7.36
    CD 2 [Live 1997 - see later 1997 entry] (2-CD: 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.

(19 Oct 2009) live 2-CD JOHN FOXX: IN THE GLOW [LIVE 1983]

  1. Running across Thin Ice with Tigers (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  2. Walk Away (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  3. My Wild Love (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  4. Quiet Man (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  5. Twilight's Last Gleaming (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  6. Just for a Moment (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  7. Like a Miracle (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  8. Ghosts on Water (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  9. Pater Noster (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  10. The Hidden Man (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  11. When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  12. Systems of Romance (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  13. Slow Motion (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  1. The Garden (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  2. I Can't Stay Long (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  3. Your Dress (The Dominion, London, 21st October 1983)
  4. Walk Away (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  5. My Wild Love (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  6. Quiet Men (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  7. Pater Noster (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  8. Slow Motion (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  9. When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  10. Systems of Romance (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  11. The Garden (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  12. I Can't Stay Long (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
  13. Your Dress (The Lyceum, London, 11th December 1983)
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June 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 5.01/City of Light 3.38/Lumen de lumine 2.30
    (2x7": Virgin, VS 771)

    Stars on Fire 7.15//City of Light 3.38/What Kind of Girl 5.01 (12": Virgin, VS 771-12)

Sep 1985 LP/MC (+ CD) IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
  1. Stars on Fire
  2. Lose All Sense of Time
  3. Shine on
  4. Enter the Angel
  5. In Mysterious Ways
  1. What Kind of Girl
  2. This Side of Paradise
  3. Stepping Softly
  4. Enter the Angel II
  5. Morning Glory (LP: Virgin 2355; MC: TCV 2355; CD July 1987: CDV 2355)
    2001 CD:
  1. Stars on Fire 5.32
  2. Lose All Sense of Time 4.17
  3. What Kind of Girl 5.01
  4. Shine on 4.40
  5. Enter the Angel 3.58
  6. In Mysterious Ways 3.05
  7. This Side of Paradise 4.37
  8. Stepping Softly 3.57
  9. Morning Glory 5.52
  10. Enter the Angel II 2.14
  11. Lumen de lumine 2.30
  12. Hiding in Plain Sight 5.51 [= Stairway]
  13. City of Light 3.34 (UK CD 28 Aug 2001: Edsel EDCD 705; Japanese CD 25 Feb 2004: Imperial Records TECI-23210)
    2008 2-CD:
  1. Stars on Fire 5.36
  2. Lose All Sense of Time 4.21
  3. Spin Away 6.42 [previously unreleased]
  4. Shine on 4.44
  5. Enter the Angel 3.58
  6. In Mysterious Ways 3.05
  7. What Kind of Girl 5.01
  8. Stepping Softly 3.57
  9. Enter the Angel II 2.14
  10. Morning Glory 5.52
  1. This Side of Paradise 4.38 [from original LP]
  2. Enter the Angel (alternative version) 3.37 [previously unreleased]
  3. To Be with You 4.40 (alternative version) [previously unreleased] [1st version is on 2-CD METAMATIC]
  4. And the Sky 4.33 [previously unreleased]
  5. Magic 3.35 [previously unreleased]
  6. Hiding in Plain Sight 5.50 [= Stairway] [B-side Enter the Angel]
  7. Shine On (alternative version) 5.00 [previously unreleased]
  8. City of Light 3.35 [B-side Stars on Fire 12"/double 7"]
  9. Lumen de lumine 2.30 [on Stars on Fire double 7"] (UK 2-CD 6 Oct 2008: Metamatic / Edsel Records EDSD 2015)
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 5.51 (12": Virgin, VS 814-12)

coll-VHS video [1980-85] [TITLE UNKNOWN]

Thanks to Inge Tesdal for telling me about this video.

coll-CD [1980-85] ASSEMBLY

  1. A New Kind of Man 3.41
  2. Underpass 3.56
  3. Burning Car 3.12 [first time on CD]
  4. This City 3.06 [first time on CD]
  5. Twilight's Last Gleaming 4.22
  6. Ghosts on Water 3.12
  7. This Jungle 4.41 [first time on CD]
  8. Endlessly 4.18
  9. Someone 3.30
  10. Sitting at the Edge of the World 4.19
  11. In Mysterious Ways 3.04
  12. Morning Glory 5.52
  13. Europe after the Rain 3.59
  14. Systems of Romance 4.03
  15. Walk away 3.52
  16. When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman 3.36
  17. Pater noster 2.33
  18. The Garden 7.08 (CD 1992: Virgin, CDVM 9002)

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.

1991 12" Nation 12: Electrofear

    Electrofear (Beastmix) 4.20//
    Electrofear (Shemsijo Mix) 4.20/Electrofear (Dogmix) 3.56 (Rhythm King, EBU 2T)
1991 planned LP/CD (CD released 2005) NATION 12: ELECTROFEAR
  1. Nation 12 (5.27)
  2. She Was 5.43
  3. Shadow Dancing 4.43
  4. Florian 3.47
  5. Electrofear 3.56
  6. Listen to the Drummer 4.55
  7. Leaving 4.41
  8. Into the Wonderful 4.42
  9. Cities of Light 1 (5.19)
  10. Your Kisses Burn 4.51
  11. Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible 3.11
  12. Remember 5.37
  13. Invisible Women 6.48

    Bonus tracks:

  14. Electrofear (Alternative Mix) 4.20
  15. Invisible Women (Electronic Mix) 4.59
  16. 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.'"

24 March 1995 CD CATHEDRAL OCEANS

  1. Cathedral Oceans 5.19
  2. City As Memory 5.43
  3. Through Summer Rooms 6.36
  4. Geometry and Coincidence 5.26
  5. If Only... 3.22
  6. Shifting Perspective 2.35
  7. Floating Islands 6.05
  8. Infinite in All Directions 5.49
  9. Avenham Collonade 6.17
  10. Sunset Rising 2.38
  11. Invisible Architecture 3.22 (Metamatic, META 0001CD)
24 March 1995 CD (+ 2-CD) JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: SHIFTING CITY
  1. The Noise 4.17 (Foxx)
  2. Crash 5.24 (Foxx/Gordon)
  3. Here We Go 7.03 (Foxx/Gordon)
  4. Shadow Man 7.26 (Foxx)
  5. Through My Sleeping 5.03 (Foxx)
  6. Forgotten Years 5.43 (Foxx/Gordon)
  7. Everyone 5.48 (Foxx/Gordon)
  8. Shifting City 3.30 (Foxx)
  9. Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible 5.42 (Foxx/Gordon/Leven)
  10. An Ocean We Can Breathe 6.23 (Foxx/Gordon) (Metamatic, META 0002CD)
    2-CD edition 2009:
  1. The Noise 4.17
  2. Crash 5.24
  3. Here We Go 7.03
  4. Shadow Man 7.26
  5. Through My Sleeping 5.03
  6. Forgotten Years 5.43
  7. Everyone 5.48
  8. Shifting City 3.30
  9. Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible 5.42
  10. An Ocean We Can Breathe 6.23
  11. Shadow Man (demo)
  12. Quiet Men (Subterranean Omnidelic Tour)
  13. Just for a Moment (Subterranean Omnidelic Tour)
  1. 20th Century (Omnidelic Exotour)
  2. Burning Car (Omnidelic Exotour)
  3. Overpass (Omnidelic Exotour)
  4. This City (Omnidelic Exotour)
  5. Hiroshima mon amour (Omnidelic Exotour)
  6. Just for a Moment (Omnidelic Exotour)
  7. The Quiet Men (Omnidelic Exotour)
  8. An Ocean We Can Breathe (Omnidelic Exotour)
  9. Through My Sleeping (Omnidelic Exotour)
  10. The Noise (Omnidelic Exotour)
  11. Shifting City (Omnidelic Exotour)
  12. Endlessly (Omnidelic Exotour) (2-CD 19 Oct 2009)
CD 2 recorded live by Foxx and Gordon at A Certain Ratio's Warehouse in Ancoats, Manchester and at Metamatic Studio in 1997.

http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003499&pType=1

15 Oct 1997 limited live CD JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: EXOTOUR 97

  1. Burning Car 8.39
  2. Dislocation 4.39 (Foxx/Currie)
  3. Overpass 5.54
  4. This City 4.31
  5. Shifting City 8.43 (Metamatic, META 003CD)
Numbered edition of 1000. Recorded live at rehearsals for the October 1997 UK tour.

15 April 1998 limited live CD JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: SUBTERRANEAN OMNIDELIC EXOTOUR

  1. 20th Century 6.22
  2. Burning Car 8.37
  3. Overpass 5.53
  4. This City 4.35
  5. Hiroshima mon amour 4.58
  6. Just for a Moment 4.02
  7. The Quiet Men5.09
  8. An Ocean We Can Breathe 6.32
  9. Through My Sleeping 5.29
  10. The Noise 4.58
  11. Shifting City 8.36
  12. Endlessly 8.12 (Metamatic, META 004CD)
Numbered edition of 500. Recorded live at rehearsals for the April 1998 UK tour.

(2 Dec 2002) live 2-CD THE GOLDEN SECTION TOUR + THE OMNIDELIC EXOTOUR

    CD 1 [Live 1983 - see earlier 1983 entry]
    CD 2 - Live 1997:
  1. 20th Century 6.22
  2. Burning Car 8.37
  3. Overpass 5.53
  4. This City 4.34
  5. Hiroshima Mon Amour 4.59
  6. Just for a Moment 4.07
  7. The Quiet Men 5.08
  8. Dislocation 4.37
  9. An Ocean We Can Breathe 6.35
  10. Through My Sleeping 5.23
  11. The Noise 4.59
  12. Shifting City 8.35
  13. Endlessly 8.18 (2-CD: Edsel, MEDCD 725)
CD 2 was recorded live with Louis Gordon in Ancoats & A Certain Ratio's Warehouse in Manchester in 1997.

(29 Sep 2007) live CD JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: RETRO FUTURE

  1. 20th Century
  2. Burning Car
  3. Overpass
  4. This City
  5. Hiroshima Mon Amour
  6. Just for a Moment
  7. The Quiet Men
  8. Dislocation
  9. Here We Go
  10. An Ocean We Can Breathe
  11. 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

15 July 2000 various artists CD ORPHÉE

More info about this CD can be found at http://www.projekt.com.

4 June 2001 coll-CD MODERN ART - THE BEST OF JOHN FOXX

  1. Underpass (1980 single edit) 3.18
  2. No-One Driving (1980 single remix) 3.42
  3. Burning Car (1980 single) 3.09
  4. 20th Century 3.02 [B-side Burning Car]
  5. Miles Away 3.14 (1980 single)
  6. Europe after the Rain (1981 single edit) 3.35
  7. Dancing Like a Gun (1981 single edit) 3.43
  8. Endlessly (1982 original single version) 3.46
  9. Your Dress (1983 single edit) 3.59
  10. Like a Miracle (1983 DJ edit) 4.50
  11. Stars on Fire (1985 single edit) 4.52
  12. Enter the Angel (1985 single edit) 3.58
  13. Sunset Rising 2.37 [from Cathedral Oceans, 1995]
  14. The Noise 4.14 [from Shifting City, 1997]
  15. Nightlife 5.47 [from the forthcoming CD The Pleasures of Electricity]
  16. Shifting City 8.39 [from Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour, 1997]
  17. My Face 3.21 [previously available on Smash Hits flexidisc 1980]
  18. He's a Liquid (alt. mix) 3.06 [B-side of Underpass promo-only 12" 1980] (Music Club, MCCD 454)
21 Jan 2002 CD (+ 2-CD) JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: THE PLEASURES OF ELECTRICITY
  1. A Funny Thing 4.18
  2. Nightlife 5.54
  3. Camera 7.47
  4. Invisible Women 5.55
  5. Cities of Light 5 (5.26)
  6. Uptown / Downtown 6.34
  7. When It Rains 4.24
  8. Automobile 5.56
  9. The Falling Room 4.52
  10. Travel 6.57
  11. Quiet City 5.04 (Metamatic Records META 004CD)
    2-CD edition 2009:
  1. A Funny Thing
  2. Nightlife (Alternative Mix)
  3. Camera
  4. Invisible Women (Alternative Mix)
  5. Cities of Light (Alternative Mix)
  6. Uptown / Downtown
  7. When It Rains
  8. Automobile (Alternative Mix)
  9. The Falling Room
  10. Travel
  11. Quiet City
  1. A Funny Thing 4.18
  2. Nightlife 5.54
  3. Camera 7.47
  4. Invisible Women 5.55
  5. Cities of Light 5 (5.26)
  6. Uptown / Downtown 6.34
  7. When It Rains 4.24
  8. Automobile 5.56
  9. The Falling Room 4.52
  10. Travel 6.57
  11. Quiet City 5.04
  12. Screenplay
  13. Twilight Room (2-CD 19 Oct 2009)
CD 1 of the 2-CD features a version of the album, newly remixed in 2009 by John Foxx. CD 2 features the original mix of the album plus two previously unreleased bonus tracks.

http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003500&pType=1

2 June 2003 2-CD CATHEDRAL OCEANS I + CATHEDRAL OCEANS I II

  1. Cathedral Oceans 5.19
  2. City As Memory 5.43
  3. Through Summer Rooms 6.36
  4. Geometry and Coincidence 5.26
  5. If Only... 3.22
  6. Shifting Perspective 2.35
  7. Floating Islands 6.05
  8. Infinite in All Directions 5.49
  9. Avenham Collonade 6.17
  10. Sunset Rising 2.38
  11. Invisible Architecture 3.22
  1. Revolving Birdsong 2.12
  2. Shimmer Symmetry 5.13
  3. Far and Wide 2 6.43
  4. Ad Infinitum 6.26
  5. Quiet Splendour 5.58
  6. Luminous and Gone 5.59
  7. Stillness and Wonder 6.23
  8. Return to a Place of Remembered Beauty 7.21
  9. Visible and Invisible 6.49
  10. Golden Green 7.11 (Edsel, MEDCD 726)
30 June 2003 CD JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: CRASH AND BURN
  1. Drive 6.55
  2. Cinema 5.09
  3. Broken Furniture 5.25
  4. Crash and Burn 4.03
  5. Once in a While 4.10
  6. Sex Video 5.00
  7. Sidewalking 6.12
  8. UltraViolet / InfraRed 5.14
  9. She Robot 4.46
  10. Dust and Light 6.45
  11. Ray 1 / Ray 2 (5.10)
  12. Smoke 7.11 (Metamatic Records/Artful Records META005CD)
Also available as a limited 8-track vinyl LP, from www.metamatic.com
Will be re-released as double disc in 2010.

25 Aug 2003 2-CD JOHN FOXX + HAROLD BUDD: TRANSLUCENCE + DRIFT MUSIC

  1. Subtext 5.59
  2. Spoken Roses 6.20
  3. Momentary Architecture 1.40
  4. Adult 3.03
  5. Long Light 3.54
  6. A Change in the Weather 2.41
  7. Here and Now 3.57
  8. Almost Overlooked 2.30
  9. Implicit 5.25
  10. Raindust 7.08
  11. Missing Person 1.33
  12. You Again 3.24
  1. Sunlit Silhouette 3.15
  2. The Other Room 1.56
  3. Some Way through All the Cities 4.16
  4. Stepping Sideways 3.43
  5. A Delicate Romance 7.13
  6. Linger 1.58
  7. Curtains Blowing 3.06
  8. Weather Patterns 1.50
  9. Coming into Focus 5.01
  10. After All This Time 6.54
  11. Someone Almost There 1.33
  12. Resonant Frequency 2.45
  13. Avenue of Trees 1.16
  14. Underwater Flowers 6.05
  15. Arriving 1.25 (Edsel MEDCD 727)
9 Sep 2003 mail order CDM John Foxx & Louis Gordon: The Drive EP
  1. Drive (single edit) 4.13
  2. Broken Furniture (radio edit) 4.02
  3. Underwater Dreamsex 6.11
  4. Making Movies 9.22
  5. Your Shadow 4.48
  6. Broken Furniture 5.25
  7. 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."

11 Oct 2004 various artists CD MUSIC FOR HEROES - THREE

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"

11 April 2005 CD JORI HULKKONEN: DUALIZM

This track (track 5 on the CD) has vocals by John Foxx.

8 Aug 2005 CD CATHEDRAL OCEANS III

  1. Oceanic 4.09
  2. Through Gardens Overgrown 2.39
  3. Spiral Overture 5.48
  4. The Shadow of a Woman's Hand 5.01
  5. Radial Harmonics 0.35
  6. Serene Velocity 4.31
  7. Fog Structures 4.04
  8. Eternity Sunrise 4.20
  9. Harmonia Mundi 4.44
  10. City of Endless Stairways 4.47
  11. In Rising Light 6.56
  12. 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."

26 Sep 2005 CD METAMATICS: 3 JAK AND DIVE

This track was written by John Foxx, who also sings. Metamatics is Lee Norris.

5 June 2006 CD TINY COLOUR MOVIES

  1. Stray Sinatra Neurone
  2. Lost New York
  3. Kurfurstendamm
  4. Skyscraper
  5. The Projectionist
  6. Looped Los Angeles
  7. Points of Departure
  8. X-Ray Vision
  9. Smokescreen
  10. Underwater Automobiles
  11. A Peripheral Character
  12. Shadow City
  13. Interlude
  14. Thought Experiment
  15. Hand-Held Skies (Metamatic Records, META9CD)
2 Oct 2006 live CD JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: LIVE FROM A ROOM (AS BIG AS A CITY)
  1. Intro
  2. Sex Video
  3. Making Movies
  4. Metal Beat
  5. No-One Driving
  6. Plaza
  7. Underpass
  8. Touch and Go
  9. He's a Liquid
  10. Broken Furniture
  11. UltraViolet/InfraRed
  12. Nightlife
  13. 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.

2 Oct 2006 interview/music 2-CD THE HIDDEN MAN

  1. John Foxx discusses Ultravox...
  1. Freeze Frame (Extended Version) 5.22
  2. Running in Traffic (Full Version) 5.27
  3. From Trash 4.36
  4. Interview about "Tiny Colour Movies", Nation 12 and John Foxx's work with Louis Gordon
  5. 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.

6 Nov 2006 CD JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: FROM TRASH

  1. From Trash
  2. Freeze Frame
  3. Your Kisses Burn
  4. Another You
  5. Impossible
  6. Never Let Me Go
  7. A Room As Big As a City
  8. A Million Cars
  9. Friendly Fire
  10. The One Who Walks through You (Metamatic Records, META12CD)
24 Nov 2006 music/interview 2-CD SIDEWAYS
  1. And the World Slides Sideways
  2. Underwater
  3. X-Ray Vision
  4. Car Crash Flashback V2
  5. In a Silent Way
  6. Sailing on Sunshine
  7. Use My Voice
  8. Neuro Video
  9. Phone Tap
  10. Impossible (Extended Version)
  11. A Room As Big As a City (Extended Version)
  1. 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.

11 Dec 2006 DVD CATHEDRAL OCEANS

  1. Oceanic
  2. Through Gardens Overgrown
  3. Spiral Overture
  4. The Shadow of a Woman's Hand
  5. Radial Harmonics
  6. Serene Velocity
  7. Fog Structures
  8. Eternity Sunrise
  9. Harmonia Mundi
  10. City of Endless Stairways
  11. In Rising Light
  12. 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."

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

9 March 2008 collaboration MP3 Jori Hulkkonen featuring John Foxx: Never Been Here Before

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.

21 April 2008 live CD JOHN FOXX: A NEW KIND OF MAN

  1. Film One
  2. Plaza
  3. He's a Liquid
  4. Underpass
  5. Metal Beat
  6. No-One Driving
  7. A New Kind of Man
  8. Blurred Girl
  9. 030
  10. Tidal Wave
  11. Touch and Go
  12. Glimmer
  13. Mr No
  14. This City
  15. My Face
  16. Burning Car
  17. 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."

22 Sep 2008 remix 12" Burning Car

    Burning Car (Dubterror Remix) 4.39/20th Century (Dubterror Remix)
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003062&pType=1
"John Foxx has teamed up with Dubterror and Karborn to produce a new limited edition "Burning Car" / "20th Century" vinyl release. Only five-hundred copies are being pressed up on twelve inch vinyl, featuring Dubterror's new mixes of the tracks and Karborn's artwork on the labels. The first fifty copies, which are available exclusively through Townsend Records, will be signed by John Foxx."

29 Sep 2008 coll-2-CD GLIMMER: BEST OF JOHN FOXX

  1. Glimmer 3.35 [B-side No-One Driving 3/80]
  2. Plaza 3.54 [from METAMATIC, 1980]
  3. No-One Driving (single remix) 3.42 [1980]
  4. Underpass 3.56 [from METAMATIC, 1980]
  5. Quiet City 5.04 [from JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: THE PLEASURES OF ELECTRICITY, 2002]
  6. Dislocation 4.39 [from JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: RETRO FUTURE, 2007]
  7. 030 (3.17) [from METAMATIC, 1980]
  8. Twilight's Last Gleaming 4.22 [from THE GOLDEN SECTION, 1983]
  9. Sunset Rising 2.38 [from CATHEDRAL OCEANS, 1995]
  10. Cities of Light 5 (remix) 5.18 [from the forthcoming reissue of "The Pleasures of Electricity"]
  11. Europe after the Rain 3.59 [from THE GARDEN, 1981]
  12. Hiroshima Mon Amour 5.04 [from JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: RETRO FUTURE, 2007]
  13. The Garden 7.08 [from THE GARDEN, 1981]
  1. Through My Sleeping 5.03 [from JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: SHIFTING CITY, 1995]
  2. Endlessly (single version) 3.51 [1982]
  3. My Sex 7.46 [from JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: LIVE FROM A ROOM, 2006]
  4. He's a Liquid 3.01 [LP version or alternative version?] [1980]
  5. Carcrash Flashback V2 4.19 [from SIDEWAYS, 2006]
  6. Dancing Like a Gun 4.11 [from THE GARDEN, 1981]
  7. Just for a Moment 4.09 [from JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: RETRO FUTURE, 2007]
  8. Dislocated (radio edit) 3.53 (vocals by John Foxx) [from JORI HULKKONEN: DUALIZM, 2005]
  9. Burning Car 3.12 [non-LP single 7/80]
  10. Miles Away 3.17 [non-LP single 10/80]
  11. Stepping Sideways 3.43 [from JOHN FOXX + HAROLD BUDD: TRANSLUCENCE + DRIFT MUSIC, 2003]
  12. Free Robot 7.19 (written & sung by John Foxx) [from METAMATICS: 3 JAK AND DIVE, 2005]
  13. No-One Driving (early version) 3.57 [previously unreleased]
  14. Plaza (extended version) 4.55 [from METAL BEAT, 2007]
  15. Burning Car (Dubterror/Karborn mix) 4.39 [from 12" single, 2008] (Demon/Edsel/Music Club Deluxe, MCDLX097)
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pType=1&pId=10003054

16 Oct 2008 remix CD JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: IMPOSSIBLE

  1. Adult Concerns [new track]
  2. A Million Cars
  3. From Trash
  4. Impossible
  5. Friendly Fire
  6. X-Ray Vision
  7. The Man Who Dies Every Day
  8. Walk This Way [new track]
  9. Dislocation
  10. Drive
  11. The One Who Walks through You
  12. Crash and Burn (Metamatic Records, META18CD)
First available at their live performance on 16 Oct 2008 at Cargo in London.
"Features two brand new tracks - "Adult Concerns" and "Walk This Way" - together with ten new versions of previously released material. Some of these re-workings are completely new arrangements, others are closer to the live versions."
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003183&pType=1

16 Oct 2008 live CD JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON: NEURO VIDEO

  1. Swimmer II
  2. Making Movies
  3. Camera
  4. Uptown / Downtown
  5. Europe after the Rain
  6. The One Who Walks through You
  7. A Million Cars
  8. Miles Away
  9. Dancing Like a Gun
  10. Neuro Video
  11. Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible
  12. Shadow Man
  13. Sailing on Sunshine (Metamatic Records, META19CD)
First available at their live performance on 16 Oct 2008 at Cargo in London. Recorded live 24 Nov 2007 at The Luminaire in London.
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003184&pType=1

8 Dec 2008 CD-box CINEMASCOPE

"Strictly limited to only 1000 copies. All of the discs are now housed in card wallets, featuring brand new artwork created out of images taken from the original releases. The box set also contains six small art prints of John's work."
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003191&pType=1

23 Feb 2009 CD JOHN FOXX: MY LOST CITY

  1. Imperfect Hymn
  2. Holywell Lane
  3. Magnetic Fields
  4. Just Passing Through
  5. Barbican Brakhage
  6. Hidden Assembly
  7. Hawksmoor Orbital
  8. Piranesi Motorcade
  9. City of Disappearances
  10. Umbra Sumus
  11. Scene 27 - Intro to the Voice behind the Wallpaper, Trellick Tower 3am (Metamatic Records, META21CD)
"My Lost City is an album of instrumental music which John has been quietly assembling for the last few years. In terms of style, the album includes early experiments with ideas that would eventually become 'Cathedral Oceans' such as the filmic, synthesizer-driven 'Imperfect Hymn'; one beautiful track is built around piano but also features electronics; others are more tonal, though melody features very strongly throughout My Lost City."
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003292&pType=1

23 March 2009 CD D'AGOSTINO/FOXX/JANSEN: A SECRET LIFE ...

  1. A Secret Life (Part 1)
  2. A Secret Life (Part 2)
  3. A Secret Life (Part 3)
  4. A Secret Life (Part 4)
  5. A Secret Life (Part 5)
  6. A Secret Life (Part 6) (Metamatic Records/Universal, META22CD)
"Having met during their live performance in Brighton with Harold Budd back in May 2005, John invited Steve Jansen to record tam-tams (gongs) for a potential collaborative release. The dark tones of the tam-tams created a bed for atmospherics and acoustic piano work to be added. Due to various other commitments the release seemed to be shelved until Steve D'Agostino (Single Cycle Reorder) took it upon himself to complete the work."
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003293&pType=1

4 May 2009 CD JOHN FOXX & ROBIN GUTHRIE: MIRRORBALL

  1. Mirrorball
  2. My Life As an Echo
  3. The Perfect Line
  4. Spectroscope
  5. Estrellita
  6. Luminous
  7. Sunshower
  8. Ultramarine
  9. Empire Skyline (Metamatic Records/Universal, META23CD
When you pre-ordered Mirrorball from Townsend Records, you got a free unique MP3 "Luminous - extended mix".
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003325&pType=1

27 July 2009 CD JOHN FOXX: THE QUIET MAN

  1. The Quiet Man
  2. A Man Made of Shadows
  3. Cathedral Oceans
  4. The Grey Suit
  5. Shifting City (Metamatic Records, META24CD)
"John has written an album's worth of piano music especially for this release, which (together with ambient background noises such as birdsong) acts as a backdrop for sections (read by Justin Barton) of his long-awaited book 'The Quiet Man'. The album contains a 16-page booklet which features a series of new 'Quiet Man' images."

"The origins of the ["Quiet Man"] stories are firmly cinematic,' says Foxx. 'I found an old grey suit in a charity shop in the 1970s. Over the years, I got some friends to wear the suit in various locations in London. I filmed them just walking or sitting in cafes or apartments. As I did this, the story of "The Quiet Man" began to emerge. It's about London becoming overgrown, about the suit being alive somehow, and the way cities can alter us - and our memories.' The original 'grey suit' (mentioned above) is also going to feature at the "DNA Exhibition"."

http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pType=1&pId=10003432

7 Dec 2009 MP3 single John Foxx & The Maths: Destination

  1. Destination 5.10
  2. September Town 4.26
"The debut single from John Foxx & The Maths - 'Destination'. Recorded on analogue synthesizers, drum machines, bass and drums, this digital single also includes a new track "September Town" as a B-side. Both songs were written and recorded by John Foxx and Ben Edwards (Benge) at Play Studios in Shoreditch, London."

http://www.townsend-records.co.uk:80/product.php?pId=1000258&pType=6

3 May 2010 coll-2CD+DVD JOHN FOXX: METATRONIC

  1. Underpass (Extended Version) 4.25 [previously unreleased]
  2. This City 3.09 [1980]
  3. No-One Driving 3.51 [from METAMATIC, 1980]
  4. Burning Car 3.17 [1980]
  5. The Noise 4.18 [from SHIFTING CITY, 1995]
  6. Everyone 5.42 [from SHIFTING CITY, 1995]
  7. When It Rains 4.23 [from THE PLEASURES OF ELECTRICITY, 2002]
  8. Automobile 5.59 [from THE PLEASURES OF ELECTRICITY, 2002]
  9. Broken Furniture (Single Version) 4.03 [2003]
  10. Drive (Single Version) 4.33 [2003]
  11. Once in a While 4.14 [from CRASH AND BURN, 2003]
  12. From Trash 4.38 [from FROM TRASH, 2006]
  13. Never Let Me Go 3.18 [from FROM TRASH, 2006]
  14. Smokescreen 2.27 [from TINY COLOUR MOVIES , 2006]
  15. Cinemascope 3.30 [1980]
  16. Phone Tap 4.00 [from SIDEWAYS, 2006]
  17. Smoke 7.02 [from CRASH AND BURN, 2003]
  1. Crash & Burn (Live in Sydney 10 Jan 2008) 4.49
  2. Uptown / Downtown (Live in Sydney 10 Jan 2008) 6.58
  3. The Man Who Dies Every Day (Live in Sydney 10 Jan 2008) 4.20
  4. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Live in Sydney 10 Jan 2008) 5.06
  5. Underpass (Live in Sydney 10 Jan 2008) 4.19
  6. From Trash (Live in Sydney 10 Jan 2008) 4.52
  7. Shadow Man (Live in Sydney 10 Jan 2008) 9.22
  8. My Sex (Live in Sydney 10 Jan 2008) 8.38
  9. Burning Car (Early Version) 2.44 [previously unreleased]
  10. Underpass (Mark Reeder's Sinister Subway Mix) 4.11 [new remix]
  11. Dislocated (Jussi Pekka's Pointed on a Map Remix) 5.40 [new remix]
  12. 20th Century (Dubterror vs Karborn mix) 5.01 [from remix 12" 'Burning Car' 2008]
    DVD
  1. Underpass (B&W Version)
  2. He's a Liquid
  3. No-One Driving
  4. Smokescreen
  5. Underpass (Mark Reeder's Sinister Subway Mix)
  6. The Noise (VH1 session)
  7. Shifting City (Live in 1998) (Demon/Edsel Records Edsel EDSX 3009)
'30th Anniversary Collection'
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=6768416&pType=1

2 June 2010 CD+DVD JOHN FOXX: D.N.A.

    Disc 1 - CD
  1. Maybe Tomorrow
  2. Kaiyagura
  3. City of Mirage
  4. Flightpath Tegel
  5. Violet Bloom
  6. Phantom Lover
  7. A Secret Life - Part 7
  8. A Secret Live - Part 2
  9. Over the Mirage
    Disc 2 - DVD
  1. Maybe Tomorrow [Karborn]
  2. Violet Bloom [Steve D'Agostino]
  3. Flightpath Tegel [Ian Emes]
  4. A Secret Live - Part 2 [Ian Emes]
  5. City of Mirage [Macoto Tezka]
  6. Kaiyagura [Macoto Tezka]
  7. Over the Mirage [Macoto Tezka]
  8. A Half-Remembered Sentence [Jonathan Barnbrook]
  9. Clicktrack [Jonathan Barnbrook]
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=10003634&pType=1

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