Metamatic Forums John Foxx John Foxx Can we have a go at remixing John's music?

Glad you liked it Ken.

I just fancied 'electroing' it up a bit.

The bassline & synths & some wierd noises are my contributions (I like my wierd noises )

I think this has already been single as there is a video on Youtube of the original mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhPh6ou8Kbk&feature=channel

Brian

Getting official permission/authorization from John Foxx for that seems about as likely as his announcing that he is recording the Abba covers suggested in another thread!

Depeche Mode and less famous ones did so already on Acidplanet...
The initiative has to come from the artist/management though.

And what do the artists & management get out of it?

In the case of Ladyhawke I got a Myspace message telling my about it.

When I downloaded the stems they asked for my email address.

So they are collecting email addresses for marketing purposes & getting possible free remixes out of it.

Seems like good low cost marketing to me.

Make it into a competition and as such publicity, that's the whole point i think

How long before we get to hear the Rolf Harris / wobble board version?

Hmm, come to think of it, maybe Jori can cover one of Rolf's songs!

Nice to see some other people being as enthusiastic about this as me, but as there's been no "official" response, should we assume that John doesn't think this is something he wants to do? If not, fair enough but it would be nice to hear one way or the other.

I can't access Myspace where I am - does anyone know another way of contacting John or Steve Malins directly?

You only started this thread a mere three weeks ago. Just because there's been no 'immediate' response doesn't mean that this has been ignored or dismissed.

Besides, this is something that's already in the process of being considered. In an ideal world I'm sure that it would be nice if we could do something similar to what's been done over on the website for the David Byrne and Brian Eno album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, but all of that takes a huge amount of work and it simply can't be set up in two minutes.

You can contact John via this very website , or by using the following address - johnfoxx@metamatic.com.

Rob