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I have everything on this compilation (including both Cathedral Oceans DVD's) and thought seriously for at least a nanosecond before whipping out the plastic and ordering. What I do wish for though, is some completion to John's past work. I would like to see DVD's of Golden Section, Exotour and all the recent tours from 2003 onwards that Mike Barker has filmed. I would also like a complete CD of the Golden Section tour and complete versions of the Demo's that were snippets on the Metal Beat CD. If this was done, it would be enough to keep even me happy. Other bands like Throbbing Gristle have released 'big' box sets of very limited material and sold for around £100 (and sold out) so there is a market for this stuff.

However, I honestly think From Trash and Sideways are my favorite JF and LG albums so I would have greater anticipation for NEW releases and dearly hope that the collaborations surface next year too. Personally though, I buy everything John releases just to add to the collection. At least the prices are reasonable.

Anyway, I am looking forward to tonights performance in Leeds. It will be nice to get home before midnight unlike the London gigs or CO Brighton which were 3am +.

Hang on a minute! This box-set's not right!

Where's the other 194 discs!?

Just posted by Steve Malins on Myspace:-

Friday, November 07, 2008

Cinemascope Box Set & New Releases


CINEMASCOPE

'Cinemascope' will be released on December 1 - this is the first box set of John Foxx's 30 year career and includes five critically acclaimed albums - 'Crash and Burn' (2003), 'Electrofear' (2005), 'Cathedral Oceans III' (2005), 'Tiny Colour Movies' (2006) and 'From Trash' (2006), plus the recent full 'Cathedral Oceans' DVD (containing music from Cathedral Oceans III). The box also contains six small art prints of Foxx's work. All the albums are now housed in wallets, featuring new artwork created out of images taken from the original releases. It is available to pre-order now through Townsend Records - http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=john+foxx


**Cinemascope is limited to only 1000 copies**

The Cinemascope box set contains the five albums and DVD that are currently licensed to Fullfill Records. We have full artistic control over artwork etc and like all the albums that have been released via Fullfill it does have a Metamatic catalogue number, but the label has their own release schedule and logically they've decided to release a box set into the Christmas market. It is a lovely looking design and good value for £19.99 although I'd like to add, the prints are CD-sized to fit in a box with 6 cd-sized wallets. These are not high end art prints but more like postcards - except they're not postcard shaped if you see what I mean! I'm told by Fullfill that the box set will be more widely available soon but as I say, it's currently on a pre-order through the online shop so if any fans want copies, they've got a chance to buy it before it sells out. In the wake of all the recent activity, there are some new fans and some returning old ones for whom this a great 'catch-up' but also we have worked with Fullfill to keep the price as low as possible so that if you have 2, 3 or even 4 of these re-issues, but not the full set, it is still decent value for money.

IMPOSSIBLE & NEURO VIDEO

Impossible and Neuro Video are brand new releases and will be followed by the Foxx/Guthrie album, the Steve Jansen collaboration, The Quiet Man etc in 2009. The point of these releases is simple - Neuro Video not only captured a one-off and unusual show but also, and this is I'm sure no surprise, in terms of live 'electro' performances John is definitely into the final phase of his career so we're documenting as many of them as we can. As for Impossible, it is re-workings plus two new tracks, but there's a clear, raw, analogue, fractured, aggressive style to the material which is deliberate - the closest in sound is probably Crash & Burn but it's heavier and more 'shredded' as one listener noted, than that album. William Burroughs, Del Toro and the strobe-lit techno-punk and London imagery of early Ultravox are reference points. Impossible is intended to work like a soundtrack where some of the material has been re-worked to fit a darker theme. The images in the artwork are glimpses of what that film - a surreal, British, Cyber-Punk art movie - might look like . . . Both albums are also available through Townsend as a limited edition of 1000 - http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=john+foxx

Steve Malins (Metamatic Records)


Damn that's not the CO DVD I wanted

That means that the only thing in the set I dont have is CO3.

I'll still buy it though

I don't have any Cathedral Oceans, or Nation 12.
Pre-ordered already.

There's four discs in there that I don't have, so at just under £20 this seems like the perfect time to invest in the box set.

YIPPEE…

I feel ever so slightly SICK reading that :rolleyes:

Didn’t realise this, and all this chatter of high profile and the rush of new fans creates a totally unreasonable panic (or maybe its just the thought of Johns gig retirement casting a dark shadow over the once happy land of Foxxscape) and my ‘online commit to spending button’ materialises once more on the keyboard and Townsend are about to get £25.98+p&p from me in a few minutes for two CD’s after this post :rolleyes:

Damn you Gods Of Consumerism :p

I wonder what form The Quiet Man will take, that is mentioned there. I'll have to ask John tonight.

I wonder what kind of music the Jansen collaboration will be...

That's where I feel envious!

I think this boxset is an excellent idea. You only need to be short of a couple of the discs and it is good value, especially with the inclusion of art work as well.

For those who already own all the discs I fully understand that this will probably be a purchase too far.

If it's the material that was played before the Cargo Metamatic gig - this is what I wrote at the time;

From what I heard, this new music was clearly born out of the performance in Brighton with Harold Budd back in 2005, where Jansen performed a solo gong piece 'Lirio'.

Jansen brings out subtle tones and textures using malllets and then changing the way he attacks the different areas of the gong (which, from memory was roughly 5ft wide). John has added Cage-like treated piano and what sounded like industrial/factory sounds: lifts descending a shaft, shutters closing (I'm not saying these are the sounds exactly, just what it sounded like). If you've heard 'Plight and Premonition' by Jansen's brother - David Sylvian alongside Holger Czukay, that's as close as I can get to a reference point.