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Ha, Garry - seems we had the same idea... laugh

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Ha, Garry - seems we had the same idea... laugh
laugh great minds!

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I'm now looking for a start point into his more recent releases ('97 onwards).
Some good suggestions above, but it might be helpful to provide a sense of the kinds of material he's been producing since then.

He's done several collaborations with Louis Gordon. These are kind of like Metamatic, with a somewhat more modern techno sound at times, but basically oriented around synths and vocals. Examples: Shifting City, Pleasures of Electricity, Crash and Burn, From Trash, Sideways.

He's done several ambient and instrumental albums. The Cathedral Oceans series is ambientish music with some treated vocals, inspired somewhat by church music. Translucence/Drift Music is a collaboration with Harold Budd that's straightforward ambient music, strictly instrumental, not unlike the Eno/Budd albums from quite a few years back. Tiny Colour Movies is instrumental retro electronica, often with some percussion and more melody than the ambient stuff. Reminiscent of Kraftwerk and other electronic pioneers. My Lost City is a recent collection of tracks, some of them related to Cathedral Oceans, so more ambient stuff, as is the austere and abstract D'Agostino/Foxx/Jansen collaboration A Secret Life. Mirrorball, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie, has vocals by Foxx and a lot of Guthrie's ethereal guitar sound.

Electrofear by Nation 12 is the lost tapes and a couple of 12" singles Foxx did as part of a techno-ish project circa 1991.

There are also several live and live-in-the-studio releases, a couple of interview CDs, and two compilation CDs, Modern Art (mostly Virgin-era stuff) and Glimmer (2 CDs, more of a balance between new and old).

The four original albums have all been rereleased as remastered 2CD sets with lots of bonus material, some never available before anywhere.

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Yes there is such a large scope, but for me it would have to be Sideways for the electro-stuff with L. Gordon which is what got me back into JF post-IMW.
Otherwise to come really up to date go for the masterpiece that is My Lost City.

Specialmention also for Tiny Colour Movies .

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From Trash and Sideways would be a good starting point.

My Lost City is perhaps the most essential album as it dates back to early-mid eighties, the lost album. The tracks that can be found on this album forms an integral part of the original Cathedral Oceans project ignored by Virgin.

Tiny Colour Movies is a solid electronic instrumental album.

My favourite from this latter period remains The Pleasures of Electricity. This and Shifting City will be re-released in the not too distant future with bonus tracks.

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SIDEWAYS!!!!!!

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Best since 'In Mysterious Ways'?

The re-mastered 2xCD edition of 'In Mysterious Ways'...?

Otherwise
Cathedral Oceans iii

Tiny Colour Movies

A Secet Life

Sideways


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Steve,that's a perfect summary of John's post Virgin years output.

If I had to narrow John's releases down to personal recommendations...

Vocal albums - The Pleasures Of Electricity, Crash And Burn.

Instrumental albums - Cathedral Oceans III, Tiny Colour Movies, My Lost City.

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Okay, I'll be honest with you. I do this because I want to make my mark in this one too ... (but also to help you, really!) shocked wink

Shifting City (songs) / Tiny Colour Movies (instrumentals) / Cinemascope (box-set)

Oh, and if you want to buy just one cd, make it GLIMMER (the best John Foxx 'Best Of').

Cheers! smile

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Many thanks everybody and in particular Steve for the overview. In a bid to reFoxx I have already bought the 2-disc deluxe versions of 'Metamatic', 'The Garden', 'The Golden Section' and 'In Mysterious Ways'. The latter 2 have not arrived yet, but I am *loving* rediscovering his first 2 solo albums + extra tracks - almost 30 years after first hearing them - ouch!

'My Lost City' sounds the most intriguing - I'll definitely be plumping for a song-based album first - 'From Trash' seems to be picking up quite a few votes! I like a strong melody so I'm not sure the ambient ones will be for me. We'll see.

Thanks again all - appreciated.
Adam.

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