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I got this this week. True it is the weakest Bartos since he left Kraftwerk (and the previous "Communication" was brilliant; "Off the record" is strange publication after he also in his forum page wrote about quitting making albums in these days musik industry). "Atomium" is enigmatic, the rest ones mostly cheesy. Booklet stories are more interesting, and I value the songs as some kind of documents from good old Kraftwerk times.

This weekend I've mostly been listening to the record store day Underpass remixes.

Like them both.

The Dave Clarke one has the deepest darkest sub bass that I've heard in a while.

It warps the fabric of space time

Brian

Ajantamusic - The Secret Door

review inspired by the album is here:

Tangerine Dream: Exit
Stephen W. Tayler: Ostinato
John Foxx And The Maths: Tides - The Very Best Of John Foxx And The Maths (personal CD-R compilation)
John Foxx: Metanym (personal CD-R compilation of instrumentals only)
The Fixx: Beautiful Friction (expanded personal CD-R compilation)

* would love to know what you've included there.



With Metadelic waiting in the wings I've opted for China Crisis' - Diary of a Hollow Horse new digital remaster, re-issue thing with loads of alternative versions, demos and stuff. Nice.

Now you're talking! Didn't know anything about that one - they're not going to do the same thing with the first four albums are they?

Currently A-Ha "Stay on These Roads" - very much a mixed bag but the good bits are among their best.

Earlier, John Grant "Pale Green Ghost" - great songs, great synths; Tennis "Europe on Horseback" - "our" Benge with Douglas Benford (he of "Beauty Reports" which some in the know know out-Enos Eno); and a rather beautiful eponymous offering from A Winged Victory For The Sullen.

Church: yes this one sort of came out of the blue. They've basically replaced the Mike Thorne produced tracks with the original Walter Becker ones, making it an entirely WB produced album as it was originally intended.
Apparently there have always been 'issues' with certain tracks being re-recorded, under pressure from Virgin, after they'd finished doing the album with Becker in Hawaii.
The incriminated tracks are St Saviour, Red Letter and All My Prayers. The originals do in fact sound quite different.
The re-recorded versions are included for good measure as are extended versions..with the added plus of the demo versions of most of the album tracks which I have yet to listen to properly but according to Gary Daly's sleevenotes really show how good the band were in those days (1988-89ish).

There's no evidence of the other albums being re-issued bu then again with the Chinas you never know.

01. Shatterproof
02. Rear-View Mirror
03. Talk
04. Evidence (featuring The Soft Moon) [album version]
05. Evergreen
06. Where You End And I Begin (featuring Tara Busch)
07. September Town [album version]
08. Unrecognised
09. Changelings (featuring Gazelle Twin)
10. My Town
11. Summerland
12. Invisible Ray
13. Vapour Trails
14. Have A Cigar
15. A Falling Star
16. Destination [album version]
17. Tides
18. Walk
19. Only Lovers Left Alive
20. A Falling Star (Remixed by Gazelle Twin)

And for anyone remotely interested ...

01. Personal Magnetism (John Foxx And The Maths)
02. Spirus (John Foxx And The Maths)
03. Maybe Tomorrow
04. Kurfürstendamm
05. Skyscraper
06. Flightpath Tegel
07. Neon Vertigo (John Foxx And The Maths)
08. Looped Los Angeles
09. Phantom Lover
10. Mr. No
11. Film One
12. Glimmer
13. Swimmer II
14. Florian (Nation 12)
15. Modreno (John Foxx And The Maths)
16. My Life As An Echo (John Foxx And Robin Guthrie)
17. Now That I’ve Forgotten You (John Foxx And Harold Budd featuring Reuben Garcia)
18. Oceanic
19. Cloud Choreography (John Foxx And The Maths)
20. A Peripheral Character
21. Astoria (John Foxx And The Maths)
22. Metanym