To celebrate its forty-fifth anniversary, a special edition of
Metamatic is scheduled to be released on grey vinyl by Metamatic Records on Friday the 17th of January, 2025.
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This special edition re-release features the 2014 masters, which were cut from the original analogue tapes. All copies sold by Townsend Records will include an additional limited edition
Metamatic print signed by
John Foxx.
Here's what
John has to say about his debut solo album;
"Recorded 1979-1980 at Pathway studios with Gareth Jones. Pathway was an eight-track cupboard in Islington, North London, owned by two characters who wrote Fire for Arthur Brown. Very basic, very scruffy, very good. Gareth was a hippy Freudian BBC drop-out, and these were his first real recording sessions. He soon became an innovator. I was in retreat from bands, touring, etc. mightily convinced that electronics were the future, and reading too much J.G. Ballard. I lived alone in Finsbury Park, spent my spare time walking the disused train lines, cycled to the studio every day and wobbled back at dawn, imagining I was the Marcel Duchamp of electropop. Metamatic was the result. It was the first British electronic pop album. It was minimal, primitive technopunk. Carcrash music tailored by Burtons."Side One
A1.
PlazaA2.
He’s A LiquidA3.
UnderpassA4.
Metal BeatA5.
No-One DrivingSide Two
B1.
A New Kind Of ManB2.
Blurred GirlB3.
030B4.
Tidal WaveB5.
Touch And GoCatalogue Number : META80LP
A Grey Vinyl edition of
Metamatic can be ordered from
Townsend Records...
