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Next month sees the release of special double disc editions of The Garden, The Golden Section and In Mysterious Ways. Each album will be accompanied by a selection of associated extra tracks from the accompanying singles, together with some previously unreleased material. The booklets feature expanded artwork and lyrics. The full details and track-listings are as follows...

John Foxx : The Garden

Disc One
01. Europe After the Rain
02. Systems of Romance
03. When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman
04. Dancing Like a Gun
05. Pater Noster
06. Night Suit
07. You Were There
08. Fusion / Fission
09. Walk Away
10. The Garden

Disc Two
01. Swimmer II
02. This Jungle
03. Miles Away
04. A Long Time
05. Swimmer I
06. Fog previously unreleased
07. Swimmer III
08. Swimmer IV
09. Dance With Me (early version) previously unreleased
10. A Woman on a Stairway (early version) previously unreleased
11. Fusion / Fission (early version) previously unreleased
12. Miles Away (alternative version) previously unreleased

Tracks 07 and 08 on Disc Two of The Garden were originally titled The Quiet Man 3 and The Quiet Man 4 respectively.

Label : Demon / Edsel Records
Catalogue Number : EDSD 2014
Release Date : 22nd of September, 2008


John Foxx : The Golden Section

Disc One
01. My Wild Love
02. Someone
03. Your Dress
04. Running Across Thin Ice With Tigers
05. Sitting at the Edge of the World
06. Endlessly
07. Ghosts on Water
08. Like a Miracle
09. The Hidden Man
10. Twilight's Last Gleaming

Disc Two
01. Endlessly (single version)
02. My Wild Love (early version) previously unreleased
03. A Long Time (alternative version) previously unreleased
04. Annexe
05. Sitting at the Edge of the World (alternative version) previously unreleased
06. A Kind of Wave
07. Twilight's Last Gleaming (early version) previously unreleased
08. Running Across Thin Ice With Tigers (extended mix) previously unreleased
09. A Woman on a Stairway
10. The Lifting Sky
11. Shine On Me previously unreleased
12. Young Man
13. Wings and a Wind
14. The Hidden Man (alternative version) previously unreleased
15. Dance With Me
16. Endlessly (extended mix) previously unreleased

Label : Demon / Edsel Records
Catalogue Number : EDSD 2015
Release Date : 22nd of September, 2008


John Foxx : In Mysterious Ways

Disc One
01. Stars on Fire
02. Lose All Sense of Time
03. Spin Away previously unreleased
04. Shine On
05. Enter the Angel
06. In Mysterious Ways
07. What Kind of Girl
08. Stepping Softly
09. Enter the Angel II
10. Morning Glory

Disc Two
01. This Side of Paradise
02. Enter the Angel (alternative version) previously unreleased
03. To Be With You (alternative version) previously unreleased
04. And the Sky previously unreleased
05. Magic previously unreleased
06. Hiding in Plain Sight
07. Shine On (alternative version) previously unreleased
08. City of Light
09. Lumen De Lumine

Label : Demon / Edsel Records
Catalogue Number : EDSD 2016
Release Date : 22nd of September, 2008


There's also a new John Foxx compilation album entitled Glimmer...

John Foxx : Glimmer

Disc One
01. Glimmer
02. Plaza
03. No-One Driving (single remix)
04. Underpass
05. Quiet City *
06. Dislocation *
07. 030
08. Twilight's Last Gleaming
09. Sunset Rising
10. Cities of Light 5 (remix) * previously unreleased
11. Europe After the Rain
12. Hiroshima Mon Amour *
13. The Garden

Disc Two
01. Through My Sleeping *
02. Endlessly (single version)
03. My Sex *
04. He's a Liquid
05. Car Crash Flashback V2 *
06. Dancing Like a Gun
07. Just For a Moment *
08. Dislocated [with Jori Hulkkonen]
09. Burning Car
10. Miles Away
11. Stepping Sideways [with Harold Budd]
12. Free Robot [with Metamatics]
13. No-One Driving (early version) previously unreleased
14. Plaza (extended version) previously unreleased
15. Burning Car (Dubterror / Karborn mix) previously unreleased

* Recorded with Louis Gordon

Label : Demon / Edsel Records
Catalogue Number : MCDLX 097
Release Date : 22nd of September, 2008
Pre-order your copy online from Townsend Records .

Rob

Cheers Rob,

Loads to look forward to there.

Brian

WOW

Looking forward to hearing all the unreleased tracks. It's fantastic that Quiet Men 3 & 4 (Swimmer 3 & 4) are also included as these are two very good tracks previously only available on bootlegs.

Thanks Rob for posting the track listing.

Better have a word with the bank manager with all these CD's.

Peter

Yeah, that just about sums it up...

You're certainly not going to be disappointed...

Not quite, the track Swimmer 3 (The Quiet Man 3) was previously available on TOUCH Meridians 2 , while Swimmer 4 (The Quiet Man 4) was previously available on TOUCH Meridians 1 . However, both releases have been 'out of print' for many years - so it's really good to have been able to once again make them formally available...

Not a problem...

Rob

Well done, John, Steve & Rob (and all others involved) ... I hope you got the artwork just right. :rolleyes:

I'm sure they've not just got the artwork 'just right' Rodney, I'm sure they will have got it 'absolutely right'.

Great news about the re-releases Rob; thanks so much for letting us have the full track listing as soon as you've had it confirmed.

BLIMEY! AT BLEEDIN' LAST!!!!!

WO-HOOO!

*goes away, calms down...has a nice cup of tea*

Great to see QM3 & 4 available properly and looking forward to hearing ‘Fog’

Some might complain that the 12” of ‘Like A Miracle’ isn’t on there, but quite honestly, for me it goes on just far too long and I’m glad the second CD of ‘The Golden Section’ has missed it off in favour of various unreleased versions and a previously unreleased track.

I’ve said in the past on here that my least favourite track on ‘In Mysterious Ways’ is ‘This Side of Paradise’ and I notice that it’s been removed from the track-list and a completely new track is on the album instead! Blimey! Amending the track selection on an album that’s been around that long is no light decision I expect, so I’m looking forward to hearing ‘Spin Away’.

Many thanks Rob, and many thanks to all involved.

This all sounds very exciting - more from the vaults than we bargained for!

Rob - do you know if these will also be available digitally, either on iTunes or through Townsend?

While I would love to rush out and buy these reissues, I have to admit, I'm happy with my 2001 issues, and moreso (for reasons I won't go into), I simply can't justify buying new versions of albums that I have already just for the extra tracks.

My real interest is in these extra tracks, and this is just the sort of thing I'd be very happy to buy online as MP3 or whatever.

These are impressive double sets. I'm also more in favour of previously unreleased tracks as to 12" mixes.

Like a Miracle 12" is a powerful mix but as RadioBeach points out it goes far too long and it's recording is louder than the others which would break the natural flow of the tracks on side 2 and the general feel of each album. I'm sure it will turn up later on on some other CD. As Steve (Malins) has pointed out there's a series of tapes appearing on which the quality of the recordings has to be worked on but considered for future release. Endlessly indeed, are John's releases.


I'm ecstatic at the sight of Fusion/Fission (early version). I still cannot believe it. I had faith that it existed and Rob once hinted at its existence but also mentioned that it wasn't in a condition for release. Long live technology and human diligence at cleaning some of the previously unreleased tracks.

Thanks to all involved!

Chris

Certainly plenty of tantalising unreleased and alternative material in there, as well as a few intriguing mysteries! For example, the track "A Long Time", which I believe has now appeared as a bonus track in its various incarnations on all of John's first three albums!

I wonder if the various alternative versions of tracks from the Golden Section era form what would have been the mythical "In The Glow" project circa 1982, which John apparently shelved when he had fresh inspiration for what eventually became "The Golden Section"? Now I don't know about you, but I'm quite excited by songs of the quality of the GS material (which were always just a little spoiled by the dated Simmons electronic drum sounds) in the more psychedelic style of the original "Endlessly" single.