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Wo-hoo! Christmas presents! Great stuff!

I'm enjoying these and would be quite happy to see a Foxx remix album - as long as the artists and their mixes are interesting.

Oh, I dunno. If I were putting that kind of project together, let's see... I'd invite Ladytron, Adult, Andrea Parker, some dubstep producers (Burial, Distance, Headhunter), Broadcast, Stereolab, Pole, Ellen Allien, maybe some of the Morr/City Centre Offices/karaoke kalk artists like Ulrich Schnauss or Donna Regina, and some of the dance/punk/electronic bands like the Klaxons, getting a wide variety of electronic music styles in there. I'd find it interesting, and it'd get more press coverage than another live-in-studio collection of rererecorded songs.

Thanks to all who made these free downloads possible. They are a treat for the loyal John Foxx fan, but is Townsend promoting them in any other way to attract those who are as yet uninitiated?
I agree — and I'm known to be not particularly fond of remixes. I like Steve's suggestions for some of the artists who could lend a hand, and from a marketing perspective I fully agree with his conclusion,
High-profile remixes are more likely to reach a new audience and spark renewed journalistic interest in John Foxx's career in a way that the recent glut of all-too-similar recordings and repurposes/repackages saturating the market as placeholders until a full album of previously unheard, original material straggles its way out of the studio next year (she says with breath bated and fingers crossed) will not.

Something in the ballpark of Soft Cell's "Heat: the Remixes" would be great!

Absolutely! What a kick-a*s album that is! really opens up the songs to a contemporary audience.
It's so NOT about whether we, the dedicated hardcore fans, actually LIKE these remixes or not. We are all too familiar with the originals to have a really objective opinion.

Projects like this turn that attitude on its head and encourage everyone to look at John's career the other way up.

Incidentally Mark, do you have 'Soft Love' - the Terence Higgins charity cover versions album?

Of the two - I'm really hooked on the remix of Neuro Video - a bit mid-90s Metroplex is no bad thing.