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A cracking album. Hopefully you all caught Paul on the special John Foxx inspired Robo Cast podcast - http://www.robocastradio.co.uk/johnfoxx.html

Normally I'd rather listen to stuff on nice little studio monitors at home, but I got my old ipod back after a long loan to a friend and filled it last night with enough to keep me happy at work and on the walk home...I ripped some of the discs I bought since I last had this thing...I added:

Psyche, Covenant, Seabound, early Ministry, Crystal Castles, Miss Kittin, The Faint, Kraftwerk, Bowie (Low and Heroes...lush...my desert island discs if ever), Roxy Music (early comp), Japan (Tin Drum). I'm quite reticent about loving ebm/gothy synthpop... it's so earnest I can't ignore it.

I was going to add John Foxx - Tiny Colour Movies, Ladytron's Velocifero (amazingly diverse and beautifully produced and emotional album), Stereolab and Wire, but I've been listening to these artists almost to death lately. Over the weekend I might add some 'billy/garage to balance it out...I get a little melancholy if I only have a drum machine for company on the sea of synth strings So something ridiculous and energetic like The Cramps and The Fuzztones lifts my mood considerably

I had also been listening to a lot of mid-eighties Foxx, like Golden Section etc... I'd previously had a kind of "hip" opposition to this stuff as being really over the top, but considering events lately, it's been a warm and delightful place to sentimentally cast myself into wholeheartedly...

Hi there Mr Elektrik!
Actually, it's on the LP version I own. I just checked it out. It's not on the CD version. Don't know why.
Hollywood symphony is a piece of beauty indeed!
Another fav Holger album of mine is 'On the way to the peak of normal'.

A hectic week needs "Drift Music". Earlier was "The Pleasures of Electricity" - for me the pick of the Foxx/Gordon albums.

Later it will be "Years of Refusal" (Morrissey).

Portishead bootleg.

Ooh vinyl.. You lucky thing!

Don't have 'On The Way To The Peak Of Normal', but I do have 'Moving Pictures', 'La Luna' & the wonderful 'Radio Wave Surfer', which is better than 'Movies'.

Also have 'Der Osten Ist Rot' on vinyl, but do not have a turntable.

The Vanity Clause - Let's Pretend EP

Dead Can Dance: Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun

This really is my album of the moment, I’ve been completely drawn into its world.

Today I had to make a bus journey to an area outside town that I’ve never been to before, and on the way back I was absorbed in my head and listening to the whole of the album on the ipod while looking out at the unfamiliar roads and buildings, all very ordinary sights in themselves. But by the end of my journey the sheer drama of the music had convinced me that behind all of that ‘normality’ outside there, something magical is also present, just slightly out of vision behind what we see. Its amazing when music has the power to make you feel emotionally that something fantastic is waiting to emerge from behind the banality of the ordinary...

Great stuff. I think headphones and public transport are one of the most powerful combinations you can have.