We've had the digital-only The Bunker Tapes for a few months, and now the proper album release of the Machine Stops music is coming: The Machine by John Foxx and the Maths, due in February.

(I suppose everyone may know already through Facebook or twitter, but I like forums.)

Well, I like forums too. I don't do FB or social media. Thanks for the tip!

No FB and no twitter here too.

Thanks for the info, Steve! I like the Bunker tapes recording a lot. For me, one of the best works John and Benge did together. Great we will have a studio recording soon, too.

Indeed thanks Steve.

I don't do Faceache or Twatter.

The full track-listing is as follows...

John Foxx And The Maths : The Machine

01. The Ghost In The Machine
02. The Other Mother
03. A Dark Illumination
04. Tidal Moonlight
05. Hive Frequency
06. Transworld Travelogue
07. The Iron Bible
08. Star Thief
09. Animal Mechanical
10. Genetic Hymnal
11. Memory Oxide
12. Vortex Logic
13. Orphan Waltz

Catalogue Number : META62CD
Release Date : 10 February 2017

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I've also asked what's become of the tracks Meat And Metal and Transworld Airwave which are both included on The Bunker Tapes...

Rob

Really great news! Thank you for the tracklist ,Rob.

One of the reasons I want a soundtrack of the play to be released (ideally on DVD) is so that we can identify which of these tracks are sampled, cut, looped and otherwise mashed up into the action on stage

Written during 2015 & 2016, the music was commissioned by director Juliet Forster as the soundtrack for the theatre production of E.M. Forster's short story The Machine Stops. Not all of the music was used and the album features some different mixes to those which accompanied the stage show.

The final track-listing is as follows...

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John Foxx And The Maths : The Machine

01. The Ghost In The Machine
02. The Other Mother
03. A Dark Illumination
04. Tidal Moonlight
05. Hive Frequency
06. Transworld Travelogue
07. The Iron Bible
08. Animal Mechanical
09. Genetic Hymnal
10. Memory Oxide
11. Vortex Logic
12. Orphan Waltz

Catalogue Number : META62CD
Release Date : 10 February 2017

The track Star Thief has now been removed from the running order.

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The album is available to pre-order from Townsend Records

Rob

Presumably, this is an instrumental album (being a soundtrack) ... i.e. there aren't any vocal songs included?

No, there aren't any 'vocal songs'...

However, there are vocal performances - though not by John...

Hope that helps...

Rob

I can't recommend The Machine Stops theatre production highly enough.
It really is a great interpretation of EM Forster's dystopian short story.
The soundtrack - which makes up some of the material on the new album - is mixed live as the action unfolds.

I saw it and met the cast in Eastleigh last year, and will be going to the show in a Foxxian Highgate setting on March 10th


Tour Venues 2017

Tickets

Suitable for ages 11+

Running time: 1 hour 25 minutes, no interval

York Theatre Royal
10 – 18 February

Nottingham Lakeside
20 - 21 February

Broadway Theatre, Letchworth
22 - 23 February

Jacksons Lane, London
7 - 11 March

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
14 - 15 March

Mercury Theatre, Colchester
17 - 18 March

Cast, Doncaster
21 - 22 March

Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
28 - 29 March

Northen Stage, Newcastle
30 March

Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
4 - 8 April

Got my copy yesterday. Initial listens generally positive . Some distinct nods to a few sounds from "The Golden Age of the Future" Human League demo CD
The sounds are all very stylised and it's a style I like, so

Coincidentally Hawkwind released an album based on The Machine Stops last year. I like the taste of the instrumentals but the songs are perhaps a bit 'heard 'em before'.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/CDs-Vinyl/Mac...ywords=hawkwind

Hey - shouldn't this thread be posted under the JF+TM category?

I picked up the vinyl of this album last month. Its really good musically and sounds great as well.

The cover is so shiny thou