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| "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. "All the same sounds surfaced again after 1987, reanimated with beautiful new rhythms, as the beginnings of Acid. I recognised the vocabulary immediately. A new underground at last. Adventure was possible again after the double-breasted dumbness of the mid-eighties." |
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United Kingdom |
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January 1980 |
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12 Inch Black Vinyl |
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V 2146 |
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United Kingdom |
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January 1980 |
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Cassette |
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TCV 2146 |
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United Kingdom |
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1984 |
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12 Inch Black Vinyl [re-issue] |
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OVED 46 |
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United Kingdom |
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1984 |
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Cassette [re-issue] |
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OVEDC 46 |
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United Kingdom |
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April 1993 |
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Compact Disc |
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CDV 2146 |
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United Kingdom |
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July 2001 |
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Compact Disc |
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EDCD 702 |
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United Kingdom |
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September 2007 |
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Compact Disc |
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EDSD 2013 |
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France |
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1980 |
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12 Inch Black Vinyl |
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2473 795 |
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Germany |
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1980 |
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12 Inch Black Vinyl |
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201 434 |
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Japan |
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1980 |
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12 Inch Black Vinyl |
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VIP-6949 |
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Japan |
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September 1995 |
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Compact Disc |
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VJCP-23196 |
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Japan |
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October 2003 |
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Compact Disc |
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TECI-23190 |
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