Metamatic/45th Anniversary Grey Vinyl

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Includes a limited edition ‘Metamatic’ print signed by John Foxx. Foxx: “Recorded 1979-80 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 drop-out BBC Freudian hippy, and these were his first proper recording sessions. He rapidly went on to become an innovator. I was lying low from bands, touring, etc., deeply convinced that electronics were the future, and reading too much J.G. Ballard. I was living alone in Finsbury Park, spending my spare time walking disused railway lines, cycling to the studio every day and staggering home 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 music tailored by Burtons.”