John Foxx's Metamatic Turns 45: The Echoes Interview
In the 1980s, you couldn’t be sure now long New Wave music would last. But sitting now in 2025, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manourvres in the Dark and Gary Numan are still recording and touring, and newer bands like Ladytron, Washed Out, Emma Anderson, Maps and World Brain are ascending. It’s a sound that isn’t going away. This year, one of the most influential albums of electro-pop turns 45, Metamatic by John Foxx.
JOHN FOXX: That was the thing that fascinated me most about synthesizers. Whenever you get a new instrument it changes the shape of the music completely. You write your music, and you write to accommodate the qualities of the machines.
Musically adventurous and lyrically trenchant, Metamatic remains a timeless artifact of electronic music and pop. We’ll hear John Foxx, Gary Numan and Gareth Jones talking about this release and its creation 45 Years ago.
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Monday, January 13, 2025 – Echoes Program 2502A |
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Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Kate Bush | The Fog | The Sensual World |
| 0:06:00 | Sheila Chandra | Sacred Stones | The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 2 (v/a) |
| 0:12:37 | Steven Halpern | Cannabis Dreams (part 2) | Cannabis Dreams |
| 0:17:39 | Wax Tailor | Shaman In Your Arms (ft. Jennifer Charles) | Fishing For Accidents |
| 0:20:46 | deepspace | Floor 426-B | Neon Blue Utopia |
| 0:25:33 | Thomas Lemmer & Oine | 1222 Miles (Sferix Remix) | One Vision Remixed |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: John Foxx | ||
| 0:45:06 | John Foxx | No-One Driving | Metamatic |
| 0:48:37 | John Foxx | Underpass | Metamatic |
| 0:52:18 | break | ||
| 0:52:48 | Dieter Spears | Somewhere Sometimes (feat. Beartone) | Late Day Summer Breeze |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | James Hood | Cherry Mandala | Ceremony Radio Edits |
| 1:06:00 | Wouter Kellerman/Eru Matsumoto/Chandrika Tandon | Open Sky | Triveni |
| 1:11:44 | Spectral Wanderer | Spectrum of Serenity | Spectral Fields |
| 1:16:08 | Sheenah Ko | By The Time | Transformation |
| 1:21:29 | World Brain | Ville Fleurie | Open Source |
| 1:25:02 | Bill Nelson | Deep Sky | Studio Cadet |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Federico Albanese | Your Spell | Blackbirds and the Sun of October |
| 1:32:43 | In These Trees and Tartie | Ablaze | The Quiver |
| 1:35:52 | Nicholas Gunn | Campfire | 30 |
| 1:40:10 | break | ||
| 1:40:55 | Bruno Sanfilippo | Dew on the Tip of a Leaf | Only Five Petals |
| 1:44:01 | Morcheeba | Cut My Heart Out | Blackest Blue |
| 1:48:51 | Stellarium | Passage to Circinus | Infinite Vector |
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