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Metamatic
''Metamatic'' is an album by John Foxx, released in 1980. It was his first solo album following his split with Ultravox the previous year. A departure from the textured mix of synthesizers and conventional instruments on ''Systems of Romance'', his last album with the band, ''Metamatics hard-edged electronic sound was more akin to Kraftwerk's ''The Man-Machine'' (1978), Gary Numan's ''The Pleasure Principle'' (1979), and early Human League. The name 'Metamatic' comes from a painting machine by kinetic artist Jean Tinguely, first exhibited at the Paris Biennial in 1959.
== Production and style ==
Recorded in what the composer described as "an eight-track cupboard in Islington",〔John Foxx (1992). (''Assembly'' CD liner notes )〕 ''Metamatic'' was engineered by then-unknown Gareth Jones. Foxx's electronic equipment included ARP Odyssey, an Elka 'String Machine' and a Roland CR-78 drum machine. His keyboard skills were rudimentary at the time, and several of the synth parts were played for him by John Wesley-Barker.
Regarding the album's air of clinical artiness, Foxx later confessed to "reading too much J.G. Ballard" and "imagining I was the Marcel Duchamp of electropop".〔 Half a dozen tracks referenced automobiles or motorways, most obviously "Underpass" and "No-One Driving". Foxx re-worked the former track as "Overpass" on the live ''Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour'' in 1998〔John Foxx (2002): ''The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Ecotour'' liner notes〕 (reissued in 2002 as the second of a 2-disc set, ''The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour''); he also re-used its distinctive riff for the track "Invisible Women" on 2001's ''Pleasures of Electricity'' with Louis Gordon. The song "He's a Liquid" was inspired by a still from a Japanese horror film depicting a suit draped across a chair in such a way as to suggest that the wearer had liquified; Foxx's lyrics also alluded to the 'fluidity' of human relationships. The final track, "Touch and Go", exhibited psychedelic touches that would increasingly recur in his 1980s work.
Foxx had performed "He's a Liquid" and "Touch and Go" live with Ultravox before leaving the band in 1979. Drummer Warren Cann, for one, appeared to consider them to be Ultravox, rather than John Foxx, numbers and noted that the band did not receive any credit for them on ''Metamatic''.〔Warren Cann & Jonas Warstad (1997). ("Ultravox: The Story - Warren Cann interviewed by Jonas Warstad" ): p.41〕 Notwithstanding, when Ultravox adapted the tune from "Touch and Go" for the song "Mr. X" on ''Vienna'' (1980), their first album following Foxx's departure, Foxx was not credited.
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