Aaah, I remember it well.
Numan and Foxx were essentially contemporaries, Foxx having just left Ultravox and Numan shelling the Tubeway Army moniker.
Within a couple of years, the Italian Futurism lines of British Electro had been washed away by the big-suit stupidness of the New-Romantics and we were denied our own British electro-folk movement, similar to the German Krautrock movement a decade earlier.
Numan eventually dissolved in his own ether having lost the thread and Foxx was sidelined by his own record company.
Metamatic is as startling a listen today as it was then, and shares something with New Orders "Power, Corruption & Lies", both albums have never been matched in production or 'sound' either by the original artists or their contemporaries.
If you have neither album, I suggest you buy them rather than download them.
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