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 Back in 1996, Chaos Control profiled Babyfox, a UK-based trio with a dub-influenced electronic sound. Over the years, their 2 CDs have stood the test of time and remained favorites, but the group itself disappeared from view in the new millennium. So I was very happy to get an email from member Alex Gray saying that Babyfox are BACK with a website and new music available for download.
The following is the first part of a new email interview with Gray:
Why has it been so long since we’ve heard from Babyfox? What made you decided that the time was right to return with new music?
We left Roadrunner Records back in ‘99. Usual story - original A&R guy had left (went on to manage Death in Vegas and Electralane) and the vision from the company side was gone. We got involved in writing some film soundtracks and recording new songs. We were really pleased with the new direction. Then we changed management, but although Maverick nearly went for it nothing happened. So by about 2000/2001 we kinda stopped being a band -though since we had been mates for so long the friendship remained intact. Dwight actually went off to do a fine art masters and then promptly won inclusion in Bloomberg New Contemporaries - an important platform for new emerging art. Christine was doing her own thing (Alf - bluesy twisted collaborative effort with various friends - now 3 albums in) and I started a new project that became NAGRA (album coming out later this year on a German label called www.mole.de) Since we had started collaborating again under the auspices of a Dwight art piece it made sense to see what might reveal itself if we started writing songs together again. Dwight turned up to my studio (in an ex-chocolate factory in North London) with an old doowop track about getting married. Typical start point. Fantastically inspired tangent from Dwight and me and Chris start jumping up and down(more figuratively at first) and running with the baton. Another evening Francois Hardy became our muse and we came up with a thing that became the track “E.M.O.T.I.O.N”
• Visit the Babyfox website
• Read our 1996 interview
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