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Xordox ‘Terraform’ album out now!

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TerraformThe third album by JG Thirlwell‘s synthesizer-based Xordox album, Terraform, is released by Ectopic Ents on May 2, 2025. The album comes on black and white splatter vinyl with download code, and six panel digipack CD. The album is released on streaming services on May 9 2025. You can purchase the album right here on this website at the Foetus Shoppe.

Terraform merges science fiction, crime noir and epic film score elements in a highly evocative and gripping melange. In this chapter of the Xordox saga, the intensity increases, as the propulsive compositions soar, tumble and occasionally explode. The video from Terraform, “Planet Xordox”, is directed by David Slade (Black Mirror, 30 Days Of Night, Hard Candy etc) and will drop soon after the album. 

Xordox will be playing in Denver on May 10 2025 at the Ogden Theater with Itchy-O and play a record release show in NYC at TV Eye on May 29 2025, with C.Lavender opening. This latest iteration of the Xordox live group is a duo that features Thirlwell alongside Rebecca El Saleh (Kitba) on additional keyboards. (Kitba)

Xordox performs in NYC 05.29.25

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JG Thirlwell will be performing live with his Xordox project on May 29 2025 at TV Eye in Ridgewood, Queens. The show will be celebrating the release of the new Xordox album ‘Terraform’, which is released by Ectopic Ents in May 2 2025.

Xordox is a synthesizer-based project by JG Thirlwell. Science fiction elements brush up against crime noir and the epic film scores. With an audacious attitude and an arsenal of machines Thirlwell serves up a selection of thrilling retro-future mind capsules, all entering the cosmos and the subsequent galactic race.

In this live iteration of Xordox, Thirlwell is joined by Rebecca Elsaleh (Kitba).

Opening act will be C.Lavender. C. Lavender “creates immersive aural landscapes which are intensely physical, emotional, and ultimately cathartic”.

Xordox plays live at Itchy-O event in Denver

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JG Thirlwell‘s Xordox project will perform live for the first time in three years at the Itchy-O‘s 13th annual Intergalactic Masquerade at the Ogden Theater in Denver Colorado on May 10 2025.

The third Xordox album, Terraform, will be released on May 2 2025. For this live iteration of Xordox , Thirlwell will be joined by Rebecca El Saleh.

Itchy-O is a 57-member avant-garde music performance group based in Denver, Colorado, consisting of a drum-corps battery, pyrotechnics, Taiko drummers, and an arsenal of electronics and crowd-roving provocateurs.

Tickets for the event are available here.

JG Thirlwell finishes Xordox album three!

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JG Thirlwell spent two days at Circular Ruin studios in Brooklyn, stem mixing the new Xordox album with Ben Greenberg. Entitled Terraform, the album will be out into the world at a later date. The album’s release will be followed by Xordox live dates in 2025.
Ben Greenberg is a well respected and talented engineer and mixer, also known him for some of the bands he’s in, or has been in, including Uniform, The Men, Hubble and Z’s.

Xordox live in NYC 11.30.22

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JG Thirlwell’s Xordox will be performing on NYC on November 30 2022 at TV Eye in Ridgewood, Queens. Xordox will be performing material from the albums Omniverse and Neospection. For this iteration of Xordox, JGT will be joined by long-time ally Simon Hanes (Tredici Bacci), with sensational visuals from Sten Backman. The evening will start with a set by Kill Alters (solo), aka the amazing Bonnie Baxter. This is the only Xordox show of 2022! Purchase tickets here.

New Xordox Album Out Now!

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OmniverseOmniverse, the second album from JG Thirlwell‘s synthesizer-based project Xordox is now available. Omniverse has been years in the making, and was recorded primarily at Self Immolation Studios in Brooklyn and mixed with Al Carlson at Gary’s Electric. Thirlwell used both hardware and software synths, as well as Buchla and Serge modular synth recordings he created while in residence at EMS in Stockholm. The album was released by Editions Mego. The initial blue vinyl run on the LP is now sold out but it is available on black vinyl (with free download), CD and download. The vinyl contains a shorter version of the track ‘Oil Slick’, edited for the time constraints of the medium. The track is in its full 13 minute glory on the CD and download.

Buy it on CD, Vinyl or as a downloadable MP3 through the Shop or via Editions Mego.

JG Thirlwell exclusive Limited Art Print #4 available now from Shoppe

We are proud to announce the issuing of the fourth limited edition silkscreen print by JG Thirlwell, entitled Pomoscape #4. This gorgeous art piece is a signed and numbered four-color screen print in Thirlwell’s signature palette of black, red, white and gray. It is printed on French 100lb cover paper, and is 24″ x 18.” which makes it easy to place in a standard sized frame. You can order the print here

The artwork is in a very small edition of 75, but only 60 copies will be made available in the Foetus Shoppe. The print sells for $75.00 plus flat postage and packaging fee of $15 in the US, $20 in Canada and $26 in the rest of the world. Since the print ships in a tube by itself, when ordering the print you cannot order other items in the same shipment. Other items (CDs, T-shirts, vinyl, tote bags, digital) must be ordered separately.

JG Thirlwell exclusive Limited Art Print #3 available now from Shoppe

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002-400x600We are proud to announce the issuing of the third limited edition silkscreen print by JG Thirlwell, entitled Nomoscape #3. This gorgeous art piece is a signed and numbered four-color screen print in Thirlwell’s signature palette of black, red, white and gray. It is printed on French 100lb cover paper, and is 24″ x 18.” which makes it easy to place in a standard sized frame.You can order the print here
The artwork is in a very small edition of 75, but only 60 copies will be made available in the Foetus Shoppe. The print sells for $75.00 plus flat postage and packaging fee of $15 in the US, $20 in Canada and $26 in the rest of the world. Since the print ships in a tube by itself, when ordering the print you cannot order other items in the same shipment. Other items (CDs, T-shirts, vinyl, tote bags, digital) must be ordered separately.

JGT guest on Simon Hanes’ Stone week

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IMG_0392JG Thirlwell will be guesting on two evenings of Simon Hanes‘ residency at The Stone in NYC, which runs from Nov 6-10 2018.

Thirlwell will appear with Hanes’ 13 piece ensemble Tredici Bacci on Nov 9, where they will perform their entire new album. Thirlwell will perform the song he sings on that album, a version of the ancient hymn ‘O Come O Come Emmanuel‘. In addition Tredici Bacci will perform two songs that were co-written by Thirlwell and Hanes.

On Nov 10, Tredici Bacci will swell to an 18 piece and they will perform a version of the Thirlwell composition ‘I Hate You All’, with Thirlwell on vocals. This song originally appeared on the Foetus album Damp. Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields will also guest vocalize on this evening. The evening falls on the occasion of Ennio Morricone‘s 89th birthday, a man who has been extremely influential on Hanes.

Thirlwell and Hanes have an extremely productive working relationship over the last several years. Thirlwell has been a regular guest and contributor to Hanes’ Tredici Bacci projecty. Thirlwell has had Hanes play some keyboards and guitar on select cues in his work on the scores for Archer and Venture Bros. Hanes has been guest keyboard played on the recent Xordox live dates.In addition the two have forged a writing relationship and have penned a dozen songs for the female voice.

Xordox with The The at the Beacon Theater NYC

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The The Xordox MarquisJG Thirlwell‘s Xordox project opened for The The at the gorgeous Beacon Theater in New York City on Sep 17 2018. The The’s date was in the middle of their Comeback Special tour, with The The head honcho Matt Johnson playing his first live dates in fifteen years.

For the Xordox set, Thirlwell was joined onstage by Simon Hanes on keys, and Sten Backman created the visuals that Xordox performed in front of.