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Bad Stars

Bad Stars is an unreleased double album by Aches, the first electronic alias of Jonathan George Fox. The project was abandoned before Bad Stars could be completed.


I decided to shelve Bad Stars following significant personal challenges. Completing this work and facing the execution and scale was overwhelming. At the time I was moving around a lot between Ilfracombe, Bratislava and Sheffield, it became impossible to continue. In the end I managed to demo out the most "single-like" track on the release entitled Flight Coda (since renamed Flight Code) which scaffolded my ambient music alias. The track was played on Radio_FM Bratislava around 2015 while I was living with Jan and Patrik.

Since then my friend Filip Drábek (of the band Päfgens) has kindly curated the huge collection of ideas into a comprehensive double album. Which is currently sat un-mastered in storage. If you are interested in releasing this please get in touch.

Enquiries - contact me


Track list

Side 1

  1. Turnwards Inflection (Mix#2)
  2. Landing
  3. Gentle Pancakes (Mix#6)
  4. Rounder Number Two
  5. Calm Down (Mix#3)
  6. Ghost (Skit)
  7. Camp (Mix#2)
  8. Dismembered
  9. Take (skit) (Mix#3)
  10. Calendar
  11. Winder
  12. Let Out A Sigh
  13. Untitled Repete (mix#2)

Side 2

  1. Some Kind of Old Man
  2. Flight Code (Mix#36) closer
  3. Our Tempting
  4. UNTITLED (Mix#8) (DDD) ((real shadows demo))
  5. Violence Boy (mix#16)
  6. Face The Snow (Mix#2)
  7. Resistant Spirals
  8. Bring The Shovel (Mix#8)
  9. Secret Polluter One
  10. Laydown (Mix#2)
  11. Secret Polluter Extension (Mix#2) (drmmchnandme)
  12. Safe In Numbers (Mix#21)
  13. Rain

Release Details

Recorded and Produced by Aches (Jonathan George Fox) mainly in Ilfracombe, Devon and Bratislava Slovakia in 2014-2015. Track list curated by Filip Drabek