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The Focus Group

Hey Let Loose Your Love

    Pieced together with musty samples from children’s exercise records, vintage drama, clunky British jazz and library records, this is an archaeology of emotion, an exploration of the power of not only childhood memories, but of the collective unconscious.

    Julian House’s own The Focus Group; oddly assembled sampledelic collages, stitched together from fragments of library cues and forgotten soundtracks. A beautiful, unhinged stream of consciousness that seems to prod at buried memories

    REVIEWS

    Julian Houses's Focus Group should appeal to anyone who grew up in Britain in the '70s: its a condensed memory of that decade's daytime and after hours television. These 19 soundbites ape the incidental music for The Tomorrow People, The Clangers and Follyfoot, jazz drums, bass flutes, continuity men and grubby science-lab electronica. Like Boards of Canada minus beats, the feeling of smothered innocence evokes powerful intimations of the uncanny.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Icicle Wheel
    2. You Do Not See Me
    3. Clockbell
    4. Echo Release
    5. Xylophone Signal
    6. Modern Harp
    7. Inside The Rubber Box
    8. Lifting Away
    9. Today’s Rhythm People
    10. Hey Let Loose Your Love
    11. String Sine Romance
    12. The Moon Ladder
    13. Planning For Urban Green
    14. Swinging Phantom
    15. The Thre
    16. Jam-jar Carnival
    17. Baroque Face
    18. The Leaving
    19. Reflected Message

    The Focus Group

    Sketches And Spells

      The Focus Group is the recording alias for Ghost Box co-founder and well respected graphic designer and film maker Julian House. This debut album was first release in 2005 on a burn to order CD-R. Now packaged in a 4 panel digipack with the original sleeve art by Julian House that established the rules for the primary Ghost Box artwork layout. It’s a design grid that the label has continuously revisited and tinkered with ever since. 

      Broadcast

      Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The New Age

      Vinyl re-press of 2009 collaboration between Broadcast and their longtime sleeve designer Julian House (also co-founder of the Ghost Box label) to create a unique mini-album pulling in both collaborators' unique sense of melody and love of library music and film scores.

      From their beginnings in Birmingham in 1995, Broadcast's aesthetic has remained a combination of their love for film, library music and electronics with psych-pop colour – a style which has gained them an enthusiastic fanbase including musicians such as Flying Lotus, Tim Gane from Stereolab, Grizzly Bear, Atlas Sound and DangerMouse. Long time friend of the band and renowned artwork designer Julian House (aka The Focus Group) is co-founder of the Ghost Box label, which in the last few years has birthed a cult of its own with releases reflecting its creators' obsessions with library music, English folklore and the eerie feel of vintage programmes for schools and colleges. His music as The Focus Group offers some of the most enchanting distillations of all the above, instantly complementing Broadcast's own long-standing aesthetic. As well as being a long-term visual collaborator with the band, House has provided visuals and artwork for Stereolab amongst many others.

      TRACK LISTING

      A1 Intro / Magnetic Tales
      A2 The Be Colony
      A3 How Do You Get Along Sir?
      A4 Will You Read Me.
      A5 Reception / Group Therapy
      A6 A Quiet Moment
      A7 I See, So I See So
      A8 You Must Wake
      A9 One Million Years Ago
      A10 A Seancing Song
      A11 Mr Beard, You Chatterbox
      A12 Drug Party
      A13 Libra, The Mirror's Minor Self
      A14 Love's Long Listen-In
      B1 We Are After All Here
      B2 A Medium's High
      B3 Ritual / Looking In
      B4 Make My Sleep His Song
      B5 Royal Chant
      B6 What I Saw
      B7 Let It Begin / Oh Joy
      B8 Round And Round And Round
      B9 The Be Colony / Dashing Home / What On Earth Took You?

      Broadcast And The Focus Group

      Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age

        Broadcast (Trish Keenan and James Cargill) have collaborated with renowned designer Julian House (aka The Focus Group) to create a unique mini-album pulling in both collaborators' unique sense of melody and love of library music and film scores. After a long hiatus, it can be said with confidence that Broadcast's return is greeted with much anticipation. From their beginnings in Birmingham in 1995, Broadcast's aesthetic has remained a combination of their love for film, library music and electronics with psych-pop colour – a style which has gained them an enthusiastic fanbase including musicians such as Flying Lotus, Tim Gane from Stereolab, Grizzly Bear, Atlas Sound and DangerMouse. Long time friend of the band and renowned artwork designer Julian House (aka The Focus Group) is co-founder of the Ghost Box label, which in the last few years has birthed a cult of its own with releases reflecting its creators' obsessions with library music, English folklore and the eerie feel of vintage programmes for schools and colleges. His music as The Focus Group offers some of the most enchanting distillations of all the above, instantly complementing Broadcast's own long-standing aesthetic. As well as being a long-term visual collaborator with the band, House has provided visuals and artwork for Stereolab amongst many others.


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