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Me neither, they're either that or mildly embarrassing confessions (which may or may not actually be true).

contact jim, they deal with all email themselves. jim at ghostbox dot co dot uk Cheers kaini. Actually got a nice reply from the great man himself this morning. Be nice to replace my original crappy iTunes AACs with better quality while my GB CDrs languish in storage. Then again, maybe 96kbps might be a bit more in keeping with the H-word?

NEW ALBUM FROM THE ADVISORY CIRCLE!! NEW ALBUM FROM BELBURY POLY!! Just ejaculated over this newsletter myself. Looks like a solid year coming up for GB. Without wishing to piss on any fires though, I never got any gratis downloads when I ordered the vinyl bundle. I already have the orinal CDs, but still... Really with Ghost Box would see to this, especially as I've had to pay twice for all of the Study Series to get digital copies. Anyway, enough moaning, ace news. And very much agreed with kaini on The Focus Group and Eric Zann, not that GB have ever put out a single weak release IMO.

Whoah, ace. New Jon Brooks album out on Saturday. AND a new 'Weird Tales for Winter' to be broadcast Saturday, featuring Jon Brooks and Ian Hodgson (link for info here).

For anyone who may be interested, Boomkat have reduced the Symbiosis CD to £5.99.

ordered triptych yesterday! Same here. Looks like some damn sexy packaging.

What better home could you have given it...? And glad you enjoyed MWC, I'd say there's anything but a dip in quality from the first album onwards.

I seem to remember a WATMMer called Meatbingo from a few years back...

Yes, but I moved on a while ago thanks.

You never know, it's a lot more plausible than the BoC nonsense. Mainly because it's based on someone using their ears (i.e. you Pete) instead of fanboi conspiracy theorists jumping to ridiculous '80s samples + Skam = BoC' conclusions. I can certainly see where you're coming from with the B1 similarities.

Surely that BoC bollocks isn't persisting? It's like the Sandisons are the only musicians entitled to be nostalgic about the 80s. And anyway, I imagine osc can debunk that stupid rumour.

I think that he's getting any attention purely on the basis of the records that he's released and nowt else is a damn good thing too. No pathetic OCD perfectionism/sheer laziness or spouting bollocks about unreleased albums to generate any undue hype. It'd be good if this album could raise the profile of Kris Blacow and Neil Scrivin a little too (provided that they are all separate people etc.).

Kind of how I feel about this album as well (same as the first Nuearz album, although that wasn't nearly as good as 'Trademark') as time's gone on. As much as I love it I can't remember how many times I've done it all in one go. I've also found it sounds a lot less abrasive than it might first seem with repeated listens, there are actually some lovely moments on there, such as 'Remote Control', moments of 'Twitch Of The Nerve' and 'Red Lens Effect'. The one thing I don't like about the album is the intro to 'Gianasi' which I loathe, although even that track soon picks up for me.

It's hardly an original piece of advice, but I really would start from the first album, 'An Audience Of Art Deco Eyes'. I came upon MWC having already fallen for the GB stuff I'd been getting into at the time, so maybe this album relates most closely to that sort of h**nt*l*g*c*l sound. In hindsight it also ties in nicely with the Demdike Stare releases as well. All of the MWC albums are worth your money, but there's a definite development throughout them which is easier to discern if you listen to them in chronological order (all just IMO, of course). Sadly though, due to my separates being stored at my folks' house I've still yet to hear the vinyl version of 'A Spare Tabby'. Also, you might want to download the ASDA mixtape by MWC from here, and the original EP ' A Field Of Sunken Horses', if you haven't already. Thanks again to whoever put me onto those by the way (think it was Green Kingdom). EDIT: And 'The Jayston Mix' is a worthwhile curio as well.

Lone, 'Summer Of Summer'.

Probably repeating what's already been said, but new and revised vinyl/CD reissues with extra tracks, plus The Study Series, a series of 7" singles containing Ghost Box and non-GB artist collabs (including one between The Focus Group and Broadcast). The Study Series has been pretty good IMO, and not difficult to track down. Good to see you back 'round these parts by the way, Iain. Yes! That's the only TFG release I don't have a copy of... You owe it to yourself to remedy that, still my favourite TFG release.

'Sketches and Spells' is being reissued in the new year on vinyl (and CD), but I agree, more Focus Group wouldn't be amiss.

This is a shit-hot mix. Just had to say.

NEW MOON WIRING CLUB ALBUM - CD AND VINYL. RELEASED 8TH NOVEMBER 2010.

Do I have to be obscure, or can I just mention the first four awesome OMD albums?

Did you manage to get hold of this in the end? managed and (for the most part) thoroughly enjoyed. there are a few really top tracks and then a few that almost seem like they might be throwaways from some other project. but i need to give to further listens. i listened to it right when it came out then the new ghostbox stuff (+ i was reading a lot of algernon blackwood at the time) and i was in hauntological overload for a bit and it's probably time for a proper listen. i think it was hurt by the fact that the advisory circle album was SOOOOOOOOO good that my expectations were unreasonably high. I was a bit ambivalent about it as well. 'Two Teeth Missing' for example is a lovely track, but somehow doesn't seem to fit with the concept of the album. But it's certainly a worthy release and anything but poor, just needs a little time to take to I think.

quite appropriately, it was released only in ephemeral (ghostly!) download-only format (no physical manifestation exists on this plane). sorry if that's not what you meant. That never occurred to me before, but I suppose in a way a non-physical release is kind of appropriate for h**nt*l*gy. And if I remember rightly all of the Cafe Kaput releases are to be download-only. Talking of which, this upcoming release touted on Jon Brooks' blog looks promising.

Did you manage to get hold of this in the end?

Laurent Garnier, 'Greed (Parts 1 + 2)'.