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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.
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?
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This month we're pleased to announce that by popular demand we've finally re-issued the very first albums on Ghost Box. The Focus Group's Sketches and Spells and Belbury Poly's The Willows. They're available right now in our shop on Vinyl and CD with special bundle offer for both albums. Vinyl only customers can get a free download version too.
Next releases on Ghost Box will be numbers 5 and 6 in our Study Series of 7" singles. One is by special Ghost Box guest Jonny Trunk and the other by a teaming of The Advisory Circle's Jon Brooks with Seeland's Tim Felton working under the name Hintermass. Both very exciting additions to the series, they should be available this March, like all the Study Series these are limited and will not be repressed so make sure you watch out for our next newsletter to pre-order yours.
In May(-ish) we'll have the new album from The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies, we've heard Jon's final mixes and we really think its his most breathtakingly beautiful work to date. Then in late summer we'll be presenting the new album from Belbury Poly. You'll hear previews of these and other forthcoming Ghost Box releases on the monthly Radio Belbury stream show over at our sister site, The Belbury Parish Magazine.
And finally some confusing news just in from The Moon Wiring Club. The first pressing of the vinyl and CD versions of A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding is sold out pretty much everywhere. There may still be a handful of copies in our shop by the time you read this, but the CD (not the vinyl alas) is being repressed right now. As you may know the LP was very different from the CD and this being the bewildering world of Gecophonic Records this second edition of the CD will have the same contents but a new cover (do try to keep up at the back there). So look out for this in our shop later this month.
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.
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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).
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For anyone who may be interested, Boomkat have reduced the Symbiosis CD to £5.99.
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just can't get enough demdike stare lately. fucking incredible band.
ordered triptych yesterday!
Same here. Looks like some damn sexy packaging.
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So there are any number of threads this picture could have gone in, however, as i feel this thread needs some love:
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.
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I seem to remember a WATMMer called Meatbingo from a few years back...
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Haven't folks been listening to shit like Druqks and Confield since 2001?
Yes, but I moved on a while ago thanks.
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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I think it's too long -- I can't get through it all in one listen usually -- so last time I listened I decided to figure out which songs I would cut if I were doing a shorter release, but then every song that came on, I was like, 'This one's awesome! I can't cut this one out!,' thereby leaving every song on the album lol
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.
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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.
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Lone, 'Summer Of Summer'.
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been away from the ghostbox stuff for a while - last thing i heard from any of 'em was the broadcast/focus group record. i didn't like it that much at the time but i've recently reevaluated it and i'm really into it.
what's new and great in the world of ghostbox?
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.
'Sketches and Spells' is being reissued in the new year on vinyl (and CD), but I agree, more Focus Group wouldn't be amiss.
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.
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'Sketches and Spells' is being reissued in the new year on vinyl (and CD), but I agree, more Focus Group wouldn't be amiss.
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Protect & Survive - Music For Your Domestic Nuclear Shelter
This is a shit-hot mix. Just had to say.
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Do I have to be obscure, or can I just mention the first four awesome OMD albums?
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anybody heard the DD Denham release? i think it was supposed to be out earlier this week, tho between this bastard of a cold and the new ghostbox stuff coming out i'm all confused . . .
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.
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Did you manage to get hold of this in the end?
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.
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anybody heard the DD Denham release? i think it was supposed to be out earlier this week, tho between this bastard of a cold and the new ghostbox stuff coming out i'm all confused . . .
Did you manage to get hold of this in the end?
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Laurent Garnier, 'Greed (Parts 1 + 2)'.
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Me neither, they're either that or mildly embarrassing confessions (which may or may not actually be true).