Ghost Box

my guess is copyright issues with the bbc? there's a quote from "the stone tape" in the liner notes and i don't think that's quite out of copyright yet.

web site just says "out of stock", wonder if it's just accelerationist profiteers

well they have repressed everything else once or twice (i'm talking CD btw) but they have never repressed ouroborindra for some reason

New Belbury Poly out today

Latest Mailout:
https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/mailouts/ghostbox047/ghost-box-news-new-ways-out-other-voices-08-belbury-poly-t

Excited for the Beautify Junkyards 7" as well as the Pye Corner Audio and Pattern Forms LPs.

I like the new Belbury Poly album.

Yep, pleased to see there's a Pattern Forms LP upcoming, I'd assumed the single was a one-off.

Clips from the Pattern Forms LP sounding sensational to these ears:
https://soundcloud.com/ghost-box/sets/peelawaytheivy

Pye Corner Audio album is also v. good.

Agree, the new Pye Corner Audio album is excellent.

New album from The Pattern Forms out now. It feels like Ghost Box has really been cranking it out this year.

The Pattern Forms album is great. The drums sound spectacular, and obviously Jon Brooks hits it out of the park.

Another winner from Ghost Box: The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards, dreamy psych-pop half sung in English, half in Portuguese (the band are from Lisbon, I think).

New Advisory Circle - Ways of Seeing

Is it good ?

This is fucking great
Advisory Circle are so classic
Like a long lost carpenter score

I seem to like this label a little more in my memory than I do while listening. I still listen to everything and enjoy nearly all of it to some extent but have to concede that it's eerie, crusty textures like those of The Focus Group, Roj, and selected Advisory Circle records (eg. Other Channels and From Out Here, from memory) that I'm always hoping to hear, rather than the relatively crisp, uncluttered synths of the more recent Advisory Circle and Belbury Poly releases.

Jon Brooks is so prolific I always think he can't possibly surprise any more, but there are a few tracks on Ways of Seeing that feel like new territory for him. Personally, I'm glad this isn't Other Channels 2.

nag has a fair point; the new advisory circle is much lighter than the last one, which was the darkest one since other channels (which is hard to beat for darkness with those bloody murder screams N all).

I like the new one a lot tho, it sounds like zelda 2 music at times

i think a case could be made for ghost box taking the throne from the old overrated idm canon of yesterday; personally i'd rather listen to a new focus group than any old boards

Controp: Ghost Box is for people who won't admit to liking IDM unless it's coated in arch references to Sapphire & Steel and fucking Bagpuss ;-)

Mostly kidding BTW, and ibrealise that's way off the mark.

But I dunno, as well done as some of it is, and as terrific as the presentation often is (the early 80s software package referencing Outward Journies is just delicious) I can't find much enthusiasm for more Tangerine Dream or Radiophonic Workshop knock offs, despite being ostensibly in the target demographic.

Did really like the Soundcarriers album though.

It's not really Berlin school though, is it?

The Soundcarriers album on Ghost Box is great, as are their other albums. I wonder if they’re working on anything...

totally knew you were kidding and appreciated it Noel

soundcarriers absolutely KILL

Liking this new advisory a lot, love the minimal use of percussion - doesn't date it as much

Controp: Ghost Box is for people who won't admit to liking IDM unless it's coated in arch references to Sapphire & Steel and fucking Bagpuss

I'll admit this isn't exactly off the mark for me. I don't really care about the references, but Ghost Box has definitely been a big factor in making IDM palatable to me. There was a time when I ran away from IDM like the plague.

Piggybacking on the new Advisory Circle praise. Think it just might be the best on yet.

'Flight Capture' is a amazing.

So amazing

It’s like hold music from a distant star

Controp: Ghost Box is for people who won't admit to liking IDM unless it's coated in arch references to Sapphire & Steel and fucking Bagpuss

I'll admit this isn't exactly off the mark for me. I don't really care about the references, but Ghost Box has definitely been a big factor in making IDM palatable to me. There was a time when I ran away from IDM like the plague.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, May 29, 2018 5:24 AM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not a dig, but I genuinely do not get the mere mention of IDM in this thread, let alone Ghost Box making IDM more palatable. Unless you have a different understanding of IDM than I do (Aphex, BoC, Plaid, Black Dog etc), how is that even remotely close to Ghost Box's Olde English reveries and 'hauntology chic'?

Fair

Side note my original point was this form of electronic music is as vital and inspiring as any classic idm

I'd argue that there are pretty strong connections between Ghost Box artists like Advisory Circle and Boards of Canada in particular.

To make a little more sense of my comment, a lot of this comes down to my own personal biases against IDM, especially pre-2000s IDM. At the time, I was very wrapped up in techno, DnB, house, going to raves, dancing, etc. IDM came across as pretty nebulous and often haphazard, and I bristled at the fact that it claimed to be intelligent or dance music. Getting into Ghost Box lead to me being more willing to listen to non-dance oriented electronic music. I think I warmed to it because it came across as more intentional to me.

really liking the new advisory circle. it's fairly lonely sounding and not very sinister...also doesn't have as many samples from old hammer horror etc. which is a nice change.
it kinda has an aquatic feel over all, good for the summer i would guess

it's Balearic!

Indeed. It’s easily in my top 10 now

New Jacco Gardner isn't on Ghost Box, but it should be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjzdfTOCEhY

better artwork than their last few releases, too

Really enjoying the new Pye Corner Audio. The vocoder really threw me through a loop.

Not had a chance to process this yet but

Coming late Jan 2020, In Another Room is a four track 7″ EP by very special guest, Paul Weller. More on this and other 2020 releases here: https://t.co/ANmgyxZOEe pic.twitter.com/oHsFhgE3wa

— Ghost Box (@GhostBoxRecords) October 25, 2019

!!

In Another Room is a four track 7″ EP by very special guest, Paul Weller. On Ghost Box, Weller finds the perfect home to explore his interest in experimental tape music and early electronics. The four tracks here though are more than just experiments and build a subtly melancholic atmosphere from field recordings and melodic instrumental fragments.

o_O

to give him his due, this album cover was um, weller-head of the curve as far as retrospectral graphics go...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81nmwXbjIDL._SX355_.jpg

hmmm maybe - but that's mostly just a homage to the BBC Sound Effects library discs cover art, no?

The better antecedent for the new EP, I'd have said, is tracks on Wake Up The Nation such as "7&3 Is The Strikers Name" or the Broadcast-y "In Amsterdam".

The Soundcarriers album is so good. I can't get enough of it.

Don't think I've listened to this one before

Kinda sucks:

Unfortunately for contractual reasons to do with our current digital distribution channels, we will soon be closing the Ghost Box Bandcamp store. If you haven't yet downloaded your purchase or you'd like to buy any of the other Ghost Box titles you have until 12th June.

Whoa, that's a bummer. Wonder that contract would require that move?

I'd like to know that!

New Belbury Poly is another winner.

New Beautify Junkyards album is luminous and wonderful and has luscious depths that are perhaps not typical of the GB catalogue - really satisfying