well they have repressed everything else once or twice (i'm talking CD btw) but they have never repressed ouroborindra for some reason
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
New Belbury Poly out today
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Saturday, 28 May 2016 03:45 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 29 May 2016 12:32 (eight years ago) link
I like the new Belbury Poly album.
― afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 29 May 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Yep, pleased to see there's a Pattern Forms LP upcoming, I'd assumed the single was a one-off.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 29 May 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
Agree, the new Pye Corner Audio album is excellent.
― stevo-rd, Friday, 2 September 2016 05:00 (seven years ago) link
New album from The Pattern Forms out now. It feels like Ghost Box has really been cranking it out this year.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 21 October 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
The Pattern Forms album is great. The drums sound spectacular, and obviously Jon Brooks hits it out of the park.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 24 October 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
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).
― Jeff W, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
New Advisory Circle - Ways of Seeing
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 25 May 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link
Is it good ?
― add surface noise (Ross), Friday, 25 May 2018 09:40 (six years ago) link
This is fucking great Advisory Circle are so classic Like a long lost carpenter score
― add surface noise (Ross), Friday, 25 May 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 26 May 2018 06:29 (six years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 26 May 2018 12:04 (six years ago) link
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
― California scheming (Ross), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
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
― California scheming (Ross), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
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 ;-)
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Monday, 28 May 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
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.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Monday, 28 May 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
It's not really Berlin school though, is it?
― doug watson, Monday, 28 May 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
The Soundcarriers album on Ghost Box is great, as are their other albums. I wonder if they’re working on anything...
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 28 May 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
totally knew you were kidding and appreciated it Noel
soundcarriers absolutely KILL
― California scheming (Ross), Monday, 28 May 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
Liking this new advisory a lot, love the minimal use of percussion - doesn't date it as much
― California scheming (Ross), Monday, 28 May 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
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, 29 May 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
Piggybacking on the new Advisory Circle praise. Think it just might be the best on yet.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
'Flight Capture' is a amazing.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
So amazing
It’s like hold music from a distant star
― California scheming (Ross), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
― 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'?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
Fair
― Ross, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
Side note my original point was this form of electronic music is as vital and inspiring as any classic idm
― Ross, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
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
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Saturday, 2 June 2018 04:20 (six years ago) link
it's Balearic!
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Monday, 11 June 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link
Indeed. It’s easily in my top 10 now
― Slippage (Ross), Monday, 11 June 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
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
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Really enjoying the new Pye Corner Audio. The vocoder really threw me through a loop.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 22 February 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
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
― Jeff W, Friday, 25 October 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
!!
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 25 October 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
o_O
― emil.y, Friday, 25 October 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
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
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
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".
― Jeff W, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
The Soundcarriers album is so good. I can't get enough of it.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 31 January 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
Don't think I've listened to this one before
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
Whoa, that's a bummer. Wonder that contract would require that move?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
I'd like to know that!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 1 June 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
New Belbury Poly is another winner.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
New Beautify Junkyards album is luminous and wonderful and has luscious depths that are perhaps not typical of the GB catalogue - really satisfying
― technopolis, Friday, 15 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
I saw this pop up today, excited to check it out
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
It’s fabulous.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 16 January 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link