New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

Fantastic line-up/event. Such a thing will never happen in the Netherlands I presume (even though 25% is dutch!) :-|

Cover of the new isssue of the Wire. New EP is 'Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age'.

http://www.accesshiphop.com/images/covers/18045_b.jpg

Ah, I missed this thread last time it was bumped, was just going to post details of that show in October. Tickets should be available here http://www.wegottickets.com/f/977 but they're 'currently not available'. I'm going to selfishly hope it's not happening because I'm out of the country.

Is that the EP sleeve then? It's very similar to the last one, in a way that their previous stuff hasn't been.

I think that's it. Comic book font makes me think of SY's Goo.

Wooooo! Playing here on my birthday again. This happened five years ago.

i should go to this Vortex thing, didn't see it before cheers nick/jona

"Ghost Box 12, The Transactional Dharma of Roj, by Roj will be available on CD and download from our shop on 28th September or you can pre-order it right now.

Roj, a former member of Broadcast, executes psychedelic tone paintings with a battery of exotic percussion, analogue electronics, and tape. Beautiful booklet design by Julian House and text by Ken Hollings, journalist, broadcaster and author of Welcome to Mars . You can hear some clips here.

Broadcast and The Focus Group

We're very excited to confirm that in October this year, Warp records will be releasing a mini album by Broadcast and The Focus Group - we're hoping to have copies available in the Ghost Box shop when its available."

very excited about both of the above, btw

That Vortex gig sold out now, by the looks of things. After I changed my entire life so I wouldn't be away that week.

According to the Wire interview the Ep is something like 30mins long and has 15 songs or something, although I think only 5 or so have singing (these numbers are completely off the top of my head tbh). Kind of like the Pendulum single with extra Microtonics I guess.

this is gonna be a noise thing huh

from the look of them (in wire) it's going to be hippy dippy / more folky (because people always sound how they dress)

focus group samples here:

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=5183

it's not 1000000 miles away from last broadcast lp.

hauntology LOLs

http://warp.net/records/broadcast/new-mini-album-broadcast-and-the-focus-group-investigate-witch-cults-of-the-radio-age-out-now-to-download/

sounding pretty haha sound-ish

Well, I love it.

Esp. when it gets deliberately Valerie & Her Week of Wonders-ish toward the end.

From that (great) video it seems that The Focus Group has injected a new kind of strangeness into the Broadcast sound.
There's a short post by Simon Reynolds about this year's crop of Ghost Box recordings at his blog: http://blissout.blogspot.com/

Yeah. A lot of fantastic stuff on that label.

I've heard the first ten (except the Mt Vernon Arts Lab cd) and my favorites at the moment are The Advisory Circle's "Other Channels" (truly eerie, great structure) and The Focus Groups "Let Loose Your Love"

The Advisory Circle's "Other Channels" is fantastic. I wish this new Broadcast EP was on the Ghost Box label, so I'd get it on eMusic. Alas, it's on Warp (technically on eMusic, but new titles only occassionally show up there).

I've been ordering mine directly from Ghost Box (great design!), but it usually takes a few weeks for them to reach the west coast.

just got a ticket to see them, Oct. 30th!

Going to see them on the 18th with Atlas Sound, hopefully.

Yeah, what is Atlas Sound?

solo side project of Bradford Cox from Deerhunter.

The first Atlas Sound is better than anything Deerhunter's put out, imo. The one that's about to come out features a few songs with Panda Bear and Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab, but on the whole I found it a little underwhelming. The track with Sadier kicks ass, though, gotta say.

as a sample bore i'd like to point out that said Laetitia song uses the drums from a Chrome record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbh2ZsK73VA

also, new Broadcast/Focus Group is odd but fun

That Vortex gig sold out now, by the looks of things. After I changed my entire life so I wouldn't be away that week.

Due to overwhelming demand, Broadcast, The Caretaker and Thomas Ankersmit will be doing an extra performance on the final day of The Wire's Into The Vortex festival.
The extra show will take place on the afternoon of Sunday 11 October at East London's Vortex venue. Doors: 2pm. Tickets: £12 from wegottickets

oh hell yeah

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

Really enjoying this on the first listen, hippy-folk-joe Byrd style tracks mixed with sound collage type stuff.

There's a tour EP about as well, similar but more playful/experimental/all over the shop. A good companion.

Thanks, will check out. There's a bit of a wicker man feel to some of the lp tracks

seeing them wed!

this EP is v. good

Both the mini-LP with The Focus Group and the new Tour EP are great. I like the collab with The Focus Group better than Tender Buttons, actually. so trippy and sound collagey and fun. really what drew me into Broadcast in the first place back with The Book Lovers, etc

Saw them last night in Philly- you're in for a treat, Dan, they're on fucking fire right now. One of the best starts to a show I've ever seen, too. They opened with a nearly 10-minute piece that reminded me of nothing so much as Chris & Cosey set to (I'm guessing here) Julian House projections- creepy British countryside, oscilloscope patterns, swirly op art, all in black and white- then when the tension (and volume) got almost unbearable, wham, the projections go to eyeball-searing color and they launch into "Corporeal," with the addition of super-heavy drumbeats. Best show I've been to in years.

wow. wish i could score a ticket to this.

wish they weren't playing chicago on a fucking monday. no way i can make that. dammit. i saw them live in 2000 and they were great.

Tempted to make the trip down to Manchester in december, that description sounds amazing. Really looking forward to getting the new LP next week, blew me away first listen

I'm finally listening to the Focus Group EP at work (bought a copy at the show, ripped it last night) and it sounds almost nothing like the live show. Still great, just way more calm and pastoral. Still spooky, but in a quiet sad way instead of upfront menace.

Also ripped the tour EP, "Mother Is the Milky Way" or something like that*, but stupidly forgot to transfer it to my ipod.

*and yeah, Broadcast have been around for long enough and distinguished themselves more than enough to have to put up with this kind of bullshit, but: is that not the most Stereolab title ever?

btw, I'll be happy to circulate copies of the EP to people who have trouble finding it, but only after the tour is over and any remaining copies (if any) have been sold off through Bleep or wherever.

They are playing w/ Atlas Sound in a couple of weeks, but not headlining (hmmph).

They are playing in Boston this Thursday with Atlas Sound as well. I am also wondering if they are not headlining. I think I may go anyway.

I thought they were headlining when they played in DC this weekend but that was not the case. To be honest, I'm scratching my head a bit at the above reactions to the live show. I saw them a couple years back at the same venue when they were supporting Tender Buttons and they put on a great show. But this time my friends and I all found it a chore to sit through. We barely lasted a half hour before we left.

Saw them tonight (didn't stick around for Atlas Sound) and they played for 45 minutes but it seemed longer than that. They've definitely got a great presence on stage. First twenty minutes were indeed straight up drones/low bassy pulses with an industrial feel and some of Trish's wordless vocals here and there. Pretty good for the most part but it could have been a bit shorter. They also played about 7 songs after that - the 3 new ones sounded like a dubbier/spacier take on Ha Ha Sound, which is exciting.

The title Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age does sound like it game directly from Tim Gane himself. It might have even been the working title for what became Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night

more an evocation of the occult and the marginal than the glossily technophilic, though. but point taken.

i was that show as well michael and also left before Atlas Sound. It was good, I did miss live drums and it certainly wasn't the stripped down distorted Young Marble Giants I expected to see on the Tender Buttons tour when I didn't expect live drums and guitar but got it. I thought it was great last night but felt the dubbiness overwhelmed them at times...moments when I wished the drums and vocals were clearer and crisper, I didn't mind the processing, the space echo or whatever, but you lost some of the melody and beauty of the singing. For what it's worth I wrote this on another list, it's pretty stupid but paints a picture:

Saw Broadcast last night. Unlike their last time, they didn't have a drummer or
much live instruments beyond the occasional bass or guitar. But it was no
stripped down electro-rock set. This was some deep, deep, dark, electro-acoustic
psychedlia of the highest order. Using samples perhaps in a way not to different
then a lot of current bands, such as Animal Collective, but coming from a darker
more gothic place. And somehow still pastoral. Like if the United States of
America teamed up with Mia Farrow singing the Rosemary's Baby soundtrack but
instead of Rosemary's Baby the movie was the Wicker Man shot by the people who
made the Blair Witch Project and it was all recorded in Cabaret Voltaire's
basement circa 1975.

Trying to distill something out of that last sentence, I got to this bootleg: The Basement Tapes by Mia Farosemary's Witcherman Cabaret.

Dan, you're in Boston? Drop me a line.

"It's pretty stupid but it paints a picture" is a phrase I've often uttered to myself many times when trying to write or read music reviews.

sorry, when you said "tonight" I thought you meant wed, so I assumed you were in brooklyn.