the advisory circle

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MIND HOW YOU GO

The Ghost Box label is a boutique operation dedicated to distilling the essence of a particular moment in English media culture, encapsulated in this short EP by The Advisory Circle (aka Jon Brooks). These eight tracks offer an uncanny blend of library music, institutional electronica, BBC Open University audiologophonics and daft, po-faced clips sampled and distorted from daytime science programmes. If that mix seems nerdy and limited in scope, there's a great deal of contemporary electronica that's more dated than this, and for anyone whose ears were growing during the 70s, its earnest electronics and broadwinged optimism get surprisingly deep under the skin.

(manand)
 

bill laswell + terre thaemlitz

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...Using just a few concrete sounds and ambient textures a whole world of calling and calming is built. Maybe that's how one feels in the web - anxiety and serenity, one after another....

...Terre Thaemlitz and Bill Laswell keep their artistry at a minimum to create maximum soundscapes that clock nearly 50 minutes. Each track - Open URL (16:13), Insectoidal Regression (16:04), Transfer Complete (17:35) - glide majestically, like a sailboat on a pristine lake during a sunny and cloudless summer day, but have intricate structures that may be dismissed through superficial listening.

This ambient music makes for a web gem...


WEB

(manand)
 

mount vernon arts lab

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THE SEANCE AT HOBS LANE

This welcome reissue of Mount Vernon Arts Lab’s 2001 album suggests that the progressively groovy Ghost Box label is now so far advanced into the future that they’re prepared to bring the past along with them. The brainchild of composer Drew Mulholland, the project’s title alone twitches and seethes with enough occult and pop cult references to set the senses reeling. As featured in Nigel Kneale’s TV series Quatermass and the Pit, Hobs Lane was the site of numerous disturbing apparitions, where ghosts and goblins didn’t even wait for the formality of a séance to start showing up.

Mulholland’s visionary approach to London’s hidden spaces and uncanny secrets embraces skewed references to Sir Francis Dashwood and The Hellfire Club and old submarine yards on the Thames just upstream from Hammersmith Bridge. Everything is darkly alive, and with VCS3 synthesizer, theremin and guitar he conjures up sinister whirring vibrations that seem to come from deep beneath the ground. Adrian Utley’s analogue synth on "Warminster 4" recalls Glynis Jones’s work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale during the early 1970s, while the rolling reverberations of "The Mandrake Club" echo Tristram Cary’s soundtrack to the 1967 film version of Quatermass and the Pit, created at the Royal College of Music. Remixes from Coil and Barry 7 of Add N to (X) manage to suggest where the music is going as well as where it’s been.

(manand)



 

bobby timmons

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THIS HERE IS BOBBY TIMMONS

This is a classic Riverside set that has been reissued on CD in the Original Jazz Classics series. Pianist Bobby Timmons by early 1960 had already had successful stints with Art Blakey (where he contributed "Moanin'") and Canonball Adderley (writing "This Here" and "Date Dere"). For his first recording as a leader, Timmons (whose "funky" style was beginning to become very influential) performs those three hits along with his own "Joy Ride" and five standards in a trio with bassist Sam Jones and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Always more than just a soul-jazz pianist, Timmons (who effectively takes "Lush Life" unaccompanied) became a bit stereotyped later in his career but at this early stage was at the peak of his creativity. Essential music.

(manand)
 

the focus group

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HEY LET LOOSE YOUR LOVE

Julian Houses's Focus Group should appeal to anyone who grew up in Britain in the '70s: its a condensed memory of that decade's daytime and after hours television. These 19 soundbites ape the incidental music for The Tomorrow People, The Clangers and Follyfoot, jazz drums, bass flutes, continuity men and grubby science-lab electronica. Like Boards of Canada minus beats, the feeling of smothered innocence evokes powerful intimations of the uncanny.

(manand)
 

Category: By the bug

''......take a deep breath & unwind to the latest Mashup Industries compilation.
Cafe del Mash - volume one, features chilled out trax & ambient grooves from your favourite bootleggers ....''

CaFE dEL mASH

gzrstr
 

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...my wife's been searching for this,so this one's for you Darliiiin'!

SANDYBELLE

GZRRSSTTRR
 

eric zann

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OUROBORINDRA

Eric Zann manipulates ancient oscillators, radios and found sounds in an attempt to tune in to voices beyond the veil. An electroacoustic journey through stark, echoing soundscapes that offer fleeting glimpses of the light and beauty beyond.

Eric Zann creates cavernous echoing music from vintage oscillators and scraps of found sound. Zann’s soundscapes are haunted by half heard voices and weird amorphous entities, but he sometimes affords us fleeting glimpses of the light and beauty beyond

(manand)