broadcast/focus group collaboration

Samples sound awesome, can't wait to give it a proper listen.

Just given the album its first two listens and it's brilliant.

Damn, pretty bold move for Broadcast, a lot of this is straight up weird psychedelia. A couple tracks I found to be a bit grating but I simply love the majority of this album, def will be picking it up when I see them in concert next month. There's elements of vintage psychedelia and library music, Bibio, the short tracks from Geogaddi, weird ambient experiments a la Voafose, and of course Trish's lovely vocals as always! Have to give this some more listens but I have to say I'm impressed. This will make a great Halloween album, smart time to release it!

  On 9/24/2009 at 2:03 PM, six said:

This will make a great Halloween album, smart time to release it!

That never occurred to me, but you're dead right. I was worried that House's input would be a little overpowered with this being a Broadcast release on Warp, but the album sounds like a proper collaboration. It brings out the very best of both artists and should also restore some people's faith in Warp.

  On 9/22/2009 at 9:31 PM, Caretstik said:

  On 9/22/2009 at 9:17 PM, Stoppit said:

sounds really good...

 

I'll be pre-ordering the CD as soon as it's actually possible (there's no way of doing it yet as far as I can tell, despite Bleep claiming you can)

Have you given it another go? I just did it with no problems.

yeah, I tried it again - managed to do it, although there was some kind of payment authorisation problem, and I may have ordered it twice. balls.

I've had a few problems with preorders, a few months ago one got overlooked and they forgot to send me the CD. They were very reasonable when I contacted them though and sorted it out straight away.

holy crap, this is awesome

drug party is music to fuck to, in an odd meter

oh my

could that BE any more julian house?

oooh...I like that video.

I'd love to see a Ghost Box DVD release..

  On 9/26/2009 at 9:46 PM, Stoppit said:

oooh...I like that video.

 

I'd love to see a Ghost Box DVD release..

it should probably be VHS actually...preferably a used one that previously had a recording of an old open university lecture on it

  On 9/26/2009 at 9:55 PM, Stoppit said:

  On 9/26/2009 at 9:46 PM, Stoppit said:

oooh...I like that video.

 

I'd love to see a Ghost Box DVD release..

 

 

it should probably be VHS actually...preferably a used one that previously had a recording of an old open university lecture on it

yes, but then transcoded to dvd with some old filmstrips as bonus material

A Seancing Song is incredible.

i got it. shit is amazing as to be expected. however i'm surprised at how much weight the focus group brings to this...it's by and large a very focus group sounding record.

i think it starts off more broadcasty and ends more focus group

wow!

  Quote

Some party. I only realised that the punch had been spiked when I started laughing at things that weren’t funny. I staggered out into the mansion’s highland gardens to get some air and to try and get some kind of peace and quiet in my busy head, but it was no use. Even outside everything around me became louder, weirder, brighter, darker, I just couldn’t seem to get a hold on anything normal at all. The warm night’s breeze seemed to blow me towards a dimly lit path that led me to a large, ancient walled garden. And right in the middle of this walled square sat a huge black cube, which seemed to be making peculiar disjointed twinkling sounds. I looked around and I swear that all the plants and herbs and everything planted was watching, listening and moving about to the sounds this giant cube thing was making. I remember thinking it was all quite enchanting but in the wrong sort of way.

 

After sometime (but I don’t know how much) I turned and left the walled garden and headed back towards the mansion. From a distance it looked very alive, all its windows full of light and moving colours. I wandered past a derelict swimming pool with no water and a broken springboard. I only recall this as I narrowly missed falling right into it. Eventually I found myself at the back of the grand house, where I stumbled in though large open double doors. It was the old meat store; a bright blue light was on and I can remember the cold, the dead hares, pheasants, grouse and a deer swinging from hooks above me. The pungent smell of death was almost as confusing as the dark and sticky floor. I moved on and into the heat of the vast ancient Kitchen. It was busy. There was a raging fire and a pig was roasting and crackling over the flames. Cooks were frantic. I was hurried on my way. I followed the throbbing of the walls and movement of other guests into the old panelled ballroom where the evening festivities had originally begun. This time it was different, much darker, people everywhere were wearing hats or masks or costumes. Out of the strobing lights ahead I could make out a pair on the stage, a man, a woman and an old tape machine. This was Broadcast. They were making rhythms and sounds I had not experienced before but they all somehow seemed in tune with the noises my mind wanted to hear. The crowd seemed to move and sway as one - I’d read about these kinds of “happenings” before, now I was in the middle of one. We were all under some kind of spell, entranced by whatever we’d unknowingly consumed and what peculiar vibes the house, the band and the people inside it could stir up. I’m convinced halfway through this performance everything started to go backwards.

 

The house was so big I wanted to see more. I found old libraries, smoking rooms and more oddness. There was nudity, cavorting, collapsing everywhere. One room I found had nothing inside except for white walls, caged birds and a grey parrot which made a funny ticking noise. Eventually I joined a cue of conscious revellers making their way up the large oak staircase. “What’s up here” I asked the cat in a cravat and shades in front of me. He turned and told me “use your key man, use your key”. It was then I remembered that the party invitation was a key, but only now I realised why.

 

Nothing on this first floor would open for me and my key. I carried on searching for my door, up another smaller flight of stairs and along corridors with walls covered in paintings of burning landscapes. Higher and deeper into the house I walked, losing all sense of where I was or how long I’d been there.

 

I can’t even remember finding my door, but clearly recall unlocking and walking into a candlelit room with a circular table and six or seven people sitting there waiting for me. I took my seat and the girl next to me whispered “this is The Focus Group…join hands”. The scene conjured up images of dead magicians, devil worship and something of my grandmother. And then the sounds started. It was like hearing a wireless being tuned into my life, as though someone was cutting up all the music I knew about and was giving it back to me but as a puzzle I couldn’t work out. I closed my eyes and saw my past and my future all drifting before me, memories of old friends, enemies, laughter, love and a touch of fear. I could see orchards, ships, graveyards and picnics. I was floating, swimming in sound and divine thought.

 

I have no idea of when, where or how I left the mansion or even got home. All I have of the evening are these rapidly fading recollections, the key and an unusual bruise on my left thigh. I’d like to go back again. But wouldn’t drink the punch next time.

-Johnny Trunk, of the awesome Trunk Records

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

it's nice to see warp's rather large marketing budget put to good use

Yeah this is really nice.

I'll have give it a spin in a few days + campfire

How awesome would it be if the story above was made into a short film with this as the soundtrack?!!????!! It's a simple concept, but could be really cool and trippy...

After those vids kaini posted above i think he needs to start agitating his GB contact for a DVD release.

the more i listen to this the more the phrase 'favourite album of 2009' starts to come to mind.

'you must wake' is straight outta geogaddi.

  On 9/28/2009 at 6:15 PM, fox said:

After those vids kaini posted above i think he needs to start agitating his GB contact for a DVD release.

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Creepy. But appropriate. This album is truly great, is has to be said.

LOVE!

forthcoming broadcast mother ss the mIlky way .. is pretty pretty as well plus too

  On 10/18/2009 at 9:24 PM, tidbit said:

forthcoming broadcast mother ss the mIlky way .. is pretty pretty as well plus too

lol, only in this day and age can I learn of an upcoming record's existence and be able to download it within 5 seconds.

Seeing Broadcast live on Tuesday, very excited. Will be picking up the new Focus Group collab is they're selling it there, can't get enough of this album.

apparently it is only a tour only release (ep too)

A video for 'I See So I See' is up on the Warp site now.