The Focus Group is Julian House. An artist and graphic designer, who self releases his music on his own Ghost Box Music label, alongside other similarly minded artists. His proclaimed influences include 'music for schools, cosmic horror stories, library music, English surrealism, and the dark side of psychedelia'. These influences are collaged into analogue concrete style musical trips, subsequently labeled as hauntology, for it's ghostly, memory evoking and disorientating properties. The music always suggests songs which never quite emerge, and contain depths of detail, that seem strangely familiar but will never reveal it's true meaning. Vocal samples and loops, which never loop in the obvious places, often contain samples of BBC public broadcasts from the 70's. The work that Nurse With Wound and Coil did to show the sinister underbelly of easy listening & Martin Denny in the 80/90's could be compared to the similar unearthing of the 70's early 80's generation childhood themes and programmes that The Focus Group are involved in now.
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