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Birth name
  
Julian House

Occupation(s)
  
Musician songwriter

Labels
  
Ghost Box Records

Origin
  
England

Years active
  
2004–present

Members
  
Julian House


Associated acts
  
Belbury Poly Eric Zann The Advisory Circle Broadcast

Music director
  
The Media and the Other Ghosts

Genres
  
Ambient music, Production music, Musique concrète

Albums
  
Broadcast and The Focus Gr, Hey Let Loose Your Love, We Are All Pan's People, Sketches and Spells, The Elektrik Karousel

Broadcast and the focus group 1 witch cults


The Focus Group is a project of experimental electronic musician and graphic designer Julian House. His releases are on his own label, Ghost Box Music. The Focus Group's sound is a blend of influences ranging from old library music sounds, sixties-inspired pastiches, and soundtracks to 1970s films and programmes, as well as the sound collage of musique concrète.

Contents

Broadcast and the focus group investigate witch cults of the radio age


Influences

House has acknowledged the debt that The Focus Group's sound owes to library music produced in the 1970s, to soundtrack documentaries, public information films, and soundtracks.

Awards

  • Hey Let Loose Your Love was featured in The Wire's top 50 albums of 2005.
  • Broadcast and The Focus Group investigate Witch-cults of the Radio Age was The Wire 's top album of 2009.
  • Graphic design

    House is also noted as a graphic designer; his work has included cover art for Broadcast, Stereolab, Martina Topley-Bird, Razorlight, and Primal Scream.

    Discography

  • 2004 Sketches and Spells (CD, LP,album)
  • 2005 Hey Let Loose Your Love (CD album)
  • 2007 We Are All Pan's People (CD album)
  • 2009 Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (CD, LP collaboration with Broadcast. Released on Warp Records)
  • 2013 The Elektrik Karousel (CD, LP album)
  • Songs

    The Be ColonyBroadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
    The Elektrik KarouselThe Elektrik Karousel · 2013
    Activity and ScalesSketches and Spells · 2004

    References

    The Focus Group Wikipedia