Focus Group

South Wales-raised graphic designer Julian House's eerie and electronic sound collage project the Focus Group was born out of his co-founding of the influential Ghost Box label in London with Jim Jupp in 2003. While Jupp's simultaneously fashioned Belbury Poly tread a similar path of warped electronics, intentionally misremembered folklore, and British cultural ephemera, House's music scuttled away from the conventional structures betrayed by the music of his longtime friend and fellow BBC Radiophonic Workshop obsessive. Built around uncommon, disjointed loops of anything from...