Artist : The Focus Group Title : The Elektrik Karousel Genre : Electronic Year : 2013 Date : 09.2013 Bitrate : VBR kbps Tracks : 29 Label : Ghost Box Source : Vinyl Encoder : Lame 3.98.4 Length : 46:20 min Size : 74,1 MB Tracklist: ---------- 01.make way 00:16 02.the elektrik karousel 03:46 03.petroleum paisley 00:46 04.tigt gruffil 01:16 05.the flourescent host 00:45 06.skipping spook 00:28 07.kinky korner klub 02:25 08.the kool kranium 00:53 09.bachoo 01:24 10.hypnoradiol 00:52 11.the heavy blessing 02:17 12.chordfl 01:12 13.hope hodgsone 02:11 14.poppingart 01:29 15.let them go 03:02 16.the magic pendulum 06:10 17.flaming voices 01:08 18.the church bellows 00:24 19.oakston newscene 00:22 20.wax phantoms 01:16 21.frumious numinous 02:44 22.the plastic castle 00:36 23.lets listen 01:07 24.oh want away 01:35 25.harmonium 00:57 26.spolk 03:04 27.hoojumany 02:02 28.a new mystery 01:12 29.more night films 00:41 ------- 46:20 min Ghost Box co-convenor Julian House is back to haunt your waking dreams with a new album of imagined library cues, test-tones, telly themes and yellowed sound-postcards from a 70s childhood you may or may not have endured. This is his first solo album as The Focus Group since 2007's We Are All Pan's People, though of course in 2009 there was the magickal, expansive Broadcast collaboration Investigate Witch Cults of The Radio Age. In the best possible sense, it's a return to business as usual: a deviant collector's collage of ersatz soft-psych, pastoral jazz, public information announcements, mystic folk and oingy-boingy Open University electronics at once utopian, melancholy, twee, trippy and sinister. It says a lot about the fecundity of Ghost Box's aesthetic universe that House is still able to wrench material as fresh as this out of its soil, and with Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle now pursuing a more prog and folk-influenced live band sound, Elektrik Carousel is the most satisfying Ghost Box emission in a while - at least for admirers of the unheimlich, shoppe- soiled sampladelia sensibility it was founded on. http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/