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Jim Jupp is both main music machine in Belbury Poly and a co-founder from the Ghost Container Music label, the last mentioned alongside graphic developer Julian Home. Jupp called his musical task after a provincial British town developed by C.S. Lewis in his allegorical book That Hideous Power and, on …

The Advisory Group may be the bewitching alias of former Ruler of Woolworths and Georges Vent artist Jon Brooks. Explaining the Advisory Group audio as “Everything’s good, but there is certainly something nearly right about any of it,” Brooks’ eerie consumer electronics and warped collages of sound and samples discovered …

Offering former Broadcast users James Cargill and Roj Stevens combined with the Concentrate Group’s Julian Home, Children of Alice extended around the dreamy experimental electronics of their other tasks. The group’s name was a tribute to past due Broadcast vocalist Trish Keenan, a lifelong Alice in Wonderland lover who counted …

Experimental United kingdom pop ensemble Vanishing Twin are led by London-based musician Cathy Lucas (Fanfarlo, My Unhappy Captains). Previously functioning beneath the name Orlando, Lucas designed uncommon electronic-based compositions and conceptual parts which were released over some cassettes before developing Vanishing Twin in 2015. Enlisting collaborators Valentina Magaletti, Phil M.F.U., …

Emerging in the mid- to late-2000s underground electronic music scene that was once coined “British Cosmic Music” by noted article writer Warren Ellis, the suspenseful noises of Pye Part Audio — the music alias of Martin Jenkins (also called the Head Specialist) — had been first heard through his self-released …

South Wales-raised image developer Julian House’s eerie and electronic audio collage task the Concentrate Group was created out of his co-founding from the influential Ghost Container label in London with Jim Jupp in 2003. While Jupp’s concurrently designed Belbury Poly tread an identical route of warped consumer electronics, intentionally misremembered …