Series:Hauntology

Selected album reviews

• Broadcast and The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (Warp, 2009): a chemical wedding of pop-sike bliss, cut-up weird audio and occult sonics; dark monarchs of hauntology's expanding kingdom; untethering slippage and slurring of loops and rhythms, a new approach to sampling that perhaps better represents the way music really sits in our memory (Wire)
• Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star (Ghost Box): incorporated shades of disco and dub
• Seeland - Tomorrow Today (Advance, 2009) (Tim Felton ex-Broadcast, Billy Bainbridge ex-Plone): marries antique futurist textures to attractive pop songcraft (Wire)
• Position Normal - Goodly Time (Rum, 2000) (London, Chris Bailiff and John Cushway, MM?, *93): proto-hauntology

Proto-hauntology

• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
• Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002)

Artists

James Kirby (aka The Caretaker, The Stranger, Leyland Kirby), Broadcast and The Focus Group (Warp's Cargill and Keenan + Ghost Box's House), The Focus Group (House @Ghost Box), William Basinski, Belbury Poly (@Ghost Box), Ariel Pink, Moon Wiring Club, The Advisory Circle, Seeland (Felton ex-Broadcast, Bainbridge ex-Plone)

Proto-hauntology

Position Normal (Bailiff and Cushway, *1993), Boards of Canada

Labels

• Ghost Box, *2004, London. Julian House & Jim Jupp
• Mordant Music, London

Term

• Adam Harper: When the word 'hauntology' was first applied to music in January 2006, it was used to describe the Ghost Box and Mordant Music record labels (technically it was Simon Reynolds who proposed it as a name for a musical style, but credit should go to k-punk for using the term in connection with Ghost Box’s music long before this in September 05). [[1]]
• Adam Harper: playback hauntologists: The Caretaker, Basinski and Indignant Senility [2]
• Jonny Mugwump (@Quietus): the paradoxical retro-futurist real-world mythologies of the Ghost Box label with related (Broadcast) and parallel travellers (Moon Wiring Club, Position Normal) [3]
• 14tracks.com: "The Caretaker's apparitional sample morphology, through Ariel Pink's exquisite MOR narco-pop, the Ghost Box label's miniaturised vision of middle England, onto Burial's mournful rave dreams"

Literature

• Mark Fisher, "Unhomesickness", Sep 2005 [4]
• Simon Reynolds, Jan 2006, [5]
• k-punk, "Home is where the haunt is: The Shining's hauntology", Jan 2006, [6]
• Adam Harper, "Hauntology: The Past Inside The Present", Oct 2009, [7]

Random / sort through later

• Wooden Veil, Berlin-based art group formed in 2007. Inspired by the shared hauntedness of their respective homelands, they combine elements from forgotten and misremembered traditions to create a microcosmic world which only Wooden Veil inhabits. Performances, installations and videos are characterized by an expansive wardrobe of ritual dress, and the creation of shrines, relics and talismans used to create music.
• http://ashtapes.blogspot.com/
• http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Karel/design_by_julian_house, http://madebyhk.com/17/02/2010/ghost-box/