| The Focus Group | |
| Background: | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth Name: | Julian House |
| Origin: | England |
| Genre: | Electronica, library music, sampledelia, musique concrète, hauntology, psychedelia |
| Occupation: | Musician songwriter |
| Years Active: | 2004 - present |
| Label: | Ghost Box |
| Associated Acts: | Broadcast |
| Website: | Ghost Box Records |
The Focus Group is a project of experimental electronic musician and graphic designer Julian House. The Focus Group's sound is a blend of influences ranging from old library music sounds produced in the 1970s, 1960s-inspired pastiches, public information films, and soundtracks to 1970s films and programmes, as well as the sound collage of musique concrète.[1]
The Focus Group have released five studio albums on House's own label, Ghost Box: Sketches and Spells (2004), Hey Let Loose Your Love (2005), We Are All Pan's People (2007), The Elektrik Karousel (2013) and Stop-Motion Happening with the Focus Groop (2017).[2] Hey Let Loose Your Love was featured in The Wires top 50 albums of 2005.[3]
Additionally, House collaborated with indie electronic band Broadcast, resulting in the 2009 album Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (issued by Warp) and the 2010 7-inch EP Familiar Shapes and Noises (released on Ghost Box). Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age was named The Wires top album of 2009.
House is also noted as a graphic designer; his work has included cover art for Broadcast, Oasis, Can, Stereolab, Martina Topley-Bird, Razorlight and Primal Scream.[2] [4]