Broadcast and The Focus Group - #1 ： Witch Cults

What this video is

Released in October 2009 on Warp Records, '#1: Witch Cults' is a promotional visual for the collaborative mini-album 'Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age.' The collaboration united Broadcast — Birmingham's psych-electronic duo — with Julian House (Ghost Box Records co-founder), whose shared inspirations included 1960s BBC soundtrack music, pulp science fiction, occult texts, and…

Why it matters

A landmark document of the British hauntology movement, '#1: Witch Cults' bridges Broadcast's lineage of BBC Radiophonic Workshop-influenced psych-electronic pop with Julian House's Ghost Box collage aesthetic. The album was cited by The Wire as crowning Broadcast 'dark monarchs of hauntology's…

The director

Julian House is a London-based graphic designer, moving-image director, musician, and co-founder of Ghost Box Records (est. 2004, with Jim Jupp). He records music as The Focus Group and is a partner/creative director at Intro, a design and production…