News — Ghost Culture

PH91 Kicking off the final stretch of #Phantasy100, 'Blue Ice/Meltwater' was a digital transmission of flawless liquid electro from the studio of one of Phantasy’s most prolific artist family members, Ghost Culture.   'Blue Ice’ delved into trippy euphoria, perfectly engineered to transmit a trance-like effect on listeners. All tunnelling energy, melting through layer-upon-layer of serotonin-altering rave oscillations, awash in a texture that lands somewhere between melancholy and euphoria, strobe light and sunrise.   ‘Meltwater’ meanwhile begins unassumingly, executing a spacious rhythm that is soon consumed by powerful sub-bass weight and an almost overwhelming rush of analogue synthesis. An aquatic...

PH71 On PH71, James Welsh continued his hugely satisfying streak of idiosyncratic electronic masterpieces with yet another distinctive two-track, ‘Zurich/A65’.Opening the EP, ‘Zurich’ seamlessly blends a rich seam of melancholy with an intensity, which, like the best of Welsh’s work, is both wistful and physical.From Leeds to Kendal on the flip, ‘A65’ sets the scene by sampling the unmistakable sound of speeding Yorkshire traffic, opening up a breathless musical autobahn, driven by luminescent synths that pulse with euphoria and energy. The 12" was released 21st September 2018 and we have 10 copies left on our web store here PH72Daniel Avery: "I...

<a href="http://ghostculture.bandcamp.com/album/ico130-a-gramrcy-loveless-mix">ICO130 (A Gramrcy &amp; Loveless Mix) by Ghost Culture</a>The #Phantasy100 retrospective continues, as Gramrcy & John Loveless remix Ghost Culture’s ‘ICO130’, first released as part of the ‘Nucleus’ EP in 2017.'ICO130' (A Gramrcy & Loveless Mix) is available exclusively through Phantasy’s Bandcamp from Friday August 7th. All proceeds from sale will go to the Stephen Lawrence Trust, the London-based organisation founded to tackle inequality in all forms, until August 31st. Download from Bandcamp hereThe recently formed Berlin studio partnership coax the frenetic patterns of the original into deeper, dreamer and softly anthemic territory. Driven by the spirit of dub...

PH51 Erol Alkan: "Diagram Girl' was the first single to be taken from 'The Soft Bounce' by Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, my partnership with Richard Norris, through which we explored the psychedelic sensibilities around the various types of music we loved. It began as a series of re-edits around 2005, and through re-animating other peoples music (from The Chemical Brothers to Goldfrapp to Midlake) as well as an entire album for Temples, we graduated to our own full original album.Demos for the 'The Soft Bounce' was created as far back as 2009, but through other projects coming and going, disbanding and re-grouping,...