Jim Jupp is a producer, composer, and along with the graphic designer Julian House he co-owns the

Ghost Box Ghost Box is an independent, UK-based electronic music record label, launched in 2004 by graphic designer Julian House and producer Jim Jupp. Its roster includes artists such as Jupp's Belbury Poly, House's The Focus Group, and the Advisory ...

record labelAlexis Petridis Interview with Ghost Box
'The Guardian''
, ''FACT Magazine'' and manager of Belbury Music Publishing.Interview with Jim Jupp
''15 Questions''Interview with Jim Jupp
''Cyclic Defrost'' He records as Belbury Poly. Jupp also runs his own music publishing business and small run record label, Belbury Music

Recording career

Since 2004 he has recorded six albums for Ghost Box with Belbury Poly,Belbury Poly and Ghost Box feature review
'The Guardian''Belbury Tales review
'BBC Music'' and one album as Eric Zann and also records with

Jon Brooks Jon Brooks is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter best known as a solo performer but more recently as leader of ''Jon Brooks & The Outskirts of Approval.'' Brooks’ music may be characterized as literary, allusive, emotionally intense an ...

as The Belbury Circle. He has collaborated on Ghost Box singles and EPs with

John Foxx John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh; 26 September 1948) is an English singer, musician, artist, photographer, graphic designer, writer, teacher and lecturer. He was the original lead singer of the new wave band Ultravox, before leaving to embark on a ...

, Pye Corner Audio, Spacedog,

The Advisory Circle The Advisory Circle is an alias of English electronic musician Cate Brooks (formerly known as Jon Brooks) along with King of Woolworths. Her releases as The Advisory Circle are on the Ghost Box Music label. The Advisory Circle's first relea ...

and Moon Wiring Club,Ghost Box Catalogue
, - from the ''Ghost Box'' website Jupp has remixed work by Pye Corner Audio,

Moon Wiring Club Moon Wiring Club is the recording alias of Ian Hodgson, who releases his music on his own label Blank Workshop. Discography * ''An Audience of Art Deco Eyes'' (2007) * ''Shoes Off and Chairs Away'' (2008) * ''Striped Paint for the Last Post'' ( ...

Bill Ryder-Jones William Edward Ryder-Jones (born 10 August 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, music producer and composer from West Kirby, Merseyside. He co-founded the band The Coral, together with James Skelly, Lee Southall, Paul Duffy, and Ia ...

Mirrors A mirror or looking glass is an object that reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror will show an image of whatever is in front of it, when focused through the lens of the eye or a camera. Mirrors reverse the direction of the ima ...

, Bernard Fevre,

The Memory Band The Memory Band is an English folk group founded by Stephen Cracknell. The Memory Band has a rolling cast of collaborators from across the musical spectrum. They made their name with their eponymous debut album released on their own Hungry Hill ...

, Sharron Kraus. The track "The Willows" taken from the first Belbury Poly album of the same name was reworked by

Paul Weller Paul John Weller (born John William Weller; 25 May 1958) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame with the punk rock/ new wave/ mod revival band the Jam (1972–1982). He had further success with the blue-eyed soul m ...

as "Earth Beat" for his 2020 album On Sunset. The debut EP by Belbury Poly, Farmer's Angle was included in an Electronic Sound magazine feature, A History of Electronic Music in 75 Records.

Musical influence

In interviews Jupp has cited several influences including French soundtrack composer

François de Roubaix François de Roubaix (3 April 1939, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine – 22 November 1975, Tenerife, Canary Islands) was a French film score composer. In a decade, he created a musical style with new sounds, until his death in 1975. Biography ...

Harmonia In Greek mythology, Harmonia (; grc, Ἁρμονία / harmoˈnia/, "harmony", "agreement") is the immortal goddess of harmony and concord. Her Roman counterpart is Concordia. Her Greek opposite is Eris, whose Roman counterpart is Discor ...

, the

BBC Radiophonic Workshop The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television. The unit is known for its experimental and pioneering work in electron ...

Broadcast Broadcasting is the distribution (business), distribution of sound, audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio ...

Caravan Caravan or caravans may refer to: Transport and travel *Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together **Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop *Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals *Convoy, a group of veh ...

and more generally

Early Music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classic ...

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has ...

Krautrock Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electronic music, a ...

, 1970s television soundtracks and

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

of the 1960s and 1970s.Belbury Poly Interview
''FACT magazine''Ghost Box Label feature
''CLASH magazine''
''Cardboard Cutout Sundown''Interview with Jim Jupp
''Diabolique Magazine''

References

External links

Ghost Box Website
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