Jim Jupp

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Jim Jupp is a producer, composer, and along with the graphic designer Julian House he co-owns the Ghost Box record label[https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/audio/2011/apr/16/music-weekly-record-store-day-audio Alexis Petridis Interview with Ghost Box]The Guardian[http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/reviews/fact01.htm Interview with Julian House] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025526/http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/reviews/fact01.htm |date=4 March 2016 }}, FACT Magazine and manager of Belbury Music Publishing.[http://15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-jim-jupp/page-1/ Interview with Jim Jupp], 15 Questions[http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2009/04/belbury-poly-interview-by-emmy-hennings/ 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{{cite web |url=http://www.belburymusic.com/ |title=Home |website=belburymusic.com}}

Recording career

Since 2004 he has recorded six albums for Ghost Box with Belbury Poly,[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/30/ghost-box-bellbury-poly Belbury Poly and Ghost Box feature review]The Guardian[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xrnv Belbury Tales review]BBC Music and one album as Eric Zann and also records with Cate Brooks as The Belbury Circle. He has collaborated on Ghost Box singles and EPs with John Foxx, Pye Corner Audio, Spacedog, The Advisory Circle and Moon Wiring Club,[http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/catalogue.htm Ghost Box Catalogue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114034303/http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/catalogue.htm |date=14 January 2016 }}, - from the Ghost Box website Jupp has remixed work by Pye Corner Audio, The Advisory Circle, Moon Wiring Club, Bill Ryder-Jones, John Foxx, Mirrors, Bernard Fevre, The Memory Band, Sharron Kraus. The track "The Willows" taken from the first Belbury Poly album of the same name was reworked by Paul Weller as "Earth Beat"https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2020/05/08/jim-jupp-intermission-and-ghost-box-records/ Interview with Jim Jupp by The Haunted Generation Blog 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.{{cite web |url=https://electronicsound.co.uk/product/issue-65-print-edition/ |title=Issue 65 Print Edition {{!}} Out Of Stock – Electronic Sound |website=electronicsound.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521052920/https://electronicsound.co.uk/product/issue-65-print-edition/ |archive-date=2020-05-21}}

Musical influence

In interviews Jupp has cited several influences including French soundtrack composer François de Roubaix, Harmonia, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Broadcast, Caravan and more generally Early Music, folk music, Krautrock, 1970s television soundtracks and electronic music of the 1960s and 1970s.[http://www.factmag.com/2012/02/01/belbury-poly-on-ploughmans-lunches-prog-rock-and-avoiding-clarksonwakeman-territory/ Belbury Poly Interview], FACT magazine[http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/label-profile-ghost-box Ghost Box Label feature], CLASH magazine[http://jameshoodillustration.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/interview-with-jim-jupp.html Interview with Jim Jupp], Cardboard Cutout Sundown[https://diaboliquemagazine.com/misremembered-musical-history-parallel-world-interview-jim-jupp-ghost-box-records/ Interview with Jim Jupp], Diabolique Magazine

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