MuhMur Radio Broadcast 16 February 2025.

 

The first hour or so of the broadcast begins with sounds from the Belgian based label EE Tapes. EE tapes began in the mid 1980's, some say 1984 bit others say 1987. It was set up by Erik Van Havere who I believe was involved with the KK Records label in the early 1980s. Most of the prominent European underground sound artists have had their sounds released by EE Tapes This includes Dieter Müh, who released their album "Cari Saluti" on EE Tapes in 2000. It was Eriek and EE Tapes that offered Dieter Muh their first (mainland) European performance in October 1998 alongside Troum, Konstruktivists and LD50 amongst others. EE tapes has a bandcamp page where they are releasing digitised copies of their releases (download files). https://eetapes.bandcamp.com/music. This includes the Brume album "After The Battle (A Chronicle Of The Joy Of Life)" and Christian Renou's "7 Kisses" album. I also played some old EE Tapes releases by Dieter Müh (from 'The Walls Are Whispering' compilation CD), No "Bakk" from the cassette 'Ziellos' and NKVD "Are You Lonely" from 'Elegy #2' cassette. NKVD is the project of Glenn M. Wallis (aka Konstruktivists). 

                                                        Brume "After The Battle" (CD).

                                                             V/A "Elegy #2" (Cassette).        

Last month's broadcast featured sounds from the American (Austin, Texas) based label Elevator Bath. Colin from Elevator Bath kindly mailed MuhMur Radio some of their latest releases and I am slowly devouring / discovering the sounds. Tonight MuhMur Radio presents more sounds from the Elevator bath arsenal beginning with Susana López and two pieces from her latest album 'The Edge Of The Circle'. Alex Keller follows with a piece from last years CD release 'Sleep Room'. The Colin Andrew Sheffield track is from 'Images'. All the tracks on this LP are culled from "various commercially available recordings". 

                                                   Colin Andrew Sheffield "Images" (LP).

The two Daniela Huerta pieces are from the 10" mini-album 'Soplo'. Elevator Bath can be contacted via : http://www.elevatorbath.com and/or https://elevatorbath.bandcamp.com/artists. There will be more in the next programme, and again (if you're listening) thank you Colin.

The second hour finishes on a piece by Kostis Kilymis. I am at the moment re-cataloguing my records, tapes and CDs, it's great fun and I am rediscovering old releases I haven't played in years ... sometimes 10 / 20 years. (I am 'blogging' the activity https://muhmurradiohq.blogspot.com for reasons I don't yet understand). It is taking time as I am playing some old discoveries as I find them, Kostis being exhibit A (m'lud). "Comet Athena" is from the 2014 cassette 'Komths' on the Hideous Replica label. I think Hideous Replica were the same folk who were behind the Beartown Records and Wasted Capital Since 2013 labels and I shall believe that until someone proves me wrong. I haven't heard anything from Kostis in a while. He was in Bristol for a while, or certainly was when we both played at the KAARST Gallery in Plymouth, 2018. But I have a feeling he is now living in Greece. 

                                                        Kostis Kilymis "Komths" (Cassette).

4th Sign Of The Apocalypse are also a discovery made whilst re-cataloguing the 'collection'. 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse is a project of Bryin Dall. Bryin has collaborated in the past with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Boyd Rice (Hirsute Pursuit). The track here is from the 2003 compilation album 'Widerstand'. The album (2xCD) also features Con-Dom, Propergol, Predominance, Survival Unit and Maison Close amongst others. Copies are floating about on Discogs for a reasonable price. 

Split Apex is the new project of Peter Blundell and Jussi Palmusaari. Peter was a member of Mosquitos and Komare. Jussi was a member of Finnish art-rock experimental outfit Preesens. Split Apex's first release is the eponymous self released cassette. 4 tracks over (about) 20 minutes. Recorded last year and limited to 30 copies. I don't have any contact for Peter (unfortunately), but I do know he used to live just down the road from me in Babbacombe (Torquay) ... small world!

The Nurse With Wound track is from the double CD 'She And Me Fell Together In Free Death' and available through ICR (where I get most of my NWW stuff from) : https://icrdistribution.bandcamp.com/merch. I thought Wire's "Go Ahead" fitted perfectly afterwards. 

                                                        Wire.                            Swell Maps.

On this day in 1980, two great singles were released. Swell Maps "Let's Build A Car" and The Birthday party's "Mr. Clarinet / Happy Birthday". 

                                                                Cold War "Illusion" (LP).

Cold War are an old post-punk band from Hornchurch in Essex. In 1981 - 1982 they put out some cassettes on the Rasquap Products and Rasquap Is Dead  labels as well as a self released cassette simply called "Cold War". In 1983 they released their only 7" "The Machinist" on Namedrop Records. Namedrop Records was operated by Paul Platypus of The Refections/Exhibit A and Twelve Cubic Feet fame. I always thought Paul was also in the Digital Dinosaurs but I can't find any proof of this on the internet. That's how things were back in the early 80s, sometimes I got things wrong, like thinking Cold War were an anarcho-crusty  punk band playing anarchy centres in the south-east and playing with bands such as The Apostles, Annie Anxiety and the like. WRONG! Cold War are an old post-punk band from Hornchurch in Essex, they had a similar approach to sound as bands such as UK Decay, Artery, Joy Division and Wire. They wore their influences on their sleeves. A couple of them became 'acid-house- DJs in the 1990s and the bassist Paul Harding joined Hagar The Womb after their disintegration. (I have a feeling Hagar The Womb have recently reformed, but whether or not Paul is involved, I couldn't say). The LP is a joint release by Grow Your Own Records ( a label run by ex members of Anthrax) and ex Harbinger Sound mainman Steve Underwood. Copies can be bought from : https://growyourownrecords.bandcamp.com. A MuhMur Radio recommendation. 

Berlin based Staalplaat are slowly reissuing the back catalogue of Korm Plastics under the name of Korm Plastics D. So far the compilation cassette releases '6x10=60' Volumes 1-3 series, Commando Bruno, 'Korm Merz x Merz' compilation and the 'Katacomb Volume 3' compilation have made it to the MuhMur Radio HQ. The recent release is 'Puinhoop' by The Haters. Two live performance recordings from 1989 on side A and radio performance from November 1989. The radio performance (I think) includes the voice of Frans de Waard. https://kormplasticsd.bandcamp.com/album/the-haters-puinhoop. It's limited to 70 copies. 

                                                       Organ Of Corti "Lues" 7" single.

I have been listening to a lot of Organ Of Corti over the past couple of years or so and have yet to be disappointed. Organ Of Corti are the Swedish supergroup consisting of Dan Johansson (Neutral/Sewer Election), Joachim Nordwall (Skull Defecks/Alvars Orkester) and Mattias Gustafsson (Altar Of Flies/Cryme). Their latest release is a 7" on the Czech Stoned To Death label. Limited copies are available at : https://stoned-to-death.bandcamp.com. Waning End is the project of Angel Simitchiev (MyTrip) and Niels Geybels (Sequences). The three pieces here are from their debut cassette 'Moving End' on Niels' own Audio Visual Atmosphere label. I unfortunately cannot put a link because I have been blocked from the Audio Visual Atmosphere website. Last time I play any Niels Geybels then ... 

Back to Swedish superstars ... Blod is the project of Gustaf Dicksson. Blod have been operating for about ten years releasing classic albums on the Förlag För Fri Musik, Discreet Music and I Dischi Del Barone labels ... amongst others. The piece here is from the "You Are Not Alone Vol.2" EP. Released originally as a single-sided lathe cut 12", a few copies were released as a CDR on Förfall (which may or may not be Gustaf's own imprint). "Nattens Lekar" features the voice of Linda Lovelace. 

                                                                                Blod.

For my birthday (62 last December) I received a copy of the book "Through The Crack In The Wall" subtitled 'The Secret History Of Josef K' by Johnnie Johnstone. A fascinating story of the Edinburgh post-punk music scene from 1978-1982. It's a great companion to "Hungry Beat" that was published in 2022. The history of Scottish punk / post punk through the eyes of Bob Last of Fast Product and Alan Horne's Postcard label. 

I do like a good cover version, and there's not a lot better than Fire Engines version of Heaven 17's "(We Don't Need) This Fascist Groove Thang. Very apt at the time of broadcast ... this track comes from the Cherry Red Records anthology of the band. (They also feature in the Josef K book).

You can hear the broadcast here : (Split into two for easier aural digestion).

Part One.

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-16-february-2025-part-one/

Part Two.

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-february-16-2025-part-two/

Playlist :

01: Brume : Survival In Eating Proteins From Human Brain Corpses (EE Tapes) 2009.

02: Brume : Stalingrad (EE Tapes) 2009.

03: Dieter Müh : Stella Polaris (EE Tapes) 2003.

04: Brume : I'm Feeling Good! (EE Tapes) 2009.

05: No : Bakk (EE Tapes) 1998.

06: Christian Renou : 7 Kisses (Part Two) (EE Tapes) 2003.

07: NKVD : Are You Lonely (EE Tapes) 1997.

08: Susana López : Soul Stuff (Elevator Bath) 2022.

09: Susana López : Black Circle (Elevator Bath) 2022.

10: Alex Keller : Blue/Art (Elevator Bath) 2024.

11: Colin Andrew Sheffield : Images (Elevator Bath) 2023.

12: Daniela Huerta : Fondo (Elevator Bath) 2024.

13: Daniela Huerta : Levitar (Elevator Bath) 2024.

14: Kostis Kilymis : Comet Athena (Hideous Replica) 2014.

15: 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse : Black Sheep (StateArt) 2003.

16: Split Apex : Fused Edge (Not On Label-Self Released) 2025.

17: Split Apex : Only One Path (Not On Label-Self Released) 2025.

18: Nurse With Wound : She And Me Fell Together In Free Death (United Dairies) 2023.

19: Wire : Go Ahead (EMI Harvest) 1979.

20: Swell Maps : Let's Build A Car (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

21: The Birthday Party : Happy Birthday (Missing Link) 1980.

22: Cold War : The Machinist (Grow Your Own Records/Ohne Grund Schallplatten) 2024.

23: Cold War : Suffering By Fire (Grow Your Own Records/Ohne Grund Schallplatten) 2024.

24: Cold War : Cold War (Grow Your Own Records/Ohne Grund Schallplatten) 2024.

25: The Haters : Radio Performance 11/28/1989 (Korm Plastics D) 2025.

26: Organ Of Corti : Lues (Stoned To Death) 2024.

27: Waning End : Silver Sheet, Golden Doors (Audio Visual Atmosphere) 2025.

28: Waning End : The Mirror Speaks (Audio Visual Atmosphere) 2025.

29: Waning End : Cold Living In The Walls (Audio Visual Atmosphere) 2025.

30: Blod : Nattens Lekar (Förfall) 2025.

31: Josef K : Endless Soul (Les Disques Du Crépuscule) 2014.

32: Josef K : Sorry For Laughing (Les Disques Du Crépuscule) 2014.

33: Fire Engines : (We Don't Need) This Fascist Groove Thang.

(part two begins with 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse) ... 

Thanks for listening. Thanks also to Tamsin and Chris for being there. The next broadcast is on March 16, same time, same channel but a different box of records and tapes ... and an on this day featuring the mighty Pop Group. 

       

                                         

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 19 January 2025.

 

The first broadcast of 2025. 

Towards the end of last year I was sent a parcel of sounds from Colin Andrew Sheffield, the man behind the label Elevator Bath. Colin also records and releases on the label. His sounds have appeared on past broadcasts .. and they will on future ones. Active since 1998 (releasing elegant abstract music) the first release was the Colin Andrew Sheffield 7" of highly amplified machine sounds called "Side One / Side Two". The sounds Colin sent were by artists I had never come across. Susana López has been a great discovery. The two tracks played here are from the CD 'Crónica De Un Secuestro' from 2020. I think it was the 2016 album 'Flammable Materials From Foreign Lands' by Jim Haynes that made me first aware of Elevator Bath, "Electrical Speech : Nadiya" is from this album leading in to Daniela Huerta. Elevator Bath's recent release, a great 10" mini-album called "Soplo". Daniela is Mexican, Soplo translates as blow and puff. Sequences is the project of Antwerp based soundartist Neils Geybels. Again, no stranger to MuhMur Radio with his collaborative work with Cremation Lily and Isolated Existence and more recently with Angel Simitchiev (of the Amek Collective) as Waning End. "Gasping For Breath" is from the CD 'Água Viva'. These sounds take in the first hour of the broadcast. Elevator Bath artists Rick Reed and Alex Keller with Sean O' Neill are later on in the broadcast. Rick Reed is a new name to me .. he is based in Austin (Texas), like Elevator Bath and has been part of the Austin underground music scene for over 40 years ... I'll have to check my old ND Magazines to see if he appears in them ... Alex Keller is also from Austin. A soundartist, sound designer and teacher working in performance installation. To hear more or to get hold of some Elevator Bath please visit http://www.elevatorbath.com or visit the bandcamp page at : https://elevatorbath.bandcamp.com. There is also Facebook pages and Instagram pages if you are in to that type of thing ... Expect more sounds from the Elevator Bath throughout future broadcasts. 

On New Years Eve 2005 Throbbing Gristle played at the Volksbühne in Berlin. The following evening they performed a live soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film "In The Shadow Of The Sun". Recordings of these events have been released by Mute Records in a glamorous box set simply called "Berlin". The box also features a DVD of the evenings, a 10" single from the final studio recordings of Throbbing Gristle along with rehearsal recordings and studio improvisations from December 2005. "Trumpet Herald" and "Convincing People" are from the Volksbühne show. The Alice Kemp piece from the compilation EP released to celebrate the Kemp/Elggren/ Lanz & Nordwall performances that took place in Gothenburg last year ... and I play it at the right speed!! There's a new Alice Kemp cassette soon to be released on the Recordings For The Summer label. http://www.recordingsforthesummer.de/RFTS.html for more information on that. 

Korm Plastics Publishing have released the book "Even When It Makes No Sense" by Steve Underwood. A comprehensive history / archive of the UK noise / experimental label Broken Flag. Parts of the book have been published before in the 2010 magazine As Loud As Possible, the book features extra interviews, a full catalogue and reprints of the Broken Flag (in house) tract "Even When It Makes No Sense". Grab a copy from : https://www.kormplastics.nl/even-when-it-makes-no-sense-the-broken-flag-story/, it is essential! The Jonathon Bailey track is from the 1987 Broken Flag compilation LP "Never Say When". The broadcast ends with two pieces from Ramleh culled from their 1983 7" "Hand Of Glory". This release was the first time I came across both Ramleh and Broken Flag. The tracks played are from the 8xCD box set "Awake!" released on Harbinger Sound in 2012. (quality reasons). 

Kicking off 2025 in the manner of which we wish to proceed with a piece by Frans de Waard's Modelbau project. "Ripples (Parts 1 & 2)" is on the Eindhoven based Barreuh Records label. Please visit their bandcamp page at : https://barreuhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ripples to grab a copy. It's beautiful. 

'This past summer I was working part-time as the "pool tester" for a swimming pool in my local area. The job entailed going into the buildings boiler room twice a day, working with various chemicals, testing the chlorine levels in the water and checking that all the pumps, tanks, gauges, valves and mechanical apparatus was all in good safe running order. Then at the end of the night I would be responsible for removing the mechanical cover for the swimming pool, inspecting the water, and eventually putting the cover back on .... One day tin he boiler room, I was totally struck and mesmerized by both the ambient room tone in there, as well as the sounds and noises of all the various equipment pumping away - the hissing machinery, the deep gurgling of the water/acid tanks, the chugging of the circulation pumps, the ticking of the valves, the creaking of the pipes, the humming of the fluorescent lights, etc .... Creative inspiration continued to churn away inside me while I was inspecting the swimming pool at the end of my shift. I felt that the sound of the swimming pool was both soothing and rather haunting at the same time - that soft gurgle and slushing of the water, the spillage being sucked through the drain grills, the drone of the heating system, the huge reverberations of the high-ceilinged room, the mysterious echoes and the squeal of the mechanical pool cover coming down ..... Thus the ideas for this project began. That night I took two sound recorders and a couple of contact microphones and placed them in the boiler room and the swimming pool itself. I wanted to try and capture the sound and atmosphere of these two locations when no one was around. Once captured, I collaged these recordings into a couple of abstract sound works that hopefully paint some vivid images of what it feels like to be working in this strange, lonely and sometimes creepy indoor environment'. Notes from the Fletina CD album "Serrof" on Unfathomless. Fletina can be contacted via : https://fletina.bandcamp.com. 

Vertonen (aka Blake Edwards) has been producing sound work for over 25 years. His latest is the cassette album "Recovery & Return" on the German Grisaille label. Physical copies have sold out from the label but d/load options are still available : https://grisaille.bandcamp.com. December saw the release of the latest single by French industrialists Muckrackers. Limited to 37 copies only. Entitled "La Grande Fin" I hope it isn't their last .... act fast! https://muckrackers.bandcamp.com/album/la-grande-fin. 

I decided to resurrect the section "On This Day" for the 2025 broadcasts. I looked at my diaries for the first three months and found some interesting releases were put out on forthcoming broadcast dates. In January1981 I went to see New Order play one of their first gigs at The Porterhouse in the East Midlands town of Retford. The support for the evening was fellow Mancunians Crispy Ambulance, a band that were new to me at the time. A couple of weeks later on January 19 1981 John Peel broadcast their first 'John Peel Session'. I taped it (of course) and played it religiously over the years .. I still have the cassette! In 2000 LTM released the session on the compilation CD "Frozen Blood (1980-82)". A few months or later I supported Crispy Ambulance. I was the drummer in Lincoln's finest proto-political-pop group Total Strangers. A friend and myself contacted Crispy Ambulance and asked them to play the Memorial Hall in our town (North Hykeham) 5 miles south of Lincoln. Memory has faded about the evening, but 15 years ago I wrote this .. https://muhmur.blogspot.com/2010/02/crispy-ambulance-in-north-hykeham.html. Also "On This Day" in 1977 Ultravox! released the 7" single "Dangerous Rhythm" c/w "My Sex". Next month I'll be spinning some Swell Maps & Birthday Party. 

Chris Dreier was a founding member of German experimentalists Die Tödliche Doris in the 1980s. Tom Löhde is a sound artist from Düsseldorf. In 2023 the UK based label released their collaboration work "MK/CT". It is based on field recordings made on the River Spree. https://fangbomb.bandcamp.com for more information. Matar are Adi Newton and Michael Esposito. The piece here is from their latest LP "Archaeoacoustics". 

Very sad to hear of the passing of Miguel A. Garcia. I have been a great admirer of his work for the last ten years, mainly through releases on the Geräuschmanufaktur label. R.I.P. Miguel.

Playlist :

01: Susana López : Luz Negra (Elevator Bath) 2020.

02: Susana López : Crónica De Un Secuestro  (Elevator Bath) 2020.

03: Jim Haynes : Electrical Speech : Nadiya (Elevator Bath) 2016.

04: Daniela Huerta : Seqyana (Elevator Bath) 2024.

05: Sequences : Gasping For Breath (Elevator Bath) 2024.

06: Throbbing Gristle : Trumpet Herald (Mute Records) 2024.

07: Throbbing Gristle : Convincing People (Mute Records) 2024.

08: Alice Kemp : Private Masticator (iDEAL Recordings) 2024.

09: Jonathon Briley : The Hunter (Broken Flag) 1987.

10: Modelbau : Ripples (Part Two) (Barreuh Records) 2024.

11: Fletina : Late Shift (Unfathomless) 2024.

12: Vertonen : Triumphant Decay (Grisaille) 2024.

13: Vertonen : Constellations Of Collapsed Wheels (Grisaille) 2024.

14: Vertonen : Achelae.

15: Rick Reed : Space Age Radio Love Song (Elevator Bath) 2023.

16: Rick Reed : Leave A Light On For Tony (Elevator Bath) 2023.

17: Muckrackers : La Grande Fin (A) (LFA) 2024.

18: Christine K : Memory Is What We Make It (Ek Verlag) 2024.

19: Crispy Ambulance : Egypt (LTM) 2000.

20: Ultravox! : My Sex (Island Records) 1977.

21: Chris Dreier & Tim Löhne : Shieldfields (Fang Bomb) 2023.

22: Muckrackers : La Grande Fin (B) (LFA) 2024.

23: Alex Keller And Sean O' Neill : Kruos II (Elevator Bath) 2017.

24: Matar : 110Hz State The Maze Pattern (Sleepers) 2024.

25: Miguel A. Garcia/Garaz Gorostiaga/Tube Tentacles : Euli Ustel Porta (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.

26: Ramleh : Squassation (Harbinger Sound) 2012.

27: Ramleh : Prossneck (Harbinger Sound) 2012.

Please listen to the broadcast here  (Split in to 2 parts for easier aural consumption. part 2 begins with Vertonen) :

Part One :

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-19-01-2025-part-one/

Part Two : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-19-01-2025-part-two/

 Thanks to Chris Booth for production and Trin for the company. Back on February 16. Same time, same channel. 

MuhMur Radio returns to the airwaves.

 

The schedules have been re-jigged and MuhMur Radio Broadcasts begin on January 19 2025 ... NOT February 5 as mentioned on the last MuhMur Radio programme.

It is still at 18:00 (GMT) Kick-Off and available on 102.5FM in the surrounds of Totnes (Devon, UK) or via the SoundArt Radio webpage for the live stream : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk. Hopefully you can lend an ear. The broadcast will be live and feature sounds from the Elevator Bath label along side sounds from Alice Kemp, Modelbau, Ramleh, Throbbing Gristle and Vertonen amongst others. I am also bringing back the "On This Day" feature with Ultravox! & Crispy Ambulance. 

The broadcast will still be archived on MixCloud.

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 29 December 2024

 

The final MuhMur Radio Broadcast of 2024, the traditional 4 Hour Festive Feast ... although now that I have changed for the bi-monthly 2 hour broadcast to the 4 hour monthly broadcast this year perhaps my Festive Feasts should now be six hours long .... or two ... I'll have a word with the bosses.

There is usually a couple of Christmas themed songs in the seasonal broadcast and this one is no different beginning with Stuntcock's "And If Xmas Couldn't Get Any Worse ... You Had To Turn Up". It's from the compilation CDR "Aural Atrocities - Volume 3". The album also features Duncan Harrison, Splinter Vs Stalin and Chav Stabber amongst others. I know little about Stuntcock apart from their split tape release with BBBlood. The second seasonal themed tune is Severed Heads "Hello Donald, Merry Xmas". This is from the excellent "Adenoids" box set on Vinyl On Demand. 

No Festive Feast goes without a piece from Neil Campbell and/or his Astral Social Club. "Vision Pink Mix" is his latest and available via his Bandcamp page. https://astralsocialclub.bandcamp.com. Shadow Pattern is the solo project of Nathan Ivanco and based in Ontario. This year he has released collaborations with Blod (Gustaf Dicksson) and Duncan Harrison. Matar is the project of Adi Newton and Michael Esposito. "Homme Verde" is from their latest LP "Archaeoacoustics" on the Italian Sleepers label. This is one of the finest albums of 2024. https://www.sleepersrecords.com. There is news of a new Matar album out in the early part of 2025. Another MuhMur Radio is Frans de Waard. I managed to get one of his earlier releases this month, the 2013 cassette "Departure" by Pick-Up. Pick-Up is Frans's collaboration with Dutch guitarist / producer Martin Luiten. 

2024 saw Nocturnal Emissions play live in New York City and the label No Holiday re-issue a couple of old recordings for the event. "Cathedral" and "Invocation Of The Beast Gods", both beautiful releases with full colour sleeves and accompanying booklets with art from Nigel Ayers. "Wailer" is from "Cathedral". (Originally released in 1991 on Musica Maxima Magentica). Also for the live show No Holiday put out a lathe-cut 7", limited to 30 copies and only available on the night, "Agathicus" is from this single. 

The week before Christmas I had to pop in to Torquay to pick up some presents for the kids, I was in town quite early (I never go in to Torquay Town as a rule) so decided to wander through the indoor market. There was a secondhand record stall selling the usual fare of vinyl by the likes of Whitney Houston, The Crickets, Sheena Easton, Curiosity Killed The Cat etc, and on the top of a pile of likewise vinyl was a mint copy of "The Project-Phase 2-We Love The Moon" by The Royal Family & The Poor on Factory Records ... and it was only £1! The smallholder said he'd had the LP for about 15 years and it had worked its way down in to the one pound pile. A little Christmas treat for myself ... I have a vague memory of seeing The Royal Family & The Poor live at The Hacienda in Manchester. 1984, it could have been supporting Psychic TV .. but then again that could have been Ram Ram Kino .. or maybe Pink Industry? If anybody knows please let me know .. The track "White Stains" made me play my 'official DJ' card and play a track by Swedish occultists White Stains.

Christine K is Christine Kärkkäinen, sister of Ester Kärkkäinen of Himukalt fame. "Lost Time" is from the  cassette album "An Empty Fiction" on Ester's EK Verlag imprint. The cassette has sold out but digital downloads can be got at : https://himukalt.bandcamp.com/album/an-empty-fiction. 

The next MuhMur Radio Broadcast will be on February 2 and not February 5 as some drunken fool murmured into the microphone. The programme will centre around artists released by the Austin, Texas based label Elevator Bath. Susana López and Matt Shoemaker will be played, but for now I thought I would play a couple of their pieces from non Elevator Bath releases. The Susana López track is from the recent Licht-Ung CD "Partikel". Recordings from performances by Susana, Kapotte Muziek, Aidan Baker and [multer] that took place at Kulturausbesserungswerk in Leverkusen (Germany) on the 30th December 2023. The CD is part of the ongoing StRuPpig tAnZen series. https://licht-ung.bandcamp.com/merch for further details. The Showmaker track is from the 2013 cassette "The Late Day Spectrum". 

File alongside Mater as one of the finest albums of 2024, Post Scriptvm "Eisstoss" on Tesco Organisation. "Frazil" is from this album. Extra is the collaborative project of Howard Stelzer and Brian Grainger. "Decide/Accept" is from the split cassette with Liminal Haze on the Grisaille label. have a search at https://grisaille.bandcamp.com, they put out some great tapes this year. Like the Nocturnal Emissions lathe-cut on No Holiday, iDEAL Recordings released a limited 7" to commemorate a live performance that took place in Gothenburg earlier this year. "K-E-L" features, Alice Kemp, Leif Elggren* and Joke Lanz and a mash-up track by iDEAL boss Joachim Nordwall. The 7" is limited to 100 copies only and s I type 5 copies are available from : https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/k-e-l. Act Fast! The Grey Frequency track is from the compilation CD album "Undulating Waters 8" on the Woodford Halse label. 2024 has been a quiet time for Grey Frequency, March 2024 saw the release of the cassette (cassingle) "Panopticon" and that's been about it ... hopefully 2025 will see a nice surge for Grey Frequencies. (* the Leif Elgrren track is purposely played at the wrong speed).

I played Psychic TV "Unclean" as requested by a listener ... released 40 years ago!

Perhaps my favourite release this year (2024) is/was "TG Berlin" the 4 x CD , 10", DVD and book. I managed to get a copy of the preview 7" on Electronic Sound in November, and the box set was a great end to the year. A throbbing gristle Christmas. "Wotwududo" is the 7" single and "Scabs & Saws" is from the 10" (mixed in with the "Trumpet Herald" track from the live in Berlin set ... 

The programme has been archived in 2 parts for easier aural digestion with Part 2 starting with Susana López:

Part I: https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-29-december-2025-part-one/

Part II: https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-29-december-2024-part-two/

Playlist:

01: Stuntcock : "And If Xmas Couldn't Get Any Worse ... You Had To Turn Up" (Aural Atrocities) 2009.

02: Severed Heads : "Hello Donald, Merry Xmas" (Vinyl On Demand) 2008.

03: Astral Social Club : "Vision Pink Mix" (Not On Label-Self Released) 2024.

04: Shadow Pattern & Duncan Harrison : "Cultural Customer" (Disques Bosh) 2024.

05: Matar : "Homme Verde" (Sleepers) 2024.

06: Pick-Up : "Departure" (Ultramarine) 2013.

07: Nocturnal Emissions : "Agathicus" (No Holiday) 2024.

08: Throbbing Gristle : "Wotwududo (Single Version)" (Electronic Sound) 2024.

09: The Royal Family & The Poor : "Sex Goddess" (Factory Records) 1986.

10: The Royal Family & The Poor : "White Stains" (Factory Records) 1986.

11: White Stains : "Sweet Jayne" (Zoharum) 2023.

12: The Leather Nun : "Slow Death" (Industrial Records) 1979.

13: Christine K : "Lost Time" (Ek Verlag) 2024.

14: Susana López : "Untitled (Live)" (Licht-Ung) 2024.

15: Matt Shoemaker : "Eclipse" (Masters Chemical Society) 2013.

16: Steve Roden : "Forms Of Paper" (LINE) 2011.

17: Post Scriptvm : "Frazil" (Tesco Organisation) 2024.

18: Extra : "Decide/Accept" (Grisaille) 2024.

19: Nocturnal Emissions : "Wailer" (No Holiday) 2024.

20: Leif Elggren : "No Queen" (iDEAL Recordings) 2024.

21: Psychic TV : "Unclean" (Temple Records) 1984.

22: Joke Lanz : "My Mum, Elvis, And ME" (iDEAL Recordings) 2024.

23: Joachim Nordwall : "Joachim Nordwall Plays K-E-L" (iDEAL Recordings) 2024.

24: Grey Frequency : "Ghost Rockets" (Woodford Halse) 2024.

25: Throbbing Gristle : "Scabs & Saws" (Mute Records) 2024.

The next MuhMur Radio Broadcast is February 2 2025. Keep a note in your diary ... 

See you on the other side .. 

Thank you for all your ears throughout 2024, all your thoughts, comments and requests. 

Steve. 

MuhMur Radio Festive Four Hour Feast Of Fun (Traditional).

 

The annual MuhMur Radio Four Hour Festive Feast Of Fun will begin at 18:00 GMT tomorrow, Sunday 29 December. It will be a live broadcast with songs and tunes old and new ... please join us on SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM (on your radio if you are living in arielshot of Dartington Hall) or listen to the broadcast live stream at : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk. 

Regular live broadcasts will restart on February 2 at 18:00 GMT ... and back with an Elevator Bath Records special!! 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 8 December 2024.

 

It happens once every few years, broadcasting live on my birthday ... 2024 is one of those years .... 

Last summer I was asked for my top 5 7" B-Sides from the years spanning 1978 to 1983. It was for some Internet / social media thang I was not part of )... it's strange the fun I can miss out on by not being part of the Facebook, twitter, Instagram etc .. ah well). This all got me thinking though, I could build a radio programme around singles from 1978 - 1983 that include my top 5 and more ... and there could be no better day to broadcast it on than my birthday. 

Playlist :

01: The Instant Automatons : "People Laugh At Me ('Cos I Like Weird Music)" (Deleted Records) 1980.

02: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark : "Almost" (Factory Records) 1979.

03: Eyeless In Gaza : "Kodak Ghost Runs Amok" (Ambivalent Scale Recordings) 1980.

04: Eyeless In Gaza : "Invisibility" (Cherry Red Records) 1981.

05: The Pop Group : "She Is Beyond Good And Evil" (Radar) 1979.

06: The Units : "High Pressure Days" (Not On Label-Self Released) 1979.

07: New Order : "Everything's Gone Green" (Factory Benelux) 1981.

08: Fad Gadget : "The Box" (Mute Records) 1979.

09: Gang of Four : "Love Like Anthrax" (Fast Product) 1978.

10: Throbbing Gristle : Five Knuckle Shuffle" (Sordide Sentimental) 1979.

11: Cabaret Voltaire : "Raising The Count" (Rough Tapes/NME) 1981.

12: Portion Control : "He Is A Barbarian" (In Phaze Records) 1982.

13: Bron Area : "The Unfortunate Reply/System" (Ambivalent Scale Recordings) 1981.

14: Plain Characters : "I Am A" (Rouge) 1977.

15: Dif Juz : "Mi" (4AD Records) 1981.

16: Dif Juz : "Cs" (4AD Records) 1981.

17: Au Pairs : "It's Obvious" (Human Records/021 Records) 1980.

18: Pere Ubu : "My Dark Ages" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

19: Robert Rental : "On Location" (Mute Records) 1980.

20: Section 25 : "Oyo Achel Ada" (Factory Benelux) 1981.

21: My Captains : "History" (4AD Records) 1981.

22: Murder The Disturbed : "Ultimate System" (Small Wonder Records) 1979.

23: Cabaret Voltaire : "Gut Level" (Les Disques Du Crépuscule) 1983.

24: The Normal : "Warm Leatherette" (Mute Records) 1978.

25: Monte Cazazza : "Stairway To Hell" (Sordide Sentimental) 1982.

26: Die Neue Prächtigkeit : "Du" (Rondo) 1980.

27: Essential Logic : "World Friction" (Cells Records) 1978.

28: Five Or Six : "The Trial" (Cherry Red Records) 1981.

29: The Visitors : "Electric Heat" (Deep Cuts Records) 1979.

30: Scars : "The Psychomodo" (PRE Records) 1980.

31: Scars : "Horrorshow" (Fast Product) 1979.

32: The Human League : "Circus Of Death" (Fast Product) 1978.

33: They Must Be Russians : "Circus" (Not On Label-Self Released) 1979.

34: Clock DVA : "Black Angel's Death Song" (Polydor Records) 1983.

35: A Certain Ratio : "Flight" (Factory Records) 1980.

36: Crispy Ambulance : "Not What I Expected" (Factory Records) 1980.

37: 400 Blows : "Beat The Devil" (Concrete Productions) 1982.

38: Cabaret Voltaire : "Yashar" (Factory Records) 1983.

39: Buzzcocks : "Moving Away From The Pulsebeat" (United Artists Records) 1978.

40: Joy Division : "These Days" (Factory Records) 1980.

41: Shy Tots : "English Industrial Estate" (Not On Label-Self Released) 1982.

42: In Camera : "Apocalypse" (4AD Records) 1982.

43: Public Image Limited : "Another" (Virgin Records) 1979.

44: The Vincent Units : "Carnival Song" (Y Records) 1981.

45: The Slits : "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" (Island Records) 1979.

46: A Certain Ratio : "Thin Boys" (Factory Records) 1979.

47: Artery : "Life And Death" (Aardvark) 1981.

48: Artery : "Cars In Motion" (Aardvark) 1981.

49: Mass : "Cabbage" (4AD Records) 1980.

50: Sort Sol : "Marble Station" (4AD Records) 1981.

51: The Cure : "Charlotte Sometimes" (Fiction Records) 1981.

52: Alternative TV : "Lost In Room" (Deptford Fun City Records) 1979.

53: The Transmitters : "0.5 Alive" (Ebony) 1978.

54: S.P.K. : "Germanik" (Side Effekts Records) 1979.

The archive has been split into two 2 hour programmes for easy aural digestion. Part Two begins with the second part of the Essential Logic track "World Friction"

Part One :

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-8-december-2024/

Part Two :

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-8-december-2024-part-two/

As ever thanks to Chris and Tamsin who aided and abetted and supplied the beers and cake. Next broadcast will be on January 5th 2025 ... see you on the other side.

*I know I say the records are all from 1978 to 1983 but I honestly thought the Plain Characters "I Am A" was released in 1978. My mistake .. sorry ... and the Cabs "Raising The Count" was never a 7" single but appeared on the "C81" compilation cassette. Great track though!

MuhMur Radio Broadcast #275.

 

To confirm MuhMur Radio Broadcast #275 will be LIVE later on SoundArt Radio. We will be battling against Storm Darragh to bring you 4 hours of classic 45s from 1978 - 1983. A step against the norm' but ..... it is my birthday!

Listen LIVE on SoundArt Radio 102.5FM if you are in the Dartington / Totnes / Berry Pomeroy area of the South Hams or listen anywhere in the world (probably not North Korea) via the live stream on https://www.soundartradio.org.uk

The broadcast will be archived in the coming days on Mixcloud. The link will be posted here. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 10 November 2024

 

This broadcast centres on the sound of Stuart Chalmers. (I think) I first became aware of the activities of Stuart back in 2012 when I received a package of albums (CDR) from the Bristol based LF Records. Stuart's "Daydream Empire" was in the package. Stuart does not have a high internet presence, there is a bandcamp page and a YouTube page .... but other than that ... 

'Exploring the connections between the environment, the imagination and a sense of self ... Embodied sound, altered perceptions and alternative views of reality'. 

This is how Stuart describes his sound. the track 'Loop Fantasy No.4 (#2)' is from the 2017 album 'Loop Fantasy No.4' on Chocolate Monk. Loop Fantasy numbers 1, 2 and 3 do exist! 'Theatre Of The Absurd' is from the "Daydream Empire" album. 

Stuarts latest album is "Nomad Tree". The tracks 'On Sorcerous Wings Take Flight' and 'Seeking Through Deepest Fears' are from this album. Stuart is also a prolific collaborator, in the past working with Robert Ridley-Shackleton, Neil Campbell, Edward Sol, Anla Courtis, Claus Poulson and Territorial Gobbing to name but a few. His collaboration with Howard Stelzer "The Extenuating Circumstance And All That It Implies" was released on Invisible City Records in 2022. In 2018 Stuart collaborated with Oxford based sound artist Lee Riley on the cassette album "Points Of Vital Differences". Last month Lee and Stuart went into Safehouse Studios in Oxford to start another collaborative project. Stuart kindly mailed MuhMur Radio an excerpt (improvisation) from one of the studio sessions. For more information about Stuart's activities please go to : https://stuartchalmers.bandcamp.com and go to the you tube page : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4JxrJI3VQcJnYB38Tp525A. 

Cabaret Voltaire tracks are from the B Side of 'Sluggin' Fer Jesus' 12". B Sides will feature somewhat in the next broadcast. A project I have been keeping an ear on in 2024 is Organ Of Corti. The Swedish supergroup comprising of Joachim Nordwall, Dan Johansson and Matthias Gustafsson. "Rex" and "Extremum" are from their latest 7". 

One thing I didn't know (one thing amongst many) until it was pointed out to me during the last broadcast by Andrew Fletcher is that the Steep Gloss label only releases collaborations. So, I visited their bandcamp page and found the recent release by Courtis/Reche/Cornucopia. "El Humo Líquido" was recorded in San Juan De Puerto Rico and Buenos Aires in 2008. Steep Gloss is operated by Ross Scott-Buccleuch and can be found at : https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com/.

Grey Park's latest is called "Street Of Life". It is a download only (name your price) on the wonderfully named 'Why Keith Dropped The S' label. Grey Park know that I don't play downloads so kindly mailed a one-off CDR of the track (before you ask). Thank Heikke.

                                                                    Grey Park.

2024 seems to be a busy year for Scottish sound artist Fletina. With two albums out in quick succession. "Serif" is on the Belgian 'Unfathomless' label and will feature on a future broadcast, in this programme I play the "Seen To Remain" album in full. It is on the Japanese Kirigirisu label. All Fletina sounds can be found at : https://fletina.bandcamp.com. 

                                                                       Fletina.

David Walraff is a new name to me, brought to my attention through his release on Brachliegen Tapes. The cassette is called "NO", available here : https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com. 

'NO draws inspiration from Heinrich Heine's 1844 poem "The Sitesean Weavers". For Wallraf, the three-fold curse is an age old - and crucially - perpetual international struggle against God, masters and the concept of 'fatherland'. The artist states that the revolt that erupted in Iran after the murder of Masha Amini and the global solidarity with the Jin Jiyan Azadi protests incited the political/creative motivation for NO'.

Brachliegen Tapes are donating all profits generated from NO to SDS: Solitary Detainee Support, a grassroots abortionist visiting group working to break the isolation of UK immigration detention. 

I hope to hear more of David's work in the coming months, whilst writing this blog I have bought his latest cassette .. a split with Gerald Fiebig on the (always dependable) Grubenwehr Freiburg label. 

David can be contacted here : https://davidwallraf.com. 

The Pop Group track is from their debut 1979 LP "Y". The track had become a bit of an ear worm so I had to include it. The 23 Skidoo track is from their debut 12" for Fetish Records. Played as a request.

Apologies to Dronæment, I had to cut the track short as the CDR started to skip around. 

The broadcast has been archived in two parts for easier digestion. Part Two begins with Lee Riley "Armageddon Waltz". 

Part One : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-10-november-2024-part-i/

Part Two : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-10-november-2024-part-ii/

Playlist.

01: Stuart Chalmers : "Loop Fantasy No.4 (#2)" (Chocolate Monk) 2017.

02: Stuart Chalmers : Theatre Of The Absurd" (LF Records) 2012.

03: Cabaret Voltaire : "Your Agent Man" (Le Disques Du Crépuscule) 1981.

04: Cabaret Voltaire : "Sluggin' Fer Jesus (Part 2)" (Le Disques Du Crépuscule) 1981.

05: Organ Of Corti : "Rex" (iDeal Recordings) 2024.

06: Courtis/Reche/Cornucopia : "El Humo Líquido" (Steep Gloss) 2024.

07: Grey Park : "Street Of Life" (Why Keith Dropped The S) 2024.

08: Howard Stelzer & Stuart Chalmers : "The Extenuating Circumstance And All That It Implies" (Invisible City Records) 2022.

09: Organ Of Corti : "Extremum" (iDeal Recordings) 2024.

10: Fletina : "Seen To Remain" (Kirigirisu Recordings) 2024.

11: Lee Riley : "Armageddon Waltz" (Not On Label-Self Released) 2021.

12: LR/SC : "Points Of Vital Differences 2" (Cruel Nature Records) 2018.

13: LR/SC : "Points Of Vital Differences 3" (Cruel Nature Records) 2018.

14: Stuart Chalmers + Lee Riley : "@ Safehouse Studios. Oxford" (Not On Label) 2024.

                                   (Exclusive recording for MuhMur Radio).

15: Stuart Chalmers : "On Sorcerous Wings Take Flight" (Reverb Worship) 2024.

16: Stuart Chalmers : "Seeking Through Deepest Fears" (Reverb Worship) 2024.

17: Matt Atkins & Stuart Chalmers : "Doric Order" (More Mars Team) 2024.

18: David Wallraf : "NO" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2024.

19: The Pop Group : "Words Disobey Me" (Radar Records) 1979.

20: 23 Skidoo : "The Gospel Comes To New Guinea" (Fetish Records) 1981.

21: Dronæment : "Ezoterick Muziek II" (Afe Records) 2006.

Next broadcast is on Sunday December 8. This will be live and on my 62nd birthday so I am going to be playing a lot of sounds from 1978 - 1983 including my top 5 B-Sides from those years ... 

18:00 hours (GMT) kick-off. 102.5FM on your wireless https://www.soundartradio.org.uk for the live stream.

                                                          The MuhMur Radio Posse.

*** The picture at the top of the blog is NOT Stuart Chalmers!***

 

 

Clock DVA

 

CLOCK DVA LIVE in Newcastle tonight ... 

Essential!

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 13 October 2024.

 

The first hour of the broadcast is dedicated to Lenka Lente, the Nantes based label operated by Guillaume Belhomme. Guillaume started the label with the cassette release 'Olka Linto' by his project Fra Lopes. In 2013 Lenka Lente released the Michael Esposito 3"CD 'In The Silence Of A Watery Grave', it was inside a small A6 book 'L'Envelope' by Guillaume. This release became the format for all future Lenka Lente releases. Over the past eleven years they have released 3" CDs with accompanying literature by the likes of (musicians) Daniel Menche, My Cat Is An Alien, Andrew Liles, Bill Nace and a lot featuring Nurse With Wound. All the books are printed in French. Their latest release is "The Bloy Enigma' by Nurse With Wound accompanied by the book 'Revenantes' by Léon Bloy. Last year they released a limited edition compilation cassette to celebrate ten years of the Lenka Lente book/3"CD output.

The cassette was limited to 100 copies. I play side A of the cassette. Guillaume can be contacted at : https://www.lenkalente.com/. They also release a lot of jazz editions too ... if that's your thang. The Michael Idehall track is from the album version of 'Apokryphos'. I played 2 tracks from the 7" version on the last broadcast. http://www.ant-zen.com/ for more details.

With releases on such labels as Brachliegen Tapes, Industrial Coast, Profound Mystery and Helen Scarsdale Agency, Jo Montgomerie has a sound to keep an ear out for. Her latest (self) release is 'y c t y f t t' a C60 cassette of sounds produced at her last few live performances in Manchester, Middlesborough and London. The tape is limited and there's no download. https://jomontgomerie.bandcamp.com for more details. 

At the same time as compiling this programme I was playing 7" & 12" singles released between 1978 - 1983 as I have been asked for my 'top 5'. It's some social media / internet thing that a friend has asked me to do. It's fun. There's a few in this broadcast. Psychic TV 'Breakthrough' is one of them. I shall play my top 5 in December's MuhMur Radio Broadcast ... 

Last year the Belfast based label Tone Burst released the cassette 'Hatchet For Kindling', a mail collaboration between Paul Harrison (Paradox Encounter Group, Expose Your Eyes, Chapman, Smell & Quim) and Andrew Fletcher (Soloman Tump, Intrusive Signals). The cassette is long sold out but download copies are still available via https://toneburst.bandcamp.com. I was fortunate to have Andrew as a guest during the broadcast and Soloman Tump will be presenting a live set for MuhMur Radio in the new year ... 

                                                                   Soloman Tump.

Prelest is the project of Polish sound artist Mikolaj Źentara. "Tenets Of Degradation" is from the mini-CD 'Teodal', part of  a series of mini-CDs that Freak Animal Records released last year. Mozzhead, Contortus and Amek Maj also being part of the series. http://freak-animal.net for more information.

The second half of the broadcast starts with Christian Mirande and the titular track from his 2020 cassette 'Exercise' on the mighty Hanson Records label, followed by 'Mudbast Boys' by Soviet France from the 12"EP "Ritual" ... also known as the Hessian 12". (It's packaged in a hessian sack).

Released in 1982 on Red Rhino Records ..... This is NOT a B-Side! It all gets a bit Bill Burroughs next with 23 Skidoo's 'Last Words'. This is the B-Side of the 'The Gospel Comes To New Guinea' 12". Recorded in 1981 at the Western Works studio in Sheffield and jointly produced by Cabaret Voltaire. I know you probably know but the lyrics from this song come from the Burroughs novel "Nova Express". 

The Phantom Plastics 'Get In!' 

"The gun fell down on the floor from the table where it was placed and accidentally went off.

 The couple agreed to do a 'William Tell' by placing a glass on Joan's head while William fired the pistol.

 An evil spirit occupied William's body and soul and directed him to fire the lethal bullet".

'Get In!' is compiled of EVP recordings made at Calle Montgomery, Mexico City in 2011. For this project 

The Phantom Plastics were CM Von Hauswolff and Michael Esposito. Rapoon's 'Out' is from the compilation CD "Cut Up. Deconstructing W.S. Burroughs" on the Italian Unexplained Sounds Group label. 

'Hammer House' was the first release by CTI - Conspiracy International, a side project from Chris & Cosey. The name first appeared on the 1982 Chris & Cosey album "Trance" (I have still got to get myself a copy of this) but I think it was as a production unit. in 1984 CTI released 2 12" singles and 2 albums, all (in my opinion) classics. 'Hammer House' features vocals from Glenn Michael Wallis of Konstruktivists. The cover photograph is of Dennis Neilson's house in Muswell Hill. 

The Dead Mauriacs piece is from the split cassette release with Jan Warnke. I played Jan's side on last month's broadcast. https://geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com for more details. I know next to nothing about Are Mundal. From Norway and active since the 1990s is about as much as I know. Stefan at Drone Records kindly mailed me the double CD "Compilation Volume 1" released last year by Telestrion Records. 'Interloper II' was originally released in 2020. 

https://aremundal.blogspot.com for more information. Drone Records (Germany) are distributing this release. In the past few weeks Japanese sound artist Takahiro Mukai has released two cassettes on labels based (down here) in the South-West of England. "Asian Dust" appeared on the Bristol based Cardboard Club label and a couple of weeks ago Human Geography Recordings from Burnham-On-Sea released "Uneven". The two pieces here are from the "Uneven" cassette. In 1976 I was in Burnham-On-Sea and I saw my first live band ... Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders. I was in a pub I can't remember the name of and my older sister had to buy my drinks as I was under-18. (Useless Information as Chris & Cosey would say). 

Trembling with Joy is a new project from Michael Anderson (Drekka), Mark Trecka and Michael Carlson (remst8) and Cinder Sharp (Cindytalk). The piece here is from their debut CD album "Born Trembling". https://www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/born-trembling/ to grab a copy. The broadcast ends with a classic from 1980 by Cupol. Cupol was Bruce Gilbert & Graham Lewis of Wire & Dome fame...and yes ... it is a B-Side.    

The programme has been archived on MixCloud and is available here :

Part One : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-13-october-2024-part-one/

Part Two : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-13-october-2024-part-two/

Playlist :

01: Nurse With Wound : "The Bloy Enigma" (Lenka Lente) 2024.

02: Nurse With Wound : "On The Edge Of The Outside" (Lenka Lente) 2023.

03: Daniel Menche : "D'Entre Les Morts" (Lenka Lente) 2023.

04: Nurse With Wound : "Mandragore" (Lenka Lente) 2023.

05: Michael Idehall : "Three Paths Across The Back Of The Horse" (Ant-Zen) 2024.

06: Jo Montgomerie : "y c t y f t t " (Not On Label) 2024.

07: Psychic TV : "Breakthrough" (Some Bizzare) 1982.

08: Paradox Encounter Group & Soloman Tump : "Lime Green Felt Wand" (Tone Burst) 2023.

09: Prelest : "Tenets Of Degradation" (Freak Animal Records) 2023.

10: Throbbing Gristle : "Zyklon B. Zombie" (Industrial Records) 1978.

11: Christian Mirande : "Exercise" (Hanson Records) 2020.

12: Soviet France : "Mudbast Boys" (Red Rhino Records) 1982.

13: 23 Skidoo : "Last Words" (Fetish Records) 1981.

14: The Phantom Plastics : "Get In!" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2014.

15: Rapoon : "Out" (Unexplained Sounds Group) 2024.

16: Conspiracy International (CTI) : "Hammer House" (Conspiracy International) 1984.

17 The Dead Mauriacs : "Hypnose De Samedi" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.

18: Are Mundal : "Interloper II" (Telestrion Records) 2023.

19: Takahiro Mukai : "#583" (Human Geography Recordings) 2024.

20: Takahiro Mukai : "#581" (Human Geography Recordings) 2024.

21: Trembling With Joy : "Where We Are Is Here" (False Walls) 2024.

22: Cupol : "Kluba Cupol" (4AD Records) 1980.

I hope you enjoy the programme ... the next MuhMur Radio is on November 10. The mighty Ubiquitous Meh! play SoundArt Radio Studios on October 27, if you're in the area please pop in .. also playing are The Goblin Band and some SoundArt Radio DJs. (not me though ... you can't dance to Bill Burroughs, you just writhe round on the floor a bit ... to paraphrase The Instant Automatons).

 

Thanks forever to Chris without whom this programme would never happen, and Andrew Fletcher.

                                                                       Chris.