MuhMur Radio broadcast #283, a mix bag and dolly mixture of sounds old and new .. and the last broadcast until August 31. Over the past few weeks I have been playing a lot of Maeror Tri and the subsequent projects that came from their demise. Maeror Tri were Stefan Knappe, Martin Gitschel and Helge Siehl. They were active from 1988 to 1996. I remember first hearing Maeror Tri when I got a copy of their 1995 album "Myein" on Dan Plunkett's ND label and I was hooked. Helge Began the project 1000 Schoen (sometimes Tausendschoen and sometimes 1000schoen) in 1998. "Forest At Night (Part One)" is from the 2012 double CD reissue of the 2008 album "Amish Glamour". 'Forests At Night' was recorded in 2012 especially for this reissue. Available from : https://nitkierecords.bandcamp.com. In October 2013 I played live with 1000 Schoen at Gängerviertel in Hamburg. Stefan and Martin formed Troum in 1997. I was (again) fortunate to play live with Troum in 1998 at the OJC Kompas in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. They were headlining an all day festival organised by Eriek & Sven of EE Tapes. Their live set coincided with the release of their first Album "Ryna" on Myotis Records. "Orphane" is from third release from the trilogy 'Tjukurrpa' subtitled 'Part Three : Rhythms And Pulsations'. Troum releases past and present can be found at : https://www.dronerecords.de. (Stefan runs the Drone label). I play Soviet France in memory of that evening Stefan and I first met on a rainy night in Belgium, we drank and chatted and then drank some more and declared our infatuation and love for all things Soviet France.
The Soviet France piece is from the 1993 album "What Is Not True". Recorded live at The Old Vic in Nottingham's Lace Market on 30 March 1993. A gig organised by John Everall and Teresa Mills of Tactle / Sentrax Corporation. The support on the evening was Lull. The night before Soviet France played at The Leadmill in Sheffield, a track from that performance is also on the album. I think Fabricata Illuminata supported but I could be mixing that with another gig ... (It happens). Vinyl On Demand reissued this album on vinyl in 2020.
Organ Of Corti seems to be releasing sounds that I want to listen to at the moment. Experimental industrial looping, raw sounding electronics with dronescapes. Intriguing stuff ... Organ Of Corti are Joachim Nordwall from iDEAL Recordings, Mattias Gustafsson from Altar Of Flies and Dan Johansson from White, Sewer Election, Neutral and more ... "Locus" was released on the Dutch Dead Mind Records earlier this year ... they've just released a new LP called "Insania" on the Philatélie label. Later in the year Organ Of Corti will be playing live with Kapotte Muziek and Alice Kemp in Europe. Details will follow, it sounds like an essential evening. https://deadmindrecords.limitedrun.com for more information.
The Mark Vernon track is from the cassette "Unforced Errors" on Vice de Forme. Copies are available from : https://vicedeforme.bandcamp.com. Limited to 70 copies only. Kazuya Ishigami is no stranger to MuhMur Radio. "Frozen Memories" is his latest release on his Neus-318 label. "Frozen Memories" is a C20 cassette limited to 23 copies and available at http://www.neus318.com.
I first came across the sound / work of Kazuya when he was releasing under the moniker of Daruin back in 1998 and have tried to keep up with his releases since, if you ever see one of his releases my advice is to grab it! Rather like Fabricacta Illuminata could have been the support to Soviet France all those years ago at Sheffield Leadmill. O Yuki Conjugate could have spawned from two post-punk groups from the Nottingham, Southwell, Newark triangle in the late 1970's. In 1980 I played live at the Newark Palace theatre, a day event called "Waking Up Newark Festival". Also on the bill were D+7 (a Young Marble Giants type affair that did a cracking version of They Must Be Russian's "Circus"), The Void (From Lincoln), Subway Razor and Passive Resistance. John Bingham of D+7 and co-creator of the fanzine Cautious Talk Seduces Young Children alongside Tim Bop organised the fest'. I was invited back (at this time I was in the duo ESP Disk-rd .. we were a three piece but The Void knicked our synth player) to record a couple of tracks for a compilation cassette that was to be included in the final edition of the Cautious Talk 'zine. We used to call the 'zine "Catsyk" for short .. It was, again, to be recorded live at the Palace Theatre in Newark. Also on the day of recording was D+7 and Passive Resistance. The cassette was never released. 1981 and John Bingham organised the "Waking Up Nottingham Festival" at the Krazy Kat Club in Nottingham's Lace Market. The Krazy Kat later became The Ad Lib Club and The Garage. I think it's a car park now! Unfortunately I couldn't play this event as the other half of ESP Disk-rd was on holiday so I got Vox Populi to join in as our replacement with D+7, The Void and a spin of from Passive Resistance called Music From The Death Factory. Memory is vague of this night as I got so drunk I missed the lift back to Lincoln in The Void's transit and spent the night outside amongst the bins of the nightclub. In 1982 I played Newark Palace Theatre again (this time as drummer for Total Strangers) and Music From The Death Factory (could have been Tiab Guls ... same folk) were on the bill .. headline was Attrition. So, fast forward a few months and I am stood outside Whispers nightclub in Nottingham waiting for the doors to open to see Clock DVA on their 'Advantage' tour (no support) and bump into members of Subway Razor, Music From The Death Factory, Passive Resistance etc, we chatted about what we were doing and I am certain they mentioned the projects Metamorphosis and O Yuki Conjugate. ( I always thought O Yuki Conjugate as a great name ... rolls of the tongue superbly). A few weeks back O Yuki Conjugate released the album "1983 Unearthed" on the resurrected Final Image label.
"Transcontinental Levitation" and "Hour By Hour" are from this album recorded in Leeds and Babbington (Nottingham). https://www.oyukiconjugate.com. For more information. The Thomas Park track is from the compilation album "Friends For Deborah Fialkiewicz" on the Norwegian Petroglyph Music label.
The compilation serves to express our respect and support for British electronic musician Deborah Fialkiewicz, who as a trans-gender person is experiencing severe problems after a new law has been established that defines the sex of a person may only be defined by the sex at birth. So, in general this album stands for the LGBTQIA+ community, for diversity and the freedom to live life as the individual you are.
Alongside Thomas other artists include Phillipe Neau, M.NOMIZED, Brainquake and Sky_Architect. It's a pay what you can d/load at : https://petroglyphmusic.bandcamp.com. Last broadcast (#282) I played two new pieces from Nottingham based project Grey Frequency. I played the extended version of "Spirit Box", so this time I play the special edited version. Omei is the ambient, experimental side-project of Chris Goudreau of Sickness. "For Mother" is from the 2003 album "... A Sickened Single Cell". The CD is long out of print but copies are floating about on Discogs reasonably priced. All Omei is essential.
Last broadcast I played a few select tunes from the 'Idwal Fisher' compilation CDRs that Mark Wharton of 'Idwal Fisher' and 'Just Glittering' fame used to mail me back at the turn of the century to celebrate the publication of "IF/JG" compendium published by Korm Plastics. https://www.kormplastics.nl/just-glittering-idwal-fisher/. Mark and I also swapped compilation cassettes back in the 1990s (I think the youth call them 'Mixtapes' these days) and I found one lurking at the back of a pile of old tapes, so gave it a spin. Lots of Japanese 'free-rock', space rock and C.M. Von Hausswolff and a mystery piece I could not place .. so I play it in the hope that someone, some listener, would recognise it and write and tell me ... only Chris (engineer/producer) has a Shazam App on his 'phone and stuck it to the speaker shouting out Illusion Of Safety ... In 100 Countries ... it's from the Bad Kharma album ... 1998. Well, that took the fun out of it.
I don't get out much these days (part one). A couple of weekends ago I went to a cinema for the first time in years to see the Genesis P-Orridge documentary "S/he Is Still Her/e".
It was showing at the Phoenix Arts Centre in Exeter. Studio 74 is the 200 seated cinema inside the centre, I have been to the Phoenix a few times and never knew the cinema existed. It's a great documentary, I kind of lost interest in all things Psychic TV around 1987. I saw them live for the umpteenth time at the Mardi Gras in Nottingham and thought .. never again. The Throbbing Gristle reunion in 2004 brought my interest back, and I started to go and see TG live wherever I could. Then Genesis started performing with Aaron Dilloway and I got to meet the man at his performance with Aaron at Selfridges in London. A bizarre event that I will forever thank Aaron for. But, none of this period is mentioned in the film. Lots of footage and music from COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and (early) Psychic TV make it a fascinating watch. Just unfortunate only 8 people made it to the showing ... I got to bump into local legend (DJ) Dave Myers, hadn't seen him in years. I wanted to play some TG so dug out "Rabbit Snare" from the "Part Two : Endless Not" CD.
I don't get out much these days (part two). Saturday July 21 Nocturnal Emissions played live at The Underground in Plymouth. A full circle of Emissions sounds with Nigel (Ayers) playing sounds recorded at Sainsbury's carwash in Penzance, a dub set that included a version of the 'Uprising' 12" and then after a word with a member of the audience a full on noise attack .. Prepared for the VOD Festival!
The track "Ant Thumbs" is from last years reissue of the 1991 album "Cathedral". All things Emissions can be found here : https://nocturnalemissions.bandcamp.com. Again, it was good to see Chris there, and Andrew (aka Soloman Tump) going to his first gig in Plymouth. There was a last called Jenny who claimed to be Whitehouse's agent ... if anyone knows who this is (?). I have no future events planned or on the horizon.
1990s German power electronics represented by Operation Cleansweep, Psychologische Abwehrfront and Söldnergeist. It's a possible feature for upcoming broadcasts.
In 2012 I met Kev Sanders at the Rammel Festival in Nottingham. The wonderful three day bender that Dieter Müh, Sleaford Mods, The New Blockaders, John Wiese, Storm Bugs, Cheapmachines, Patrik Fitzgerald and Con-Dom played at .. amongst others and Idwal Fisher was the DJ! Kevin was up for the event (not to play) with Duncan Harrison (then still part of Plurals). Kev told me about his project, Petals and label Hairdryer Excommunication. For the next three years or so Kev would mail tapes and CDRs from his label and Petals releases on labels like Strange Rules, Sheepscar Light Industrial and Beartown Records as well as releases under his own moniker. He even, kindly, recorded a Petals/Kev Sanders MuhMur Radio Session back in 2014 (July 2014 if you want to check the MixCloud Archive). Petals seem to disappear around 2014/15 although I recently discovered he was part of the project The Sons Of David Ginola .. but I think they have also ceased to exist. Reorganising and recataloguing my collection I took time out to play some Petals tapes and they still sound as good as ever 10, 11, 12 years after release. "Preconcerted" was a C30 cassette packaged inside an old library book of geographical slides called "Extraction, Conservation And Pollution". It's not listed on the Hairdryer Excommunication bandcamp or Discogs listings. If anyone knows what Kev is up to these days please get in touch.
There are two tracks from "Solaris : Music Inspired By Andrei Tarkowsky's Movie" the latest compilation on the Italian label Eighth Tower Records. 400 Lonely Things, and ending the broadcast Psychophysicist (the side project of Adi Newton). I know I have seen the film, sometime in the 1980s at an arthouse cinema in Manchester. Maybe The Aaben, maybe The Cornerhouse. I can't say it made much of an impression.
The last section begins with On This Day. There were a few records I could have played. A track from The B52s first album (1979) or Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way" single (1982). There's Devo's "Be Stiff" single (1978) and the first release by Leyton Buzzards, the "19 & Mad" single also from 1978 ... and on July 5th 1981 Throbbing Gristle announced that the Mission Is Terminated. But time won me out as I wanted to play a track from the new B. Movie release. On This Day in 1979 Adam & The Ants released their debut single for Do It Records. "Zerox". It was either a great marketing ploy or a mix-up at the pressing plant but a few of the records had a mispress and included "Physical" on the B-Side instead of "Whip In My Valise". I was one of those people who bought a copy of both, asking whoever (Bev, Nick, Tramp) was behind the counter at Sanctuary Records in Lincoln to play the B-Side just to check. "Physical" is a great song and also appeared on the Adam & The Ants compilation single of B-Sides "Antmusic EP" released in 1982 by Do It Records.
May 2025 saw the release of the 'real' debut album by B. Movie. Mansfield's finest. In 1980 Lincoln label Dead Good Records released a brace of B. Movie singles "The Soldier Stood Alone" and "Nowhere Girl". Both recorded at Studio Playground in Wragby, Lincolnshire. A great studio that was also used by Fatal Charm, Wavis O'Shave, Pseudo Existors, Collide, X-S Energy and The Cigarettes to name just a few ... The story goes that B. Movie signed to Some Bizzare / Phonogram to record their debut LP. Demo tracks were put down at Wragby before moving to studios in London and using Mike Thorne (Wire) as producer. They were now managed by Stevo and he brought in Soft Cell to record during B. Movie's downtime and passed recordings of both bands to the Phonogram mandarins only for them to refuse the B. Movie tracks and release Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" as a single. The rest, as they say, is history. The story is told brilliantly in Wesley Doyle's book "Conform To Derform - The Weird And Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare". B. Movie played Lincoln often, I remember seeing them play a venue / pub called The Cornhill Vaults a couple of times (it's now a Waterstones I think) and they played a blistering set at Futurama 3 in 1981. The Bingley Hall, Stafford one ... I play "Citizen Kane" because when I first heard it through my speakers memories flooded back .. same with the track "All Fall Down". I am certain that'll be in Augusts broadcast. It was only natural to follow "Citizen Kane" with the Shock Headed Peters track "Blue Rosebuds" from the 1985 compilation album "Devastate To Liberate". A song allegedly written by The Residents.
The programme has been archived on Mixcloud and split into 2 parts for easier aural digestion.
Part One :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-6-july-2025-part-one/
Part Two : (Begins with Illusion Of Safety) ...
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-6-july-202-part-two/
Playlist:
01: 1000 Schoen : Forest At Night (Part 1) (Niktie) 2012.
02: Organ Of Corti : Calvaria (Dead Mind Records) 2025.
03: Troum : Orphane (Transgredient Records) 2003.
04: Maeror Tri : Archaic Sensations (G.R.O.S.S.) 1993.
05: Soviet France : Not Just What To Say (Charrm) 1993.
06: Mark Vernon : A Crevice In Time (Vice De Forme) 2025.
07: Organ Of Corti : Cultus (Dead Mind Records) 2025.
08: Kazuya Ishigami : FM-CM2033 (Neus-318) 2025.
09: Kazuya Ishigami : FM-SOM (Neus-318) 2025.
10: O Yuki Conjugate : Transcontinental Levitation (Final Image) 2025.
11: Thomas Park : The Pursuit Of Love And Its Inevitable Victory (Petroglyph Music) 2025.
12: Grey Frequency : Spirit Box (Edit) (Not On Label) 2025.
13: Omei : For Mother (Beauty And Pain) 2003.
14: Illusion Of Safety : In 100 Countries (Soleilmoon Recordings) 1998.
15: Throbbing Gristle : Rabbit Snare (The Grey Area) 2007.
16: Kazuya Ishigami : FM-BD1221 (Neus-318) 2025.
17: Kazuya Ishigami : FM-A20230419 (Neus-318) 2025.
18: O Yuki Conjugate : Hour By Hour (Final Image) 2025.
19: Nocturnal Emissions : Ant Thumbs (No Holiday) 2024.
20: Organ Of Corti : Acris (Dead Mind Records) 2025.
21: Operation Cleansweep : YHWH's Law (Tesco Organisation) 2001.
22: Psychologische Abwehrfront : Verhaltenssteuerung Mittels Unterschwelliger Radiobotschaften (Darkness Productions) 1998.
23: Söldnergeist : You Want Him (Self Abuse Records) 1998.
24: Organ Of Corti : Fabula (Dead Mind Records) 2025.
25: Petals : Preconcerted (Side A) (Hairdryer Excommunication) 2012.
26: 400 Lonely Things : Satorius (Eighth Tower Records) 2025.
27: Adam & The Ants : Physical (Do It Records) 1979.
28: B. Movie : Citizen Kane (Wanderlust) 2025.
29: Shock Headed Peters : Blue Rosebuds (Yangki) 1985.
30: Psychophysicists : Torus Apparatus (Eighth Towers Records) 2025.
Thank you for listening, as mentioned MuhMur Radio returns on AUGUST 31 at the same time 18:00 GMT. I shall post a reminder nearer the date with a hint of what will be in the programme (definitely Fletina and Coagulant) Thanks again to Chris Booth for being there and keeping it all sane and to Tamsin, who went out for a walk and took some pictures of rabbits by the studio ... Rabbit Snare.
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