CLOCK DVA LIVE in Newcastle tonight ...
Essential!
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.
This broadcast marks the 12th anniversary of MuhMur Radio broadcasting on SoundArt Radio. This is broadcast #272. MuhMur began as a two hour live broadcast on alternate Thursday evenings, originally starting at 9pm, then starting earlier at 8pm a few years later. The pandemic bought with it restrictions and obstacles but after a handful of broadcasts compiled of downloads and repeats the Thursday programmes became pre-recorded ... recording on Saturday mornings - Saturday afternoons. Earlier this year SoundArt Radio studios switched location (the 5th since I have been broadcasting ... all on the Dartington Hall Estate) and it was decided that I present a monthly four hour live broadcast on a Sunday evening .. and that is where we are now. With live broadcasting there comes 'mistakes' and 'accidents'. This programme has a CD refusing to play from the off. Then the realisation that I hadn't brought all the records that I wanted to play ... small mistakes like that! ah well ... LIVE RADIO I suppose. This programme I wanted to play sounds from Geräuschmanufaktur, a label that has been operating as long as MuhMur Radio. This year they have put out some great releases by the likes of Voodoo Forest, The Dead Mauriacs, The Rights Of Sleepers and (label operative) Jan Warnke. It is one of my favourite labels. Geräuschmanufaktur is based in Osnabrück. https://thecalendar.bandcamp.com for details.
Jan Warnke.Geräuschmanufaktur roughly translates as "Noise Factory". Jan also releases under the pseudonym of J.Adolphe, a harsh wall noise (HNW) project as well as using the names The Voodoo Forest and Red Cliffs (with Thorsten Soltau). I can't remember if I discovered the label through listening to The Dead Mauriacs or vice versa ... whatever, I am glad the label exists and I hope you enjoy the choice of Geräuschmanufaktur 'tunes' I have made ...
Michael Barthel released the double cassette "Heme" in 2017 on Geräuschmanufaktur. I have played extracts from this release on MuhMur Radio over the years ... the two pieces here are from his latest album "Two Im Tier" released on his own Recordings For The Summer label. The album is sound poetry, sound art and abstractism. Both pieces feature the voice of Alice Kemp. More information can be got at : http://www.recordingsforthesummer.de. If you're in the UK Alice has copies here : https://alicekemp.bandcamp.com/merch/two-im-teer-by-michael-barthel-limited-edition-cd.
In February this year Geräuschmanufaktur released the CD "Matatifica" by Miguel A. Garcia / Garazi Gorostiaga and Tube Tentacles. (Miguel released a collaborative CD with Alfredo Costa Monteiro on Geräuschmanufaktur back in 2016 called "Ate Gena"). 'Zizarezulo' is from this album. This CD has the worst font known to man .... it's like I'm looking at a Nordic Death Metal CD from the 1990s. The Jan Warnke piece is from the recent split cassette with The Dead Mauriacs.
The Rights Of Sleepers is a Belgian based project from soundartist Robin C. "Lady In The Carpet" is the A-Side of a 7" lathe-cut EP entitled "Stairs make Eye Contact, A Door Sings Off-Key, The Vase Was Never There". Limited to only 30 copies the single is a follow on release from last year's "And What About The Right Of Sleepers?" cassette.
The Voodoo Forest will take you on a journey into a fantastic world full of reminiscences to the classical art and the great masters. A strange place of mythical legends, fairytales and sagas like the 10Bells or the deep Birnham Wood. It will tell you the tragic story of Macbeth and the priesthood of the voodoo cities. About the legend of the Steppenwolf, its prey and his hunters, until the Whalers of Rottenchapel will lead you to the terrifying Valley of the Myrmaids.
The Voodoo Forest piece is from the double cassette album 'The Voodoo Forest & The Birnham Woods'. I am not certain of the titles' of the piece ... it's side four, it may (or may not) be called "23".
The fiftieth release by Geräuschmanufaktur was the lathe-cut LP "Suspended Dawns, Blind Mirrors, Electrical Paradise". Released in 2018 as a limited edition of 16.
The Dead Mauriacs for this release were Olivier Prieur, Hélène Prieur and Jan Warnke. It also features the voice of MuhMur Radio. In the winter of 2021 Geräuschmanufaktur started the "Geräuschmanufaktur Advent Calendar" project. Through their bandcamp page they digitally released 24 pieces daily leading up to December 25. The tracks by Alfredo Costa Monteiro, The Dead mauriacs and Francisco Meirino are all from the calendar. Other artists included The Voodoo Forest, Emerge, Jan Warnke, Hans Castrup, Michael Esposito, Vomir, red Cliffs and Thorsten Soltau amongst others ... After the 25th it was available as a limited edition on CD-ROM.
I found myself spending a day listening to the sound of Andrea Borghi whilst compiling this broadcast. Thoroughly enjoyable. 'Vetrale #6' is from the CDR 'Vetrale'. Andrea is a former member of VipCranco, information on his output and work is here : https://andreaborghi.com. August's programme included two tracks from the new Frans de Waard/Sindre Bjerga/Fabio Orsi CD 'Counting Backwards From ∞' on Attenuation Circuit. It's a three track album so I decided to finish of the trilogy. Copies can be found at : http://www.attenuationcircuit.de. Unexplained Sounds Group is a label operated by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst). Their latest release is 'Cut Up. Deconstructing W.S. Burroughs'. It's a compilation LP featuring David Lee Myers, Rapoon, PBK, 400 Lonely Things, P.U.M.A. and Paolo Bandera amonst others. The Sigillum S, Dead Voices On Air and Adi Newton pieces are from this LP.
Unexplained Sounds Group has a subsiduary label called Eighth Tower Records that have relased some interesting 'conceptual' compilations, also the subsiduary label Reverse Allignment which released some classic albums by BºTong back in 2017. https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com for more information. I am always intersted to hear the releases of Takahiro Mukai. His latest relrease is on the Bristol based Cardboard Club label. Cardboard Club is operated by Robert Ridley-Shackleton, an interesting sound artist in his own right. https://cardboardclub.bandcamp.com.
Live radio ... one of the problems of live radio ... I forgot to bring certain records. Following Takahiro would have been side two of the Sewer Election album 'Kassettmusik' followed by two flexi-disc singles by Phantom Plastics released by Geräuschmanufaktur, but I forgot to pack them ... well, the two singles. I could not for the life of me find the Sewer Election album. I know it's somewhere in MuhMur Radio HQ, I only played it about 10 days ago, but where it has gone ... I am slowly (re)cataloguing the contents of MuhMur Radio HQ so I know it will turn up and when it does you shall know because I'm going to play it! Same as the Andrew Chalk "Vega" CD. Mysterious .. For reasons known only to myself I am also blogging the collection here : https://muhmurradiohq.blogspot.com. Luckily the new LP by Ochu arrived last week so I get to play both sides of this album. The album is called 'Dry Routine' and it's on the White Centipede Noise label. WCN are a label I am keeping an eye / ear on now after this and their Jim Haynes release last July. Copies of the Ochu can be bought from the artist at : https://www.millstonevinyl.se.
Another thing that came up whilst planning this broadcast was a message from my friend Tim in Australia. Tim is all over the internet / social media etc and he told me about Frank at Vinyl On Demand putting the question out on his Facebook page asking for people's top 5 B-Sides from 1978 - 1984. That got me thinking and immediately pulled out the Psychic TV 12" of "Just Drifting" with a great version of "OV Power" on the B-Side. For the October programme I shall endeavour to play my top 5 B-Sides list from those years ... and undoubtedly a few more as well.
I remember finding this in a second hand record shop in Paris, it has become one of my most treasured records. I think the shop was called "Born Bad". It was near "Bimbo Tower". (Saint Antoine)?
One of the most fascinating and prolific artists that has released on Geräuschmanufaktur is Thorsten Soltau. In 2014 he released the double cassette "Roman Feast & A Grape From Thor Heyerdahl's Table", credited to Thorsten Soltau x Comrades. (You may remember the Thorsten Soltau x Comrades 'MuhMur Radio Session' from September 2018). Here there are 2 pieces from the 'Roman Feast' cassette. I have checked the Geräuschmanufaktur bandcamp page and a download version is still available.
Out this month is the latest 7" single by sound occultist Michael Idehall. "Apokryphos" is a 4 track EP that comes inside a 52 page art book (collages / paintings / lyrics). It's on the German Ant-Zen label. There is also a download version that features 9 tracks ... recommended. http://www.ant-zen.com. The broadcast finishes on a piece by Robert Curgenven from the 2020 cassette "Ar Ais Aris" on Fort Evil Fruit. As it is live radio I put the wrong side of the cassette in the machine and played a completely different track to the one I had prepared ...
The MixCloud Archive for this broadcast is available here.
Part One : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-15-september-2024/
Part Two : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-15-september-2024-part-two/
Playlist:
01: Michael Barthel : "Two Im Tier #14" (Recordings For The Summer) 2024.
02: Miguel A. Garcia/Garazi Gorostiaga/Tube Tentacles : "Zizarezulo" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.
03: Michael Barthel : "Two Im Tier #2" (Recordings For The Summer) 2024.
04: Jan Warnke : "Untitled" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.
05: The Rights Of Sleepers : "Lady In The Carpet" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.
06: The Voodoo Forest : "23" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2024.
07: The Dead Mauriacs : "Blind Mirrors, Electrical Paradise" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2018.
08: Alfredo Costa Monteiro : "Vague Á Liȃme" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2021.
09: The Dead Mauriacs : "The Ghost Of man Ray Visiting His Own Exhibition" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2021.
10: Francisco Meirino : "Amplified Falling Snow, Oscillators, Tape Recorders And Various Electronic Interferences" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2021.
11: Andrea Borghi : "Vetrale #6" (Observatoire) 2013.
12: Frans De Waard/Sindre Bjerga/Fabio Orsi : "∞ Minus 3" (Attenuation Circuit) 2024.
13: Sigillum S. : "Radioactive Cockroaches In Tangiers" (Unexplained Sounds Group) 2024.
14: Dead Voices On Air : "I Wonder Whatever Happened To Otto's Boy Who Played The Violin" (Unexplained Sounds Group) 2024.
15: Takahiro Mukai : "#577" (Cardboard Club) 2024.
16: Takahiro Mukai : #578" (Cardboard Club) 2024.
17: Ochu : "Fatigue Torrent" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.
18: Ochu : "Origin Of Salt" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.
19: Bu.D.D.A. : "Venus In Beton" (Grubenwehr Freiburg) 2021.
20: Ochu : "Bleach Method" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.
21: Ochu : "Impotent Process" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.
22: Ochu : "Habit Solidification" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.
23: Psychic TV : "Ov Power" (Some Bizarre) 1982.
24: Adi Newton : "The Chance Of A Ghost" (Unexplained Sounds Group) 2024.
25: Thorsten Soltau x Max Kuiper x The Dead Mauriacs : "Fügung Und Nedergang" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2014.
26: Rainier Lericolais x Roman Feast : "Fügung Und Nedergang (Fate And Demise)" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2014.
27: Michael Idehall : "Star, Beast, Man, Fire" (Ant-Zen) 2024.
28: Michael Idehall : "Normal" (Ant-Zen) 2024.
29: Robert Curgenven : "Air + Electricity Remixed" (Fort Evil Fruit) 2020.
Thank you for listening, please feel free to get in touch. The next broadcast will be (I think) 13 October and (at the moment) will largely be built from a playlist from 1978 - 1984 releases ... We shall see.
Busy time at Harttop Towers .. MuhMur Radio HQ. Summer holidays for the kids .. it'll soon be over. Gorgeous weather, beach trips & walks on Dartmoor etc. Blog time is (I'm afraid) at a minimum. Normal service will be resumed in September.
A lot of the playlist is compiled of new arrivals over the past 4/5 weeks along with some old favourites. In August I always slip in 'The Presence' or 'Concorde Square' by Crispy Ambulance as they are from the 12" "Live On A Hot August Night" .. this August it's 'The Presence'.
Contrastive piece is from the recent album "Life Without Agriculture" on Drone Records. The Current 93 track 'The Astral Crimes Of Stephen Hawke' is side 2 of the album of the same name. The title is taken (I imagine) from the 1930's 'Horror' film starring Tod Slaughter .. but I could be wrong. 'The Long Shadow Falls' is from CD#7 of the 7 CD boxset of the same name. Modelbau's 'Myths Of The Near Future' is from a limited cassette released by Econore. The piece is based on a short story by JG Ballard. Mark Vernon track is from his latest vinyl outing on Futura Resistenza called "The Dramaturgy Of Decay". Copies still available from Mark at : https://markvernon.bandcamp.com.
Heikke of Grey Park has been busy of late, self releasing the latest Grey Park album "Tiny Ships On Asphalt" and putting out the latest Archives Assistant CD on his Hyster Tapes imprint. Get in touch with Heikke here : https://greypark.bandcamp.com. The Coagulant piece is from the 2022 album "Atlas Obscura". Released by Anticipating Nowhere Records. https://anticipatingnowhere.bandcamp.com.
Earlier in the summer Jim Haynes was in the UK to play a couple of gigs in London and Middlesborough. He visited Cornwall & Devon (UK's equivalent of the Deep South) .. and dropped off a couple of releases for MuhMur HQ. (via Alice Kemp ... I never got to meet Jim .. but next time, next time). 'Variant, Number Seventeen' is from the cassette album "Inadvertent" on No Rent Records and '3' is from the CD album "Inconsequential" on White Centipede Noise. https://whitecentipedenoise.com. WCN have just reissued the Treriksröset album "Sexregler". A MuhMur Radio recommendation. On the last broadcast I played some Emil Beaulieau in recognition of the new book "America's Greatest Noise" about Ron Lessard and RRRecords by Frans de Waard. A 7' flexi-disc accompanied some copies with an anti-conversation between Ron and Frans edited by Howard Stelzer. This ends part one of the broadcast ... Sticking with Frans part two begins with two pieces from his collaboration with Sindre Bjerga and Fabio Orsi. It's a three piece CD entitled "Counting Backwards From ∞" on Attenuation Circuit. Copies available from : https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/counting-backwards-from. Soloman Tump is Andrew Fletcher and a fellow broadcaster on SoundArt Radio, he also produces the Intrinsic Action fanzine and has just appeared at Supernormal Festival. 'Nocturne' is from his latest (self) release "Torpid State". Physical copies have all sold, download available at : https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/. Himukalt and Subklinik share an album on Cloister Recordings. It's called "Seven Memories/Human Meat", released in vinyl, cassette and download versions. https://cloisterrecordingsus.bandcamp.com/album/seven-memories-human-meat.
Recently I have been cataloguing my complete audio collection. Get it down for one last time and see if it makes any sense. It is (naturally) great fun to do, going through boxes and discovering things that I haven't played in years and in some cases totally forgot I had! I have decided to record it all on an accompanying blog : https://muhmurradiohq.blogspot.com. It will take time ... one of the 'rediscovered' sounds is the split tape of Ilia Belorukov and Jelena Glazova on the Hyster Tapes label. (see above for link etc) .. If ever a piece fitted the SoundArt title ...
The broadcast ends with The Cigarettes. I was compiling the broadcast at the start of August when the UK went crazy for a few days, seriously batshit crazy. 'They're Back Again..Here They Come' is one of the great anti-fascist songs of the 1970's ... especially by a band from Lincoln.
Part One:
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-18-august-2024/.
Part Two:
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-18-august-2024-part-two/
Playlist.
01: Contrastate : "Zurich 1916" (Drone Records) 2024.
02: Current 93 : "The Astral Crimes Of Stephen Hawke (II)" (Cashen's Gap) 2024.
03: Current 93 : "The Long Shadow Falls" (Dirter Promotions) 2024.
04: Modelbau : "Myths Of The Near Future" (Encore) 2024.
05: Mark Vernon : "A Wrong Turn Towards Eternity" (Futura Resistenza) 2024.
06: Grey Park : "Sceptic's Shadow" (Not On Label) 2024.
07: Coagulant : "Novaya Zemlya" (Anticipating Nowhere Records) 2022.
08: Jim Haynes : "Variant, Number Seventeen" (No Rent Records) 2024.
09: Frans de Waard : "Frans + Ron Anti-Conversation" (Korm Plastics) 2024.
10: Frans de Waard/Sindre Bjerga/Fabio Orsi : "∞ Minus 1" (Attenuation Circuit) 2024.
11: Frans de Waard/Sindre Bjerga/Fabio Orsi : "∞ Minus 2" (Attenuation Circuit) 2024.
12: Current 93 : "LashTal" (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Anti-Records) 1984.
13: Archives Assistant : "All-terra" (Hyster Tapes) 2024.
14: Cabaret Voltaire : "On Every Other Street" (Rough Trade Records) 1979.
15: Soloman Tump : "Nocturne" (Not On label) 2024.
16: Himukalt : "Seven Memories" (Cloister Recordings) 2024.
17: Jim Haynes : "3" (White Centipede Noise) 2024.
18: Subklinik : "Human Meat 6" (Cloister Recordings) 2024.
19: D.A.F. : "Kebabtraume" (Mute Records) 1980.
20: Paul Harrison : "Tension-Charge-Discharge-Relaxation" (Not On Label) 2017.
21: D.A.F. : "Gerwält" (Mute Records) 1980.
22: Ilia Belorukov : "Try To Have No One Here" (Hyster Tapes) 2018.
23: The Cigarettes : "They're Back Again, Here They Come" (Company Records) 1979.
Back on September 15. Thanks for listening ...
Over the last few broadcasts I have concentrated on one (sometimes two) artists / projects, so I thought I would expand to four. Four artists in four hours. "Hit 'em on the head with a 4x4" to misquote the mighty Fall. With the release of the latest Sewer Election album 'Psychic Panorama II' an hour (or so) of the work of Dan Johansson was a necessity. I think it was early 00's that I first came across the sound of Sewer Election. Appearances on compilations such as "Sweetness Will Overcome" (Segerhuva Records) 2004 and "Krimkall" (Krimljud) 2003. A few years later and I discovered the sound of Ättestupa with their cassette 'Att Korsa Den Flod Som Kommer Dränka Osk Alla' on Tommy Carlsson's Abisko label. Then came a few releases on the now defunct Release The Bats label. In 2013 I played a gig with Dan. He was performing as White at The Fylkingen in Stockholm. A short sharp 15 - 20 minute set, films, noise, volume. It kind of blew me away (as did sets by Kristain Olsson and Dusa on the night). We sat and chatted on the evening but I had no idea I was chatting to Dan Johansson. It was only a couple of years ago that Love (Segerhuva / Ochu) told me that White and Dan Johansson were one and the same. Ah well.
In the past ten years and the arrival of (or at least the entrance in my world) the labels I Dischi Del Barone, Förlag För fri Musik and Discreet Music it has been easier to get hold of the works of Dan Johansson and his many projects. Amateur Hour, Neutral, Ordeal, Heinz Hopf, Enhet För fri Musik and most recently Organ Of Corti (to name just a few). Dan has his own Bandcamp page : https://sewerelectiongbg.bandcamp.com/music. And it is worth keeping an eye on Discreet Music. Based in Gothenburg, they release and distribute Dan's work : https://www.discreetmusic.se
Tune your dial to 102.5FM if you're hanging around the Totnes 'burbs or visit the SoundArt radio website and listen to the live stream. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk.
A new radio broadcast from Thanasis (Electric Knife Records) starts today at 13.00 Hours (GMT). Lots of experimental sounds .. not music .. Greek chat and lots of drinking (today is Thanasis's birthday).
Go to https://locomotiva-cooperativa.org/radio/ to listen. I don't know if the programme will be archived anywhere ... so make sure to tune in!
Tonights MuhMur Radio Broadcast is dedicated to the sound of John Duncan.
'Heavy, Useless, No Sense Of Humour'.
I have been listening to the works of John Duncan for nigh on 40 years now. I forget how I came across his work. I thought it was via Dan Plunkett and his ND magazine but recently I heard a podcast featuring Dan and he said he came across John through the UK 'fanzine' called "Grok". "Grok" was run by Dave Minshull in Bristol in the early 1980's. I used to get copies of "Grok", so ... maybe Dan and I both discovered John Duncan through "Grok". In 1984 Dan mailed me a cassette (we exchanged tape letters back in those days) that featured an interview with Paul McCarthy for ND magazine where he talks about his collaborative work with John ... and extract appears in the broadcast. To listen to Dan Plunkett podcast : https://www.noisextra.com/2022/04/06/in-conversation-with-daniel-plunkett-nd-magazine/
Along with John's sounds I have incorporated some of his collaborative work with Michael Esposito. 'There Must Be A Way Across The River" is from the eponymous album shared with Z'ev. The Elgaland Vargaland National Anthem features vocals by Ingrid Engarås. In 2003 Ingrid released the album "Vibradisc" on the Firework Editions Records label. "Porch" is from this album. Recorded at The Fylkingen (Stockholm) on the 24th April 2002, it was engineered and produced by John Duncan. Ingrid is the only person I know with an Elagaland-Vargaland passport ... I know, she showed me it.
The next broadcast is on June 23. It is MuhMur Radio Broadcast #269 and subtitled 'Heavy, Useless, No Sense Of Humour'.
Four hours of sounds featuring the art of John Duncan and his releases from 1981 to the present day ... releases on labels such as Anckarström, RRRecords, AQM, Fragment Factory, Die Stadt and Robot Records amongst others. There will also be sounds from artists that have collaborated with John including Ingrid Engarås, Paul McCarthy, Joe Talia and Michael Esposito. I have also managed to sneak in some new sounds into the playlist from recent arrivals at MuhMur HQ by Citipati and Francisco Meirino.
SoundArt Radio is found at 102.5 FM if you are in the South Hams (Devon. UK) and can be streamed live via their website : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk Kick-Off will be at 18.00 GMT. The broadcast will be archived on my MixCloud page. (Link on the ReMuhMuration Blog).
Thank You.
MuhMur Radio Broadcast #268. This programme centres around releases and projects / artists from the Touch label. I have been in correspondence with one of the the labels operators Mike Harding for a few months now .. I first met Mike in Stockholm, a cold and wet November night at The Pelikan Bar (now sadly deceased). 2001 and the night before Dieter Müh played live at the Fylkingen. Mike came to that gig too and brought his pal Chris Watson along. Chris had an exhibition in Stockholm at the same time.
I started following / collecting the release of Touch around 1983. At the time they were putting out great cassette compilations, all beautifully packaged in an A5 wallet, usually with a small tract or booklet with artwork by Garry Mouat. Later the artwork was created / directed by label founder Jon Wozencroft. In 1982 there came "Feature Mist" featuring New Order, Robert Wyatt, Eric Random, Simple Minds, Flesh and TuxedoMoon amongst others. Followed in 1983 by "Meridians" featuring John Foxx, Test Department, Andrew McKenzie, S/Z, 400 Blows, Nocturnal Emissions, Pure and Bruce Gilbert (a.o). "Ritual : Lands:End" (1985) and "Magnetic North" (1986) followed featuring Renaldo & The Loaf, Camberwell Now, Nocturnal Emissions, Gilbert & George, Cabaret Voltaire, Soviet France, Suns Of Arqa, Lol Coxhill and Sudden Sway (a.o). I guess audio/visual magazines is the best way of describing them. There were other cassette compilations released around this time by Touch including "Touch Travel", "Touch 33" and "Islands In-Between", but I must admit to never having seen or heard these. Mid to late 1980's and Touch were quite prolific and essential. In 1986 they released the seminal Nocturnal Emissions album "Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss" and Last Few Days "Too Much Is Not Enough" perhaps the greatest 12" ever released ... Top 5 anyway.
CLOCK DVA LIVE in Newcastle tonight ... Essential!