MuhMur Radio Broadcast #286 : 26 October 2025.

 

A special broadcast, for the second time in thirteen years MuhMur Radio has a live performance in the studio. In August 2018 Nocturnal Emissions came into the studio to perform 'Wireless Broadcast', and tonight Soloman Tump came into the studio for a live improvised performance. 

Soloman Tump is the project of Andrew Fletcher. Earlier this month I interviewed Andrew for ReMuhMuration. The full interview can be found here : 

https://remuhmuration.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-muhmur-radio-soloman-tump-interview.html

There is also a link to the performance in the interview (just in case you don't want to listen to the whole show). In celebration of the performance the rest of the show is built of tracks by 'solo performers / projects'. * I know in the broadcast I mention that all tracks are by "Solo Men", I know Sirpa Kalla is a solo female sound artist, I wasn't go to play "Oodi Variksille", but I brought it off the subs bench (so to speak) as I forgot to bring my copy of Elton Motello's "Jet Boy Jet Girl" single! 

Playlist :

01: Nurse With Wound : "All The Dead Men" (Lenka Lente) 2025.

02: Ekoplekz : "Fluktuate" (More Than Human) 2014.

03: Dale Cornish : "New Chest" (The Death Of Rave) 2025.

04: Bruce Gilbert : "Where Did The Time Go?" (Mute Records) 1996.

05: Coagulant : "Interiors" (Kringloop Kassettes) 2025.

06: Mark Vernon : "Spectral Marketplaces" (Flaming Pines) 2025.

07: Soloman Tump : "Shewte Rights" (Human Geography Recordings) 2023.

08: Söldnergeist : "Terror (Part One)" (Pure) 2001.

09: Linekraft : "One Kills One" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.

10: Soloman Tump : "Live At SoundArt Studio" 2025.

11: The New Blockaders : "TNB : The Musical!" (Not On Label) 2025.

12: Cheapmachines : "Safeword" (Harbinger Sound) 2008.

13: Putrefier : Sonictrashelectronicasmith" (Birthbiter) 1999.

14: Hyware : "Hypercieve" (Kringloop Kassettes) 2025.

15: Duncan Harrison : "Guardian Dreams" (Adhuman) 2025.

16: Modelbau : "Superimproved" (Grisaille) 2025.

17: Rainier Lericolais : "Fügung Und Niedergang" (Geräuschmanufaktur) 2014.

18: Altar Of Flies : "A Lifetime. Life. Time" (Satatuhatta) 2025.

19: Baudouin De Jaer : "Assiisen = Des = Mittels = Landes" (Sub Rosa) 2011.

20: Organum : "HORII" (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords) 1986.

21: Dale Cornish : "Bring Out Your Dead" (The Death Of Rave) 2025.

22: Sirpa Kalla : "Oodi Variksille" (Hyster Tapes) 2025.

23: Kevin Hewick : "Haystack" (Les Disques Du Crépuscule) 1980.

24: Secret Cinema : "Under My Skin" (Carnifex Recordings) 1987.

25: Soloman Tump : "Roamer" (Intrusive Signals) 2025.

26: Throbbing Gristle : "Weeping".

The broadcast has been archived on MixCloud, split in to two for easier aural digestion. Part Two starts with The New Blockaders ... 

Part One: https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-26-october-2025-part-one/

Part Two: https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-26-october-2025-part-two/

The New Blockaders track was kindly sent by Richard Rupenus and broadcast with his permission. Last broadcast featured tracks from compilation albums. The Kevin Hewick track is from the cassette "From Brussels With Love" and the Secret Cinema track is from the unreleased compilation CDR of Carnifex Recordings projects. Secret Cinema was the project of Gary Warmington. Gary, myself and Andy (Wright) were Rise, also a Carnifex Recordings project. I know Throbbing Gristle were not a solo project. On the "D.o.A. Third And Final Report" album each member has a solo piece and "Weeping"is a solo piece by Genesis P-Orridge.  

As always, thanks to Chris and Tamsin and a Huge thanks to Andrew. Next MuhMur Radio is on November 23. 

                                                              Soloman Tump & Chris.

                                                                       Table Of Elements.

                                                                     Live in the Studio.

              

The MuhMur Radio Soloman Tump interview ..

First of all, I would love to know about the music you listened to in your teenage years .

 My parents listened to a lot of Rod Stewart so I absorbed a lot of his work at an early age. And then some Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell I (and to a lesser extent II), which i've since introduced my kids to. I grew up in a little town called Carterton in Oxfordshire, which did have Ginger Records store for a while, selling mainly rock and classical tapes and CDs. The tiny studio upstairs was where John Peel filmed some of his Sounds of the Suburbs Oxford edition, interviewing Lab 4 up there. I would go in and buy tape then CD singles on a regular basis with my pocket money. I suppose we are talking early to mid 90s, and I was a Blur fan (still don't like Oasis). I think my first exposure to rave / jungle would have been 1995 with the CD single of Shaggy's Boombastic, the fantastic Firefox & 4-Tree Bassboom Remix which I just listened to again and it's kinda fun. But I quickly strayed from the mainstream sounds and Ginger Records didn't get too much of my money after that, maybe just to buy the new Prodigy or Chemical Brothers singles when they came out. I would stay up late to listen to John Peel like all the cool kids did, taping some of the sessions (such as Kemistry & Storm which I've still got on C60, it's on youtube if you want to hear a proper masterclass in decent drum and bass). Music has never really been a deal with my family, so I've grown up as an outsider in that respect. We never went to live concerts or anything. I remember having a sleepover at a friends house in Lechlade and his older brother came back about 9 in the morning clutching a bottle of water and looking very happy with himself. It didn't take me too long after that to discover what rave music was but I was always just a little bit too young to get into it. Some of the old tape packs with the likes of DJ Hype, Ellis Dee, great stuff. I somehow managed to persuade my parents to get me some belt drive beginner dj turntables and a mixer for my 17th birthday, and would then often visit the iconic Massive Records in Oxford. It was always a great place to hang out in and become fascinated by electronic music culture, even though I was still (officially) too young to go to clubs / raves. Of course HMV around the corner was cheaper if you knew what you were looking for, and there was also AVID Records with the basement full of 2nd hand dance tunes. All 3 shops have gone now unfortunately. Oxford was somehow great for buying electronic music, but never really had a great club. All the music venues played indie rock bands (and mostly still do to be honest). 

  What were the influences / reasons to start making a noise, the inspiration to make SoundArt as were.

 I got deep into clubbing when I went to uni in the year 2000, using and abusing my new found freedom away from home. GodsKitchen in Birmingham was the place to go on a Friday night, lapping up the big sounds of trance and progressive house which had sort of taken over where the rave scene had been killed off by the criminal justice bill. Suddenly it was big money, and I (and my mates) were the target audience. As well as trips to paSSion in Coalville, Gatecrasher in Sheffield, we would travel all over, have amazing weekends, met some great people (many of whom i'm still friends with now, and we still do occasionally head back to those big club rooms). After that honeymoon period of uni I soon tired of the "big" sounds and started diving into techno and abstract forms of electronic music, seeking out smaller venues with less lighting and more esoteric sounds. I suppose listening to noise and dark electronics came about as a way to counteract all the positivity of the big club music that my well meaning mates kept dragging me along to. So I was late to noise as a genre, but it had figured in the fringes of my listening for a while. I discovered Autechre back in 2003 with the release of the Draft 7.30 album which was the recommended electronic album of the week in HMV Coventry. It probably took me about 6 months to begin to understand what it was all about - so different and alien from everything else I had been listening to at the time, but I soon began to realise how important that record would become. And thus this led me down deeper and weirder paths. Diving into anything I could find on Rephlex, Planet Mu, Warp, Blueprint. Buying online stuff from Boomkat and Bleep. Then later when I started making zines around 2017, I discovered other niche distributors and labels like Tordon Ljud, OutsiderArt and White Centipede Noise. I think the first actual "noise" album I bought was the 2016 album by Wince called "Traum" on Freak Animal. 

 Where did the moniker Soloman Tump come from.

 A drive in the country heading west on the A40...you'll find a signpost towards the hamlet of 'Solomon's Tump'... it's maybe at most a couple of farms and cottages in the middle of the Gloucestershire countryside. The remoteness of the place and the name stuck with me as I started recording my own electronic sounds. I bastardized the name slightly as I was a "solo man" doing lonely dismal sounds. I think the Memowrekz album by Ekoplekz was a huge inspiration for me in terms of the lo-fi noisy sounds that I wanted to try and create. In the early days of Soloman Tump it started with plugging a couple of pedals into my DJ mixer; I had a Boss loop pedal and a noise generator synth. So I could sample and loop short snippets of records and layer them with square waves or white noise blasts. All very silly but fun experiments. Then I would loop and layer the run-out groove of records. I don't think many of those recordings still exist. 

This is a little convoluted but when Dieter Müh was becoming recognised (30+ years ago) a question that was often asked was 'what is the U.K. scene like?' . It was as if UK sound-artists and noise-makers knew each. We were all part of one big club, which back then was quite untrue. But times have changed. Along comes the Internet, file sharing, things like MySpace (R.I.P) and Bandcamp. Small compact & bijou live sound events etc. You have collaborated with other artists, so, What is the U.K. scene like. 

The whole covid/lockdown thing was a huge creative period for me - whilst I was still fortunate enough to still be working and earning, I had more "spare" time in which I could create. So yes, this is when I started making zines and collaborating. Theo (Territorial Gobbing) ran some online events under the Heinous Whining name which were pretty much essential for tuning in and seeing a bunch of artists from all over the UK come along and do their stuff. Really informative times, and I got chatting with loads of different folks via there, many whom I went on to meet at events like Supernormal Festival or shows about the place. The likes of Blackcloudsummoner, Luxury Mollusc, Knifedoutofexistence.... Heinous Whining also featured the first "live" performance by Soloman Tump, I recorded a video performance which I then edited over with some glitchy filters and stuff. It was fun. Then I performed on other virtual live "noise fests" across the globe that were looking for artists - such as Nim Brut, Wonder Valley Experimental. Hugely prolific times for anyone who was looking to contribute creatively and I do kinda miss it in a way. In terms of collaborations I worked with Lee Riley, a great guitarist from Oxford who I met through an ongoing monthly show called Gappy Tooth Industries. I say Guitarist but he plays it in such a way (with effects) that it's really unlike anything else. Drone wizard, and a great guy. The modern virtual world allows for easy international collaboration too, so I had a one-off project called Clarvont where myself and an artist called Stonejaw from Connecticut (https://clairvont.bandcamp.com/album/the-first) did a faux-psychic "clarvoyant" recording just from a few prompts, each providing 2 tracks of the same length that we just layered over each other. The only bit of mastering I did was adjusting some levels when sounds clashed. Worked surprisingly well to be honest and i'm still impressed at the outcome, a shame we never did part 2. Have I even answered the question? I guess the UK "scene" is still pretty much fragmented but there are great pockets of stuff going on in different towns. Bristol and Leeds seem to be powerhouses in the New Weird Britain sound as the Quietus call it. If I want a big day out of live music it's often far and between in Devon as you know... Bristol always delivers on that front. So yes, the internet (bandcamp / instagram) help to a certain degree with connecting people, but you really cannot beat turning up at a dingy venue somewhere, paying a few quid to get in, and having your ears blasted whilst sipping a random pint of lager.

Has moving down here to Devon changed the outlook / direction of Soloman Tump. A lot of your recordings are made on Dartmoor. 

 I've always been inspired by trying to blend industry with nature; rhythm with noise. Taking my roots of techno music and 4/4 beats and sort of mashing them with the experimental noise of recent years, incorporating field recordings and found sound samples where possible. My first "proper" release was in 2018 via netlabel The Dark Thursday, when I still lived in Oxfordshire. Most of my work since with DIY physical releases were self released, save a few tapes for other labels. I don't think moving to Devon has changed the sound of Soloman Tump more cementing the ideas that I had started with. Grim's Ditch was my first DIY EP on 3" CDr, a great medium that I want to release more of (i've still got a load of them sat in the cupboard ready to burn up). The EP was about the folklore legend surrounding these bronze age ditches, possibly furroughed out by the devil himself. Dartmoor is dripping with dark folklore and i've attempted to convey some of it with my dismal electronics. 

  You also produce a magazine called 'Intrusive Signals'. Is this an ongoing project.

 Zines were a great way to get into the scene and meet folk, both virtually and in real life. I started with a zine called Snare Rush which ran for 7 issues from July 2016, producing a couple a year. These were slightly more electronic / fun focused with interviews, crosswords, art, reviews, silly stuff. Loved it. Then a short gap as life got in the way, before I started Intrusive Signals which only ran for 3 issues from 2021 - 2022. It was slightly more "serious" in tone, taking in more noise / experimental music, drawing inspiration from the mighty Noise Receptor Journal. Zines were great for trading and I acquired a great collection of zines from all over the world for a good few years. I probably traded as many as I sold. The process led me to interviewing some real inspirations of mine, including the aforementioned Ekoplekz and Knifedoutofexistance, Qebrus (rip), Himukalt (recently reprinted in the Sex Works book) and Isnt'ses, amongst many others and including Dieter Muh! Interviewing was the bit that I enjoyed the most. I've been sat on Issue 4 of Intrusive Signals for a while now, never quite finding the right time or motivation to dive deep into it again. I've just not had the mental capacity to sit down and give it the attention it deserves. Recently I've had these internal barriers that stop me from sitting down and "getting creative". I get guilty, like I should be doing some "more constructive". I've found it harder to make music because of this reason too (although this is mainly why Soloman Tump has remained a "hardware" project - as little computer time involved as possible please!). Hopefully i'll get over it soon. Maybe I need the chance of an interview that I cannot possibly turn down! The other thing is that my new day-job contains way more screen time than my previous job, so I tend to spend a lot less time on my phone/laptop in the evenings. I've lost touch with some people, and find less time for the music research that goes into making the zine. But I do hope to return to it at some point, it was very good for my mental health. 

  Can you tell me about your radio programme 'The Tump Clump'. 

 Amassing a great music collection over a couple of decades, it's only right that I get to play some out to people and hopefully there might be a few people out there that like it. The Tump Clump also started as a lockdown project, in 2021, and Chris @ SoundArt was very responsive to me having a show as long as there was no swearing. Brilliant, I can do that. And for the slightly socially nervous me, recording it at home in advance works very well so I can edit out my mistakes. Although thankfully there have been less over time, I could probably do a live show now given the opportunity. The original artwork was drawn up by Blackcloudsummoner, which led to us working on and releasing a split tape a few months later. Each month I slightly altered the original art (different colour filters, moving things slightly, I hope they didn't mind). I know of a few people around the world who listen in each month, but it's mainly nice to know that someone might accidentally tune in whilst driving down the A38 on their way to Cornwall for a family holiday. The Tump Clump is really a melting pot of all the different sounds that I listen to. Be it techno, drone,electronic, noise, soundart, ambient, anything considered weird really. I try not to make it just a noise show or just an hour of drone. There is usually a conscious effort to mix up the sounds and play contrasting stuff adjacent to each other because that's fun. I recorded one show from a forest on Dartmoor. A couple of shows were all from bands I heard at Supernormal the week before. Some were full of exclusives or live tracks sent in by friends of the show. And so this is a reflection on the sounds that I release as Soloman Tump - I can't fully shake the thumping rhythm of a dark dancefloor, even if i'm ankle deep in mud on the moor, clutching my tascam.

The recording of Soloman Tump live on MuhMur Radio 26 October 2025 can be found here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/soloman-tump-live-ritual-26-oktober-2025/

 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast #285 : 28 September 2025.

 

The 'Various Artists' releases, filed under 'Compilations' at the local record shop. The compilation has always been a favourite of mine. In my youth (the 1960s) there was always music in the house. We did not have a record player but the radio was on all the time. The BBC Light Programme that was later to become BBC Radio 1, Radio Luxembourg (Fab 208) and Radio Caroline. A continual compilation of music. The chart topping pop programme 'Top Of The Pops' was essential family viewing on a Thursday night. The Top 40 chart rundown on a Sunday evening with Alan Freeman meant it was bath time .. anyway, I am just trying to figure out why I like the compilation albums / singles so much. I do know people who don't like them at all, too varied  and not enough time to get in to what's being played etc. I know people who don't like 'Live' albums either, I wasn't there, so what's the point of listening to it? You know these people .. fools. 

Christmas 1969 and we moved house. A house-warming present from the grandparents was a radiogram. I can't remember if it was stereo or mono .. but it was big, chunky and loud. It came with a few of my grandparents old records too .. I remember being given the Gene Vincent single "Pistol Packin' Mamma" and some Thunderbirds (The Puppets) 7" singles. This meant pocket-money was now spent at Woolworths and/or Boots The Chemist record counter. I used to go for the 'Top Of The Pops' compilation albums. A selection of recent chart toppers performed by session musicians, not the real artists, but session musicians and the BBC  Pop Orchestra. I imagine it was something to do with copyright but my ten year old ears couldn't tell the difference and indeed, did not care. Besides the covers of all 'Top Of The Pops' albums came with a glamour model proactively posing on the front sleeve. Win Win.

                            Please let it be known that I had this album in my collection (1973).

                           

Another selling factor for the 'Top Of The Pops' albums was that they were cheap. Cheaper than your average album. I don't remember much about compilation albums in the mid 1970s. I know that Charisma Records and Virgin Records released label samplers, but I think they were full price and who wants to listen to Henry Cow, Van Der Graff Generator, Capability Brown, Genesis and Hatfield And The North tracks when there's a whole lotta Black Sabbath and Deep Purple to listen to for the same price .. I remember in the 1980s my friend Tim having the compilation album "The Age Of Atlantic", he bought it cheap just so he could use it as a rolling mat. Never played it. Then there were the compilation albums you could get by collecting vouchers in Record Mirror and Sounds magazines. They can't have been very good as I never collected the vouchers. 

1977 / 1978 and I was brought back into the world of the compilation. The various artists albums ... and singles. The rise of the independent, the surge of the New Wave, and discovering John Peel's radio show on Radio 1. I taped each programme and then edited the broadcast to the tracks I like best and stuck them on a separate cassette, it was like compiling my own compilation album. The John Peel Sessions were on a separate C90 naturally. I still have a couple of those C90 cassettes with John Peel Sessions and play them often, there is a great JPS compilation double CD called "Movement : BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions 1977-1979" released by BBC/EMI in 2011. Recommended. I bought the "Streets" and "Business Unusual" compilations when they came out. Mainly a collection of singles released by independent albums from 1977 - 1978. There was a "Business Unusual" tour in 1978, it came to Lincoln. UK Subs, The Outsiders and Skunks played AJ's. One of my favourite gigs of '78. There were also Rough Trade Records tours, some visited Lincoln, Robert Rental & The Normal, Essential Logic & Stiff Little Fingers being the most memorable. Spizz Energi, Kleenex and The Raincoats was a good one too. 

What then followed was a slew, a plethora of compilation albums, cassettes and singles highlighting various independent label releases, various live venues, cities, towns and regions. 

Here's a few examples ... 

"Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival" released in 1978 by Albion / Warner Brothers Records was recorded live at the North London venue. It features bands such as XTC, The Stranglers, Suburban Studs, Burlesque, The Saints and Steel Pulse amongst others. "Can You Hear Me? Music From The Deaf Club" was released in 1980 on the Optional Music label. All bands recorded live at The Deaf Club in San Francisco, USA. It features bands such as Dead Kennedys, Tuxedo Moon, Offs and Mutants amongst others. 

"Hicks from The Sticks" is an essential compilation album to have. It featured bands from the North of England. Bands such as Airkraft, Section 25, Radio 5, Clock DVA, Modern Eon, Ada Wilson & The Keeping Dark and Music For Pleasure amongst others. Released in April 1980 on the Rockburgh Records label this album introduced me to so many new bands. An album I did not know existed "Heat From The Street" subtitled "The Sequel To Hicks From The Sticks" was released by Charisma Records in 1981. I found this album in Croc Records, Toulouse a couple of years ago. 

'We had a great deal of fun working on 'Hicks from The Sticks' compilation LP which we released through Rockburgh Records last year. The album may have well had its flaws but it was generally well received and seemed to be followed by similar records, most of which were lumped together under the generic heading of Hicks-Like LPs. We had ideas about a follow up compilation even before Hicks was released and we have spent the past few months putting it together. We have widened the catchment area for the bands, deliberately including several from the London area (Paul Brown)'. 

Needless to say, the LP is not anywhere near in quality of sound or interest, but I had to buy it! It features Airkraft, Eyeless In Gaza, Cuban Heels and a queue of wannabes who were never heard of again. 

The compilation album, and 7"EP that was dedicated to a town, city, region (and sometimes country)  always interested me. Lincoln had its' own compilation. "East" features bands from Lincoln and its' surrounds and all the tracks were recorded at The Playground Studios in Wragby, a small town about 8 miles east of Lincoln. If memory serves, the guy that ran the studio also worked part-time at Sanctuary Records (in Lincoln). He was locally known as 'Tramp'. I went to Playground Studios in 1979 to assist Collide on their "Demo Tape". Admittedly "East" has bands from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, but it was a representation of the Lincoln based label Company Records and Dead Good Records. It was released in 1980 and featured bands such as The Cigarettes, Whizz Kids, Fatal Charm, Half Life and B Movie amongst others (Unfortunately no Collide). There is a band called Vick Sinex & The Nasal Sprays. I have a feeling this was an 'in-house studio band. 

The album has probably one of the worst sleeve artwork I have in my collection, done by Martin Patton of Dead Good Records / X.S. Energy. "Aylesbury Goes Flaccid" is another 'local area' compilation made up of artists from the Buckinghamshire town. I like this LP mainly as it features bands that only appear on this record ... they didn't make a single or cassette, just one track on this album. It does feature Aylesbury giants Vice Creems as well as Wild Willy Barrett and reggae artist The Man Ezeke but what of The Speedos, Clumsy, The Haircuts and Anal Surgeons? I picked this beauty up from Discovery Music 2 in Barnstaple, Devon for a tenner about 20 years ago. If you see it .. buy it! 

A few more local area / towns & cities compilation that are recommended ... "A Manchester Collection" on Object Music. Released in 1979 and featuring Grow-Up, Vibrant Thigh, Mediators and I.Q. Zero amongst others. Compiled to promote the Manchester Musicians Collective. "Bouquet Of Steel" on Aardvark, compiled by Sheffield label boss and promoter Marcus Featherby features bands from in and around Sheffield. Artery, Disease, Comsat Angels, De Tian, Negatives, I'm So Hollow and Shy Tots (Doncaster's finest) are all on there, it comes with a fanzine like booklet too. Great album. "Where The Hell is ... Leicester?" is pretty similar to the 'Aylesbury Goes Flaccid' album as it features a few bands that only appear on this compilation. Bands like The Danceable Solution, Tribal Games, Modern Living and Last Resort, it also has great tracks by Deep Freeze Mice and The Amber Squad. The Amber Squad also released a single on Lincoln label Dead Good Records but didn't make it to "East". "Street To Street - A Liverpool Album" from 1979 is basically that .. with tracks from The ID (a pre-Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark project), Big In Japan, Echo & The Bunnymen, Jaqui & Jeanette and Modern Eon. There is a "Street To Street" Volume 2 album, but I've yet to see a copy.

The label compilation was always a good way to delve in to new sounds. Cherry Red Records put out "Pillows And Prayers" in 1982 suggesting not to pay more than 99p for the album. A year earlier they had released the (less commercial) compilation "Perspectives & Distortion" which was full price. (about £3.99 in those days). 

"The Crap Stops Here" is a great sample of the output of Manchester's Rabid Records. Rabid Records was started in 1976 by the recently departed Tosh Ryan and John Crumpton. The album is a compilation of early singles on the Rabid label and features Slaughter & The Dogs, John Cooper-Clarke, Gyro, Jilted John and The Nosebleeds amongst others. A great sampler for the time. In the mid 1980s I appeared on the compilation album "Songs For The New International" on Recloose Organisation. An album to promote the upcoming 'New International' label featuring Bourbonese Qualk, Muslimgauze, Het Zweet and I.B.F. amongst others. As part of I.B.F. we recorded our track at Recloose Org studios which were then based in New Cross (London). We did record a couple of other tracks whilst down there but we never got to release them, I.B.F. folded in early 1986. 

1982, two years after forming, 4AD Records released the compilation "Natures Mortes - Still Lives" for the Japanese market. Now a highly collectable and essential album. It features Rema-Rema, Sort Sol, Bauhaus, Mass, The The ... all the early 4AD artists, again, a great marker of the time. The 7"EP is an ideal format for the label sampler. There are plenty but a couple of favourites of mine are "1980 : The First Fifteen Minutes" (1979) and "The Soft Volcano Erupts" (1986). 7" Flexi-Disc on Broken Flag Records which originally appeared in the fanzine 'Distant Violins' and features Controlled Bleeding, Nails Ov Christ and Uncommunity amongst others. 

As this is the 13th Anniversary Broadcast (#285) I thought I would share my love of the compilation / various artists releases and dedicate the programme to sounds that are from this genre. Is it a genre? I couldn't think of a better description. 

Also as a rule when I arrive in the studio and dump my pile of records, tapes, CDs on the desk, Chris says "what's the theme Steve" ... so this time I thought I'd have one ... 

The programme is archived on Mixcloud in to 2 digestible parts for easier aural pleasure.

Part I : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-28-september-2025/

Part II : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-28-september-2025-part-two/

Part Two begins with Minny Pops.

 

Playlist.

01: Current 93 : "I'm The One" (Dom) 1985.

      (From the LP "Ohrenschrauben").

02: Za Siódma Górạ : "Odejście Golema" (90% Wasser) 2005.

      (From the CD "Archive I").

03: Cranioclast : "N 43 Breezy Le Ramier" (Kaon) 1997.

      (From the double CD "Régénération - Dégénérescence").

04: Dieter Müh : "Wood Land" (Wholeness Recordings) 2010.

      (From the CDR "Squeezing Being Issue #2").

05: AmPh : "Werken Der Hand" (Release The Bats Records) 2021.

      (From The LP "Sverige").

06: Dusa : "Märkliga Timmar : Nattslut" (Segerhuva) 2008.

      (From The LP "Höga Nord").

07: Cabaret Voltaire : "Raising The Count" (New Musical Express/Rough Tapes) 1981.

      (From the cassette "NME/Rough Trade C81").

08: Johnathan Coleclough & Tim Hill : "Beech" (The Ajna Offensive) 2002.

      (From the 4xCD+Book "Infernal Proteus").

09: Militia : "A Kite Of Glass In A Blood Red Sky" (DPRK) 2008.

      (From the CD "Juche").

10: Richard Jobson : "The Armoury Show" (Les Disques Du Crépuscule) 1980.

      (From the cassette "From Brussels With Love").

11: Kallabris : "No, My Dear, It's Only The Heating" (EE Tapes) 2003.

      (From the CDR "The Walls Are Whispering").

12: No Festival Of Light : "Divide Et Impera Pt. II" (The Releasing Eskimo) 1998.

      (From the 2x7" "Disco-Mortem").

13: Terre Blanche : "Still Brilliant" (New Strength) 1988.

      (From the LP "The Decay Of The Angel (New Strength Recordings International Compilation").

14: Genocide Organ : "Viva La Guerre" (MSBR Records) 2004.

      (From the CD+Magazine "Noise #8").

15: Inade : "Kraak JP.V (A Stitch From Nowhere)" (Stateart) 1997.

      (From the double LP "Natural Order").

16: Homicide Society : "Death Machinery 1" (Stateart) 1997.

      (From the double LP "Natural Order").

17: First Law : "Holy War" (Stateart) 1997.

      (From the double LP "Natural Order").

18: Aaron Dilloway : Untitled" (Hanson Records/Chondritic Sound/RRRecords) 2009.

      (From the 6xLP "Michigan").

19: Himukalt : "Don't Go" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2019.

      (From the 10xcassette box "On Corrosion").

20: Minny Pops : "She Said Go Go Go" (Les Temps Modernes) 1985.

      (From the LP "Heures Sans Soleil").

21: Thursdays : "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of A Bay" (Fast Product) 1979.

      (From the 12"EP "Earcom 2").

22: Kutzkelina : "Es Fährt Ein Zug Nach Nirgendwo" (Edizioni Passarotto) 2013.

      (From the 2xcassette "36 Aus 430 Von 30").

23: MNEM : "Genocide Mobile" (Negative Foundation) 1999.

      (From the CDR "Halogen Ball").

24: Frieder Putzmann & Genesis P-Orridge : "Tales Of Death" (90% Wasser) 2001.

      (From the CD "90% Wasser").

25: Tho-So-Aa : "Missing Link" (Neo-Form) 2006.

      (From the CD "Salon Décadence").

26: Dieter Müh : "Let Him To Sleep" (Licht Und Stahl) 2010.

      (From the CD "Stählerne Lichter").

27: Edward Sol : "Thoughts Of Endless" (Sentimental Productions) 2023.

      (From the CD "Tomorrow Is A Big Distance").

28: Ochu : "Förnuftsflimmer" (Styggelse) 2018.

      (From the cassette "Stadsbranden 3").

29: Frans de Waard : "Punch" (Helicopter) 2010.

      (From the CD+Book "Drilling A Hole Through The Sky").

30: Alice Rabbit / Airworld : "De Stijl Est Là" (NPH) 2017.

      (From the cassette "De Stijlphone").

31: Maninkari : "Enstase 1&2" (Drone Records) 2014.

      (From the LP "Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone Volume 3").

32: Marikan Volkov : "Battle Ritual" (Drone Records) 2017.

      (From the LP "Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone Volume 6").

33: Die Form : "Are You Before" (Strut) 2013.

      (From the double CD "Mutazione (Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988").

34: Roma Amor : "Der Treue Hussar" (Old Europa Café) 2008.

      (From the 7xCD Box "The Old Europa Café Box Set").

35: Nurse With Wound : "The Strange Play Of The Mouth" (Vinyl On Demand) 2013.

      (From the 5xLP "Rising From The Red Sand Volumes I-V").

36: I.B.F. : "Ka" (Nihilistic Recordings) 1986.

      (From the double cassette "Wolfsangel").

37: They Must Be Russians : "Glory Of God" (Office Box Records) 1983.

      (From the 7"EP "Four From The Floor").

38: O Yuki Conjugate : "Sedation" (Cherry Red Records) 2016.

      (From the 4xCD "Close To The Noise Floor (Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984").

39: D.A.F. : "Ich Und Die Wirklichkeit" (Fast Product) 1979.

      (From the 2x7"EP "Earcom 3").

40: Art Vs Filth : "The Ostracised Man" (Not On Label) 1989.

      (From the unreleased CDR "Carnifex").

41: Starfuckers : "Dear Prudence" (Bananafish Magazine/Tedium House Publications) 1996.

      (From the CD "Vidas Ilustres").

A couple of notes on the broadcast ... one or maybe two tracks might have been played at the wrong speed. The track by Die Form is by the Italian project that became Tasaday, not the French project operated by Phillippe Fichot.

Art Vs Filth was a short lived project from 1985. It was created for a live performance at Lincoln Music Festival. Members on this studio recording are Dave Uden and myself. The track was to appear on a Carnifex Recordings compilation, a project that was never realised. Tim Bayes kindly remastered the cassette and transferred it to CDR for me. 

Thanks as ever to Chris and Tamsin for being there .. and also to Alice Kemp who popped in to say hello. Always welcome. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast #284 : 31 August 2025.

 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast #284 kicks off with an 'on this day' release. "Centuries" is from the 1982 Ludus album 'Danger Came Smiling'. This was their third and final album released on the New Hormones label. Ludus were formed by Linder Sterling in Moss-Side, Manchester in 1978. They had many members including Phil Tomanov (later of the Blue Orchids) and 'Dids' (ex Bedlamite and future Pere Ubu drummer). Ludus broke up in 1984. In 2002 LTM re-issued the album with Ludus's second album 'Pickpocket' on CD. https://www.ltmrecordings.com for further details. Another great Manchester group from the same period were Crispy Ambulance. "Sexus" was released in 1984 on Factory Benelux and was the final (studio) release of the first 'period' Crispy Ambulance. Soon afterwards they changed their name to Ram Ram Kino and appeared on the Temple Records label. In 1999 they reformed with a gig at The Band On The Wall in Manchester (with support from Biting Tongues featuring Jah Wobble), I was there ... t'was a great night but I have struggled to get my ears around their reformed sound ... "Sexus" is followed by "Sexus" by Organ Of Corti, the latest project from Joachim Nordwall, Dan Johanson and Mattias Gustafsson. "Sexus" is from their latest album 'Insania' on the US based Philatélie label. It's the second Organ Of Corti LP related this year. https://philatelie.bandcamp.com/music. 

"Sexus" is followed by "Arc Nexus Moon" (getting the theme here?) by 400 Lonely Things. This piece is from the split cassette with Fossil Aerosol Mining Project 'Nigths And Prefecy'. 400 Lonely Things is the solo project of Craig Varian. https://400lonelythings.bandcamp.com for more information, and go to the Helen Scarsdale Agency website https://www.helenscarsdale.com/published/famp-400lt-nigths.htm to find out more about this release. Searching through the MuhMur Radio HQ for anything 'Plexus', I could only find the first Mark Stewart & Maffia album 'Learning To Cope With Cowardice', the copy I have is on the Dutch Plexus label, and that did not seem to go with the flow if you know what I mean? (as the mighty Depressions once asked).

During the summer break I received some sounds from Lesley & Stew at the Perth (Australia) based label Burnt Seed Records. A new label to me, although they do seem to have been actively releasing since the early 2000's. Oderous Bait are a duo from Boorloo (Perth). "Yardtime evolves organically, revealing depth and spatial nuance. The sonic palette is rich and unconventional, offering snarling tomes from the KORG MS-20, rhythmic pulses, and warm analogue washes from the Roland Juno 106 to form the beautifully evolving sonic sculpture. Distortion pedals twist and fracture the audio terrain, while looping techniques multiply and morph motifs into hypnotic cycles. Improvised acoustic percussion adds a raw, human touch to the electronic swirl".

Errorserror is sound artist Jasmine Priest. "Porphyrim is a beautifully crafted longform exploration of abstracted rhythm. A work that invites listeners into a shifting soundscape where awareness flickers as guitar textures emerge and recede beneath hand driven metallic edged strokes to create a sonic experience that is both haunting and intimate. This track is made of a broken guitar played with a five cent coin, a detuned Casio keyboard and a very old dirty harmonica. All these sounds were captured on tape in a dilapidated house that had more holes punched in the wall than it had windows letting in light. "Porphyrim" is a last surviving artefact, something that shouldn't exist. A sentimental memory that we all have yet refuse to visit".

Lesley of Burnt Seed Records also hosts a radio broadcast available to stream on : https://rtrfm.com.au/shows/difficultlistening/

Discover more about Burnt Seed Records at https://linktr.ee/burntseedrecords.

Staying in Perth, Australia, I dug out Schuster's "The Brutal Arc" lathe-cut 7" on Adeptsound. Schuster (aka Tim Bayes) and I created I.B.F. in the early 1980s (alongside Sean Rorke), and was an early member and later collaborator of Dieter Müh. The single is a limited edition of 50 and is avaialble in the UK through Cold Spring Records. https://coldspring.co.uk.                                                

Grodock is the solo project of David Leutkart. David also operates the Grubenwehr Freiburg label. The two pieces here are from the CD 'Gesammelte Hintergründe', a collection of electro-acoustic recordings recorded between 2013 and 2023. Grodock/David can be contacted through his Bandcamp page at : https://grubenwehrfreiburg.bandcamp.com/merch. 'Gesammelte Hintergründe' is released by Krater Recordings. https://krater.audiophob.de.

Frans de Waard's Kringloop Kassettes project releases in batches. All recorded on to recycled cassettes (a la Hyster Tapes, Vacancy Records and RRRecycled) the latest batch includes Hyware, Jeans Beast, Nÿland, Bertin and Coagulant. 

Coagulant is the project of Fabio Kubic. Coagulant began in the 1990s and in 2000 self released the CDR 'Free Noise And Loop Liberations'. Since then Coagulant has released on labels such as L. White Records, Antenna Non Grata, Veinte 33 Records and Rizosfera. I was going to play the latest Coagulant album 'Spatial Emission Places', it's a 74 minute piece and unfortunately couldn't be fitted in to this broadcast, but it's a magnificent piece and I will play it! https://coagulant.bandcamp.com. All releases on Kringloop Kassettes can be found here : https://kringloopkassettes.bandcamp.com. I'm looking forward to the next batch. 

Sticking with releases that are on labels that begin with the letter "K", the latest Creep Of Paris album is on the Krim Kram label. Krim Kram is based in Cork, Ireland and over the past three years has been putting out essential sounds from Smegma, Rick Potts, Arv & Miljö, Kapotte Muziek, Usurper and now 'Virgin Brood' by Creep Of Paris. C.O.P. (no stranger to MuhMur Radio) is Thomas LaRoche, who I first met many years ago when we were both drummers for Vagina Dentata Organ. Thomas also operates the label Research Laboratories who last year released a cassette of Aum Shinrikyo speeches, sermons and chants and the CDR 'Wine And Cheese' by Rubber Demon. I think Rubber Demon is another one of Thomas' aliases (alongside Poultry Breeders Union, Eudocimus Ruber and Generic White Male) alongside  Maureen from Teignmouth Electron. (I could be wrong though ... I usually am). 

Krim Kram can be found at https://www.krimkram.com and Thomas can be contacted via Research Laboratories at https://researchlaboratories.bandcamp.com/music. In the last broadcast on July 6th I played some O Yuki Conjugate and talked about their beginnings, I had a great conversation with Nick Cope from O Yuki Conjugate and Jonathan Tait from Metamorphosis about the early days of both groups / projects, which had me dig out my Metamorphosis records .. "Fire Gates" first appeared on the compilation cassette 'Rising From The Red Sand Volume 1/Volume 2" on Third Mind Records in 1983. Thirty years later Vinyl On Demand released the five LP box set 'Rising From The Red Sand Volimes I-V'. 

Filed under field recordings, spoken word, occult is the compilation CD "Spectra Ex Machina : A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Volume I". Featuring recordings of seances, mediums and poltergeists "Annelise Michel's Exorcism Ritual By Father Arnold Renz (Klingenberg, Germany, 1976)" is also on the CD. I remember film of this exorcism being on BBC TV at the time, it would have been on some news magazine type programme ... it also influenced the track "Annalisa" by Public Image Limited. The song features on their debut album. 'Spectra Ex Machina' is on the Belgian label Sub Rosa. Go to https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/music for more details.

During the summer break I have been reading some great publications including Nicolas Ballet's "Shock Factory", Ester Kärkkäinen's "Sex Works" and a couple of issues of Untitled magazine, a magazine published by Chris Gibson of Buried In Slag And Debris. Issue #10 features an article by William A. Davison on early days of cassette labels in Canada. William A. Davison is part of the sound project Six Heads. "Smaller, Larger, Lighter (Incantation Of The Naugahyde Witch)" is from the LP 'Cardboard Oracle" released in 2011 on the Wintage Records & Tapes label. 

                                                                   "Cardboard Oracle".

Also in Isue #10 is an in depth interview with Jonas Torstensen. Jonas is from Odense in Denmark. Jonas also records and releases under the names Franking, Eva and Franciska. Franciska has released some great albums on Discreet Music, Joy De Vivre and Förfall labels recently. Jonas also operates the label Pladeseiskabet Pladesselvskab. Copies of Untitled (#9 features a great interview with Relay For Death and artwork from Small Cruel Party) can be found at https://buriedinslaganddebris.bigcartel.com. The Jonas Torstensen piece here is from the cassette "Arvesynd" on Edinburgh based label Molt Fluid. Available here : https://moltfluid.bandcamp.com/album/arvesynd. 

Secret Science are Max Kuiper and Jacob DeRaadt. 

Last year Fletina released the album 'Serrof' on the Unfathomless label. Sounds constructed from the time working in a swimming pool, Fletina's new album 'Environments & Mechanisms" is built from sounds of what I would describe as white goods. Washing machine, electric oven, ground floor elevator (probably not white goods, but you get my gist) and printer. Released by the Bulgarian Mahorka label. 

Copies are available from https://mahorka.bandcamp.com. Fletina at : https://fletina.bandcamp.com. The project reminded me of the time when Dieter Müh released an album where most of the sounds were culled from machinery, office machinery and factory machinery. In 1999 Dieter Müh released the album "Eponymous" on the French label Naninani Recordings, it was a planned cassette release but finally came out on CDR format. In 2017 Ukranian label Sentimental Productions remastered the recordings and put it out as a vinyl LP. "E Coli Tsar" is built from the sounds of a printer. I was going to play another track from the "Eponymous" album and then .. "A Lifetime" the latest album by Altar Of Flies landed on the MuhMur Radio HQ doormat. I bumped my own stuff! Altar Of Flies are a MuhMur Radio favourite and friend of the programme. 

"A Lifetime" is a double CD on the Satatuhatta label. https://altarofflies.bandcamp.com. 

A few weeks ago I discovered the sound of Dolores Mondo Stash on the David Warmbier's excellent radio show 'Institute Of Spectra Sonic Sounds" and just had to here more ... Dolores Mondo Stash is the project of Romanian sound artist Dan Tecucianu and has been active since 2017. The two pieces here are from his latest album "Dirt Collected Reminiscences, Like Rivers Of Molasses" on the UK Cruel Nature Records label. Like the first time I heard David Walraff and Himukalt ... I want to hear more ... The cassette is available from https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dirt-collected-reminiscences-like-rivers-of-molasses and listen to : https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/. 

The broadcast ends on the classic "Christine Keeler' by The Glaxo Babies ... released on this day in 1979.

The broadcast has been archived in to two parts for easier aural digestion (part two begins with Aum Shinrikyo). 

Part One:

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-31-august-2025-part-one/

Part Two:

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-31-august-2025-part-two/

Playlist:

01: Ludus : "Centuries" (New Hormones) 1982.

02: Crispy Ambulance : "Sexus" (Factory Benelux) 1984.

03: Organ Of Corti : "Sexus" (Philatélie) 2025.

04: 400 Lonely Things : "Arc Nexus Moon" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2020.

05: Oderous Bait : "Yardtime" (Burnt Seed Records) 2025.

06: Errorserror : "Porphyrim" (Burnt Seed Records) 2025.

07: Schuster : "The Brutal Arc (Adeptsound) 2008.

08: Grodock : "Hab Acht" (Krater Recordings) 2024.

09: Grodock : "Das Halbe Abwesen" (Krater Recordings) 2024.

10: Coagulant : "At Forms" (Kringloop Kassettes) 2025.

11: Creep Of Paris : "Dehydrator As Economic God" (Krim Kram) 2025.

12: Aum Shinrikyo : "Unknown Title" (Research Laboratories) 2024.

13: Rubber Demon : "Wine And Cheese (Communication III)" (Research Laboratories) 2024.

14: Creep Of Paris : "In Fear Of A New Queen" (Krim Kram) 2025.

15: The Fall : "Underground Medicin" (Step-Forward Records) 1979.

16: Metamorphosis : "Fire Gates" (Vinyl On Demand) 2013.

17: Annelise Michel : "Exorcism Ritual" (Sub Rosa) 2024.

18: Public Image Limited : "Annalisa" (Virgin Records) 1978.

19: Ludus : "Redress" (New Hormones) 1982.

20: Six Heads : "Smaller, Larger, Lighter (Incantation Of The Naugahyde Witch)" (Wintage Records & Tapes) 2011.

21: Jonas Torstensen : "Anspændte Forventninger" (Molt Fluid) 2025.

22: Secret Science : "Cycle 4" (Basement Tapes) 2021.

23: Fletina : "Back Room/Printer" (Mahorka) 2025.

24: Dieter Müh : "E Coli Tsar" (Sentimental Productions) 2017.

25: Altar Of Flies : "The Last Capitalist We Hang Shall Be The One That Sold Us The Rope" (Satatuhatta) 2025.

26: Dolores Mondo Stash : "Fabrica Fantasma" (Cruel Nature Records) 2025.

27: Dolores Mondo Stash : "To The Wildlife Left Orphan By The Fire" (Cruel Nature Records) 2025.

28: Glaxo Babies : "Christine Keeler" (Heartbeat Records) 1979.

Huge thanks, as always to Chris for being there and Tamsin for the support ... beers and transport.

                                                  Tamsin & Chris grooving to the sounds.

A slight technical hitch meant that this broadcast could not be live streamed, the Internet seems to be down on the Dartington Hall Estate. I am sorry for those that tuned in and realised that I wasn't starting the programme with John Cage's 4'33 ... MuhMur Radio is back on September 28th. 18:00 GMT, I have a plan to play tracks from compilation (various artists) releases ... 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast ... Back On The Air!

 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast #284 will be on the air AUGUST 31 at 18:00 GMT. Back after 8 weeks away.

"We're back, in full attack. Never give in until they crack!" (999 'Emergency'). Well it's better than "Did you miss me, whilst I was away, did you hang my picture on your wall?. And did you kiss me, every single day although you didn't see me at all?", I'll let you google those lyrics. 

So, make a note and tune your radio dial to 102.5FM if you are in the Dartington / Totnes / Berry Pomeroy area or tune in to the live stream at https://soundartradio.org.uk. MuhMur Radio is still following Crucial Vibes broadcast, so tune in early to hear some top ranking sounds. 

I will be playing sounds that have arrived here at MuhMur Radio HQ over the past couple of months, sounds from Krim Kram, Cruel Nature Records, Research Laboratories, Burnt Seeds (Perth, Australia), Sub Rosa and Kringloop Kassettes amongst some old favourites and an 'On This Day' featuring Glaxo Babies and Ludus.

It will be great to have your ears.

Steve.

* If you know where and when the above photograph was taken .... go to the top of the class ... me owd.

MuhMur Radio Broadcast #283 - July 6th 2025.

 

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. 

                                                                          Petals.

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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