After The Snow. I should have started the broadcast with Modern English's "After The Snow". Missed trick. MuhMur Radio is back on the airwaves after the short-notice cancellation of the Jan 31st programme due to snow. A heavy blizzard descended on Totnes and the taxi driver refused to take my down the country roads to the SoundArt Radio station. I can only apologise.
This programme features an exclusive play of the forthcoming album by Non Toxique Lost. Non Toxique Lost are a political, experimental, electronic project based in Berlin. They formed in Mainz (Germany) in 1982. The first time I came across the name Non Toxique Lost was through their involvement with the 1983 Berlin Atonal Festival. The 'famous' one which also featured Psychic TV, Z'ev and The Anti Group. The first time I got to hear Non Toxique Lost was on the (legendary) compilation LP "Q.E.D" on the N.L.Centrum label. This double LP also features S.P.K., Z'ev, Blurt, Chris & Cosey and The Hafler Trio amongst others ... well worth tracking down. One of the founding members of Non Toxique Lost is Achim Wollschied of Swimming Behaviour Of The Human Infant who also appear on the "Q.E.D" compilation. Another founding member Steffen Schütze (aka T. Poem) sadly passed away in 2017.
In 2018 Non Toxique Lost played at the 'KLANG25' Festival in Vienna alongside, John Avery, Zahgurim, Renaldo & The Loaf, Eric Random and Rapoon (amongst others) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Klanggalerie label.
For the event Non Toxique Lost were to be Achim Wollscheid, Jammin' Unit, DJ Verhovny and Sea Wanton. Unfortunately due to some problems only Sea Wanton and Jammin' Unit performed live. There were no recordings from the evening so two weeks later Sea Wanton went in to his studio in Berlin and recorded the whole set. "It corresponds relatively to the live experience on the night". The lyrics on "Bewegen Air Uns Noch" are by Joachim Stender and the lyrics on "Dulce Et Decorum Set" are by Wilfred Own - written in 1917. The album is called 'State Of the Art" and will be released later in the year by Klanggalerie.
The broadcast opens with two tracks from the Non Toxique Lost album "England Ihren Feiden Schenken"" released in 2008 on the Greek Hic Rhodos-Hic Salta label. (Hic Rhodos-Hic Salta is from Aesop's Fables and literally means 'Prove What You Can Do, Here And Now'). The tracks "Ruft Much Am In Der Zukunft" and "Gals D'Argent" come from the 2007 album "Siga Siga" and "Sam 41643" comes from "Träneninvasion" a memory card/USB stick released in 2014.
Many thanks to Sea Wanton (Gerd Neumann) and Non Toxique Lost for the sounds and support for MuhMur Radio. They will be plenty more N.T.L. in the coming months ...
Non Toxique Lost can be contacted here : http://www.nontoxiquelost.de
14th February 1977 saw the release of Metal Urbain's 7" single "Paris Marquis", and three years later Scars released their first 7" on Pre Records "They Came And Took Her".
About ten years ago I found myself in Liskeard, Cornwall and went in to a secondhand bookshop that had a box of 12" records. Lazily thumbing through I found the 12" EP "Loop Static (Amina B Ring Modulations)" by Richard H. Kirk for ten bob. This purchase sticks out for me - not only because it's a great record and a great find - but I remember the guy behind the counter telling me that his shop was the only secondhand vinyl shop in Cornwall. Not just Liskeard but the whole of Cornwall. Fake News! The Kirk track here is from that 12"EP.
Marias Bad is the project of Norwegian sound artist Bjørn J. Magnhildeøn. The German label m.m.label have just released a double CDR collection of the work of Bjørn which features the track "Fenrefaen". This piece was originally released on the compilation cassette "Paradoxical Paralysis" in 1991 on Siegmar Fricke's Bestattungsinstitut label. A download copy of the release is available here : https://thorstensoltau.bandcamp.com/album/parlamentation
"Voor Lilia" by Modelbau was available for a limited period via Frans De Waard's Facebook Page. It was recorded to celebrate the birthday of Lilia Scheerder, a Modelbau collaborator and owner of Barreuh Records.
And because it's St. Valentine's Day .... Just For You, Here Is A Love Song.
Please take a listen : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-radio-broadcast-february-14-2019/
Playlist:
01: Non Toxique Lost : "England #1" (Hic Rhodos-Hic Salta) 2008.
02: Non Toxique Lost : "England #2" (Hic Rhodos-Hic Salta) 2008.
03: Suicide : "Rocket USA" (Cherry Red Records) 2019.
04: Metal Urbain : "Paris Marquis" (Rough Trade Records) 1977.
05: Non Toxique Lost : "Ruft Mich An In Der Zukunft" (Dossier Records) 2005.
06: Non Toxique Lost : "Sam 41643" (Hic Rhodos-Hic Salta) 2014.
07: Richard H. Kirk : "Crimes Against Humanity" (Touch) 2000.
08: Scars : "They Came And Took Her" (Pre Records) 1980.
09: Non Toxique Lost : "Bewegen Wir Uns Noch?" (Not On Label) 2019.
10: Non Toxique Lost : "Dulce Et Decorum Est" (Not On Label) 2019.
11: Non Toxique Lost : "i.n.t.a.s.b.t.i.a.s.s." (Not On Label) 2019.
12: Non Toxique Lost : "Schwarze Mamba" (Not On Label) 2019.
13: Non Toxique Lost : "Untergang" (Not On Label) 2019.
14: Non Toxique Lost : "Buchenwald" (Not On Label) 2019.
(Tracks #9 - #14 are from the forthcoming LP "State Of The Art").
15: Non Toxique Lost : "Gals D'Argent" (Dossier Records) 2005.
16: Duet Emmo : "The First Person" (Mute Records) 1983.
17: Marias Bad : "Fenrefaen" (m.m. label) 2019.
18: Modelbau : "Voor Lilia" (Not On Label - Modelbau Self Released) 2019.
19: The Damned : "Love Song" (Chiswick Records) 1979.
The next MuhMur Radio broadcast will be on February 28th. (Barring Snowstorms). 20:00 hours GMT.
thanx ! what a show ! fine compilation ...'Metal Urbaine' was too early ('77), but fantastic. the 'Suicide' song remains timeless. and the 'Damned' make it clear: 'It's been a lovely day and it's okay It's okay, oh it's okay, oh it's okay'.
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