MuhMur Radio Four Hour Festive Feast Of Fun Broadcast 29 December 2020.

                                                   The view from SoundArt Studios at dusk.
 

It's been a few months since I last did a live broadcast, and MuhMur Radio comes back with a live four hour festive extravaganza. The programme itself didn't go without any hiccups, I had skipping CD's, a CD player that was playing too fast therefore cutting the playlist timings down ... (bet you can't tell which 2 tracks are played at the wrong speed) ... I then added songs I wasn't going to play to make up the time then came a major fuck up with a Dieter Müh CDR and a Robert Turman CD that wouldn't read so Magazine and Hunting Lodge got bumped .. I will make certain those tracks get played on the next brace of MuhMur Radio broadcasts. 

Instead of going through what was played (source wise) I'll just supply the playlist and add a few pictures at the bottom. Many many thanks go to Chris Booth for giving up his Tuesday evening to watch me descend in to drunken panic (the panic being that I ran out of Stella an hour before the end of broadcast!) and help out with CD players when it all went a bit titsy skywards. 

Scritti Politti and Department S were played in the "On This Day" feature ... 

The programme has been split into two parts for easy listening : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-festive-feast-broadcast-pt-1/

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-festive-feast-pt-2/

Playlist :

01: The 39 Clocks : "78 Soldiers Dead" (Luxury Products) 2013.

02: De Tian : "Transcriptome #1" (Discus) 2020.

03: Bourbonese Qualk : "Boggy Creek" (Recloose Organisation) 1986.

04: Scritti Politti : "Scritlocks Door" (Rough Trade/St Pancras Records) 1978.

05: Scritti Politti : "OPEC Immac" (Rough Trade/St Pancras Records) 1978.

06: AG Geige : "Der Möbiousband/Zeychen Und Wunder" (Major Label) 2018.

07: Mezzanine Swimmers : "Kneelin' On A Knife" (Already Dead) 2020.

08: Mezzanine Swimmers : "Sexy Apology" (Already Dead) 2020.

09: Contrastate : "English Pastoral" (Old Europa Cafe) 2020.

10: Conjecture : "AAENH (Antechamber Mix)" (Amek) 2020.

11: Cabaret Voltaire : "Sensoria (12mx)" (Virgin Records) 2001.

12: Blue Orchids : "Bad Education" (Rough Trade Records) 1982.

13: Duncan Harrison : "Mount Zion Bathed In Lighting" (Sham Repro) 2020.

14: Soviet France : "Rays Parallel" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

15: Soviet France : "Swelled Out Downward" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

16: Soviet France : "Signing Papal Briefs" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

17: Robert Turman : "Spirals Of Everlasting Change (In)" (Helicopter/Hanson Records) 2020.

18: Swell Maps : "Harmony In Your Bathroom" (Rough Trade/Rather Records) 1978.

19: Swell Maps : "Don't Throw Ashtrays At Me!" (Rough Trade/Rather Records) 1978.

Part Two :

20: Grey Park : "Nothin' But A Sea Of Smoke" (Not On Label/Self Released) 2020.

21: Grey Park : "Corridor Of Maybe" (Not On Label/Self Released) 2020.

22: The Cure : "Primary" (Fiction Records) 1981.

23: A Certain Ratio : "Lucinda" (Factory Records) 1982

24: The Rebel : "Do U Think I'm Breathing" (Research Laboratories) 2020.

25: The Special A.K.A. : "(What I Like Most About You Is Your) Girlfriend" (Two Tone Records) 1984.

26: Blurt : "Fresh Meat For Martyrs" (Sartorial Records) 2020.

27: Blurt : "Spill The Beans" (Red Flame Records) 1983.

28: Ian Dury & The Blockheads : "Sex n' Drugs n' Rock n' Roll" (Stiff Records) 1977.

29: The Pop Group : "Snowgirl" (Radar Records) 1979.

30: Missing Presumed Dead : "Say It With Flowers" (Sequel Records) 1980.

31: Missing Presumed Dead : "Walkie Talkie Eyes" (Sequel Records) 1980.

32: Current 93 : "Niemandswasser I" (HomAleph) 2020.

33: Current 93 : "Niemandswasser II" (HomAleph) 2020.

34: Hula : "Not A Second Glance" (Red Rhino Records) 1986.

35: Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle : "Wir Gehen In Den Zoo" (A-Musik) 2016.

36: Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle : "Was Kostet Die Welt" (A-Musik) 2016.

37: John Cooper Clarke : "Thirty Six Hours" (Epic Records) 1980.

38: Department S : "Is Vic There?" (Demon Records) 1980.

39: 156: "Organ And Drum" (Goat Eater Arts) 2013.

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

41: Sisters Of Mercy : "Body Electric" (Merciful Release/WEA Records) 1984.

42: Dieter Müh : "Bethlehem (Live)" (Not On Label) 2004.

43: Robert Turman : "Vice" (Helicopter/Hanson Records) 2020.

44: Minny Pops : "Secret Story" (Factory Records) 1982. 

Regular service will be resumed on January 21. 20:00 hour (GMT) Kick Off ... 

Thanks for listening ... 

                                                                   AG GEIGE.

                                                             MISSING PRESUMED DEAD.

                                                               BOURBONESE QUALK

                                                       FREIWILLIGE SELBSTKONTROLLE

                                                                           BLURT

                                          156 / MEZZANINE SWIMMERS / THE 39 CLOCKS

                                           SOUNDART RADIO MANDARIN CHRIS BOOTH 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 10 December 2020.

 

This is the final broadcast of 2020. The final pre-record anyway ... there will be the annual live "four hour festive feast of fun" show broadcast on December 29 but more information about that later ... 

Tonights programme starts with a track from the Aidan Baker With The Plurals album "Glass Crocodile Medicine". Back in 2011 Aidan Baker and The Plurals toured the UK (along with Baker side project Nadja) and went in to Southern Studios in London to record two live improvisations. "Glass Crocodile Medicine" was released by Latitudes a subsidiary of Southern Records. 

Back in 2006 I (as part of Dieter Müh) played th Wave Gothik-Treffen Festival in Leipzig. We played a venue called Der Anker alongside Novy Svet, Apoptose, Land:Fire & Propergol. I was in Leipzig for four days and I saw this as an opportunity to see as many live bands as possible and blow the performance fee and airfare on vinyl. One of the live acts I wanted to see was Tho-So-Aa, the solo ambient/Experimental project of German sound artist Lutz Rach. 

The performance took place in a cellar beneath an Absinthe Bar. The bar was in an old courtyard not far from the main train station, and I managed to catch a live set by Shava Sadhana before trying to find the Tho-So-Aa gig. Unfortunately the gig was not signposted and the space beneath the bar was like a labyrinth or Escher's 'House Of Stairs', so I retreated back to the Absinthe Bar and admitted defeat. "Sleep" is from the debut Tho-So-As album "Enrielle". A few months later I managed to get a copy of the CD album "Salon Decadance" released by the Neo-Form label that featured all the acts that played the Absinthe Bar during the 2006 WGT Festival. The CD features Shava Sadhana, Sagittarius, Echo West and Tho-So-Aa. So it wasn't all just an illusion. "Just An Illusion" is the 1990 album released by Soviet France and has just been re-issued by Vinyl On Demand. "Ascend A Fall" and "Caught In The Square" are from this album. Originally a CD presented in a cigar box VOD have put it out as a double album and is part of the ten album box set "Chȃsse 2". 

The Yoni Silver And Paul Watson piece comes from the new cassette "Beartown Live Wreckage #1 (2014 & 2020)". It's an improvisational piece recorded live at 5 Miles, a brewery and night club in Seven Sisters, London. The cassette is a split release with Daniel Spicer and available via Beartown Records here : https://beartownrecords.bigcartel.com Beartown Records have just put out tapes by Creep Of Paris, Phil Maguire and John Butcher. Great stocking fillers! Ian Murphy is part of the avant-noise project Hobo Sonn and has just released a split / collaborative album with ex Plural Duncan Harrison. The album is called "Slow Lightning" and is available here : https://www.shamrepro.com If MuhMur radio did a list of best releases of 2020 then I think this LP would be sitting near the top. 

Great artwork / photography too by Eddie Nuttall of Aqua Dentata fame. The album featuring in the " On This Day" is "20 Jazz Funk Greats" by Throbbing Gristle. Released on December 10 in 1979, this was TG's third vinyl album. As a rule I don't like playing the same record twice and was surprised to find that after eight and a bit years of producing MuhMur Radio I have never played the 'album version' of "Persuasion".  "Tanith" was the name of Gen + Cosey's dog at the time. (a German Shepherd). 

The CD "Cinque Studi Sui Paesaggio" by Alessandro Ragazzo came through the post last month. I am afraid I know nothing of this artist, I don't know if this is a debut release or with or not Alessandro is part of some group. Putting the name in the search engine seems to bring up a New York based pop singer. Anyway, it's a great CD on the Dissipatio label (again, searches pull blanks). 

One of the finest albums of 2019 was "V" by Conjecture. Released by the Bulgarian Amek label it was a follow up to the 2017 release "My Body, Your Temple". Conjecture is the solo project of visual and sound artists Vasilis Angelopoulos, he created Conjecture to discover parallels between sound, the body and religion. It's a sound I really like, to me it has the same texture and feel as late 1980's Clock DVA. The track played here is from the new C20 cassette release "⨛V". Available here ... for only €6. https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/v-2 

A single that should have ben featured in the last broadcast because it was released "On This Day' back in 1980 was the "Don't Try To Cure Yourself" EP by They Must Be Russians. They Must Be Russians were formed in Sheffield in 1979 by Paul Widger (later of Clock DVA and The Box) and Russel Davies. After numerous line-up changes they split in 1986. "Air To Breathe" is from this EP. 

Please take a listen to the broadcast here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-10-december-2020/

Playlist :

01: Aidan Baker With The Plurals : "Turning Children Into Mice" (Latitudes) 2013.   

02: Tho-So-Aa : "Sleep" (Art Konkret) 2002.

03: Soviet France : "Ascend A Fall" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

04: Soviet France : "Caught In The Square" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

05: Yoni Silver And Paul Watson : "Untitled" (Beartown Records) 2020.

06: Ian Murphy : "New Index Of Delusion & Error" (Sham Repro) 2020.

07: Throbbing Gristle : "Tanith" (Industrial records) 1979.

08: Alessandro Ragazzo : "Cinque Studi Sui Paesaggio (I)" (Dissipatio) 2020.

09: Conjecture : "AAENH" (Amek) 2020.

10: Throbbing Gristle : "Persuasion" (Industrial Records) 1979.         

11: They Must Be Russians : "Air To Breathe" (Fresh Records) 1980.                

Many thanks to Chris Booth for facilitating and engineering this broadcast, like I mentioned this was the last 2 hour (pre-record) broadcast of 2020, but there will be a 240 minute festive extravaganza broadcast live on December 29th kicking off at 18:00 GMT. Over the past eight years this has now become a ritual event ... to listen to a mans descent into alcoholism with some choice sounds! Details will be given on the MuhMur Radio Facebook page in the coming days. ...