MuhMur Radio Broadcast 27 May 2021

 

The programme begins with a track from "The Saturnine Broadcasts", a double CD album by Inade and Circular. Recorded live on June 6 2020 in Leipzig. (From the CD notes) "In June 2020 Inade and Circular were invited to join an independent broadcasting network and perform an online concert with a new conceptual live series called 'Art & Paranoia'. We decided to prepare a label showcase and perform some exclusive live sets with some classic tracks that have never been performed. The majority of our releases have always been marked by contradictions in their depiction, invoking an expansive array of meanings; encompassing positive, creative facets - such as depth, imagination, and bursts of genius - as well as dark qualities - including gloominess, despondency and isolation. Time was not on our side, and due to circumstances out of our hands the showcase got cancelled". Inade and LOKI Foundation can be contacted here : http://wp.loki-found.de/?page_id=19

Sensory Leakage are a label based in London. Since 2019 they have been releasing cassettes in the "Zener" series. Artists such as Alison Cotton, Greening Lambourne, Tippex Christ and Quiet Clapping (no .. me neither .. what a rabbit hole to climb down). Number 27 in the Zener series is by Grey Frequency. No stranger to the MuhMur Radio playlist Grey Frequency is the solo project of audio / visual artist Gavin Morrow. 'Zener_27' features two tracks, "Kirlian Aura" is from this cassette. Physical releases on Sensory Leakage seem to be limited to 50 copies but downloads are still available through their bandcamp page : https://sensoryleakage.bandcamp.com/album/zener-27-2

Enhet För Fri Müsik (like Grey Frequency) are no strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist. They are, what used to be called back in the 'prog days' a supergroup. An Asia, a Paige, Ashton Lord, a Travelling Willburys of the Gothenburg underground. EFFM are comprised of Dan Johansson (Sewer Election), Gustaf Dicksson (Blod), Hugo Randulv (Typical Girls), Matthias Andersson (Arv & Miljö) and Sofie Herner (Neutral). The three tracks here are from their latest album "Ömhet & Skilsmässa". 

The album is released by Discreet Music. http://www.discreetmusic.se It is sold out on their online store but copies may be available via Discogs. I do recommend joining the Discreet Music mailing list. 

I have been catching up on some old Nocturnal Emissions sounds of late and last month I took the short trip to Lostwithiel to visit Nigel and Lesley and stroll along the beach at Par and talk about old NE recordings and live performances. I never leave Emission Control without a treat and this time I left with a copy of the 10"EP "Imaginary Time". "Skin Deep" is from this EP.

                                                          Myself & Nigel on Par Beach.

"Skin Deep" gives me the chance to use my DJ license so I can play the same title / different song game with "Skin Deep" by The Passions. It's a shame I don't have a copy of The Stranglers single "Skin Deep" but that was released in 1984 and that was well past their sell by date. The Chris & Cosey track is from a new 7" that comes with issue 76 of "Electronic Sound" magazine. "Jamming, Tottenham 1982" is the B-Side to a remix of the classic "October Love Song". The track is an unreleased improvised piece recorded just after the demise of Throbbing Gristle - it still has a certain 'Gristleness' about it. Chris mentions in the accompanying interview "We used to play together for hours in our studio in Crouch End and when we moved and when we moved to our house in Tottenham. It was like a form of therapy, driving out the post-traumatic stress of being in Throbbing Gristle". Copies of the magazine are available from Electronic Sound here : https://electronicsound.co.uk/shop/p/issue76 

The 808 State track is from the compilation album "Edward Not Edward". An album featuring the cream of Hulme and Moss-Side artists from the late 1980's all covering songs by Edward Barton. 

The "On This Day" feature is Eater and their debut EP "Thinking Of The USA" released in 1977 on The Label label. A great read is the Andy Blade autobiography, a great document of the birth of punk music in London. Published by Cherry Red Books.

"Airborne" is the new album from Angel Simitchiev and Linus Schrab. It's the first time Angel has released under his own name ... outside of his dark ambient project MyTrip. Linus Schrab is a musician based in Malmö (Sweden). "Initiation" is from this album. Copies are available from the Amek bandcamp page here : https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com The Soviet France track is from the "What Is Not True" album released in 1993 on Charrm Records. The album is three live tracks recorded at The Leadmill in Sheffield and The Old Vic in Nottingham. I was fortunate to be at both gigs (the latter being arranged by John Everall and Teresa Mills and also featured Lull on the bill). The CD has been re-issued by Vinyl On Demand as a triple sided double album. 

I have (recently) been grabbed by the sound of Himukalt after hearing them (her) on the Helen Scarsdale Agency ten tapes compilation "On Corrosion". "Panic Attack" is from last years album "Sex Worker II" on the German Total Black label. 

"The American Redhead" is from the recent re-issue of the 2018 album "Knife Through The Spine" on Cold Spring Records. The track isn't on the original album (released by Malignant records), it's 'Bonus Material'. I have talked about Himukalt in the past, so will not go in to detail here ... but the album is available here : https://coldspring.co.uk There will be more Himukalt on the next broadcast!                  The Lustmord track is from the album "First Reformed" a soundtrack to the movie of the same name. 

Another regular on the MuhMur Radio playlist is John Duncan. "Homecoming" is from the recently released album "Soft Eyes" in Ideal Recordings. The album also features Stefano Pilia on guitar and the collaboration album "Try Again" (Duncan & Pilia) will feature on the next broadcast. The sleeve / artwork on the LP has a very 1990's '4AD' vibe to it ... I did think it was probably by someone at the 23Envelope studios, it is by Gary Jo Gardenhire, an American visual artist living in Italy.

John's voice always reminds of the voice of David Thomas, so I put Pere Ubu in their next. "Not Happy" was a stand alone single from 1981. 

A MuhMur Radio Broadcast would not be a MuhMur Radio Broadcast without something by Frans de Waard. Although not directly involved (with the music) here, Friends In Low Places featured on the compilation tape "Katacombe Volume 3" released in 1984 on Korm Plastics and Schrei Records. Frans compiled the cassette for Schrei Records. The cassette also features Het Zweet, De Fabriek, Kapotte Muziek and Y Create amongst others. Friends In Low Places were from Leiden, and the project of Matz Decay. They (he) were known also as Love Choir. Earlier this year Staaltapes re-issued the tape on their Korm Plastics D label. For availability try here : http://www.kormplastics.nl

The Hunting Lodge track is from the LP "Shack". A vinyl & CD combination featuring recordings from 1988 - 1992. This put me in mind of the Dormanuu track ... so I slipped it on next. 

Dormanuu were active for only a short length of time (1983 - 1985). They released a trio of singles and one album for Illuminated Records before disbanding. The guitarist was Mark Tinley, older brother to Adamski. The Camberwell Now track is from the compilation CD "All's Well". "Daddy Needs A Throne" first appeared on the 1985 compilation cassette "Ritual : Magnetic North" on Touch. It was recorded at the same time as the first LP "The Ghost Trade", but didn't quite fit on the album ... so, it was used here. 

Every time I read an article , review or whatever about Himukalt the project gets compared with Puce Mary. Single white female syndrome probably - either that or laziness, or the author has never heard "Information Overload Unit" or the catalogue of Gaya Donadio. Anyway, I dug out some of the Puce Mary releases I own ... and have come to the conclusion that perhaps the comparisons aren't as lazy as I thought. 

"Another Dream In Superiority" is from the cassette EP "The Great Panic" released by Freak Animal Records in 2014. The cassette is available still here : https://www.nhfastore.net/noise-tapes/Puce-Mary-the-great-panic?sort=p.viewed&order=DESC 

The programme ends on a classic from Throbbing Gristle. 

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-27-may-2021/

Playlist :

01: Inade : "Über Dem All" (Loki Foundation) 2020.

02: Grey Frequency : "Kirlian Aura" (Sensory Leakage) 2021.

03: Enhet För Fri Müsik : "Orden Du Aldrig Säger" (Discreet Music) 2021.

04: Enhet För Fri Müsik : "Född Med Tänder" (Discreet Music) 2021.

05: Nocturnal Emissions : "Skin Deep" (Disaster Area) 2000.

06: Chris & Cosey : "Jamming, Tottenham 1982" (Electronic Sound) 2021.

07: 808 State : "Sorry Dog" (Wooden Records) 1989.

08: Enhet För Fri Müsik : "Opus 6 - Sommarlius" (Discreet Music) 2021.

09: The Passions : "Skin Deep" (Polydor Records) 1985.

10: Eater : "Michael's Monetary System" (The Label) 1977.

11: Angel Simitchiev & Linus Schrab : "Initiation" (Amek) 2021.

12: Soviet France : "Not Just What To Say" (Charrm Records) 1993.

13: Himukalt : "Panic Attack" (Total Black) 2020.

14: Himukalt : "The American Redhead" (Cold Spring Records) 2021.

15: Lustmord : "Everlasting" (Vaultworks) 2019.

16: John Duncan : "Homecoming" (Ideal Recordings) 2021.

17: Pere Ubu : "Not Happy" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.

18: Friends In Low Places : "Ode An Die Freiheit" (Korm Plastics D) 2021.

19: Hunting Lodge : "Rip You To Shreds (Original)" (S/M Operations/Easy Listening).

20: Dormanuu : "Powdered Lover" (Illuminated Records) 1983.

21: Eater : "Thinking Of The USA (Live)" (The Label) 1978.

22: The Camberwell Now : "Daddy Needs A Throne" (Rec Rec Music) 1992.

23: Puce Mary : "Another Dream In Superiority" (Freak Animal Records) 2014.

24: Throbbing Gristle : "Subhuman" (Industrial Records) 1980.

Thanks for listening and thanks for reading. 

Next broadcast goes out on June 10, listen via SoundArt Radio on the FM dial or via their webpage and live stream. Or, if you're busy on a Thursday night ... there's always the MixCloud Archive. June 10 will have sounds from MuhMur Radio favourites Modelbau, John Duncan and Kazuya Ishigami as well as an "on this day" from Monte Cazazza.

Bu.d.d.a.

 

This month sees a new release by the project Bu.d.d.a. Bu.d.d.a. is the project of Chris Sigdell & Sascha Stadlmeier.

I first came aware of the work of Chris back in the late 1990's and his work as Níd through the Tochnit Aleph released "Tarm-Stad" cassette. A friend at the time had some Mercury 4ºf singles .. but I don't really remember them standing out ... Níd were a trio of Chris, Jürgen Eberhard and Oswin Czerwinski. Jürgen and Oswin were releasing as Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim at this time. Chris began his BºTong project in 2005 after the demise of doom rock band Phased. In 2012, a couple of years after releasing the CDR "Ov Elf And Haarp" on the Attenuation Circuit label, BºTong released a split album with Attenuation Circuit label boss Sascha's project Emerge. It's one of those albums where artists swap sound samples and remix / reinterpret each others sounds. 

In 2018 Chris and Sascha began working as Bu.d.d.a. (Bund Des Dritten Auges - The Order Of The Third Eye). "All Der Guten Dinge Drei" was released in 2019 by Attenuation Circuit, a document of a live improvised performance at Màgia Rosa in Barcelona that took place in 2018. And now we have "The Mourning Of The Midnight Diner's Menu Card" (A title that sounds like it should be a King Crimson live bootleg from 1970). 

Recorded last year live in Karlsruhe (a place I have played live with BºTong not so long ago ... at the University), "The Mourning Of The Midnight Diner's Menu Card" is a 37 minute piece of improvised electronics. It plays like a audio sci-fi novel, a novel in three parts. The first part has empty, spacial sounds built with plucked electric strings and a bowed violin. A lunar landscape creating a disconnect is built from manipulated contact microphones and broken electronics. Lost commands, alien voices, pleas from the space station accentuate the loneliness. Around 20 minutes in to the journey the sound turns intense dense and more claustrophobic as if a sense of panic or confusion is aboard. The final third is more calm, realisation of the situation with breath sounds and a sound more natural to earth. Creatures and water ... lost in a forest, alone on an alien planet. It's a really good journey. Two masters of improvised electronic / experimental music at the top of their game. (I would have called it "Alien Soundtracks", but I think there's a band who beat me to it)! 

There's a studio album out now too that features a shorter version of "The Mourning Of The Midnight Diner's Menu Card" released on the Spanish Marbre Negre label called "Erste Opfergaben". 

"The Mourning Of The Midnight Diner's Menu Card" is released by Enconore as part of their Live Editions Series.

https://econore.bandcamp.com/album/live-edition-9

All matters BºTong can be found here : https://www.btongmusic.com

Attenuation Circuit : https://emerge.bandcamp.com

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 13 May 2021

 

The programme begins, ends and has an intermission with "Plegadis Flacinellus" by Brighton based project Creep Of Paris. Creep Of Paris is Thomas LaRoche. Released last year, the cassette is packaged with a small booklet and a vial of massaging oil (included purposely to rub into your feet whilst listening tot he tape, unfortunately my copy came sans oil). Released on Thomas's own Research Laboratories label copies are made to order. https://researchlaboratories.tumblr.com

On April 1 this year Fossil Aerosol Mining Project released a four track EP available for a few hours only via their website. "An Invocation Of Alice" is from this EP.

2020 was a busy year for release by Alice Kemp. The German label Fragment Factory put out the  cassette "Songs In the Key Of NO" and the Dutch label Dead Mind Records put out "Sweetly My Blacken Doll". Alice also contributed to the Amplify 2020 project which posted free downloads on a daily basis throughout the year. "Sweetly My Blacken Doll" came out in November last year. A 20 minute piece packaged in a small box with art cards and a companion made from Beech Wood, Nylon, Human Hair, Waxed & Dyed Threads and 'Secrets'. (I must admit to not opening my companion yet!). 

The cassette / art box was limited to 25 copies only but a download version is available for only €3 from Dead Mind Records : https://dead-mind.bandcamp.com/album/sweetly-my-blacken-doll

Andrew Quitter started making and releasing noises in the late 1990's. A prolific noise artist he has released under the names of Regosphere, Ignorant Eyes, Normal Police and Psychic Rape Defence Unit amongst others and collaborated with the likes of Harold Shipman, Juice Machine, Contagious Orgasm and Werewolf Jerusalem. Andrew also releases under his own name, AQ releases have a more darker edge, room for experimentation, drone textures. "Mountain Hymns For City Rats" is a collection of 

pieces from split and compilation releases. It's a CDR on Andrew's own DumpsterScore label. http://dumpsterscore.org/outnow.html I also recommend the new Contagious Orgasm / Regosphere cassette "Hospital Emissions" on DumpsterScore. 

Förlag För Fri Musik is one of the most essential labels releasing quality records for the past five or six years. It's the home for projects such as Treasury Of Puppies, Blod, Arv & Miljö, Monokultur, Leda and Enhet För Fri Musik amongst others. A couple of months ago they put out two albums on the same day ... Astrid Øster Mortensen's "Gro Mig En Blomst" and Hugo Randulv's "Radio Arktis - Samlade Ljud Från Den Norra Polcirkeln". The two Randulv tracks here are from this new LP. Hugo also plays with Amateur Hour (I wonder if they're a Sparks tribute band) and Typical Girls (Slits?). Hugo is also part of Enhet För Fri Musik, who also have a new album out and selections will be played on the next MuhMur Radio Broadcast. (May 27). 

Both LPs are limited to 240 copies, try Discreet Music for copies : http://www.discreetmusic.se

"On This Day" features two classics. Firstly The Phones Sportsman Band "I Really Love You" 7"EP on Rather Records. Phones Sportsman is an alias of David Barrington. In the early 1970's Barrington formed the Swell Maps in Birmingham (UK) alongside Nikki Sudden, Richard Earl, Kevin Godfrey, Jowe Head and John "Golden" Cockrill. "I Really Love You" was Phones' only solo release - it does feature a great cover of Slade's "Get Down And Get With It". Barrington retired from the music industry to become a geologist. The EP can be found on Discogs etc ... 

A year later on May 13 1981 Au Pairs (also from Birmingham) released their debut LP "Playing With A Different Sex". "Armagh" is from this album.

"Fontelautus" is the second album, in a series of five, of solo releases by David Tibet. Originally released last year on the Cashen's Gap imprint as a limited lathe cut 12", last month HomAleph re-issued the album

on CD, packaged with a 'Japanese' style paper imprint. I recommend signing up to the David Tibet / Current 93 newsletter. https://www.davidtibet.com

The Clock DVA tracks are from the (timeless) classic "Thirst" LP. Released in 1981 on Fetish Records. 

For the past thirty years Dutch artist / author / musician has been writing about music for publications such as Vital Weekly, Record Collector and The Wire. Earlier this year a collection of his writings on his discovery of obscure vinyl, cassette and vanity pressings was published by Korm Plastics. "Wondersound" is a fantastic read, probably one of the best books written about music that I have read. It's fascinating in detail, written with humour and personality talking about the releases of and the discovery of such artists as Vagina Dentata Organ, The Gerogerigegege, Princess Tinymeat, Whitehouse and The Legendary Pink Dots as well as his love for the kitsch sounds of Japanese Erotic Pop and singing actresses from the sixties. Anorak in detail and unputdownable. (I am a notoriously slow reader and I ate this book in three days!). The book came with a download code for the track "Boy In Love". Freek has played with such luminaries as Andrew Lilles and Frans de Waard (as half of Beequeen) ad also spent time as one of The Residents. (the story is included in "Wondersound").

Copies of the book are available from Frans at Korm Plastics. http://www.kormplastics.nl or direct from Freek. https://freekkinkelaar.nl/a-biography-longish/

This programme's obligatory piece by Frans de Waard is the Modelbau track "Palindrome", released as a download only on February 12 2021. (12022021). Staying in the Lowlands. Créme De La Crime are from Belgium. "Lipstick" is from the 1986 compilation cassette "International Sound Communication #10" released by Man's Hate Productions. Man's Hate Productions was operated out of Peterborough by Andi Xport. The 'ISC' series was a great document of home produced cassette releases between 1985 - 1987. '#10' also includes my project of old - Ideas Beyond Filth as well as Stress, Do Easy (early Lawrence Burton project), Agencement, F/I, A Split Second, Rudolf's Rache (a German post punk band that features Tarkatak's Lutz Pruditsch on vocals) and Len Liggins amongst others. Volumes #1 - #8 are available as free downloads here : https://isctapes.wordpress.com

The Grey Frequency track is from the new compilation CD "Drone Islands - Stellar". Released by Eighth Tower Records, a label operated by Raffaele Pezzella aka SONOLOGYST. Copies are available here : https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com or try contacting Gavin Morrow (aka Grey Frequency) here : http://www.greyfrequency.co.uk

Thanks for listening, please take a listen to the broadcast here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-13-may-2021/

Playlist :

01: Creep Of Paris : "Plegadis Falcinellus (Extract)" (Research Laboratories) 2020.

02: Fossil Aerosol Mining Project : "An Invocation Of Alice" (Not On Label) 2021.

03: Alice Kemp : "In Through A Dog's Head Woman" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

04: Alice Kemp : "A Fen Leth Toleth" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

05: Alice Kemp : "Un Felyr Stor Ama Keth" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

06: Alice Kemp : "Sweetly Mein Fettal Worm" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

07: Alice Kemp : "Under A Blacken Hill" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

08: Alice Kemp : "Three Trees And A Hole In the Ground" (Dead Mind Records) 2020.

09: Andrew Quitter : "The Wolf Howls For No Man" (DumpsterScore) 2019.

10: Hugo Randulv : "Havet Vid Världens Början" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2021.

11: Hugo Randulv : "Radio Reykjavik" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2021.

12: The Phones Sportsman Band : "Wah Wah Track" (Rather Records) 1980.

13: The Phones Sportsman Band : "The Olton" (Rather Records) 1980.

14: Au Pairs : "Armagh" (Human Records) 1981.

15: Creep Of Paris : "Plegadis Falcinellus (Extract)" (Research Laboratories) 2020.

16: David Tibet : "Fontelautus (II)" (HomAleph) 2021.

17: Astrid Øster Mortensen : "Can I Still Call?" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2021.

18: Clock DVA : "Piano Pain" (Fetish Records) 1981.

19: Clock DVA : "Blue Tone" (Fetish Records) 1981.

20: Freek Kinkelaar : "Boy In Love" (Brunnen) 2021.

21: Modelbau : "Palindrome" (Not On Label) 2021.

22: La Créme De La Crime : "Lipstick" (Man's Hate Production) 1986.

23: Grey Frequency : "Planetary Chain" (Eighth Tower Records) 2021.

24: Creep Of Paris : "Plegadis Falcinellus (Extract)" (Research Laboratories) 2020.

Another selection from the collection will be broadcast on May 27 at 20:00 GMT on SoundArt Radio (102.5FM + streamed live via the SoundArt Radio website). Sounds from Inade, Himukalt, Grey Frequency, Nocturnal Emissions, (the aforementioned) Enhet För Fri Müsik, Angel Simitchiev & Linus Schrab, Eater (!) and much much more. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk

MuhMur Radio Broadcast April 29 2021

 

Tonights programme features two faces / slices of Frans de Waard. (The Man That Never Sleeps ... Or Eats Bread Apparently). The first piece is "Tilos" by Freiband. Freiband is one of many solo projects of Frans'. Beginning in 2002 Freiband was inspired by the tape-scratching of Asmus Tietchens on his "Daseinsverfehlung" CD, but using an entirely digital context. Using recordings that were made for an upcoming Beequeen release, (Beequeen being the duo of Freek Kinkelaar & Frans de Waard) a recording that has lots of guitars, drums and keyboards, Frans started to rework the sounds by scratching the hard disc. The result is a warm, glitchy pop music where the original instruments used are barely recognisable, and the sound is entirely electronic. "Tilos" is from the 2011 cassette album "At Home At Last - Six Songs Seek Shelter" on the Beam Ends label. Beam Ends is a small label run by Freek. The second slice of Frans is the piece "Within" by Modelbau. Released earlier this year on the hugely collectable Falt label. The cassette edition of this release is unfortunately all sold but digital copies are still available on the Falt Bandcamp page : https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/within-without 2022 will see a book on the first ten years of Modelbau.

It is always a joy to receive a surprise through the post and the new CD by Heimito Künst is such that joy. Utilizing synthesisers, magnetic tapes, percussion, strings and field recordings and recording live with environmental microphones (between 2019 - 2019) Heimito creates a deep psychedelic journey with recurring tropes. The recordings were mastered in 2020 by Simon Balestrazzi (Kirlian Camera / T.A.C.) and released on the newly emerging Dissipatio label. https://dissipatio.bandcamp.com It is worth noting that Heimito Künst is the name of a character - a mentally-impaired Neo nazi thug from Vienna - in Chilean author Roberto Bolaño's novel "The Savage Detectives" and track titles from this CD relate to stories and characters in this tome. The plot thickens. 

The Leif Elggren piece is from a recent cassette release on the hugely collectable Research Laboratories label. "Only Criminals In Crowns Find Sanctuary" is limited to 25 copies packaged in a box with a tin crown and postcard. Most Research Laboratories releases are small limited runs so it's worth following them on Tumblr to find out what's happening! : https://researchlaboratories.tumblr.com

Paul Harrison of Expose Your Eyes and Howard Stelzer have collaborated on a new release with a title that is about as long as the CD. This releases is packaged within a hollowed out book. A few weeks ago I received a CD by Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim that was stuck to a plate and a cassette by Modelbau that was packaged in a cardboard box that was the outer packaging - with name and address printed on etc, so each cassette was individual. 2021 is becoming the year of the 'art package'? Released by Illinois (USA) based label Oxidation, standard copies are available here : https://oxidationlabel.bigcartel.com

In 1980 Snatch Tapes put out a cassette by Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey called "Reprint". (I think it was the last cassette release on Snatch Tapes until Ice Yacht's "Pill Box" in 2020). As time passed and myths and rumours to who exactly Claire & Susan were floated about the underground, it became apparent that "Reprint" is an album by Storm Bug(ger) Philip Sanderson. Claire & Susan being a clever ruse and pseudonym. In 2003 Anomalous Records reissued the cassette on CD with bonus tracks and crediting it all to Philip. "Bright Waves" is from this CD. 

One of my most memorable gigs from my youth was seeing Gary Numan on his "Pleasure Principle" tour at Friars in Aylesbury. September 1979, I had just left school with no qualifications and just saw a whole life of travelling up and down the country watching bands and buying records ahead of me. Support at this gig was Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and they were excellent. At this point they had just released their first single for DinDisc "Red Frame/White Light" and were still just a two-piece. "Messages" followed "On This Day" in 1980. 

In September 1980 OMD released "Enola Gay" and our affair ended. 

US Teens is Ashley Davies. Ashley has been delivering the goods since the late 1980's with bands such as Chemical Plant, Headbutt and Spectreman. I first heard Ashley's work as part of Project D.A.R.K. and their 'Excited By Gramophones' series. For the past few years Ashley has been living on the West Coast of USA where the US Teens gave birth. I did ask Ashley where the name came from ... "There was a reason I chose US Teens as the name, fucked if I can remember now tho! Something I heard on the radio when I was driving thru Beverley Hills". I don't know if this cassette is an "official" release.

Knone is another project from Ashley Davies. A duo with vocalist Andrea Croce. "An Exorcism" is from the album "Ritual And Ceremony" released on Radiowave Recordings. Both Knone and Radiowave are contactable through Facebook. 

Cent Ans De Solitude is Jean-Yves Millet, owner of the French label Les Nouvelles Propagandes. I was fortunate enough to perform live with C.A.D.S. in 2014. Along with Le Syndicat we played the El Diablo Club in Lille, France. The track "Des Visages Et Des Ruines" is from the LP of the C.A.D.S. live performance that evening. 

There are two versions, a vinyl version released by Force Majeure (a label operated by Stephané of Nuit Et Brouillard) and a CD version released on Les Nouvelles Propagandes. Both versions are available via Nuit Et Brouillard : http://www.nuitetbrouillard.com

The two Rovar17 pieces are from a split cassette with American performance artist The Three-Brained Robot. Rovar17 is Kálmán Pongrácz from Budapest. He is also part of the Royal Hungarian Noisemakers ensemble. Like Knone, contact is available through Facebook.

Please take a listen to the broadcast here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-29-april-2021/

Playlist :

01: Freiband : "Titos" (Beam Ends) 2011.

02: Heimito Künst : "What's Behind the Window" (Dissipatio) 2021.

03: Hermito Künst : "Talking To Ulises" (Dissipatio) 2021.

04: Leif Elggren : "Her Sister (2) For Me" (Research laboratories) 2021.

05: Expose Your Eyes & Howard Stelzer : "One Should Never Cease Considering Human Love, Which    Remains As Grisly And Golden As Ever" (Oxidation) 2021.

06: Philip Sanderson : "Bright Waves" (Anomalous Records) 2003.

07: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark : "Messages" (DinDisc) 1980.

08: Throbbing Gristle : "Adrenalin" (Industrial Records) 1980.

09: US Teens : "20:20" (Radiowave Recordings) 2021.

10: Knone : "An Exorcism" (Radiowave Recordings) 2021.

11: Modelbau : "Within" (Falt) 2021.

12: Cent Ans De Solitude : "Des Visages Et Des Ruines" (Force Majeure) 2020.

13: Rovar17 : "P.A.N.Y.I.G." (Alien Seduction) 2020.

14: Rovar17 : "Sheet Music" (Alien Seduction) 2020.

The next programme will be broadcast on May 13th at 20:00 GMT. at the moment it features Alice Kemp, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project, Andrew Quitter, David Tibet and Hugo Randulv and an 'On This Day' featuring Phones B. Sportsman and the Au Pairs.