Regular listeners / followers might have noticed that there is no longer a MuhMur Radio on Facebook. Whether this is temporary or not I have yet to decide. If truth be told MuhMur Radio was never meant to be on Facebook, or any social media platform really. Back in the mid-noughties I joined Facebook, my wife (Tamsin) was on there and as I had moved to the Deep South and contact with friends was becoming more remote I decided to sign up, give my privacy away and share photographs of our days out with the kids with my family and friends ... but I didn't really like it .. so after a couple of years I de-activated my account. I then decided to start the 'MuhMur' Blog where I could write about records, gigs, Dieter Müh, secondhand record shops etc etc. In 2012 I started to broadcast on SoundArt Radio (102.5FM), live broadcasts every other Thursday night ... I would talk about the programme on the MuhMur Blog as this is MuhMur Radio. Straight from the off I archived each programme on MixCloud. Back in 2012 / 2013 I used to follow (broadcast after) a prog-rock music show called "Honey For You Rears" hosted by Andy "Hatter" Howard, he would boast about his listenership and freebies he was sent etc and told me to get the MuhMur Radio 'out there' with a Facebook page and Twitter page and then folk could interact with you live ... all that kind of nonsense, but being who I am I took his advice and re-joined Facebook and started a Twitter account. The Twitter account didn't last long. After a couple of days I had "followers" in triple figures who were all posting shite on my feed, folk I didn't know and have never met were using my platform. That had to stop! When trying to set up a MuhMur Radio Facebook page I discovered that my profile from 2009 was still there with all the old profile photographs and information so it was simpler just to re-activate the old account and set-up a MuhMur Radio page.
By this time my old server, Freeserve, had ceased to exist and I had to get a new one, choosing gmail. Unfortunately I could not retrieve my MuhMur Blog for reasons of forgotten passwords and losing the old fsnet Email address. So I set up 'ReMuhMuration' to write about records, gigs and post playlists for the broadcasts ... This year, this year though it has been different. Over the past few months block advertising has been happening on my News Feed page and I cannot get rid of it. Daily notifications popping up on the MuhMur Radio page telling me to promote and boost my "product". I could reach thousands of new 'customers'. I know the old adage that with the internet if something is "free" then you are the product (and ... cue The Desperate Bicycles) I used to say it to Tamsin all the time but now it has reached a point of it really getting to me, getting under my skin. So it has had to stop. The de-activation is only temporary but it may lead to a full stop. I apologise to the people who followed and supported MuhMur Radio on Facebook but hopefully you all understand. I can always be contacted via this page or the MixCloud Archive or muhmur.radio@gmail.com is my preferred mode of contact.
MuhMur Radio was never meant to be broadcast to the thousands anyway. I have spent most of my time and activities since the late 1970's acting below the radar, beneath the awareness. I would rather there be 40 or 50 folk who really enjoy what I play than 950 or so listeners who don't. Does that make sense?
So to tonight's broadcast.
Playlist :
01: Jim Haynes : "Multiple Gunshots" (SIGE) 2021.
02: Dome : "Ampnoise" (Dome Records) 1980.
03: Bruce Gilbert : "Here Visit" (Mute Records) 1984.
04: Desmond Simmons : "April Waits" (Dome Records) 1981.
05: Neutral : "Coop" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.
06: Neutral : "Jalusie" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.
07: Artery : "Unbalanced" (Aardvark) 1981.
08: Bruce Gilbert : "Children" (WFMU) 2017.
09: Mark Vernon : "Succulent Gros" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.
10: Mark Vernon : "Overflown Elipsis" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.
11: Mark Vernon : "The Larum Of The Living" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.
12: Mark Vernon : "The Consensus Is To Delete" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.
13: Mark Vernon : "Nossos Ossos" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.
14: Mark Vernon : "Revolving Rivers" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.
15: The Dead Mauriacs : "Still" (NPH) 2021.
16: Dome : "Cancel Your Order" (Dome Records) 1980.
17: Dome : "Cruel When Complete" (Dome Records) 1980.
18: Blod : "Danmark Frit" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.
19: Simon Joyner : "After The Gold Rush" (WFMU) 2011.
20: Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg : "An Gott Verraten" (V I S) 2021
21: Troum : "Dream Theme / Towards The Invisible Being" (Raubauu) 2020.
22: Albert Von Abbe And David Von Behr : "Extratool 3" (Extratool) 2021.
23: Dome : "Linasixup" (Dome Records) 1980.
24: Five Or Six : "Polar Exposure" (Cherry Red Records) 1981.
25: Swell Maps : "Tibetan Bedsprings" (Easy Action) 2021.
26: Wire : "Second Length (Our Swimmer)" (Rough Trade Records) 1983.
27: Dome : "Here We Go" (Dome Records) 1980.
28: Dome : "Rolling Upon My Day" (Dome Records) 1980.
You can listen to the broadcast in full here :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-24062021/
The reason for playing extracts from the LP "Dome 1" by Dome was because it was released on June 24 1980. Dome were the duo Graham Lewis & Bruce Gilbert ex of Wire. It's an album that has never left my side since release.
Links to releases :
Jim Haynes : https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-sky-burned
Grapefruit Records : https://www.grapefruitrecordclub.com
The Dead Mauriacs : https://thedeadmauriacs.bandcamp.com/album/of-course-this-is-dance-music
Troum : https://troum.bandcamp.com
Extratool : https://extratool.bandcamp.com
Thanks for listening. The next MuhMur Radio will be broadcast on July 8 at 20:00 hours GMT. SoundArt radio is available to all those who inhabit the dark corners of Totnes & Dartington, just tune the radio dial to 102.5FM - live streaming is always available vis the SoundArt Radio website :
https://www.soundartradio.org.uk
You can always contact me via this blog or E Mither me at muhmur.radio(at)gmail.com
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