Quite an eclectic broadcast featuring some old classics and artists that are no strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist, and a couple of new projects that are new to my ears ...
2021 has seen the start of the Extratool 7" series. The latest on the roster is by American duo Kidbug. After two singles of experimental, electroacoustic ambience this latest release came as a great surprise. Refreshing blast of experimental shoegazing experimental rock. Kidbug are a completely new name to me and thanks to Extratool for introducing them to these ears. I am now desperately trying to find a copy of their "Theme From Kidbug" 7". Go to https://extrapool.patternbyetsy.com/listing/893985128/extratool to grab a copy.
One of my favourite 7" singles from my teen years is the 1981 EP "Fragile Sentences" by Bron Area on Ambivalent Scale Recordings. Trawling the internet a few weeks ago (I don't surf ... I trawl) I found a CD copy of their 1983 album "The Trees And The Villages". Re-issued on the Glass Redux label, it was originally released by Glass Records, the CD also includes tracks from the 12" 'Different Phrases'. There's a great booklet with the CD too on the history of Nuneaton's finest (they pre-date Eyeless In Gaza) and how the album should have been called "The Treason Of Images" but the title got misheard over a phone call and so it will always be "The Trees And The Villages". https://glassredux.bandcamp.com A great album, Glass Redux also released a great CD Religious Overdose recently.
I recently spent a couple of days reorganising the cassette collection. I bought some new racks off a lady in Exeter ... the result of internet trawling. In doing so I unearthed some gems I hadn't played for a few years including the Bourbonese Qualk / Hartmann split tape "Music While You Work". Released on the Italian ADN label back in 1985. I wanted to include the track "Meatrack" in the programme and then discovered this was on the vinyl compilation box set "Archive 1980 - 1986" released by Vinyl On Demand. A cleaner copy than the cassette so I play three tracks from this compilation. "Blackout" features the dulcet vocal tones of Nigel Ayers and is from the "Here We Go" compilation album released by Sterile Records in 1985. Support The Miners! Staying with Nigel Ayers and the Nocturnal Emissions. "Even The Good Times Are Bad" is from the album "Duty Experiment", a compilation of demos and studio out-takes from 1980 - 1984.
Tone Generator + The Body Without Organs is ex SPK member Dominic Guerin. The track here is from the recent release "Normalisation Of Response" and features samples from old SPK recordings. I found a copy via Tesco Organisation in Europe, but copies are available direct from the label Innercity Uprising. https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com
Two singles from the "On This Day" feature. Firstly "Shack Up" by A Certain Ratio. A cover of the 1975 classic by Banbarra, released in 1980 by Factory Benelux. Secondly "Ends With The Sea" by BC Gilbert & G Lewis released a year later on 4AD Records.
Records as memories.
The debut LP (12"EP ?) by C Cat Trance will always bring back memories of my time in Manchester, living in Hulme Crescents. John Nash Crescent to be precise living with my then girlfriend Trace. I remember getting the record from a sale of ex-library records at Manchester University and it hardly came off the turntable for the time we were together. I recently found a decent copy for sale (trawling again) and grabbed it. Tunes I hadn't heard for over 30 years but were still locked their in the brain now swirling out of the speakers at MuhMur HQ with visions of Hulme, sunshine days and Trace. Who was it that said 'Happy memories leave a bitter taste'? C Cat Trance were formed by John Rees Lewis in 1982 when he left Nottingham funksters Medium Medium. This record was recorded in Newark. The first four tracks are from the 33RPM side, "Hypnotised" is from the 45RPM side. Hearing "Hypnotised" again made me pull out my DJ license that allows me to play the 'same title different song' card.
Licht-Ung is Johannes Garbe, an audio-visual artist from Leverkusen in Germany. "Yellow Yellow Weather" is his latest release on Grisaille. https://grisaille.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-yellow-weather
The Chris & Cosey / CTI track is from the double compilation album "Out There - A Thread Through Time" released in 1994 on the Scottish Pi Recordings label. "Dancing Ghosts" was recorded in 1983. Sleeve notes claim that this was the first recordings of "Acid House", they obviously don't know about the track "WSB Is Very Clever" recorded by Diet Of Worms in a shed in North Hykeham featuring the sound of a Roland SH101 & Roland Drumatix ... and of course samples of the great man himself! When I get time I'll dig the tape out and play it!
Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-august-5-2021/
Playlist :
01: Leda : "Covid Rock 1" (Förfall) 2021.
02: Kidbug : "Cloudbursting" (Extratool) 2021.
03: Bron Area : "Les Arbres" (Glass Redux) 2016.
04: Bourbonese Qualk : "Meatrack" (Vinyl On Demand) 2016.
05: Bourbonese Qualk : "Under Observation" (Vinyl On Demand) 2016.
06: Bourbonese Qualk : "Blackout" (Vinyl On Demand) 2016.
07: Nocturnal Emissions : "Even The Good Times Are Bad" (Soleilmoon Recordings) 1995.
08: Tome Generator + The Body Without Organs : "Ne/H/il's Back Room" (Inner City Uprising) 2021.
09: Kidbug : "Endless Waves" (Extratool) 2021.
10: Leda : "Covid Groove 1" (Förfall) 2021.
11: A Certain Ratio : "Shack Up" (Factory Benelux) 1980.
12: C Cat Trance : "Railway Magazine" (Red Flame) 1983.
13: C Cat Trance : "Let Me Sleep" (Red Flame) 1983.
14: C Cat Trance : "Untitled" (Red Flame) 1983.
15: C Cat Trance : "Dangling On A String" (Red Flame) 1983.
16: Dieter Müh : "Illuminati Humiliati" (Verlautbarung) 2012.
17: Licht-Ung : "Yellow Yellow" (Grisaille) 2021.
18: BC Gilbert & G Lewis : "Ends With The Sea" (4AD Records) 1981.
19: Chen Yi : "Rounder" (90% Wasser) 2006.
20: Chen Yi : "Honey Money" (90% Wasser) 2006.
21: C Cat Trance : "Hypnotised" (Red Flame) 1983.
22: Mark Stewart : "Hypnotised" (Mute Records) 1985.
23: Cabaret Voltaire : "Hypnotised" (Parlophone Records) 1989.
24: Chris & Cosey / CTI : "Dancing Ghosts" (Pi Recordings) 1994.
Thanks again for listening, the next broadcast will be on August 19. SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM, it's an evening kick off at 20:00 GMT. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk
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