Thursday, 31 March 2022

MuhMur Radio Broadcast March 31 2022.

 


The programme begins with the title track of the 2017 album "Notes Towards A Mental Breakdown" by Portuguese duo Iurta. Iurta are André Coelho and Johan Aernus. On the last broadcast I played a track by Metadevice which is the more recent solo project of Andrés'. Johan also records and performs under the banner of Wolfskin. "IURTA is a reflection upon the modern dystopia. Inspired by the works of J.G. Ballard and A. Tarkovski, IURTA's first full length album deals with the fragmentation of identity, of a mind forged by short-circuited information processes. It is a guided descent into an abstracted insanity, a sonic diary of the verge of a mental breakdown through soundscapes built upon cascading drones, harsh textures and minimal sonic oscillations. Neural dark ambient, at times punctuated by a cinematic tone exploring the limits of an inner space". To me it evoked the sound and imagery of work released by LOKI Foundation. Copies available from : https://www.cycliclaw.com. Johan also worked with the Portuguese artist Knwyn in the project Nerthiagh. The Nerthiagh track here is from the 4xCD compilation "Infernal Proteus". 


The regular listener to MuhMur Radio will know that when there is a new release by Modelbau I will be playing it ... or some of it at least. Frans de Waard (aka Modelbau) has been busy of late with three cassettes out around the same time. "Sway" on Sounds Against Humanity, "May Flower" on Grisaille and "Thermolite" on the Finnish Hyster Tapes label. Packaged as always on recycled material Thermolite" is six pieces of experimental electronics and drones with a slight sound shift in the use of analog synths and sequencers. Interesting stuff. Limited to only 44 copies contact Heikke at Hyster tapes here to grab a copy : http://www.pcuf.fi/~plaa/hyster.html. One of the best ways to get in touch with Frans is via his Vital Weekly website : http://www.vitalweekly.net.


File under classic albums of the 1990's. "Aldebaran" by Inade was released in 1996 on Cold Spring Records. Inade are the Leipzig based duo of Knut Enderlein and René Lehmann. They began in the early 1990's releasing cassettes on their own Loki Foundation label. In August 1999 I was fortunate to play with Inade at The Red Rose in London and The Fenton in Leeds. "Aldebaran" has been re-issued a few times, in 2017 Loki reissued it as a double album with extra mixes ... continuations of the original tracks. "The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations (Parts 1-3)" is from this album. 2017 also saw Inade and Loki Foundation release "Aldebaran Revisited 2016" a recording of the album performed live in Paris. Contact LOKI here : http://www.inade.de

Who are The Colander Studio Group? A label band for the Colander? According to their Discogs page "Pseudonymous solo works from a variety of contributors in the guise of an imaginary production music ensemble". Catalogued as Colander 7 "Material Outage" is a CD by ...... well, I can't say, I don't want to ruin the 'surprise' as were. A concept of whimsy, a very fine CD, that's all I'm saying. Colander (the label) can be found here : https://thecolanderstudiogroup.bandcamp.com.


Tendagruta is an older project from André Coelho, this time collaborating with a partner S.G. The cassette album "Ensalmo Do Sargaço" was released by Dissociated Records in 2016. It has a great '80's 'industrial feel' to the sound reminiscent also of the work Relay For Death and Himukalt are producing. As far as I know this was Tendagruta's only release. Copies are available on the Dissociated Records website : https://dissociatedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ensalmo-do-sarga-o. The Netzach track comes from the 1997 CD "Force & Fire". As mentioned in the last blog, I was struck with a bout of CV-19 and spent time rearranging boxes of tapes and CDs and listening to things I hadn't played in over 10 years. "Force & Fire" was one of those CDs. Originally released as a cassette in 1993  on Thurs Records. Netzach was Elke Bölling who also played in Column One and more recently RestBrigade. 

Solomon Tump has just released a 3"CDR called "Palimpsest". Recordings on and inspired by Dartmoor, Devon. Unfortunately the CD players at SoundArt Radio didn't want to know it and made it skip, hop & jump ... so apologies to Solomon. (I'll buy you a pint next time I'm in Bovey Tracy!). 


"Time Deferred" is the latest offering from Mark Vernon. It's released on Felix Knoth's Gagarin Records. I first came across the sound of Mark Vernon in 2018 when I was sent the cassette "Orphaned Works" on Thomas LaRoche's Research Laboratories label and everything I have heard since has not disappointed. I am slowly collecting his back catalogue so expect to hear more throughout 2022. Mark can be found here : http://meagreresource.com. He also has a Bandcamp page. Gagarin Records and "Time Deferred" are here : http://www.gagarinrecords.com

I don't usually play Dieter Müh but I was made to dig it out an old CD from the bargain bins at MuhMur HQ. At the start of the year Italian label Eighth Tower Records released the compilation album "Hauntology In UK". An album dedicated to the memory of Mark Fisher. The album features Rapoon, Deep Space Chamber Music, Howlround and Grey Frequency amongst others, one of the others being Michael Bonaventure and his "Mavisbank" piece. The piece reminded me of the old Dieter Müh track "Ibruksin" from the album "Mutus Liber" so I've played them side by side as were. "Mutus Liber" is an old cassette that we (Dieter Müh) put out in 1995. A cassette that we gave away to folk who showed an interest in what we were doing, at live gigs and such like. It wasn't released ... it escaped. EE Tapes re-issued the album on CD in 2019. http://www.eetapes.be. "Hauntology In UK" is available direct from Eighth Tower Records : https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com.


Killer is also known as Killerlady. Killerlady is artist Martin Kircher. In 2013 I was playing a gig in Bremen at Der Elefant with Tarkatak and BºTong. It was at the same time as a Killerlady & Peter Fengler exhibition at the Spedition Gallery so I went along and picked up the "No Music" 5" playable postcard. Released by Twisted Knister https://twistedknister.bandcamp.com copies are still available at €4. After the problems I had the other broadcast playing the new Current 93 postcard ... I thought I'd give this one a try. 

Playlist:

01: Iurta : "Notes Towards A Mental Breakdown" (Cyclic Law) 2017.

02: Nerthiagh : "Belladonna" (The Anja Offensive) 2002.

03: Modelbau : "Thermolite (Part Six)" (Hyster Tapes) 2022.

04: Inade : "The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations (Pts. I-III)" (Loki Foundation) 2017.

05: The Colander Studio Group : "Ident III" (Colander) 2022.

06: Tendagruta : "Urfuto Tripimivo" (Dissociated Records) 2016.

07: Tendagruta : "Motim Na Bouça" (Dissociated Records) 2016.

08: Netzach : "Captured (IX)" (Membrum Debile Propaganda) 1997.

09: Mark Vernon : "The Wrong Platform (Nothing Stops Here After 5)" (Gagarin Records) 2022.

10: Mark Vernon : "Athanasia" (Gagarin Records) 2022.

11: Dieter Müh : "Ibruksin" (EE Tapes) 2019.

12: Micheal Bonaventure : "Mavisbank" (Eighth Tower Records) 2022.

13: Modelbau & Pool Pervert : "Umbau #9" (Not On Label) 2021.

14: Killer : "No Music" (Twisted Knister) 2013.

Please take a listen here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/tamsin-jane-cammack/muhmur-radio-broadcast-march-31-2022/

Thanks for listening. The next broadcast will be on April 14 where I will be celebrating the 41 year anniversary of the release of Swell Maps "Whatever Happens Next" album and the new book "Swell Maps 1972 - 1980" by Jowe Head. 

Also out this month is the latest edition of the Bulgarian magazine "Comfort Club" which features an extended interview with me where I talk about MuhMur Radio, Dieter Müh and family life in Devon. The magazine also features Takahiro Yorifuji, Lucia Udvardyova, Maltash and Vanity Productions amongst others, grab a copy : https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/merch/comfort-club-3-zine.



Friday, 25 March 2022

Comfort Club Magazine #3

 


Issue #3 of the Bulgarian magazine "Comfort Club" is now available. The magazine is published by Amek, a label run by Angel Simitchiev of MyTrip. This issue contains words / interviews from Vanity Productions, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Valiska & Zenjungle, Maltash and Lucia Udvardyova amongst others and a great photo diary of "Sofia Drone Day 2021". The magazine also has a 14 page interview with myself.


I talk about Dieter Müh, MuhMur Radio and listening to music in the 1970's and starting recording in the early 1980's. 

Copies are available : https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/merch/comfort-club-3-zine. Hopefully Electric Knife will stock copies in the UK. 

Friday, 18 March 2022

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 17 March 2022.

 


A few weeks ago I bought a brace of tapes from Dutch artist Pool Pervert. The tapes were "Masking Tape" and "Narco State" and released through the Non-Interrupt label. I found the sounds interesting, a lot of free-form and improvisational electronics (synth noodles & doodles) but I do think that both tapes need some severe editing and quality control. Late last year Pool Pervert (aka Egbert Van Der Vliet) collaborated with fellow Dutchman Frans de Waard and produced the triple CDR "Umbau". 12 pieces over three albums where Frans brings in the editing / production to perfection. The broadcast starts off with two pieces from the "Umbau" collection. The album(s) is self-released by Frans and available via the Modelbau bandcamp. https://modelbau.bandcamp.com/album/umbau-1-5. It's listed as a download format but if you write to Frans I am certain he'll give you the price of the CDR set. Strangely on the Discogs website Pool Pervert is listed as Pool Perverts and neither of the cassettes I acquired are listed and his website and E Mail are now obsolete ... 


Staying on a Frans de Waard tip ... in a strange kind of way. "'Kapotte Muziek by ... ' is a series of records with reworked recordings of Kapotte Muziek by specific composers. These composers have a specific relation to the given material". The 7" by Illusion Of Safety is number two in the series and was recorded at one of the 1997 Kapotte Muziek / Illusion Of Safety collaboration concerts in Paris. The 7" series ran for about five years and also featured Troum, Leif Elggren, Radboud Mens and DMDN amongst others. They're great little 7" singles and easily found by trawling the internet. 

I mentioned in the last blog entry about how much Dan Johansson and his Sewer Election project have been busy over the past six or seven months ... I managed to grab a copy of his "Skärvor Av" album released last autumn on the Italian Second Sleep label a few days ago. I never know what I am getting with Sewer Election, some releases are pure noise - or Harsh Noise Wall as I think the youth of today call it and sometimes it is experimental construct, lo-fi tape splicing mystique concret. I prefer the latter and knowing that Skärvor Av translates as 'Shards Of' I guessed it was one of Dan's more experimental albums. The title track takes up the whole of side B. Copies are available from Second Sleep direct: http://www.secondsleep.org/releases/se.html. Second Sleep is operated by Matteo of Lettera 22.

A label that became essential during 2021 was Brachliegen Tapes. Through their releases by Mark Dicker and Schwerpunkt I found George Rayner-Law. "Cantonese Tapework" came out in the summer and is more 'noisier' than the later "The Tryal Of Old Christmas" and his sounds with Schwerpunkt. The piece here ends side two of cassette. Brachliegen Tapes have just put out two tapes from Iker Ormazabal Martinez and the ex-Facialmess project Like Weeds. Grab the tapes and discover more, go to : https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com


1980 was a great year, it was the year that I turned 18. It was the year of some great classic records (and tapes). I am not going to list them all here but it was great to check the diaries and discover "Colossal Youth" by Young Marble Giants was released on this day. I was 17 when it came out and has been close to hand ever since. I think Rough Trade Records were at their zenith in 1980 with the likes of Young Marble Giants, The Raincoats, Cabaret Voltaire, Swell Maps, Scritti Politti, Dr Mix & The Remix, The Pop Group, Pere Ubu etc .. etc ... their package tours around this time were always a treat too. I must've first heard Young Marble Giants on John Peel and fell in love straight away. The danceable beats and bass lines with the melodic electric organ and Alison Stratton's beautiful everygirl voice. They were formed in Cardiff in 1978 from the ashes of post-punk band True Wheel. The LP title "Colossal Youth" is a reference to the Greek Kouroi marble statues where the Young Marble Giants name was inspired from. Young Marble Giants only lasted one album and a couple of singles before splintering in to The Gist and Weekend. Also in 1980 Idol Death released their one and only 7" single. 


At the start of this year I read Bob Mortimer's autobiography "And Away .. ". It's a very funny book. There's a point in the 1980's where Bob meets Vic (Reeves) and Vic's 'musical director' is John Irvine. He describes himself (at this time) as a 'cassette jockey'. The name John Irvine struck a note of remembrance and I found that back in 1980 he was Idol Death. In 1980 Idol Death released their one and only 7" "New Lesson". I have played it on the radio before. File under classic (from the new wave era). Further research, and I discover that before Idol Death John was known as The Four Plugs. The Four Plugs released one 7" called "Wrong Treatment" on their own Disposable Records label. (Distributed by Dead Good Records of Lincoln). Last year the Thirsk based label Industrial Coast put out a limited cassette of unreleased Four Plugs material from 1979 & 1980 and filled side 2 with new Four Plugs material from 2018 - 2020. "Dirty Water" is from side 2. John is still performing and recording, now using the Repetitive John. His work can be found here : https://www.repetitivejohn.com

In December last year The Dead Mauriacs released a limited CDR called "Greetings From The Cliffs". Three pieces of exotic DaDaesque electronica. "L'Aquarium Du Mocambo" is from this release. For more information : http://www.thedeadmauriacs.com. German soundartist Thorsten Soltau has worked with The Dead Mauriacs in the past. The Belgian label Forced Nostalgia have just released a four cassette box of Thorsten's work. Entitled "Diligence And Tendency (The Corvux Files)" the cassettes are compiled of  unreleased archival sounds as well as collaborative work and reworking from Marina Stewart, Siegmar Fricke, Machinefabriek and Quinten Dierick (E.M.I.R.S.). I think the four cassette box is limited but cassettes can be bought individually directly from Forced Nostalgia : https://forcednostalgia.bandcamp.com


Thorsten can be contacted here : https://thorstensoltau.de
I have been off work of late - Covid brought it's plague to the house. Time was spent going through old records, tapes and CDs, give an ear to those who were gathering dust so to speak and I dug out an old CDR called "The Swingers Club". Released 25 years ago by the Self Abuse Records sub label Solipsism it features classic noise artists of the time reworking material by each other, a little like the "WNF:Tag Team Noise Rumble Spectacular" album that Stinky Horse Fuck released (1996). "The Swingers Club" has Aube playing Blazen Y Sharp - Blazen Y Sharp playing Smell & Quim - Smell & Quim playing HMO - HMO playing Crawl Unit ... and Crawl Unit playing Aube which is the track here. Rotten Piece, Macronympha, Cock ESP and others are also involved. It was a pleasant rediscovery. I guess copies are floating around Discogs etc ... 


Hauras is the project of American artist Howard Ryan. After a couple of releases on the excellent Helen Scarsdale Agency label he now has a tape on the UK label Industrial Coast. "Adrift" is a C20 cassette. "Journeyed Season" is from this release. https://industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/music


Metadevice is the solo project of Portuguese multi-media artist André Coelho. André is an illustrator and author of graphic novels and comics as well as creating great sounds in projects such as Sektor 304, Iurta, Tendagruta, Sensor .. and Metadevice. I will be playing tracks from Iurta and Tendagruta in the next broadcast. "Post-Future" is from the special edition of the new CD "Turba" on New Approach Records. The first 70 copies of the album came with a bonus CDR called "Atomization". "Turba" in Portuguese translates as 'mob'. For more information go to : https://metadevice.bandcamp.com, or contact André at : metadeviceinterface@gmail.com


One thing I like to do every programme is include a record by a band / artist that I have seen live over the past 45 years .. I started going to see live bands in 1977 .. it's a little section that unlike 'On This Day' or the old 'Classic From The New Wave Era' (remember that one!) goes unmentioned and to anyone else but me unnoticed. I saw Lull play live in the early 1990's (I can't remember the year) with Soviet France at The Old Vic in Nottingham. The Old Vic is a pub in the Lacemarket area not a grand old theatre. "Outerbounds" is a great little 7" with a sleeve by ex-Tactile member Teresa Mills. It was herself and John Everall that organised the gig. I miss John. 


Playlist :
01: Modelbau & Pool Pervert : "Umbau 3 & 4" (Not On Label) 2021.
02: Illusion Of Safety : "Live Paris Reprocess Schaumberg" (Korm Plastics) 1997.
03: Sewer Election : "Skärvor Av" (Second Sleep) 2021.
04: George Rayner-Law : "Chek Lap Kok Airport 11/08/18" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.
05: Young Marble Giants : "N.I.T.A." (Rough Trade Records) 1980.
06: Young Marble Giants : "Colossal Youth" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.
07: The Four Plugs : "Dirty Water" (Industrial Coast) 2021.
08: The Dead Mauriacs : "L'Aquarium Du Mocambo" (L'Art Pénultième) 2021.
09: Thorsten Soltau : "Dossier Cleary" (Forced Nostalgia) 2022.
10: Crawl Unit : "Untitled" (Solipsism) 1997.
11: Hauras : "Journeyed Season" (Industrial Coast) 2022.
12: Metadevice : "Post-Future" (New Approach Records) 2021.
13: Lull : "Outerbounds" (Aquese Recordings) 1994.

Next broadcast will be on SoundArt Radio (102.5FM) on March 30. 20:00 GMT kick-off time as usual. If you don't live in the Dartington umbrella you can always stream the programme live via the SoundArt website : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk and listen to old broadcasts on the MixCloud Archive page. 
This programme was broadcast on my daughter's thirteenth birthday - I should have said "Happy Birthday" on air .... she was there at the recording ... 

                                                                             ISABEL.



Thursday, 3 March 2022

MuhMur Radio Broadcast March 03 2022.


 I read somewhere, recently, that we are fortunate to be living in the 'time of Dilloway' and I whole-heartedly agree. Aaron Dilloway's latest offering is a collaboration with the American noise-rockers Body/Head. Aaron Dilloway's collaborations have introduced me to some fine noise makers in the past. The likes of Hive Mind, Mark Morgan, Bill Nace, C. Lavender, Hong Chulki, Tom Smith and more recently Lucrecia Dalt to name a few. I was fortunate to witness a live improvised collaboration with Irish artist Vicky Langan at the Cafe OTO, London in 2016. It would be great to see this performance as a release.

                                             Langan & Dilloway (s/check) London OTO 2016.

Body/Head is the project formed by ex-Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace. To celebrate Three Lobed Records 20th anniversary they collaborated with Aaron Dilloway to create Body/Dilloway/Head. The eponymous album features three pieces of Dilloway manipulating their sound.


"Body/Erase" is Side A of the LP. I bought the LP not knowing who Body/Head were and was surprised to find out that Kim Gordon is involved. It's an excellent album. I saw Sonic Youth live back in 1985 at The Boardwalk in Manchester and was not too impressed. The Membranes were support so I guess that didn't help. And then the world went Sonic Youth crazy, everyone I knew had at least "Bad Moon Rising" and "Evol" albums, and the "Death Valley '69" 12". They returned to Manchester a year or so later to play a bigger venue ... maybe the Hacienda, maybe The International, I can't remember. I do remember not going ... This album is essential. http://threelobed.com/tlr/ 
Grey Frequency begin 2022 with a cassette re-issue of the "When Do We Dream?" album. Originally released in February 2012 the re-issue is packaged in a black vinyl bag with art cards and inserts. Contact Gavin (Grey Frequency) via : http://www.greyfrequency.co.uk 


There's a couple of tracks from Sewer Election in the programme. Dan Johansson (Sewer Election) has been releasing regularly over the past few months, sometimes it has been difficult to keep up with his output. "Psychic Panorama" was originally released on cassette on Dan's own Malign Editions label. Limited to only 25 copies. Discreet Music re-issued the album on CD in December last year. The initial run is 300 copies and still available direct from Discreet here : https://www.discreetmusic.se. The second Sewer Election piece is from the new album "Navigation I Inre Och Yttre Landskap". It's a collaboration with Australian vocalist Charmaine Lee. The album can be filed under Sewer Election's 'experimental and abstract' recordings, along with the recent "Skärvor Av" and "Kassettmusik" albums. This is the sound of Sewer Election I prefer more, although last years "Cosmic Mirror" CDR on Förfall despite being slabs of harsh noise and screeching is a pleasant listen ... perhaps I am mellowing in my old age? 


The Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone label series of compilation albums have reached to volume eight. The series started eleven years ago with volume one (natch) featuring Halo Manesh, Jarl, BºTong and Ubeboet. Like the Drone Records series of 7"s that ran from 1993 to 2010 and the subsequent 10" series on the Drone Records side label Substantia Innominimata, the Mind-Drone compilations are the perfect way to discover new projects and new sounds. Hats off to Stefan Knappe who runs the label(s) and is one half of Troum. Volume eight features MuhMur Radio favourites Kazuya Ishigami, and Baldruin. The surprise element here is Aume, a new name to these ears. Aume is the project of Scot Jenerick and Aleph Kali. I have some of Scot's previous work as a member of F-Space and he also co-operstes Mobilization Records. I guess that's why the piece has a 'sub' Savage Republic feel. All brilliant stuff and the LP series is well worth hunting down. (I am still short of Volume Two if there are any sellers out there ... ). Contact Stefan at : https://www.dronerecords.de or look for a local distro - Drone Records are well distributed.
Well ... after working in a hospital since 2003, and working in the Pathology/Microbiology department and working through the times of Covid it gives me no pleasure to say that in the last week of January I tested positive for CV-19. But, on the upside ... every cloud and all that .. I did get to stay at home and listen to a lot of stuff. I rearranged a few boxes, re-sleeved a few albums etc and discovered an LP by First Law I forgot I had ("Beyond IO"). I really enjoyed the album so started playing what I have by First Law which lead me to fill some gaps in my collection and getting the excellent 1999 debut CD "Violent::Sedated" on LOKI Foundation. It's available at a reasonable price on Discogs. 


Grey Park have released another cassette of high quality low fidelity experimental infectious noise. "What Transparency Clouds" is a self-released C20 cassette available through their bandcamp page. It says that the cassette is to be released sporadically. €4 a pop! https://greypark.bandcamp.com/album/what-transparency-clouds. Heikke of Grey Park has just put out an excellent cassette by Modelbau on his Hyster tapes label, some of which will appear in later broadcasts. 
Big Hare are Dutch duo Luuk Ottenhof and Tim Franje. "Divine Math" is from their latest 7" on Extratool. 


This 7" is the fourth in series produced by the Nijmegen art space. "Extratool is a four day residency at Extrapool. In the privacy of a basement studio Tim Frannje and Luuk Ottenhof created two new compositions. The only cue to start with was to make use of Yuri Landman's instruments. "Divine Math" is mixed by Luuk Ottenhoff and mastered by Peter Johan Nyland". The last three is the series have been by SOON, Albert Van Abbe & David Von Bahr and Kidbug. All great singles and all available from Extratool at : https://extratool.bandcamp.com.

A very interesting and extensive 'On This Day' section starting with "Albatross" by Public Image Limited. It's from the 1980 re-issue vinyl edition of "Metal Box" called "Second Edition", the same day as The Psychedelic Furs released their eponymously titled debut album. 


Formed in the suburbs of London in 1977, their debut single "We Love You" was released two years later. I must've heard the single on John Peel's radio show, I do remember rushing out to get it, and I was hooked on the 'Furs for the next couple of years. The album has been re-issued / re-released on many formats and on many labels, both this LP and "Second Edition" can be picked up at a reasonable price. On this day in 1979 Fish Turned Human released their first EP. Fish Turned Human were a mysterious five piece from Cambridge. Even after searching for information on the world wide web they still remain quite a mystery. "Turkeys In China" EP features four tracks of post-punk, reggae tinged psychedelic pop(!). The bass player was Andy Metcalfe who went to join The Soft Boys ... and later Squeeze. Michael Ikon the guitarist went on to form the excellent Missing Presumed Dead and drummer Julian Treasure went in to The Transmitters. Philip Furei and Adrian Cole make up the quintet and (allegedly) one of them is the son of AMM / Scratch Orchestra pianist Cornelius Cardew. 



A couple of years later Fish Turned Human appeared again with their "Animal Transport" EP. Only Furei and Treasure remained as original members. After the pleasure of "Turkeys In China" this EP was a bit of a disappointment. Both EP's can be bought cheaply on the internet. 
On the coattails of the success of their single "Vienna" Island Records repackaged a load of old Ultravox! recordings hoping to get chart success. They re-issued the singles "Slow Motion" and "Quiet Men" as a double pack 7" including an alternative version of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and an edited version of "Dislocation". But, as we all know by this time Ultravox! ceased to be Ultravox! after John Foxx left. There was another great single released on this day in 1980 The Mekons "Teeth" double 7" on Virgin Records. Unfortunately time was not on my side but I'll slip it in another programme ... soon. 

Please take a listen to the programme on Mixcloud. All comments and messages welcome.



Playlist : 
01: Body/Dilloway/Head : "Body/Erase" (Three Lobed Recordings) 2021.
02: Grey Frequency : "Echo Test" (Not On Label) 2022.
03: Sewer Election : "Psychic Panorama #1" (Discreet Music) 2021.
04: Kazuya Ishigami : "Clean 2020" (Drone Records) 2021.
05: Aume : "Between Mirage And History" (Drone Records) 2021.
06: First Law : "Loxapine (220 mg)" (Loki Foundation) 1999.
07: Sewer Election & Charmaine Lee : "Dream Bizarre-Sover Du?" (Förlag För Fri Musik) 2022.
08: Baldruin : "Klima + Psyche" (Drone Records) 2021.
09: Grey Park : "Hole In The Ground" (Not On Label) 2022.
10: Public Image Limited : "Albatross" (Virgin Records) 1980.
11: The Psychedelic Furs : "Blacks/Radio" (CBS Records) 1980.
12: Fish Turned Human : "Porky's Minion" (Sequel Records) 1979.
13: Big Hare : "Divine Math" (Extratool) 2021.
14: Ultravox! : "Dislocation" (Island Records) 1981.

Thanks for listening. The next broadcast is on March 17, kick off at 20:00 hours GMT. Soundart Radio 102.5 FM if your near a radio in South-East Devon or listen to the live stream on their website : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk.


MuhMur Radio Broadcast 8 December 2024.

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