The programme kicks off with another excellent release from the mind of Thomas LaRoche. "Ever More Precise Accounts Of The Cave" is a forty or so minute swirling mismanagement of dead air time, corrupted piano and voices on the (new to me) 'Drowned By Locals' label.
The main influences on these recordings are : Heroin Use, 'Ether, God And Devil And Cosmic Super Imposition' book by Willhelm Reich, Neil Diamond, Porcelain Eggs and various phosphates. Thomas has been operating the Research Laboratories label for about ten years, releasing his own sounds as well as other artists such as Mark Vernon, The New Blockaders, Duncan Harrison and The Rebel. He also records / releases under the names of CREEP Of Paris, Pavlov's Children, Active Denial and Generic White Male. The label Drowned By Locals is based in Amman, Jordan. The cassette came packaged reeking of tobacco. Opening the jiffy, it felt like I had smoked twenty woodbines and a packet of Camel! The cassette is now hermetically sealed to stop the other tapes stinking of fags .... 'Drowned By Locals is an independent record label in search of the faces and the voices of the marginalised brutes, misfits, savages, but the delicate at heart. Founded in 2020 to a world plagued with disease and the impending perils of mass surveillance. Based in Amman, Jordan, but anchored outside the territorial limits, somewhere in uncharted virtual waters, with no plans to return' ... Drowned By Locals can be contacted at : https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com.
In 1983 the Sounds Musical Weekly ran a column called "Wild Planet". It was a cutout and keep column that featured some of the premier exponents of DIY electronic music. Avant Gardeners and concret mixers. Bands and artists that did not regularly feature in the music weeklies except in the classifieds section where they would be selling their cassettes and LPs. The column run for a couple of months or so and at the end of 1983 the soundtrack to the column came out compiled by Dave Henderson - the author behind it all. "The Elephant Table Album ... A Compilation Of Difficult Music" was released on the X Tract label. The double album included (amongst others) SPK, Chris & Cosey, 400 Blows, Portion Control, We Be Echo, Lustmord, David Jackman and Nurse With Wound. The Lustmord track is from this album. "The Boning Of Men" was also included on the 1991 CD "A Document Of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimention" on the German Dark Vinyl label. "Wild Planet" can be read here ~ thanks to Brian Duguid. http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/articles/wplanet.html.
It truly was one of those strange occurrences. I was just thinking that Astral Social Club (aka Neil Campbell) hadn't had a 'physical' release in years, I had been playing some ASC for a couple of hours or so here at MuhMur Radio HQ and I thought .... 'not heard much from Astal Social Club for a year or two, I wonder if Neil has knocked the project on the head?'. I turn on the 'pooter to find a message from Chocolate Monk advertising their release of "Starballs" the new CDR by Astral Social Club. Spooky,eh?
As it says on the Chocolate Monk website : "This One arrived with a frantic hand scribbled note ' Blown-out fuzzed out ragged sister to the shortly forthcoming prolongs OCCULTICS CD / Machine flicker, celestial scrota, no mind / 'make-out music for hermaphrodite Venusians floating through the zero gravity pleasure palaces of Alpha Centuri' / Tangerine Fucking Dream more like / Feedback, the only good thing ever to happen to guitars / The Return of The Electric Mistress / There's probably a tune buried under there somewhere / I once met a guy from Stoke who was tripping and dancing like a bastard at the front to a Russell has well free noise set - hope he gets to hear this one / It's all variations on a theme, isn't it? / pennine exotica bionica erectronica (sciatica) / Long-ass final track, you know the score". "Fulcrum" is that long-ass final track. Being an ex-Fork Lift Truck driver (another thing I have in common with Gary Numan) fulcrum has become one of my favourite words. This CDR and the aforementioned "Occultics" CD can be got at : https://astralsocialclub.bandcamp.com/merch. After playing one of ASC's latest I thought I'd spin one of their earliest from the 2005 CDR Astral Social Club "#2".
I know very little about Mark Boombastik. He is based in Hamburg and is also known as Mark Leyrer. Mark has also collaborated with Eduardo Delgado-Lopez the brother of DAF singer Gabi Delgado. Mark has also collaborated with Felix Kubin, which is where I first came across his name. Techno Punk (?). For the On This Day feature (Part One) ... The Birthday Party released the album "Prayers On Fire" in 1981.
August and September 1978 was a great time to be alive and to be 16 / 17 years old living in Lincoln. Some excellent bands came and played live at venues like AJ's, The Drill Hall and Tech College. One night 999 came on the "Separates" tour and played a venue called The Regency Ballroom. A strange venue for a punk band to play, but hireable and cheap. In later years both The Nightingales and The Gist played there and also Crass with Annie Anxiety & D.I.R.T. The venue was owned by the Lincoln Co-Op Society.
Anyhoo ... the support for 999 was the Australian punk band Razar.
Two slices of Dan Johansson. Dan is probably best known for his work as Sewer Election and/or being a member of Neutral. Between 2007 and 2011 Dan performed and released as White. "Sex Carcass" is a C20 cassette on the Vita Kassetter label. Belgian label Aguirre Records have just re-issued the debut album by Enhet För Fri Musik. EFFM are Dan Johansson, Sofie Herner, Hugo Randulv and Gustaf Diksson. "Der Ordnar Sig Ska Du Se" is from the LP "Inom Dig, Inom Mig". (Inside You, Inside Me). The LP was originally released on the Forever United label, a label run by Hugo Randulv, in 2015.
On This Day (Part Two), a track from the Pere Ubu album "390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo. Ubu Live : Volume One" from 1981. "Real World" was recorded live at Disasto 2 WHK Auditorium, Cleveland on
February 18th 1978.
This programme's cover version ... yes, it is still my promise to play at least one cover version per broadcast ... is Scars' cover of the David Essex classic "Silver Dream Machine". I have always had a soft-spot for David Essex. As a 10 year old in 1973 I bought his singles "Rock On" and "Lamplight" with my pocket money. Great singles. "Silver Dream Machine" was originally released in 1980, a single to promoted Essex's latest film "Silver Dream Racer". A watchable film, well, any film with Harry H. Corbett in it is a watchable film but it's not as good as "That'll Be The Day" or "Stardust". The Scars version can be found on the three CD box set version of "Author Author" on Cherry Red Records.
I recently found a copy of the compilation album "Neue Deutsche Post Avantgarde (Uma Amostragem Da Música Alemã Pós Moderna)" on the Goethe-Institut Brazil label. The album is compiled by Asmus Tietchens and legend has it that 2800 copies that were shipped to Brazil were 'lost at sea' leaving only 150 copies of the original pressing existing for sale in Germany.
This story was told to me by the person selling the LP, but after research etc it turns out to be a myth. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, eh? The album features pieces by H.N.A.S., P16D4, Gerechtigkeits Liga, Werkbund and Graf Haufen amongst others. Both the Cranioclast and Swimming Behaviour Of The Human Infant pieces are from this album. Regular listeners to MuhMur Radio will be familiar with both projects, as they will be with the sound of Francisco Meirino. "Massacre Of the Innocents (2)" is from the 12" lathe-cut release by GerauschManufaktur. "Massacre Of The Innocents" is a live (surround) performance for 10 speakers performed and recorded at The Screamscape Exhibition at FRi-Art Fribourg, Switzerland, 06.06.2015. A stereo line and binaural room recording. The album does remind of a performance I witnessed in 2012 by Dave Phillips at The Arnolfini in Bristol. Two artists working in the same areas. The lathe-cut is limited to only 18 copies and part of the GeraischManufaktur lathe-cut series. https://geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com.
Chapman is the project of Paul Harrison. Paul has been creating noises under a variety of disguises over the past thirty years or so. He has been part of Smell & Quim, Beardtax, Hairs Abyss and Feral Copse as well as releasing as Expose Your Eyes, Naked Tramp and Paradox Encounter Group. "Snarl" is a six track CDR on the Xemporium label, packaged in an abused shower curtain. Xemporium can be found at : https://xemporium.bandcamp.com/album/snarl.
Thanks for listening / reading ... the MixCloud archive for this broadcast can be found here :
Playlist :
01: Thoms LaRoche : "Ever More Precise Accounts Of The Cave (A)" (Drowned By Locals) 2023.
02: Lustmord : "The Boning Of Men" (X Tract) 1983.
03: Astral Social Club : "Fulcrum" (Chocolate Monk) 2023.
04: Astral Social Club : "#2 (Track 6)" (Astral Social Club) 2005.
05: Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft : "Sex Unter Wasser" (Virgin Records) 1982.
06: Mark Boombastik : "Wasser" (Sozialistischer Plattenbau) 2020.
07: The Birthday Party : "King Ink" (4AD Records) 1981.
08: Razar : "Stamp Out Disco" (Sing Sing Records) 2012.
09: White : "Sex Carcass" (Vita Kassetter) 2009.
10 Enhet För Fri Musik : "Det Ordnar Sig Ska Du Se" (Aguirre Records) 2023.
11: Pere Ubu : "Real World" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.
12: Scars : "Silver Dream Machine" (Cherry Red Records) 2020.
13: Cranioclast : "... And Even When They Are Shadowing The Skies" (Goethe-Institut Brazil) 1988.
14: Francisco Meirino : "Massacre Of The Innocents (II)" (GerauschManufaktur) 2018.
15: Chapman : "Snarl #6" (Xemporium) 2023.
16: Swimming Behaviour Of The Human Infant : "Meio 2" (Goethe-Institut Brazil) 1988.
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