MuhMur Radio Broadcast #284 kicks off with an 'on this day' release. "Centuries" is from the 1982 Ludus album 'Danger Came Smiling'. This was their third and final album released on the New Hormones label. Ludus were formed by Linder Sterling in Moss-Side, Manchester in 1978. They had many members including Phil Tomanov (later of the Blue Orchids) and 'Dids' (ex Bedlamite and future Pere Ubu drummer). Ludus broke up in 1984. In 2002 LTM re-issued the album with Ludus's second album 'Pickpocket' on CD. https://www.ltmrecordings.com for further details. Another great Manchester group from the same period were Crispy Ambulance. "Sexus" was released in 1984 on Factory Benelux and was the final (studio) release of the first 'period' Crispy Ambulance. Soon afterwards they changed their name to Ram Ram Kino and appeared on the Temple Records label. In 1999 they reformed with a gig at The Band On The Wall in Manchester (with support from Biting Tongues featuring Jah Wobble), I was there ... t'was a great night but I have struggled to get my ears around their reformed sound ... "Sexus" is followed by "Sexus" by Organ Of Corti, the latest project from Joachim Nordwall, Dan Johanson and Mattias Gustafsson. "Sexus" is from their latest album 'Insania' on the US based Philatélie label. It's the second Organ Of Corti LP related this year. https://philatelie.bandcamp.com/music.
"Sexus" is followed by "Arc Nexus Moon" (getting the theme here?) by 400 Lonely Things. This piece is from the split cassette with Fossil Aerosol Mining Project 'Nigths And Prefecy'. 400 Lonely Things is the solo project of Craig Varian. https://400lonelythings.bandcamp.com for more information, and go to the Helen Scarsdale Agency website https://www.helenscarsdale.com/published/famp-400lt-nigths.htm to find out more about this release. Searching through the MuhMur Radio HQ for anything 'Plexus', I could only find the first Mark Stewart & Maffia album 'Learning To Cope With Cowardice', the copy I have is on the Dutch Plexus label, and that did not seem to go with the flow if you know what I mean? (as the mighty Depressions once asked).
During the summer break I received some sounds from Lesley & Stew at the Perth (Australia) based label Burnt Seed Records. A new label to me, although they do seem to have been actively releasing since the early 2000's. Oderous Bait are a duo from Boorloo (Perth). "Yardtime evolves organically, revealing depth and spatial nuance. The sonic palette is rich and unconventional, offering snarling tomes from the KORG MS-20, rhythmic pulses, and warm analogue washes from the Roland Juno 106 to form the beautifully evolving sonic sculpture. Distortion pedals twist and fracture the audio terrain, while looping techniques multiply and morph motifs into hypnotic cycles. Improvised acoustic percussion adds a raw, human touch to the electronic swirl".
Errorserror is sound artist Jasmine Priest. "
Porphyrim is a beautifully crafted longform exploration of abstracted rhythm. A work that invites listeners into a shifting soundscape where awareness flickers as guitar textures emerge and recede beneath hand driven metallic edged strokes to create a sonic experience that is both haunting and intimate. This track is made of a broken guitar played with a five cent coin, a detuned Casio keyboard and a very old dirty harmonica. All these sounds were captured on tape in a dilapidated house that had more holes punched in the wall than it had windows letting in light. "Porphyrim" is a last surviving artefact, something that shouldn't exist. A sentimental memory that we all have yet refuse to visit".
Staying in Perth, Australia, I dug out Schuster's "The Brutal Arc" lathe-cut 7" on Adeptsound. Schuster (aka Tim Bayes) and I created I.B.F. in the early 1980s (alongside Sean Rorke), and was an early member and later collaborator of Dieter Müh. The single is a limited edition of 50 and is avaialble in the UK through Cold Spring Records.
https://coldspring.co.uk.
Grodock is the solo project of David Leutkart. David also operates the Grubenwehr Freiburg label. The two pieces here are from the CD 'Gesammelte Hintergründe', a collection of electro-acoustic recordings recorded between 2013 and 2023. Grodock/David can be contacted through his Bandcamp page at :
https://grubenwehrfreiburg.bandcamp.com/merch. 'Gesammelte Hintergründe' is released by Krater Recordings.
https://krater.audiophob.de.
Frans de Waard's Kringloop Kassettes project releases in batches. All recorded on to recycled cassettes (a la Hyster Tapes, Vacancy Records and RRRecycled) the latest batch includes Hyware, Jeans Beast, Nÿland, Bertin and Coagulant.
Coagulant is the project of Fabio Kubic. Coagulant began in the 1990s and in 2000 self released the CDR 'Free Noise And Loop Liberations'. Since then Coagulant has released on labels such as L. White Records, Antenna Non Grata, Veinte 33 Records and Rizosfera. I was going to play the latest Coagulant album 'Spatial Emission Places', it's a 74 minute piece and unfortunately couldn't be fitted in to this broadcast, but it's a magnificent piece and I will play it!
https://coagulant.bandcamp.com. All releases on Kringloop Kassettes can be found here :
https://kringloopkassettes.bandcamp.com. I'm looking forward to the next batch.
Sticking with releases that are on labels that begin with the letter "K", the latest Creep Of Paris album is on the Krim Kram label. Krim Kram is based in Cork, Ireland and over the past three years has been putting out essential sounds from Smegma, Rick Potts, Arv & Miljö, Kapotte Muziek, Usurper and now 'Virgin Brood' by Creep Of Paris. C.O.P. (no stranger to MuhMur Radio) is Thomas LaRoche, who I first met many years ago when we were both drummers for Vagina Dentata Organ. Thomas also operates the label Research Laboratories who last year released a cassette of Aum Shinrikyo speeches, sermons and chants and the CDR 'Wine And Cheese' by Rubber Demon. I think Rubber Demon is another one of Thomas' aliases (alongside Poultry Breeders Union, Eudocimus Ruber and Generic White Male) alongside Maureen from Teignmouth Electron. (I could be wrong though ... I usually am).
Krim Kram can be found at
https://www.krimkram.com and Thomas can be contacted via Research Laboratories at
https://researchlaboratories.bandcamp.com/music. In the last broadcast on July 6th I played some O Yuki Conjugate and talked about their beginnings, I had a great conversation with Nick Cope from O Yuki Conjugate and Jonathan Tait from Metamorphosis about the early days of both groups / projects, which had me dig out my Metamorphosis records .. "Fire Gates" first appeared on the compilation cassette 'Rising From The Red Sand Volume 1/Volume 2" on Third Mind Records in 1983. Thirty years later Vinyl On Demand released the five LP box set 'Rising From The Red Sand Volimes I-V'.
Filed under field recordings, spoken word, occult is the compilation CD "Spectra Ex Machina : A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Volume I". Featuring recordings of seances, mediums and poltergeists "Annelise Michel's Exorcism Ritual By Father Arnold Renz (Klingenberg, Germany, 1976)" is also on the CD. I remember film of this exorcism being on BBC TV at the time, it would have been on some news magazine type programme ... it also influenced the track "Annalisa" by Public Image Limited. The song features on their debut album. 'Spectra Ex Machina' is on the Belgian label Sub Rosa. Go to
https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/music for more details.
During the summer break I have been reading some great publications including Nicolas Ballet's "Shock Factory", Ester Kärkkäinen's "Sex Works" and a couple of issues of Untitled magazine, a magazine published by Chris Gibson of Buried In Slag And Debris. Issue #10 features an article by William A. Davison on early days of cassette labels in Canada. William A. Davison is part of the sound project Six Heads. "Smaller, Larger, Lighter (Incantation Of The Naugahyde Witch)" is from the LP 'Cardboard Oracle" released in 2011 on the Wintage Records & Tapes label.
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Cardboard Oracle".
Also in Isue #10 is an in depth interview with Jonas Torstensen. Jonas is from Odense in Denmark. Jonas also records and releases under the names Franking, Eva and Franciska. Franciska has released some great albums on Discreet Music, Joy De Vivre and Förfall labels recently. Jonas also operates the label Pladeseiskabet Pladesselvskab. Copies of Untitled (#9 features a great interview with Relay For Death and artwork from Small Cruel Party) can be found at
https://buriedinslaganddebris.bigcartel.com. The Jonas Torstensen piece here is from the cassette "Arvesynd" on Edinburgh based label Molt Fluid. Available here :
https://moltfluid.bandcamp.com/album/arvesynd.
Secret Science are Max Kuiper and Jacob DeRaadt.
Last year Fletina released the album 'Serrof' on the Unfathomless label. Sounds constructed from the time working in a swimming pool, Fletina's new album 'Environments & Mechanisms" is built from sounds of what I would describe as white goods. Washing machine, electric oven, ground floor elevator (probably not white goods, but you get my gist) and printer. Released by the Bulgarian Mahorka label.
Copies are available from
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com. Fletina at :
https://fletina.bandcamp.com. The project reminded me of the time when Dieter Müh released an album where most of the sounds were culled from machinery, office machinery and factory machinery. In 1999 Dieter Müh released the album "Eponymous" on the French label Naninani Recordings, it was a planned cassette release but finally came out on CDR format. In 2017 Ukranian label Sentimental Productions remastered the recordings and put it out as a vinyl LP. "E Coli Tsar" is built from the sounds of a printer. I was going to play another track from the "Eponymous" album and then .. "A Lifetime" the latest album by Altar Of Flies landed on the MuhMur Radio HQ doormat. I bumped my own stuff! Altar Of Flies are a MuhMur Radio favourite and friend of the programme.
The broadcast ends on the classic "Christine Keeler' by The Glaxo Babies ... released on this day in 1979.
The broadcast has been archived in to two parts for easier aural digestion (part two begins with Aum Shinrikyo).
Part One:
Part Two:
Playlist:
01: Ludus : "Centuries" (New Hormones) 1982.
02: Crispy Ambulance : "Sexus" (Factory Benelux) 1984.
03: Organ Of Corti : "Sexus" (Philatélie) 2025.
04: 400 Lonely Things : "Arc Nexus Moon" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2020.
05: Oderous Bait : "Yardtime" (Burnt Seed Records) 2025.
06: Errorserror : "Porphyrim" (Burnt Seed Records) 2025.
07: Schuster : "The Brutal Arc (Adeptsound) 2008.
08: Grodock : "Hab Acht" (Krater Recordings) 2024.
09: Grodock : "Das Halbe Abwesen" (Krater Recordings) 2024.
10: Coagulant : "At Forms" (Kringloop Kassettes) 2025.
11: Creep Of Paris : "Dehydrator As Economic God" (Krim Kram) 2025.
12: Aum Shinrikyo : "Unknown Title" (Research Laboratories) 2024.
13: Rubber Demon : "Wine And Cheese (Communication III)" (Research Laboratories) 2024.
14: Creep Of Paris : "In Fear Of A New Queen" (Krim Kram) 2025.
15: The Fall : "Underground Medicin" (Step-Forward Records) 1979.
16: Metamorphosis : "Fire Gates" (Vinyl On Demand) 2013.
17: Annelise Michel : "Exorcism Ritual" (Sub Rosa) 2024.
18: Public Image Limited : "Annalisa" (Virgin Records) 1978.
19: Ludus : "Redress" (New Hormones) 1982.
20: Six Heads : "Smaller, Larger, Lighter (Incantation Of The Naugahyde Witch)" (Wintage Records & Tapes) 2011.
21: Jonas Torstensen : "Anspændte Forventninger" (Molt Fluid) 2025.
22: Secret Science : "Cycle 4" (Basement Tapes) 2021.
23: Fletina : "Back Room/Printer" (Mahorka) 2025.
24: Dieter Müh : "E Coli Tsar" (Sentimental Productions) 2017.
25: Altar Of Flies : "The Last Capitalist We Hang Shall Be The One That Sold Us The Rope" (Satatuhatta) 2025.
26: Dolores Mondo Stash : "Fabrica Fantasma" (Cruel Nature Records) 2025.
27: Dolores Mondo Stash : "To The Wildlife Left Orphan By The Fire" (Cruel Nature Records) 2025.
28: Glaxo Babies : "Christine Keeler" (Heartbeat Records) 1979.
Huge thanks, as always to Chris for being there and Tamsin for the support ... beers and transport.
Tamsin & Chris grooving to the sounds.
A slight technical hitch meant that this broadcast could not be live streamed, the Internet seems to be down on the Dartington Hall Estate. I am sorry for those that tuned in and realised that I wasn't starting the programme with John Cage's 4'33 ... MuhMur Radio is back on September 28th. 18:00 GMT, I have a plan to play tracks from compilation (various artists) releases ...
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