Saturday, 19 September 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 17 September 2020


A shorter broadcast this time for no other reason than I cocked up on the timings .. 

                                                                       Chris Booth.

Once again the programme was recorded a few weeks before broadcast, engineered by Chris Booth. Head Mandarin of SoundArt Radio. The programme starts with a track from the Jim Haynes 2011 LP "The Decline Effect". In a few weeks time Vinyl On Demand are to release a 17xLP box set by Soviet France. This will be the second volume in as many years and for those of us that are still enjoying the first box set I played a track from the "Mohonomische" LP. 
Nigel Ayers of Nocturnal Emissions is digitising the NE catalogue and putting it up on their Bandcamp page. Whilst searching in the attic for master tapes etc he came across a box of old vinyl releases and kindly mailed the "No Sacrifice" 12". I remember buying this record on release back in 1984. (Virgin Records in Manchester) and not being too enamoured but hearing it 36 years later I have fallen in love with it...especially the "B" Side "Uprising". 
Ice Yacht have released their second cassette. The first "Pole Of Cold" was released five years ago on the German Fragment Factory label. Their second is on Snatch Tapes. Ice Yacht is the project of sound artist Philip Sanderson. First edition is limited to 25 copies. 
The FM Einheit + Andreas Ammer piece is an extract from the Cold Spring Records CD "Hammerschlag". "Hammerschlag" was a live concert performed in the Russian city of Perm in 2019. The concert was a commissioned radio-play based on the life/works of Soviet revolutionary poet and scientist Aleksej Gastev. Gastev was executed in 1939 by Stalin for counterrevolutionary activities. 
In the last broadcast I played a piece from the Western, Creed & Spybey album "W Ands", here I play another .... "W Ands" has been one of the albums of 2020 so far. 
Lark Blames is the project of Lloyd James (singer/songwriter with Naevus and vocalist with the newly reformed Crisis). "Crumbs" is a 7" single featuring the voice of John Murphy. John passed away in October 2015, the track uses tape recordings made in Rotterdam in 2009. John also played in and with Shriekback, Current 93 and The Associates. Whether or not he is on the following pieces played I do not know, I do know John played on the Shriekback "Care" LP, I remember spending the evening in Lloyd's house in Leytonstone (about 15 years ago) chatting with John about his time in Shriekback and his days as a percussionist for hire. "My Spine (Is The Baseline)" was released on 17 September 1982. 
The last broadcast featured an exclusive radio mix by Thomas LaRoche of Research Laboratories. It was whilst 'researching' the work and releases of Thomas I came across a band called Pavlov's Children. Pavlov's Children were a duo consisting of Thomas and R.Shah (although the two people could be one and the same as Thomas does like to exist in a shroud of mystery). "Little Douglas" is taken from the 7" called "Pavlov's Children" and released on Tim Burgess's O Genesis label. 

Playlist :
01: Jim Haynes : "Half-Life" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2011.
02: Soviet France : "Mohonomische #7" (Vinyl On Demand) 2019.
03: Nocturnal Emissions : "Uprising" (Sterile Records) 1984.
04: Adam & The Ants : "Catholic Day" (Do It Records) 1979.
05: Ice Yacht : "Pillbox" (Snatch Tapes) 2020.
06: FM Einheit + Andreas Ammer : "Order 06" (Cold Spring Records) 2020.
07: Western, Creed & Spybey : "Two Of Wands" (Cold Spring Records) 2020.
08: Lark Blames : "Crumbs" (Wooden Lung Records) 2020.
09: Shriekback : "My Spine (Is The Baseline)" (Y Records) 1982.
10: Current 93 : "Death Of The Corn (Unreleased)" (HomAleph) 2020.
11: Current 93 : "Broken Birds (Maldoror Waits. Live In Japan)" (HomAleph) 2020.
12: The Associates : "Boys Keep Swinging" (Double Hip Records) 1979.
13: Pavlov's Children : "Little Douglas" (O Genesis) 2012.

Next broadcast will be on October 1 and feature some exclusive material from NostrilFlair. 

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Friday, 4 September 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 3 September 2020.


Playlist : 

01 : Nigel Ayers : "Omega Earth Electrode" (Earthly Delights) 2020.

02: Western, Creed & Spybey : "Three Of Wands" (Cold Spring Records) 2020.

03: Chris Watson : "Notes From The Forest Floor" (SN Variations) 2020.

04: Komare : "The Sense Of Hearing (A)" (Penultimate Press) 2020.

05: Clock DVA : "Binaural Ratio" (Vinyl On Demand) 2020.

06: Georgia Rodgers : "Line Of Parts" (SN Variations) 2020.

07: Stuart Chalmers & Anla Courtis : "Rituals Of Common Language" (Steep Gloss) 2020.

08: Rip Rig & Panic : "Howl! Caged Bird" (Virgin Records) 1981.

09: The Passage : "Taking My Time" (Object Music) 1978.

10: The Passage : "Clock Paradox" (Object Music) 1978.

11: Soberin Exx : "Premium Skyways" (Liquid Library) 2020.

12: Itäväylä : "Hyperborea" (Verdura) 2006.

13: Coil : "How To Destroy Angels (Zos Kia Remix)" (Cold Spring Records) 2018.


https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-september-3-2020/

(Cut & Paste)


Back on September 17.



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Thursday, 27 August 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 20 August 2020.

 


Apologies for the lateness in this posting. Time is really not on my side these days as work gets busier and I am working 'Covid Hours' during the week and weekends have become precious days to spend with my wife (who I hardly see) and the children. Sitting down and writing a blog about the broadcast takes a back seat on the priority bus. 

So, in saying that, here is the playlist in full for the programme that was broadcast a week ago! 


The 'one this day' record of choice was 999's single "I'm Alive" released on the Labritain label in 1977 and re-relessed by United Artists in 1979. It's not one of my favourite 999 singles, but I do like the B-Side "Quite Disappointing" and I really do like the live version of this song on the "Front Row Festival" LP, so that's the version I play. Whilst compiling the playlist a tape by 400 Lonely Things came through, (a lovely split release with Fossil Aerosol Mining Project) so the idea to compile a playlist out of projects that all have numbers in their name came up ... and this is it! 

Playlist :

01: Pacific 231 : "Mezquita" (Old Europa Cafe) 2008.

02: 400 Lonely Things : "Nights And Profecy" (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2020.

03: Two Daughters : "Return Call - We Are" (Vinyl On Demand) 2019.

04: 48 Chairs : "Psycle Sluts" (Absurd Records) 1979.

05: Lettera 22 : "Native Waters" (Second Sleep) 2012.

06: 23 Skidoo : "Kundalini" (Fetish Records) 1982.

07: One Dark Eye : "A Feast Unknown" (Ljud & Bird Produktion) 2012.

08: 999 : "Homicide" (United Artists Records) 1978.

09: 999 : "Quite Disappointing (Live)" (Warner Brothers Records) 1978.

10: Delta 5 : "Mind Your Own Business" (Rough Trade Records) 1979.

11: Clock DVA : "NYC Overload (Live)" (Interfisch Records) 1990.

12: Section 25 : "Regions" (Factory Benelux) 1981.

13: 1000schoen : "Approach" (Nitkie) 2012.

14: Zero Kama : "Prayer Of Zos" (Athanor) 2008.

15: Gang Of Four : "Anthrax" (EMI Records) 1979.


Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-20-august-2020/


Next programme is on 3rd September .... 

 

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Sunday, 16 August 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 06 August 2020.


Juice Machine are the duo Roger H Smith and Heather Chessman, based in Eugene Oregon . Their albums are usually recorded live improvisations, then left untreated and edited for release. "Study Of Electrocution" is from the new cassette album "Status Quo" released on the French label Falt. It is great to have Juice Machine released on a European label. Copies are limited and available here : https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/status-quo
Nocturnal Emissions have been digitising their back catalogue and putting the sounds up on their Bandcamp page. Nigel also found a box of old releases and has added them too ... so I managed to get a couple of 'physical' releases. "Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss" was released in 1983 on the Emissions own Sterile Records label. It has had a couple of reissues on Touch and Klanggalerie and at some point this year will be reissued on vinyl by the German Mannequin Records label. The version here is the Klanggalerie CD issue.  

Research Laboratories started releasing in 2011 with the eponymous cassette album by Pavlov's Children. Pavlov's Children were / are an Acid House duo formed by Research Laboratories head guru Thomas LaRoche. Over the next couple of years Research Laboratories put out a slew of limited edition cassettes all featuring the art and noise of Thomas. His first 'Cassingle' called "Mauvaise For" had copies carved in to an antique bible, and the eponymous Generic White Male tape was ultra limited at 25 copies. Pavlov's Children went on to release a 7" single on Tim Burgess's O Genesis label. 

In Spring of 2012 I travelled to Berlin to see The New Blockaders and Vagina Dentata Organ perform live at the NK Gallery and on the evening was invited to participate as part of VDO in the upcoming Extreme Rituals Event that was happening later in the year at The Arnolfini in Bristol. Whether or not Thomas was part of VDO in Berlin I do not know but he was part of the drumming ensemble at the Arnolfini, this was my first meeting with Thomas. Three years later (2015) when Vagina Dentata Organ performed at the Tate Modern as part of the Albert Serra evening I finally got to chat to Thomas and he talked about his activities outside of VDO. The last time I saw Thomas was when we (again) drummed behind Jordi at the Kunst Gallery in Belper (2018). 

Since 2015 Research Laboraties have become more active and more prolific. Thomas has released cassettes and Anti-Records and object d'art under his own name as well as CREEP OF PARIS, Poultry Breeders Union and Eudocimus Ruber as well as sounds by Teignmouth Electron, Mark Vernon, The New Blockaders & The Prestidigitators, Duncan Harrison, Costes, Evil Moisture, Don Mandarin and The Rebel. All releases are in extremely limited editions, sometimes single fingers and never above fifty. 
Last year I invited Thomas to provide some 'exclusive' material for MuhMur Radio and he provided the "RADIO MM - RESEARCH LABORATORIES MIX". It's 30 minutes or so of glorious lo-fi madness. 


The mix features : The Rebel - Drill Homage Remix.
                              Cody Bryant - 5.99lb.
                              Mark Vernon - Love In The Form Of A Personal Attack.
                              Michael Gilliam - Don't Fall Down The Mountain.
                              C.O.P. - Geronticus Eremits - Excerpt.
                              Jean Louis Costes - Papa Dick.
                              Dai Coelacanth - Crushed Grubs At A Lousy B&B.

There are other sounds by Thomas LaRoche that I recognised thrown in to the mix too. 
Thomas also has a side project label to Research Laboratories called Cheap Food Records and has released cassettes by Active Denial (Thomas's P.E. project), Concrete Emptiness and Rotting Shrine. Some RL releases can be bought vis Discogs (I have just bought the Pavlov's Children 7" this morning) .. or contact Thomas via : https://researchlaboratories.tumblr.com

              Thee Thomas LaRoche & His Confounded Instinct Of Mediocrity Orchestra 7" (2015)

                                Eudocimus Rubel - Satanic Whoopee Cushion (2019)

                The New Blockaders & The Prestidigitators - Nichts Jenseits Nihilismus (2017)

                      Duncan Harrison - Life Is Not A Succession Of Major Events (2019)

                                                                      The Rebel (2020)

Lasse Marhaug is a Norwegian soundartist that first came to my ears in the late 1990's with his work within the Origami collective. I have found myself dipping in and out of lasses catalogue as his styles and techniques are very (very) varied, I prefer his more ambient / drone soundscapes to his more harsher noise projects. I did see Testicle Hazard play live twice in one day in London. Testicle Hazard being Lasse Marhaug + Tommi Keränen playing a sort of homage to JapNoise. A day I'll never forget!
The track here is from the new release on Sentimental Productions called "Four Seasons Only Winter". 
There is around 15 seconds silence between Lasse and two pieces by the Bulgarian based project MyTrip. A technical problem for which I apologise but hopefully does not ruin the listening pleasure. The two MyTrip tracks are from their latest LP "Keeper". 



It's because the final MyTrip piece is called "Upheaval" I decided to follow with The Anti Group's "New Upheaval" from the 1986 mini album "Sht" on Sweatbox, and Sheffield connections forced me to follow with Stephen Mallinder's "Cool Down". Originally released in 1981 as the flip side to his debut solo 12" "Tempreture Drop" on Fetish Records this release and his debut solo album "Pow Wow" has just been reissued on CD by Ice Machine Records. 
Kompleksi were a Finnish duo (based in Helsinki) comprising of digital artist Erkki Ratio and musician Mika Paju. They released the one LP and 7" before disappearing in to the Suomi mists.


Comments always welcomed ... 

Playlist :
01: Juice Machine : "Study Of Electrocution" (Falt) 2020.
02: Nocturnal Emissions : "Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss" (Klanggalerie) 2008. (*)
03: Thomas LaRoche : "Research Laboratories MM Radio Broadcast" (Not On label) 2020.
                        (Exclusive material especially mixed for MuhMur radio)
04: Lasse Marhaug : "Four Seasons Only Winter (II)" (Sentimental Productions) 2020.
05: MyTrip : "Blood Black Like Water" (Amek) 2020.
06: MyTrip : "Upheaval" (Amek) 2020.
07: The Anti Group : "New Upheaval" (Sweatbox) 1986.
08: Stephen Mallinder : "Cool Down" (Ice Machine Records) 2020.
09: Kompleksi : "(I Ain't No) Lovechild" (Verdura) 2008.  

(*) -  The Nocturnal Emissions piece "Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss" is Side A of the album originally released on Sterile Records in 1983. The Klanggalerie CD reissue plays it as one track although it is ten pieces mixed as one. The titles of the pieces are :
              
I  - Norepinephrine.
II - How Groovy You Were.
III - Hardcore.
IV - Gloppetta.
V - Tongues Speak.
VI - Want To Die.
VII - Smoking Rat Machine.
VIII - Wrongly Wired.
IX - Violence Is Love.
X - Shan't Do That.

Apologies for the lateness in posting this, technical difficulties.
Next broadcast is on this Thursday, 20th August. Should be a 20:00 hours kick off but check local papers for details. 


                             






 

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Saturday, 25 July 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 23 July 2020.



A chance meeting at weird garden event last year in Lincoln with Gavin Morrow has brought me in to the sonic world of Grey Frequency. Gavin records and performs under the moniker of Grey Frequency. His latest release is a split cassette with London based electronic musician Steve Nolan. 


"Intercept" is released on Nolan's own label 'Spun Out Of Control'. Copies are limited but still available. Try here : https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/intercept
The Maeror Tri track is from a new compilation of early singles (A & B Sides) released by Belgian label EE Tapes. Imaginatively called "The Singles" the track "Phyein" was originally released in 1995 on Fools Paradise Records. 
The Steve Roden piece is from a compilation CD that was given away to subscribers of The Wire magazine back in 2006. At a recent clear out and tidy up at SoundArt Radio Studios I chanced upon this CD lying on the floor ... so I picked it up. I am not a subscriber to The Wire magazine.
Tech Riders are Frans De Waard and Sindre Bjerga. This summer they have (had) released two essential albums. "Double Factorial" on the UK based Sleep Fuse label and "Of The Lost Ark" on the Finnish Ikuisuus label. "(Do) The Rotation" is from the "Of The Lost Ark" album. Limited to 60 only it is available here : https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-lost-ark

The regular 'On This Day' feature returns with a couple of singles from 1982. The Stranglers "Strange Little Girl" and Blancmange's "Feel Me". Between 1980 and 1985 I saw Blancmange live a few times, from Lyndsays Disco Bar in Lincoln to the grand Apollo Theatre in Manchester. It was at the gig at the Apollo that the support was from Portion Control.


"Raise The Pulse" was a 12" on Illuminated Records. "Abbo Dabbo" comes from the mini LP "Hit The Pulse" released in the same year on Portion Control's own label In Phaze Records. 

One of the most interesting releases this year is the cassette "_____________" on the new Steep Gloss label. 

__________ is a blank cassette compilation. The 10 artists were asked to submit an audio piece, with a duration of no more than 4 minutes, utilising blank tapes as the sole sound source. The pieces were then combined, top-to-tail, exquisite corpse style, to create a gestalt, resulting in the two distinct side long pieces presented here. The artists were also asked to submit a 'blank' image, leaving the interpretation of which up to them. These images were then incorporated into the 5 double-sided panels serving as the art accompanying the tape. "Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy." Jeanette Winterson "Blankness. Oblivion. Nothingness. Pure, undiluted primeval nothingness. Finally, after aeons of nothingness, millennia of chaos, a voice: We have torn it down, said the voice, now we begin to create" Norman Spinrad SG00 credits released June 19, 2020 "The silences are searing. The absence of the usual motifs means you have to pay attention to the nothingness, which creates its own all-consuming noise. Some pieces are just tape hiss, others are glitchy drones, others feel like a hangover, some sounds like machinery being recorded from a distance, others might be the sound of a car engine cooling down on a driveway, but all of them have a claustrophobic vibe that gets under your skin." Nick Roseblade for Vital Weekly


The Throbbing Gristle tracks are from the double LP "The Mission Is Terminated". This LP is 'partly official' only the Throbbing Gristle tracks credit them as a Sinclair/Brooks production. Two tracks are edited / compressed versions of recordings from the "Journey Through A Body" sessions (1981), whereas "You Don't No" is a live recording from Sheffield. The other LP is a compilation of artists that appear on the Italian Nice Label. 

The Skullflower 7" is from 1992 on the highly collectable Dying Earth label, and features the dulcet tones of Stuart Dennison on vocals. 


Please take a listen to the broadcast here :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-23-july-2020/

Playlist :
01 : Steve Nolan & Grey Frequency : "Been" (Spun Out Of Control) 2020.
02: Maeror Tri : "Phyein" (EE Tapes) 2020.
03 : Steve Roden : "22 Letters And The Resonance Of A Three Pointed Star" (Wire Magazine) 2006.
04 : Tech Riders : "(Do) The Rotation" (Ikuisuus) 2020.
05 : Pere Ubu : "Cloud 149" (Radar Records) 1978.
06 : The Stranglers : "Strange Little Girl" (Liberty Records) 1982.
07 : Blancmange : "Feel Me" (London Records) 1982.
08 : Portion Control : "Raise The Pulse" (Illuminated Records) 1983.
09 : Portion Control : "Abbo Dabbo" (In Phaze Records) 1983.
10 : Diurnal Burdens/George Concrète/Phil Maguire/Richard Garet/Rovellasca : "_________" (B) (Steep Gloss) 2020.
11 : Ora : "The Sun Sheds A Golden Tear" (Die Stadt Records) 2004.
12 : Throbbing Gristle : "Medicine For Catholic Sex (Love Song For Paula)" (Nice Label) 1983.
13 : Throbbing Gristle : "Exotic Violence Della Morte" (Nice Label) 1983.
14 : Family Underground : "Sand Between Us" (I Dischi Del Barone) 2020.
15 : Skullflower : "Bad Alchemy" (Dying Earth Records) 1992.
16 : Throbbing Gristle : "You Don't No" (Nice Label) 1983.

The next broadcast is on Aug 6, kick off time TBA.

Sorry this is a little brief / rushed - I am just about to head up North and will be away from a computer for a few days ......


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Saturday, 11 July 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 09 July 2020.




The broadcast starts with a track by Hinageshi Bondage. Hinageshi Bondage was the solo project of Helsinki based sound artist and multi instrumentalist Janne Martinkauppi. Janne has since gone on to play in (and create) such projects as Can Can Heads, Doroga, Haare, Killer McHann, Mohel and he is now part of the group Gunk. Hinageshi Bondage only existed for a couple of years (1999 - 2001) releasing a couple of 7" singles on Janne's own label Verdura Records and the mini album "Pariisi Vuonna 1959" on the Finnish label Nihil Market. Nihil Market was a side label to Kaos Kontrol, the industrial label operated by Jukka Mattila. Jukka now plays in the noise-rock band Throat.

                                                                Janne Martinkauppi.

"Villto" is from the "Pariisi Vuonna 1959" release. Back at the turn of the century I used to correspond / trade tapes and records (etc) with Janne. I started to collect releases on Verdura Records, the early releases were from Circle side projects like Ektroverde and Eturivi as well as Kroko and Hinageshi Bondage. We sort of lost touch when I moved to the Deep South, but a couple of months ago Janne got in contact thanks to Facebook and I am now slowly catching up on Janne's activities in the 21st Century, as well as filling gaps in my Verdura Records collection. Expect more Janne Martinkauppi sounds on MuhMur Radio in the coming months.
Verdura records catalogue can be bought here : http://www.verdurarecords.com


How much longer will it be before Dale Cornish is the poet laureate? It could happen ... Harbinger Sound have had records in the Top 20 album charts .. anything can happen. Dale has just released the infectious album "Thug Ambient" on his own Vanity Publishing label. On this programme I play one of his more 'experimental' pieces' from the album. Contact Dale here: https://vanitypublishing.bandcamp.com

The short Neil Campbell piece is from the download only album "In Plague Boudoir" available via the Neil Campbell Bandcamp site. https://theneilcampbell.bandcamp.com/album/in-plague-boudoir
It's one of those 'name your price' downloads and highly recommended.


The oeuvre of Duncan Harrison is quite remarkable, from his days (over ten years now) with Plurals through his collaborations with artists such as BBBlood, Ute Wassermann, Dylan Nyoukis and Aidan Baker (to name just a few) and as a solo artist and vegan chef at various eateries in Brighton. Releasing on labels such as Index Clean, Research Laboratories, RRRecords, Sound Holes and Chocolate Monk (to name just a few). His latest release is the highly listenable "Music From Amplified Flexible Discs" a cassette on the (new to me) Cardboard Club label.
Don Mandarin (like Duncan Harrison) also has released via the label Research Laboratories. "Cape Town" is from the new CDR "Take Me To Cape Town (Mary Visits Elisabeth)". Don Mandarin is at the alias for Bristol based musician Richard Beale. Richard was in the 1980's Pop-Rock band Head and 1990's Trip-Hop band Receiver.


FRKSE are a mysterious one man project from the West Coast of America. I remember chancing upon the 2012 cassette release "Scholar Drugs" on its' release and have been tracking down their/his/her releases since. I recently grabbed this 7"EP from the bargain bins of the Internet. "Denigration Rapture" on Iron Lung Records. It's a problem with limited USA releases, trying to pick them up from UK or European sellers to save on the ridiculous UK-US postage terms. If any UK based folk are reading this and have some FRKSE they would like to pass on ... please get in touch.

Since its release a few months ago the new MNEM LP "Elyktrion" has not been far from the turntable at MuhMur HQ. "Peripheral Intervention" is from the album.

                                                                      Mykel Boyd.

"Fever Dream Three" is the new CDEP from Illinois based conceptual and sound artist Mykel Boyd. Mykel also operates the label Somnimage Records. Visit: http://www.mykelboyd.com

Arv & Miljō should be no strangers to the MuhMur Radio listener. Their (I say they - in fact Arv & Miljō is the solo project of Heinz Hopf and Neutral member Matthias Andersson) new release is the cassette "Raelianerna". A C20 based around close encounters of the third and fourth kind.


Matthias also operates the I Dischi Del Barone and Fōrdämning Arkiv labels. He can be contacted here: http://www.iddb.se Like the sound of Matthias Andersson the sound of John Duncan is often heard on MuhMur Radio. The track here is from the single sided LP "MMXX-02". It was recorded at EMS Studio 3 in Stockholm in 2019.


Copies of this record can be found here: https://matiere-memoire.bandcamp.com/album/mmxx-02-panic-11000-feet

Thanks for listening, a link to the broadcast is here :

Playlist:
01: Hinageshi Bondage : "Villto" (Nihil Market) 2001.
02: Dale Cornish : "A Better Dancer" (Vanity Publishing) 2020.
03: Neil Campbell : "In Plague Boudoir" (Not On Label-Self Released) 2020.
04: Duncan Harrison : "Music From Amplified Flexible Discs" (Side B) (Cardboard Club) 2020.
05: Don Mandarin : "Cape Town" (Research Laboratories) 2020.
06: FRKSE : "Burn First Then An Affront" (Iron Lung Records) 2018.
07: MNEM : "Peripheral Intervention" (Verlautbarung) 2020.
08: Current 93 : "If A Star Turns To Ashes" (Side A) (The Spheres) 2020.
09: Mykel Boyd : "Fever Dream Three" (Somnimage) 2020.
10: Arv & Miljō : "Raelianerna" (Side A) (Not On label-Self Released) 2020.
11: John Duncan : "Panic @ 11000 Feet" (Matière Mémoire) 2020.

The next broadcast will be on July 23 - it's pre-recorded so I can say that it will have included in the "On This Day" feature sounds from The Stranglers and Blancmange. It'll be a 9pm (GMT) kick off and available on FM if you're in the Totnes area of Devon and streamed live via the SoundArt radio web page. 



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Saturday, 27 June 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 25 June 2020


It had been a while since I'd heard some new Aaron Dilloway sounds so I bit the bullet and paid the US postal price and ordered a few tapes from Hanson Records (the label and shop run by Aaron). Extracts from two of the tapes I got are in this broadcast. Christian Mirande's "Exercise" and the full side (A) of the collaboration release with C. Lavender called "Secret Destroyed Instantly"


C. Lavender is a New York sound artist, healing practitioner and educator. In the past she has worked with Pauline Oliveros and released on labels like Ecstatic Peace, Editions Mego and Spleencoffin Records. This collaboration is my first exposure to her sound but I think it deserves exploring. More information on her work can be found here : http://www.clavender.net
The tape is still available here : https://hansonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/secret-destroyed-instantly

The MNEM track is from their latest album (and MuhMur HQ favourite) "Elyktrion".
Back at the turn of the century Finnish trio Aavikko played some live dates in America, their West Coast performances were seen by Peter Conheim of Mono Pause & Negativland. The plan was hatched to release a split single of each project covering one of each other's songs.


Mono Pause cover "El Cebo" an Aavikko track from their 1997 debut LP "Derek!" and Aavikko play "Of Stomping Men" from the 1999 LP "Peeping Through the Listen Hole". Like C. Lavender Mono Pause are a new name to me ... this single came recommended by Jim Haynes (another Aavikko fan).


M. Bryo & D.M.T. was the project created by Belgian artist Mark Burghgraeve in the late 1970s. Based in Antwerp (Belgium) M. Bryo released a split tape with Etat Brut on Club Moral's own label as well as appearing on a handful of compilations. In 1982 Mark formed the EBM band The Klinik, and carried on recording (but not releasing as M. Bryo & D.M.T.). In 2018 the French label Nuit Et Brouillard released the double album "Things I Was Due To Forget" a collection of unreleased material from 1979 to 2005.


Throughout the 1980s Mark worked with Belgian bands such as Vomito Negro, Insekt and Hybrids. Another project he created in the late 1970s was Somnambulist, in 2011 the Belgian label Walhalla released their album "The Withered Land".
The LP can be found here ; https://nuitetbrouillard.bandcamp.com

The two Panansonic remixes are from the 12" EP of remixes by Soviet France and Muslimgauze. The tracks were recorded in 1995 and recently found in the Sähkō archives.
The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus are based in Liverpool. I was sent a tape of their debut album back in the early 1990s. Nature & Organisation were on the other side and I have always associated the two bands ... TRAOTIJ have their new album released by Exeter based label Occultation Recordings. "Songs Of Yearning/Nocturnes" is a double CD available direct from the label. https://www.occultation.co.uk When the pandemic is over and it is safe to do so I plan on knocking on the door of Occultation Recordings (Exeter is just 'down the road') and grabbing some more RAOTIJ albums. (Saves on postage)!


Now we (MuhMur Radio) are back semi-live so is the "feature" 'On This Day'. 25th June 1980 was the release date for the debut 7" by In Camera. In Camera encapsulated the 4AD sound of 1980 with the likes of Mass, The The, Dance Chapter and Bauhaus.



In 1982 (on this day) Bauhaus released the single "Passion Of Lovers", by this time they had left 4AD Records and signed to the mini-majors Beggars Banquet.
I managed to get a package through from Somnimage last month. They have just released a batch od CD's by the artists Mikael Boyd, Drekka and Timber Rattle and slipped in the jiffy was a 2019 CD by City Of Djin. Unfortunately the track here skipped a few beats ... I'll put another City Of Djin track in a forthcoming broadcast ... It did give me an opportunity to play two tracks by Fote though ... every cloud and all that ...
Furious Pig (so the story goes) are from Totnes in Devon. SoundArt Radio studios are situated a couple of miles outside Totnes. They only released the one 12" EP before transforming in to the bands Lights In A Fat City and Het. Dominic Weeks (one half of Furious Pig) is now in the band Dial, featuring ex members of UT and All Quiet.


Fote are from the same time as Furious Pig. A trio featuring Sema mainman Robert Haigh as well as future Monochrome Set member Trevor Reidy. The two tracks here are from a new compilation album of previously released singles on Robot Records. http://www.robotrecords.com/releases/rr49/


In 2006 two ex A Band and Smell & Quim members joined forces to release the 8" lathe cut EP "Live At RRRecords" on the Newcastle based Alt. Vinyl label. In 2020 Sticky Foster + Neil Campbell have now let an ultra limited cassette called "Theme From Resonatache" escape. The tapes are long gone but a digital download is available here : https://theneilcampbell.bandcamp.com/album/split-cane-enabled-theme-from-resonant-ache

You can listen to the broadcast here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-25-june-2020/

Playlist :
01: Aaron Dilloway & C. Lavender : "Secret Destroyed Instantly" (A) (Hanson Records) 2020.
02: MNEM : "Stimulus Hauler" (Verlautbarung) 2020.
03: Mono Pause : "El Cebo" (Seeland) 2002.
04: M. Bryo & D.M.T. : "Let's Go To War" (Nuit Et Brouillard) 2018.
05: M. Bryo & D.M.T. : "The Lab" (Nuit Et Brouillard) 2018.
06: Aavikko : "Of Stomping Men" (Seeland) 2002.
07: Panasonic : "Untitled #2 (Muslimgauze Mix)" (Sähkō) 2020.
08: Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus : "Ave Maria" (Occultation Recordings) 2020.
09: Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus : "Opening"  (Occultation Recordings) 2020.
10: Panasonic : "Untitled (Soviet France Remix)" (Sähkō) 2020.
11: Christian Mirande : "Exercise" (Hanson Records) 2020.
12: In Camera : "Final Achievement" (4AD Records) 1980.
13: City Of Djin : "Hakawati" (Somnimage Recordings) 2019.
14: Bauhaus : "Passion Of Lovers" (Beggars Banquet) 1982.
15: Furious Pig : "The King Mother" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.
16: Fote : "Perfect Sense" (Robot Records) 2019.
17: Fote : "Lost Toy" (Robot Records) 2019.
18: Sticky Foster & Neil Campbell : "Theme From Resonatache" (Not On Label) 2020.

All being good the next broadcast will be on July 9th with a 9pm (GMT) kick off time.

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Saturday, 13 June 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 11 June 2020.


We move into phase 2, away from the posting of files and downloads on to the physical and the pre-recorded broadcasts ....
A big thanks goes out to the artists who mailed their files of exclusive material for broadcast and thanks to the label AMPLIFY 2020 for posting incredible sounds by incredible artists on their website for free. There was a sense of disconnect for me over the past few programmes as I was collecting files and mailing them over to Chris Booth (Head Honcho Ov SoundArt Radio) for him to compile and create a 2 hour broadcast ... Chris did great work and a big thanks goes to him ... so, now  we have moved into phase two. The almost live - if we all kept quiet and pretended it was. - you'd believe it phase. (Like Radio 6Music on a bank holiday).

The broadcast begins with a 30 minute piece from French Musique Concret Exoticists The Dead Mauriacs.   "Décors Cachés" was released on cassette back in February. Limited to just 20 copies it sold out quickly from the Mauriacs website but a few copies are still available via the GerauschManufaktur bandcamp page. https://geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com/album/d-cors-cach-s


On the 14th of March this year Genesis P-Orridge  passed on. I had planned a whole G P-O / TG two hour tribute for the broadcast on 28th of March but unfortunately the world turned (became as sad as it seems) and the broadcasts ceased to exist for a while .. and now that MuhMur Radio is back on air I think I'll pass on that playlist and just slip in some classic G P-O from time to time ... The two tracks here are from the vinyl version of "TG Now" that came out in 2004. 
Earlier on in the year I bought The Specials "Singles" album on CD to play in the car and declared to family & friends that "Girlfriend" was my favourite single by the band. (I believe it was their last). I saw The Specials live once - I think they were Special AKA back then - in 1978 at Lincoln AJ's Club. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to find a version of "Girlfriend" on the new John Paul album. Great version too. The LP is called "Subjects" and is available here : https://www.musicglue.com/environmental-studies On the page there's also a link to download the track "Girlfriend" for free. 

Another passing this year, the German artist / poet / actor / writer Jürgen Ploog. I first became aware of Jürgen's name in 1999 when he collaborated with Column One on the album "Simulation", the track played here is from that album. There is a great biography / obituary by Jan Herman here : https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2020/05/jurgen-ploog-r-i-p.html 


In April Current 93 released the album "If A Star Turns Into Ashes" on their The Spheres label. It was released in two editions with the music being the same on each edition, but the images are different. 

With being able to pre-record the programme now I am able to bring back the feature of "On This Day", and June 11 1978 saw the debut release by The Lines and their "White Night" 7". It was released on their own Linear Records label and re-released a year later on Illegal Records. 

                                                                           The Lines.

New Bristol label Spurge Recordings came into being last year, operated by Bristolian legend (Fat) Paul Horlick their raison d'être is to release vinyl only by "all girl bands". So far they have released albums by Slagheap and Slum Of Legs and have now collaborated with Harbinger Sound and Red Wig to put out Massicot's fourth album "Kratt". Copies can be found via Harbinger Sound here : 
The Crawling Chaos track comes from the recent re-issue of the 1984 album "The Big C" on EE Tapes. I first came across Crawling Chaos in the early 1980's and their single "Sex Machine" on Factory Records, I must admit to not liking the follow up LP "The Gas Chair", and never really thought about them again, not until EE Tapes released their "Spookhouse" album in 2012. They remain (as they always were) a mysterious project, they could be a three piece and could hail from Tyneside (Sunderland) ... who knows? I am having to rediscover The Crawling Chaos. 


In January this year Drekka, Timber Rattle and Mykel Boyd toured the USA. A commemorative CDR was released, limited to 66 copies. https://bluesanct.bandcamp.com/album/jan-2020-tour-complication As of writing the last 3 copies are available from the link above! 
The Beequeen track is our usual MuhMur Radio Frans de Waard track ... 


Playlist:
01: Dead Mauriacs : "Décors Cachés" (GerauschManufaktur) 2020.
02: Throbbing Gristle : "X-Ray (Edit)" (Industrial Records/Mute Records) 2004.
03: Throbbing Gristle : "Splitting Sky" (Industrial Records/Mute Records) 2004.
04: John Paul : "Girlfriend" (Environmental Studies/Harbinger Sound) 2020.
05: Column One & Jürgen Ploog : "Second 3-D Picture" (Rendezvous Radikal) 1998.
06: Current 93 : "If A Star Turns To Ashes II" (The Spheres) 2020.
07: The Lines : "White Night" (Illegal Records) 1979.
08: Massicot : "Kubika Rubika" (Spurge Recordings/Harbinger Sound/Red Wig Records) 2020.
09: Crawling Chaos : "Gygno" (EE Tapes) 2020.
10: Beequeen : "With Anna You Get Eggroll" (Infraction) 2002.
11: Drekka : "Call To Slumber, Call To Being" (Somnimage/Bluesanct) 2020.
12: Val Dorr & Troy Schafer : "Nachtlaub" (Shifting Sands Congregation) 2014. 

The next programme will be broadcast at 21:00 GMT on June 25th. (Please note the new kick off time). 

                                                                     back in the studio

                                                                         Happy Days!

                                                          The 'Socially Distant' Chris Booth

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Friday, 8 May 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast : 30 April 2020.


File under better late than never :

If you did not know my day job is at the local hospital here in the South-West and it has got rather busy in the laboratories over the past seven days. So apologies in the lateness of this post ...

This is the second "Isolation Mix" where I mail Chris at SoundArt Radio some files I have on my computer and he compiles them in to a 120 minute broadcast.
The programme begins with another from the 'Voor' series by Modelbau. The last programme featured eight 'Voor' pieces ... this piece was too long to fit onto that broadcast.
German composer and sound artist Thorsten Soltau mailed MuhMur Radio a couple of pieces in April. "To Let A Field Rest" was originally recorded in 2016 and remastered in 2019. This piece is to be released by UK label Holy Geometry in a split cassette with Belgian musician Neils Geybels. https://holygeometrytapes.bandcamp.com/album/to-let-a-field-rest

The rest of the broadcast is culled from the AMPLIFY 2020 website. It's a label created for the quarantine by Jon Abbey, Matthew Revert and Vanessa Rosetto. The label started on March 20 and releases a new piece created in quarantine on a daily basis. The pieces are downloadable for free. https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com
Expect a few more pieces from Amplify 2020 on MuhMur Radio whilst the lockdown is in operation.

Playlist : 
01: Modelbau : "Voor Jolanda" (Not On Label) 2019.
02: Thorsten Soltau : "To Let A Field Rest" (Not On Label) 2020.
03: Francisco Meirino : "To Make A Little More With A Little Less" (Amplify 2020) 2020.
04: Aaron Dilloway : "Chicken Traces" (Amplify 2020) 2020.
05: Howard D Stelzer : "Something To Do" (Amplify 2020) 2020.
06: Leif Elggren : "Ear Before Eyes In The Reversed Process" (Amplify 2020) 2020.

Please take a listen here.
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-30-april-2020/

Next broadcast (all going well) will be on May 14 at 21:00 GMT on SoundArt Radio.
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Saturday, 18 April 2020

MuhMur Radio Broadcast : 16 April 2020.


The first MuhMur Radio 'isolation mix' features 122 minutes of the sound of Modelbau. Modelbau is the solo project of Dutch sound artist / writer Frans deWaard. Over the past two years Frans has been composing pieces for friends and allies birthdays and posting them on his Facebook page for all to hear (for a few days only). I have been collecting the pieces and for the first Non-Live MuhMur Radio 'isolation broadcast' I have chosen eight pieces. The files were assembled here at MuhMur Radio HQ and edited into broadcast format by Chris Booth at SoundArt Radio HQ in Buckfastleigh (Devon).

The programme will be broadcast at 21:00 GMT every night on SoundArt Radio until the end of April. Plans for another 'isolation mix' are underway ...

Please take a listen here :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-16-april-2020-modelbau-special/

Or tune in to SoundArt Radio here :
http://www.soundartradio.org.uk

Playlist:
01: Modelbau : "Voor Pycram".
02: Modelbau : "Voor Peter".
03: Modelbau : "Voor Martijn".
04: Modelbau : "Voor Jos".
05: Modelbau : "Voor Sven".
06: Modelbau : "Voor Freek".
07: Modelbau : "Voor Lillia".
08: Modelbau : "Voor Steve".


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Monday, 6 April 2020

MuhMur Radio Update : April 2020.


As you may well have noticed MUHMUR RADIO is now off-air. Live surface to airwaves broadcasting will begin again when it is safe to do so. At this time SoundArt Radio Studios and Dartington Hall Estate (where they are situated) are closed.
I do not have the facilities here at MuhMur HQ to do a "podcast" or mail in the radio programme to the Mandarins Ov SoundArt for broadcast, the set up here is quite simple. However, please feel free to explore the Muhmur Radio archive page on MixCloud.

Whilst we are "off-air" I will be posting some files I have here on my computer on to the MixCloud Archive page. Randomly and irregularly.
There will be some live recordings, old recordings and exclusive recordings posted during the "lockdown" so please keep an ear out. I am not in isolation at the moment as work at a major hospital in Devon ... but as you can appreciate days are long and very tiring so .... (hence the irregularity).

Anyway ...

Here are some links to click on and I hope you enjoy the sounds.

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/modelbau-live-march-2020/

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/dieter-müh-live-in-berlin-2013/

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/of-habit-live-at-cafe-oto-london-3rd-of-august-2017/

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/thorsten-soltau-to-let-a-field-rest/

If there are folk out there who would like to contribute to the programme whilst we are in "LockDown", please get in touch.

We shall be back to live broadcasting when it is safe to do so.
Keep Your Distance!

Steve. X
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