MuhMur Radio Broadcast 16 September 2021

 

This evening's broadcast is very Dilloway-centric. 

In July this year Hanson Records released the album "Lucy & Aaron" by Aaron Dilloway and Lucrecia Dalt. I managed to get a physical copy late August and I've been playing it on a daily basis since. I knew the name Lucrecia Dalt because last year Hanson Records released a "tour" edition of her 2013 album "Syzygy" on cassette for her European tour. I never managed to get a copy (limited to 75 I think), but if any one out there has a copy they're willing to part with then please get in touch. Lucrecia Dalt is a Colombian born pop singer resident in Berlin. She has previously released under the name Lucrecia and her 'real' name María Lucrecia Pérez López. As always when I start playing Aaron's albums I always want to hear more so at the same time as "Aaron & Lucy" I (re) discovered the 2005 album "Rotting Nepal". Released as a CDR on Hanson Records, I play side 2 of the vinyl version on Blossoming Noise. Hanson's Bandcamp is always worth a visit : https://hansonrecords.bandcamp.com. For London folk Lucrecia plays live at the Cafe OTO on October 5th. 

The sounds of Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg are quite regular on MuhMur Radio. Hot on the heels of his "Klein : Rot" LP that came out on the Hamburg label V I S in April this year comes "Weisheit Aus Des Kindes Mund Tut Uns Stets Die Wahrheit Hund". The title translates as "Wisdom From The Child's Mouth Always Tells Us The Truth". The album is on the Australian label A Colourful Storm. Available here : https://acolourfulstorm.bandcamp.com

"On This Day" features the 1981 12" single "Temperature Drop / Cool Down" by Stephen Mallinder. Stephen Mallinder was the bass player / vocalist with Cabaret Voltaire. This was released around the time that Cabaret Voltaire were just about to released the seminal "2x45" album. There are similarities. In 1982 Stephen released the album "Pow Wow" (also on Fetish Records) that features members of Last Few Days. 

Alvars Orkester are the Swedish duo Joachim Nordwall and Jan Svensson. They began their own label Börft label back in 1987 with the cassette Raggarslakt by Frak. The pieces here are from the new album "Deck Brush". The album is a collection of recordings from 1991 and 1992. I bought my copy direct from Börft. http://www.borft.com The Muckrackers track is from the 7" La Vie Set A Nous" on LFA. It's a split single with Le Syndicat and comes with a bonus 3" four track CDR. 

                                                                        Alvars Orkester

                                                                              De Tian

De Tian were formed in Sheffield in 1978. In 1978 there was a 'Sheffield Scene', everyone seemed to be in a band at the time. There was a great mixture of post-punk, new wave, electronic, avant-garde and improvisational and undefinable bands and artists. (I would like to say that 'I was there', but I was about 40 miles east ... but I did do day trips). De Tian (or de tian ... it was always all lower case) were Paul Shaft, Paul Hague. There one and only release at the time was the 1980 7" EP "Two Spires Split" released on their own Oblique Sound imprint. The EP was to be released on the Sheffield independent Limited Editions label but never happened. Last year De Tian reformed with former Naked Pygmy Voles / Bass Tone Trap saxophonist Martin Archer and released the album "Transcritome" on Archer's own Discus label. I have played tracks from the album in past programmes. For more information on De Tian go to : https://discus-music.co.uk

Ediie Maelov + Sunshine Patteson were members of Gloria Mundi. "Lines" was their first single. The Severed Heads track is from the "Since The Accident" LP and the English Subtitles track is from their debut EP on Small Wonder Records. * Following on from the Dilloway & Dalt track "Tunnel" I thought it appropriate to play my DJ Card and follow it with "Time Tunnel".

Juice Machine are a live improvisational duo from Eugene, Oregon. The track here is from the split cassette with Path To Lobster Believers called "Weak Passwords". It was released on the now defunct Rainbow Bridge label. Juice Machine can be contacted at : https://juicemachine.bandcamp.com

Playlist :

01: Aaron Dilloway : "Rotting Nepal #5" (Blossoming Noise) 2006.

02: Aaron Dilloway : "Rotting Nepal #6" (Blossoming Noise) 2006.

03: Aaron Dilloway : "Rotting Nepal #7" (Blossoming Noise) 2006.

04: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "Bordéandola" (Hanson Records) 2021.

05: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "Trueno" (Hanson Records) 2021.

06: Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg : "An Die Hohe Nacht" (A Colourful Storm) 2021.

07: Stepehen Mallinder : "Temperature Drop" (Fetish Records) 1981.

08: Alvars Orkester : "Collecting Old Telephones" (UFO Mongo/Ideal Records) 2021.

09: Alvars Orkester : "Holding Breath" (UFO Mongo/Ideal Records) 2021.

10: Muckrackers : "En Avant" (LFA) 2011.

11: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "Both Blue Moons" (Hanson Records) 2021.

12: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "Niles Baroque" (Hanson Records) 2021.

13: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "Voyria" (Hanson Records) 2021.

14: De Tian : "The Bakhtiari" (Oblique Sound) 1980.

15: Eddie Maelov + Sunshine Patteson : "Lines" (Human Records) 1981.

16: Severed Heads : "Godsong" (Ink Records) 1983.

17: Stephen Mallinder : "Cool Down" (Fetish Records) 1981.

18: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "Ojazo" (Hanson Records) 2021.

19: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "The Tunnel" (Hanson Records) 2021.

20: English Subtitles : "Time Tunnel" (Small Wonder Records) 1979.

21: The Vibrators : "Flying Duck Theory" (Anagram Records) 2017.

22: Juice Machine : "Aglow With Brilliant Light" (Rainbow Bridge) 2014. 

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-16-september-2021/

Next broadcast is on September 30. 20:00 GMT, as always and will feature some sounds from Emil Beaulieau, Modelbau, Neutral and Browning Mummery (amongst others) as well as featuring Virgin Prunes, Dome and Last Few Days in an "on this day" section. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 2 September 2021.

 

The programme begins with a piece from the 2020 cassette release "Still Awake" by Karen Constance. Released on Beartown Records the cassette may be an accompaniment to the cassette "Still Asleep" released on the  More Mars Team label earlier in 2020. Karen, along with her partner Dylan Nyoukis operate the Chocolate Monk label. http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/enter.htm. The first time I came across Karen's work was back in the 1990's when she was one half of the noise duo Prick Decay and releases on Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers and Stinky Horse Fuck. Karen is now one half of the experimental noise duo Blood Stereo. Copies of "Still Awake" can be found at Beartown Records here : https://beartownrecords.bigcartel.com

Ten years ago I (as Dieter Müh) got involved in a release to promote 'Record Store Day', it was a compilation built of six cassettes entitled "You Are Playing' Like A Fuckin' Pub Band" and put out by Electric Knife Records aficionado Thanasis on his label The 7.17 From West Wittering Is Late Again. Back then I had never heard of Record Store Day (RSD) but was told it was releases only available on that day and only available from independently run record shops (not HMV, Our Price, Virgin Records etc ... the places where good music goes to die as I keep telling the children). The plan was to get folk in to record shops to buy independently made and released 'music'. Ten years later and RSD is now a promotional tool used by major labels and major record stores to push re-releases and re-issues of their old stock. Releases are (as a rule) available to pre-order on line months before the actual 'day'. (RSD). As a side effect major labels are clogging up the pressing factories with their orders to a level where the independent label wanting a small / limited run can't get their records released when they want to. It's all too familiar. Anyway ... the two pieces from S.R. Meixner and Band Of Pain are from the 10"EP "Priti Deceit". This is the third collaboration between these two artists following 7" singles on Outsider Records and Black Rose Recordings. Although being a RSD release the 10"EP is still available direct from the label (no record store needed). https://www.dirterpromotions.com

Thomas LaRoche is a favourite of MuhMur Radio. His latest release is a split CDR with American noise artist Cody Bryant. Entitled "Pathological Demand Avoidance" it is on Thomas's own imprint Research Laboratories. https://researchlaboratories.tumblr.com

Schwerpunkt is the solo project of George Rayner-Law. George is / was a member of Manchester thrash band Elk Blood and Industrial rock band Werk. The three pieces here are from the cassette "The Lion Hunt" released on George's own label Brachliegen Tapes. It was Brachliegen Tapes that released the excellent Mark Dicker cassette "Flyalarm" earlier in the year. It's a label I am going to keep an ear out for. https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com Parts of "The Lion Hunt" reminded me of the sound of Of Habit... so I play some .... 

Ice Yacht is Philip Sanderson, "Kicky Bang Bang" is the title track from his new album "Colour Buffer" on Snatch Tapes. Unfortunately it's only available as a download. Hopefully for his next release Philip will see the error of his ways. https://snatchtapes.bandcamp.com

"On This Day" in 198o French punk band Doctor Mix & The Remix released the 12"EP "Psychedelic Desert" on Celluloid Records. "In The Plastic Motel Bar At The Edge Of The Desert" is from this EP. Dr Mix were a trio comprising of ex members of Metal Urbain. Pat Lüger, Eric Débris and Charles Hurbier. The track I play is from the 2004 compilation "Wall Of Noise" CD,  a kind of greatest hits.

It was at this point of compiling a playlist, a radio broadcast, that the new album from Minny Pops came to MuhMur HQ. I love Minny Pops, always have since hearing their "Nervous" single on John Peel's show back in 1979. It's one of those records that has never left my possession (along with the Minny Pops "Live" EP released a year later). And now ... I have all their records, so the release of a new LP is like a ray of sunshine upon Hartop Towers. I was fortunate to see Minny Pops live. April 1981 they played Rock City in Nottingham. They were supporting New Order. New Order were / are (who knows) a band that I thought were OK but nothing special ... the singles up to "Blue Monday" are OK ... but I used to go and see New Order live whenever they were in the area because the support was always going to great - and fellow Factory Records artists. Crispy Ambulance, Section 25, The Wake etc. On this occasion the Minny Pops guitarist broke strings so Wally (the singer) told a story about how rough the sea crossing from Holland was and how tired they all were. The bass player and synth player joined in and created this fascinating improvisation. (The last time I witnessed anything like this happen was when the Skids bass player broke a string whilst supporting the Stranglers at Lincoln Drill Hall in 1978 and the rest of the band played a Mott The Hoople medley whilst a new string was found and strung). 

The new Minny Pops LP is called "Stockholm 1974", a nod towards Patty Hearst. Minny Pops are still Wally Van Middendorp on vocals giving them their distinctive sound but they have fleshed out in to a big band sound with John Barrett on drums, Lee McFadden on guitar, Terry Edwards on trumpets and sax and Graham Dowdall (aka 'Dids') on electronics. Graham was formerly with Eric Random and Ludus. The LP is on Psychofon Records. https://www.psychofonrecords.com The final Minny Pops track is called "Stay Awake" and I used my DJ license and followed with "Stay Awake" by Glaxo Babies. 

EE Tapes of Belgium have just released a split CD (also available on cassette) by Hypnoskull and Machinery Directive. Hypnoskull is  the solo project of hardcore techno musician Patrick Stevens. Machinery Directive is the project of industrial noisician Sem Cappaert. Both releases are limited to 100 only. Get one here : http://www.eetapes.be

Take a listen to the broadcast :

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-02-september-2021/

Playlist :

01: Karen Constance : "Still Awake #3" (Beartown Records) 2020.

02: S.R. Meixner : "Deceit" (Dirter Promotions) 2021.

03: Kazuya Ishigami : "Recycling Memories 202105" (Neus-318) 2021.

04: Beequeen : "And So It Came To Pass" (Beta-Lactam Ring Records) 2004.

05: Thomas LaRoche : "Conditioned Response" (Research Laboratories) 2021.

06: Thomas LaRoche : "Even In November The Flies Want To Lay Eggs" (Research Laboratories) 2021.

07: Schwerpunkt : "Yamaha Dub" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

08: Schwerpunkt : "Drumswell" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

09: Schwerpunkt : "We Talk / I Talk" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

10: Of Habit : "Cult Of Personality" (Index Clean) 2019.

11: Ice Yacht : "Kicky Bang Bang" (Snatch Tapes) 2021.

12: Doctor Mix & The Remix : "In The Plastic Motel Bar At The Edge Of The Desert" (Acute) 2004.

13: Minny Pops : "Mountain" (Factory Benelux) 1982.

14: Minny Pops : "Dad Dog" (Psychofon Records) 2021.

15: Minny Pops : "Patty" (Psychofon Records) 2021.

16: Minny Pops : "Tracking" (Factory Benelux) 1982.

17: Minny Pops : "Stay Awake" (Psychofon Records) 2021.

18: Glaxo Babies : "Stay Awake" (Heartbeat Records) 1980.

19: Band Of Pain : "Priti Vacunt" (Dirter Promotions) 2021.

20: Hypnoskull : "Beyrouth Hunt For Dead Terrorist (For Bryn Jones)" (EE Tapes) 2021.

21: Cabaret Voiltaire : "Haiti" (Virgin Records/Some Bizarre) 1983.

22: Machinery Directive : "God's Angry Man" (EE Tapes) 2021.

Next broadcast will be on September 16, SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM. 20:00 GMT kick off. 

https://www.soundartradio.org.uk

There'll be tracks from the new Dilloway & Dalt collaboration LP as well as Alvars Orkester, Juice Machine, Muckrackers and an 'On This Day' from Stephen Mallinder.

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 19 August 2021.

 The programme starts with 4 pieces from Mark Dicker. All 4 pieces make up Side B of his new release "Flyalarm" on Brachliegen Tapes. Up until a few weeks ago Mark Dicker was completely unknown to me, but a recommendation from Thanasis at Electric Knife Records turned me on ... and now I am on the hunt for Mark Dicker releases. Research tells me that Mark begin this century playing keyboards and vocals for the Casio-Grindcore band Treacher before joining Doom Metal merchants Palehorse. Again, new names to me but I suppose Doom Metal and Grindcore aren't my 'sort of thing'. Mark also spent time in the Psychedelic Rock group Queen Of Swords (alongside John Macedo) and is also one half of the Drone Folk duo Time. Since 2014 Mark has been releasing under his own moniker. 

"Flyalarm" was recorded in a room above a church in Oslo, Norway earlier in the year. Collecting field recordings around the location, sounds from a Norwegian winter, Mark mixes the recordings with multi-layering modular synthesisers. 'Flyalarm' is released on the Brachliegen Tapes label. Brachliegen Tapes is run by George Rayner-Law in Deal (Kent). George also records and releases as Schwerpunkt, expect some Schwerpunkt in the next broadcast. "Flyalarm" is available direct from the label here : https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com Another Mark Dicker cassette I found was the "Schwarzschild Radio" C30 put out by Beartown Records in May this year. Two fifteen minute pieces of modular synth work mixed with processed recordings of number stations. Another great tape from the highly collectable Beartown Records label. https://beartownrecords.bigcartel.com

Emile Bojesen (like Mark Dicker) was an artist unknown to me until a few weeks ago. I bought his latest cassette release "Ice" via Jan Warnke at Gerauschmanufaktur. Further listening led me to the CDR album "Reality", a collaboration with the project Banished Pills. Banished Pills is the project of Italian sound artist Edoardo Cammisa. As well as releasing sounds on a variety of labels such as Gerauschmanufaktur, Outsider Art, Line and Hoopoe Industries Emile is an author of philosophy and academic books such as 'Forms of Education (Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy'. 

Emile works as Reader In Education And Faculty Head Of Research And Knowledge Exchange at Winchester University. "Reality" was released by Cathedral Transmissions and "Ice" on Gerauschmanufaktur. Both releases are available here : https://cathedraltransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/reality . https://geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com/merch

The Crispy Ambulance track is from their debut LP "The Plateau Phase". http://muhmur.blogspot.com/2010/02/crispy-ambulance-in-north-hykeham.html Since this piece was written I have met up with Mark again (he lives in Dursley, Glous ... just up the M5) and contacted Alan to get his memories of that evening ... he remembers it well.

"On This Day" features the only decent track on the 1979 compilation album "Street To Street - A Liverpool Album". The Id were a precursor to Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. The album also features (amongst others) Echo & The Bunnymen, Big In Japan, The Accelerators, Modern Eon and Dead Trout. Sleeve notes are by John Peel. 

Over the past five or six years Stefan Hanser at The Epicurean has been collating, archiving and releasing the oeuvre of John Murphy. 2016 saw the collection "All My Sins Remembered - The Sonic Worlds Of John Murphy". A 3xCD set featuring John's work as a drummer in various post-punk groups in Australia (Whirlywirld, News and Mandrix) and his projects The Orchestra Of Skin And Bone, Browning Mummery, Krank, Vhril, Sooterkin Flesh as well as his work with The Associates, SPK, Knifeladder and Blood Axis amongst others. This year The Epicurean released Volume II of "All My Sins Remembered" exploring the recordings of The Grimsel Path, Crank, Ophiolateria and My Father Of Serpents. This time the release is a double CD package. John Murphy was a legend. Both volumes are available direct from The Epicurean : http://the-epicurean.transformed.de

Shit Creek is Bristol based artist Lewis Duffy. Last year he teamed up with Neil Campbell and Owen Chambers (of Carnivorous Plants) to create Soberin Exx and release the cassette album "Normal Islands". This year Lewis and Neil team up again to release the CDR "Arclight Trance/Cloud Market". Lewis also runs the Luxury Bucket label releasing his own work as well as sounds from Neil Campbell, Territorial Gobbing, Daniel J Gregory, Bearer and Kek-W amongst others. A label worth exploring. Contact Lewis : https://luxurybucket.net

A few weeks ago I bought a Din A Testbild Boxed LP and inside was a 7" by Kluster and Mr. Welten. A 1997 release on the German Marginal Talent label. I know nothing of Kluster / Cluster, always tagged them with the likes of Can, Faust, Neu! and Ash Ra Tempel. Although I did see Dieter Moebius play live in Hamburg University, 2013. 

The broadcast ends on Dangerous Girls and a track from their final vinyl. Dangerous Girls existed between 1978 and 1981 releasing four classic singles. Originally from Birmingham and called In The Jungle With No Guns they have recently reformed calling themselves Dangerous Girls Reunited. There's some great live footage across YouTube including this song filmed in 1979 in Birmingham Uni.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Lf8Sk4UkA

Playlist : 

01: Mark Dicker : "Isflak" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

02: Mark Dicker : "Morkegronne" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

03: Mark Dicker : "Varmeskaper" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

04: Mark Dicker : "Sirap" (Brachliegen Tapes) 2021.

05: Banished Pills & Emile Bojesen : "Irrelevant" (Cathedral Transmissions) 2021.

06: Emile Bojesen : "Ice (2)" (Gerauschmanufaktur) 2021.

07: Crispy Ambulance : "Are You Ready?" (Factory Benelux) 1982.

08: The Id : "Julia's Dream" (Open Eye Records) 1979.

09: My Father Of Serpents : "Untitled" (The Epicurean) 2021.

10: Mark Dicker : "Broadcast No. 29028.118.1" (Beartown Records) 2021.

11: Shit Creek & Neil Campbell : "Cloud Market" (Not On Label) 2021.

12: Kluster : "Eruption (Extract From Part Two)" (Marginal Talent) 1997.

13: Dangerous Girls : "Men In Suits" (Human Records) 1981.

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-19082021/

Next Broadcast will be on September 2nd, 20:00 GMT kick-off (as always). SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM. Live stream via https://www.soundartradio.org.uk and will feature sounds from Karen Constance, Thomas LaRoche, Schwerpunkt, Ice Yacht and tracks from the new Minny Pops LP ... amongst other things. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 5 August 2021.

 Quite an eclectic broadcast featuring some old classics and artists that are no strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist, and a couple of new projects that are new to my ears ... 

The programme starts with a track from the new Leda release "Covid 'Music' I Made With My Guitar". a CDREP on the ever collectable Förfall label. Hot on the trail of the re-issue of eponymous Leda debut album on Grapefruit Records this 28 minute 'sketchbook' is a great addition in the Förfall cannon. 

Leda is the solo project of Neutral guitarist Sofie Herner. Förfall can be contacted directly through Discreet Music. https://www.discreetmusic.se

2021 has seen the start of the Extratool 7" series. The latest on the roster is by American duo Kidbug. After two singles of experimental, electroacoustic ambience this latest release came as a great surprise. Refreshing blast of experimental shoegazing experimental rock. Kidbug are a completely new name to me and thanks to Extratool for introducing them to these ears. I am now desperately trying to find a copy of their "Theme From Kidbug" 7". Go to https://extrapool.patternbyetsy.com/listing/893985128/extratool to grab a copy. 

One of my favourite 7" singles from my teen years is the 1981 EP "Fragile Sentences" by Bron Area on Ambivalent Scale Recordings. Trawling the internet a few weeks ago (I don't surf ... I trawl) I found a CD copy of their 1983 album "The Trees And The Villages". Re-issued on the Glass Redux label, it was originally released by Glass Records, the CD also includes tracks from the 12" 'Different Phrases'. There's a great booklet with the CD too on the history of Nuneaton's finest (they pre-date Eyeless In Gaza) and how the album should have been called "The Treason Of Images" but the title got misheard over a phone call and so it will always be "The Trees And The Villages".  https://glassredux.bandcamp.com A great album, Glass Redux also released a great CD Religious Overdose recently. 

I recently spent a couple of days reorganising the cassette collection. I bought some new racks off a lady in Exeter ... the result of internet trawling. In doing so I unearthed some gems I hadn't played for a few years including the Bourbonese Qualk / Hartmann split tape "Music While You Work". Released on the Italian ADN label back in 1985. I wanted to include the track "Meatrack" in the programme and then discovered this was on the vinyl compilation box set "Archive 1980 - 1986" released by Vinyl On Demand. A cleaner copy than the cassette so I play three tracks from this compilation. "Blackout" features the dulcet vocal tones of Nigel Ayers and is from the "Here We Go" compilation album released by Sterile Records in 1985. Support The Miners! Staying with Nigel Ayers and the Nocturnal Emissions. "Even The Good Times Are Bad" is from the album "Duty Experiment", a compilation of demos and studio out-takes from 1980 - 1984. 

Tone Generator + The Body Without Organs is ex SPK member Dominic Guerin. The track here is from the recent release "Normalisation Of Response" and features samples from old SPK recordings. I found a copy via Tesco Organisation in Europe, but copies are available direct from the label Innercity Uprising. https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com

Two singles from the "On This Day" feature. Firstly "Shack Up" by A Certain Ratio. A cover of the 1975 classic by Banbarra, released in 1980 by Factory Benelux. Secondly "Ends With The Sea" by BC Gilbert & G Lewis released a year later on 4AD Records. 

Records as memories. 

The debut LP (12"EP ?) by C Cat Trance will always bring back memories of my time in Manchester, living in Hulme Crescents. John Nash Crescent to be precise living with my then girlfriend Trace. I remember getting the record from a sale of ex-library records at Manchester University and it hardly came off the turntable for the time we were together. I recently found a decent copy for sale (trawling again) and grabbed it. Tunes I hadn't heard for over 30 years but were still locked their in the brain now swirling out of the speakers at MuhMur HQ with visions of Hulme, sunshine days and Trace. Who was it that said 'Happy memories leave a bitter taste'? C Cat Trance were formed by John Rees Lewis in 1982 when he left Nottingham funksters Medium Medium. This record was recorded in Newark. The first four tracks are from the 33RPM side, "Hypnotised" is from the 45RPM side. Hearing "Hypnotised" again made me pull out my DJ license that allows me to play the 'same title different song' card. 

Licht-Ung is Johannes Garbe, an audio-visual artist from Leverkusen in Germany. "Yellow Yellow Weather" is his latest release on Grisaille. https://grisaille.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-yellow-weather

The Chris & Cosey / CTI track is from the double compilation album "Out There - A Thread Through Time" released in 1994 on the Scottish Pi Recordings label. "Dancing Ghosts" was recorded in 1983. Sleeve notes claim that this was the first recordings of "Acid House", they obviously don't know about the track "WSB Is Very Clever" recorded by Diet Of Worms in a shed in North Hykeham featuring the sound of a Roland SH101 & Roland Drumatix ... and of course samples of the great man himself! When I get time I'll dig the tape out and play it! 

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-august-5-2021/ 

Playlist :

01: Leda : "Covid Rock 1" (Förfall) 2021.

02: Kidbug : "Cloudbursting" (Extratool) 2021.

03: Bron Area : "Les Arbres" (Glass Redux) 2016.

04: Bourbonese Qualk : "Meatrack" (Vinyl On Demand) 2016.

05: Bourbonese Qualk : "Under Observation" (Vinyl On Demand) 2016.

06: Bourbonese Qualk : "Blackout" (Vinyl On Demand) 2016.

07: Nocturnal Emissions : "Even The Good Times Are Bad" (Soleilmoon Recordings) 1995.

08: Tome Generator + The Body Without Organs : "Ne/H/il's Back Room" (Inner City Uprising) 2021.

09: Kidbug : "Endless Waves" (Extratool) 2021.

10: Leda : "Covid Groove 1" (Förfall) 2021.

11: A Certain Ratio : "Shack Up" (Factory Benelux) 1980.

12: C Cat Trance : "Railway Magazine" (Red Flame) 1983.

13: C Cat Trance : "Let Me Sleep" (Red Flame) 1983.

14: C Cat Trance : "Untitled" (Red Flame) 1983.

15: C Cat Trance : "Dangling On A String" (Red Flame) 1983.

16: Dieter Müh : "Illuminati Humiliati" (Verlautbarung) 2012.

17: Licht-Ung : "Yellow Yellow" (Grisaille) 2021.

18: BC Gilbert & G Lewis : "Ends With The Sea" (4AD Records) 1981.

19: Chen Yi : "Rounder" (90% Wasser) 2006.

20: Chen Yi : "Honey Money" (90% Wasser) 2006.

21: C Cat Trance : "Hypnotised" (Red Flame) 1983.

22: Mark Stewart : "Hypnotised" (Mute Records) 1985.

23: Cabaret Voltaire : "Hypnotised" (Parlophone Records) 1989.

24: Chris & Cosey / CTI : "Dancing Ghosts" (Pi Recordings) 1994. 

Thanks again for listening, the next broadcast will be on August 19. SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM, it's an evening kick off at 20:00 GMT. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk

Not too certain but I think whilst (pre) recording tonight's programme a new Totnes Pope was declared! 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast July 22 2021

 The broadcast begins with a fifteen minute piece from Lausanne based artist Francisco Meirino. "Something Always Remains" follows on from the excellent "A New Instability" album that was released in January this year by Helen Scarsdale Agency. "Something Always Remains" is a C30 cassette put out by UK's Research Laboratories label. Released in an edition of 35 copies only the cassette is now unavailable from the label but a download version is still available via the Francisco Meirino page. https://franciscomeirino.bandcamp.com/album/something-always-remains

One of my first exposures to cassette noise was by Kapotte Muziek. In 1986 I contributed to the 2xC90 compilation "Wolfsangel" released by Peter Zincken's Nihilistic Recordings label. The track that preceded mine (IBF : "Ka (Version)" ... a remixed version from the track on the "Hammers Used As Hearts" cassette) was a slab of untitled noise by Kapotte Muziek. I was hooked from then on. Kapotte Muziek was created in 1984 by Frans de Waard (as regular listeners will know Frans is no stranger to the MuhMur Radio playlist) and Christian Nijs. Christian Left in 1987 and Frans carried on Kapotte Muziek as a solo project collaborating with other artists for live performances and recordings. "Radiation" is from the 1994 CD album "Verder". "Verder" is compiled of four pieces. "Radiation" is using / recycling material from Telepherique. Other artists' noises used are from Merzbow, Agencement and G.X. Jupitter-Larsen. It was released by Nicolas Malevitsis's Harsh Dept. Productions label. Nicoals know operates the excellent Rekem Records label. 

Muckrackers are a three piece Industrial / Experimental Rock band from the Grand Est region of North East France. They have been releasing their own brand of metal percussive industrial noise for the last twenty years, usually on their own Les Forges Alliées imprint. They have just released two pieces on vinyl, the 7" "CDLF" and the 10"EP "AntiFer", both are limited pressings and available from their band camp page : https://muckrackers.bandcamp.com "Au Six Tonnes" is from the 7" single and "AntiFer #3" is from the 10" collaborative EP with Flutwacht, Igor!!M and Justine Ribière. Flutwacht (aka Daniel Simon) is a regular collaborator with the Muckrackers. Justine Ribière is from the French noise project Machinalis Tarantulae. 

A lot was said about Paul Chain and the double album "Paul Chain Is Dead Volume 1" on the last ReMuhMuration post, so I won't go into it here, other than to say that the track "Domino" is from this release. 

Snatch Tapes began in 1979, releasing DIY experimental and electronic music by the likes of Storm Bugs, David Jackman, Alien Brains, Sea Of Wires and Lemon Kittens. The label was created by Philip Sanderson of Storm Bugs. After seven cassette releases in 1981 Snatch tapes went into hibernation, resurfacing again in 2000 with the Philip Sanderson solo CDR ""Lay-By Lullaby". 

Since 2000 Snatch Tapes have released new and old material by Storm Bugs as well as solo recordings by Philip Sanderson under his own name and his Ice Yacht moniker. "Not Even My Closest Friends" carries on from last years "Rumble Of The Ruins". "Idol Ferry" is from this album which Philip describes as "Baroque Pop". The cassette version was a limited run of 25, but download the album here : https://snatchtapes.bandcamp.com/album/not-even-my-closest-friends

Snatch Tapes were one of the pioneers of DIY experimental  / industrial / post-punk / noise cassette labels, alongside Deleted Records,  NB Records, Fuck Off Tapes and Don't Dance - Collide Tapes* (and others). All are mentioned in the new autobiography of NB Records mandarin and member of The Door And The Window; Bendle. 

So for the final minutes of the broadcast I try and give a 'small' soundtrack to the book. I do thoroughly recommend getting hold of the book. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25771078-permanent-transience

I had a friend with low morals and an Amazon UK account to buy me a copy. Hopefully there are other sellers by now ... same as with the autobiography "The Luxury Of Dreams" by Mark Automaton (aka Mark Lancaster of The Instant Automatons), only available via Amazon. Marks' book is also a great read with the bulk of the story being about his post Automatons life. He says in the book, if you want the in depth and detailed story of DIY cassette culture of the late 1970's then read Bendle's book.  

I have a feeling I heard The Instant Automatons before The Door And The Window. The Automatons were from 'up the road' in Keelby (North Lincolnshire) and I used to write to them, buy their Deleted Records tapes and the excellent "Peter Paints His Fence" EP. So, it was either through connection with Deleted Records or maybe hearing the "Subculture" single on John Peel's radio programme that I wrote to NB Records and started getting their stuff too. I remember I always got replies from Nag - the other half of The Door And The Window ... and as it turns out the inspiration for the Cabaret Voltaire song "Nag Nag Nag". The book is full of great stories, snapshots of how life was in late 1970's London. The camaraderie that existed, seemingly evolving and revolving around Throbbing Gristle live performances and the London Musician's Collective. Characters like Steve Stapleton, Fritz Catlin, Colin Potter, Mark Perry (who was a member of TDATW for a while), Karl Blake, Dick Wilts and David Toop all weave in and out. It is a truly great read and an unputdownable book. 

Apart from tracks by The Door And The Window and The Instant Automatons I slipped in pieces by 391. 391 was the solo project of Mark Automaton. "Prisoner In The Living Room" comes from the Deleted Records compilation tape "Deleted Funtime" (pardon for the quality .. it is an old cassette). The Mark Perry + Dennis Burns song is akin from the "Music Death" 7" on NB Records. I remember buying this one direct from NB Records and getting a free copy of the Alternative TV LP "Vibing Up The Senile Man (Part One)" with it. The postage was more than what I paid for the 7" alone. The 23 Skidoo track is their debut 7" and has Fritz on bass ...

... and I put in The Fall because it was produced by Grant Showbiz (aka Grant Cunliffe) and he also produced The Door And The Window's LP "Detailed Twang". 

The "Green Blob" is a song about Bendle and Nag's landlord and is from the retrospective album "Dr. Egg" a collection of live recordings from 1983 to 1987. The track has part time TDATW member Tony Clough who in 1979 featured on the first Snatch Tapes compilation tape "Snatch Tapes 1". It's like coming round and completing the circle. 

* 'Don't Dance - Collide Tapes' are not mentioned in the book.

Please take a listen to the broadcast here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-22-july-2021/

Playlist :

01: Francisco Meirino : "Something Always Remains" (Research Laboratories) 2021.

02: Kapotte Muziek : "Radiation" (Harsh Dept. Productions) 1994.

03: Muckrackers : "Au Six Tonnes" (LFA) 2021.

04: Muckrackers/Flutwacht/Igor!!M/Justine Ribière : "AntiFer #3" (LFA) 2021.

05: Paul Chain : "Domino" (Horn Of Plenty) 2021.

06: Philip Sanderson : "Idol Ferry" (Snatch Tapes) 2021.

07: The Door And The Window : "Dads" (NB Records) 1980.

08: The Door And The Window : "I Like Sound" (NB Records) 1979.

09: The Instant Automatons : "Laburnum Walk" (Deleted Records) 1980.

10: 391 : "Prisoner Of The Living Room" (Deleted Records) 1980.

11: The Door And The Window : "We Do Scare Each Other" (NB Records) 1980.

12: Mark Perry + Dennis Burns : "You Cry Your Tears" (NB Records) 1980.

13: The Instant Automatons : "People Laugh At Me (Coz I Like Weird Music)" (Deleted Records) 1980.

14: The Instant Automatons : "John's Vacuum Cleaner" (Deleted Records) 1980.

15: The Door And The Window : "Green Blob" (Not On Label) 2003.

16: 23 Skidoo : "Another Babys Face" (Pineapple Products) 1981.

17: The Door And The Window : "Don't Kill Colin" (NB Records) 1979.

18: The Door And The Window : "Wurst Band" (NB Records) 1979.

19: The Fall : "New Face In Hell" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

20: The Door And The Window : "Part Time Punks" (NB Records) 1980.

Thank you for listening.

Any questions / comments please feel free to contact me at muhmur.radio@gmail.com

MuhMur Radio Broadcast July 8 2021.

 

The broadcast begins with Side A of the new cassette album from Modelbau. The sound is a slight departure from Modelbau's usual textured drones, ambient fields and noise releases. Here Frans de Waard creates a soundscape by layering and cutting, cross-fading and shuffling sounds from shortwave radio broadcasts. The cassette is released by Cologne based label Superpolar Taïps in a limited edition of 40 and available here : https://superpolar.bandcamp.com/album/aether-aleatorica

Leda is the solo project of Neutral guitar / synth player Sofie Herner. (Sofie is also part of the Gothenburg supergroup Enhet För Fri Musik). I first heard Leda about seven years ago with the excellent "City / Clear" 7" single on I Dischi Del Barone, this was followed a couple of years later by another classic 7" "Japanese Key" still on IDDB. The two tracks here are from the LP "Våren" a new re-issue on the US Grapefruit Records label. It's a vinyl re-issue of the eponymous 2014 cassette put out (and impossible to find) by Ingen Våg. Grapefruit records, operated by singer / songwriter Simon Joyner, seem to have tapped in to the Gothenburg underground sound with earlier releases / re-issues by Neutral and Blod. Long may it continue! I get my Grapefruit Records releases via the European distributor Discreet Music. Contactable here : https://discreetmusic.se Interested Americans can contact Simon and Grapefruit Records here : https://grapefruit1.bandcamp.com

A couple of weeks ago I celebrated the release of Dome's first album "Dome One". This made me dig out all my Dome Records releases but I couldn't find space for "Drop" a 7" by AC Maria AC. (A.C. = Angela Conway). Released in 1981 and played very very often here at Hartop Towers, please excuse the snap, crackle and pop. 

Any release by Brighton based agent provocateur Duncan Harrison is worth an ear. Last year he put out "Slow Lightning", a split LP with Ian Murphy and it's a strong (very strong) contender for album of the year. Since leaving Plurals (in or around) 2013 Duncan has released a plethora of experimental soundscapes / Soundart and Musique Concret on labels such as Chocolate Monk, Sound Holes, Beartown Records, Sham Repro,  Index Clean and Research Laboratories to name but a few. The new album is called "Fires.Serif" on Regional Bears. The piece "15" is from this tape. It's available direct from the label here : https://regionalbears.bandcamp.com/album/fires-serif

Hands up. Who has heard of Paul Chain before? "Paul Chain Is Dead Volume 1" came to me via the label Horn Of Plenty. Horn Of Plenty is a London based label run by Nick Hamilton. Nick used to run a label called Vittelli (who released "Nocturnes" a great LP by Matthew P. Hopkins) and have a show on Resonance FM. Horn Of Plenty have been releasing quality since 2018 and also run a small (and reasonably priced) mail order distribution. It's worth a look. https://www.horn-of-plenty.org . But back to Paul Chain ... Paul Chain is Italian musician / composer Paolo Catena. In 1977 Paolo formed the Doom Metal group 'Death S.S.'. Death S.S. is an abridgement of 'In Death Of Steve Sylvester'. 

In 1979 Paul disbanded Death S.S. to concentrate on his solo work working under the banner of Paul Chain Group and Paul Chain Violet Theatre. In 1983 Paul started performing and recording as (simply) Paul Chain. "Paul Chain Is Dead Volume 1" contains tracks recorded between 1983 and 2003, some are unreleased pieces some being tracks not re-issued in thirty years. I have really 'gotten in to' this double LP over the past few weeks. Progressive Psychedelic Experimentalism as I call it.PPE, and that's something we can't get enough of these days. And to quote the promo blurb that came with the release:

"Paul Chain's story is one of spiritual and musical (mis)adventure, self-sabotage, and unwanted cult-status.All of this led Paolo to disown the Paul Chain catalogue when he announced the artistic death of Paul Chain in 2003"

In 2009 to ex Smell & Quim members (although I don't think they were ever in the group at the same time) joined brains to become Early Hominids. The project lasted until 2017 and now four years after their demise Paul Walsh and Neil Campbell have (self) released a CDR called "Circular Dredge / Plexus Vulgar". Available here : https://theneilcampbell.bandcamp.com/album/circular-dredge-plexus-vulgar

Two ex members of THU20, Frans de Waard and Joseph Smolders make up the project WaSm. "Twee Seven" is from their latest CD release "Twee". Released on the German Attenuation Circuit label copies are available here : https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/twee . The Michael Esposito piece is from the 2013 release "L'enveloppe" a book by Guillaume Belhomme / "In The Silence Of A Watery Grave" a 3" CD by M. Esposito. It's part of the ongoing Lenka Lente series of books with accompanying sounds (soundtracks?) which has included artists such as Nurse With Wound, Andrew Lilles, Daniel Menche, Lee Renaldo and Vomir amongst others. The piece is subtitled EVP Case file 'PAW068', and this is what Michael says about it : 

"The recording was captured on the fourth of July 2013 in Dyer (Indiana) during the last, fleeting trails of fireworks disappearing into the night. The voices that were accidentally picked up are not from this world and seem to angrily remind us that all celebrations must end and they have to be let go so they can be reborn in the next year".

Cold Spring Records have released recordings by William S. Burroughs and Brian Gysin on 12" vinyl. Originally released in 2012 on CD by the British Library, that album contains recordings and readings from 1963 through to 1982. 

There is no digital version of this album and is available direct from Cold Spring Records. Click here for information. : https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/william-s-burroughs-brion-gysin-csr293lp

On July 8 1980 Talking Heads related the single "Cities" from the LP "Fear Of Music". 

Playlist :

01: Modelbau : "Aether Aleatorica (Side A)" (Superpolar Taïps) 2021. *

02: Leda : "Fascistmusik" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.

03: A.C. Marias A.C. : "Drop" (Dome Records) 1981.

04: Leda : "Förskriveise" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.

05: Duncan Harrison : "15" (Regional Bears) 2021.

06: Paul Chain : "Tetri Teschi In Luce Viola" (Horn Of Plenty) 2021.

07: Paul Walsh + Neil Campbell : "Plexus Vulgar" (Not On Label) 2021.

08: WaSm : "Twee Zeven" (Attenuation Circuit) 2021.

09: Michael Esposito : "In The Silence Of A Watery Grave" (Lenka Lente) 2013.

10: Brion Gysin : "Kick That Habit Man" (Cold Spring Records) 2021.

11: Brion Gysin : "I Am That I Am" (Cold Spring Records) 2021.

12: Talking Heads : "Cities" (Sire Records) 1980.

Please take a listen to the programme here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-july-8-2021/

* the Modelbau track is composed of eleven pieces : "Jammer Firedrake / Cruise Email / Sound Of Hope / Adventist Weird Radio / Pendulum / Humpty Doo / Ash Cabat Aero / Asfaltstelegrafen / Carilon Wellbeing Radio / Laser Hot Hits / Amica Venetia". 

The next broadcast is on July 22 at 20:00 GMT. Available on SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM if your in shouting distance of Dartington in Devon. ("Devon is a place ... a place where nothing .. nothing ever happens" to misquote Talking Heads) it will feature sounds from Francisco Meirino, Paul Chain, Muckrackers, Philip Sanderson, The Door And The Window and 391 amongst others. Or alternatively listen to it live via the SoundArt Radio streaming service at : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk Many thanks to Chris Booth at SoundArt Radio for letting this happen. 

                                                       Chris Booth has left the building .... 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 24 June 2021 (Playlist)

 

 

Little bit of pre-amble. 

Apologies for no playlist for the broadcast on June 10. The playlist is in the comments section of the MixCloud archive. Time was my enemy on this one. 

Regular listeners / followers might have noticed that there is no longer a MuhMur Radio on Facebook. Whether this is temporary or not I have yet to decide. If truth be told MuhMur Radio was never meant to be on Facebook, or any social media platform really. Back in the mid-noughties I joined Facebook, my wife (Tamsin) was on there and as I had moved to the Deep South and contact with friends was becoming more remote I decided to sign up, give my privacy away and share photographs of our days out with the kids with my family and friends ... but I didn't really like it .. so after a couple of years I de-activated my account. I then decided to start the 'MuhMur' Blog where I could write about records, gigs, Dieter Müh, secondhand record shops etc etc. In 2012 I started to broadcast on SoundArt Radio (102.5FM), live broadcasts every other Thursday night ... I would talk about the programme on the MuhMur Blog as this is MuhMur Radio. Straight from the off I archived each programme on MixCloud. Back in 2012 / 2013 I used to follow (broadcast after) a prog-rock music show called "Honey For You Rears" hosted by Andy "Hatter" Howard, he would boast about his listenership and freebies he was sent etc and told me to get the MuhMur Radio 'out there' with a Facebook page and Twitter page and then folk could interact with you live ... all that kind of nonsense, but being who I am I took his advice and re-joined Facebook and started a Twitter account. The Twitter account didn't last long. After a couple of days I had "followers" in triple figures who were all posting shite on my feed, folk I didn't know and have never met were using my platform. That had to stop! When trying to set up a MuhMur Radio Facebook page I discovered that my profile from 2009 was still there with all the old profile photographs and information so it was simpler just to re-activate the old account and set-up a MuhMur Radio page. 

By this time my old server, Freeserve, had ceased to exist and I had to get a new one, choosing gmail. Unfortunately I could not retrieve my MuhMur Blog for reasons of forgotten passwords and losing the old fsnet Email address. So I set up 'ReMuhMuration' to write about records, gigs and post playlists for the broadcasts ... This year, this year though it has been different. Over the past few months block advertising has been happening on my News Feed page and I cannot get rid of it. Daily notifications popping up on the MuhMur Radio page telling me to promote and boost my "product". I could reach thousands of new 'customers'. I know the old adage that with the internet if something is "free" then you are the product (and ... cue The Desperate Bicycles) I used to say it to Tamsin all the time but now it has reached a point of it really getting to me, getting under my skin. So it has had to stop. The de-activation is only temporary but it may lead to a full stop. I apologise to the people who followed and supported MuhMur Radio on Facebook but hopefully you all understand. I can always be contacted via this page or the MixCloud Archive or muhmur.radio@gmail.com is my preferred mode of contact. 

MuhMur Radio was never meant to be broadcast to the thousands anyway. I have spent most of my time and activities since the late 1970's acting below the radar, beneath the awareness. I would rather there be 40 or 50 folk who really enjoy what I play than 950 or so listeners who don't. Does that make sense? 

So to tonight's broadcast. 

Playlist :

01: Jim Haynes : "Multiple Gunshots" (SIGE) 2021.

02: Dome : "Ampnoise" (Dome Records) 1980.

03: Bruce Gilbert : "Here Visit" (Mute Records) 1984.

04: Desmond Simmons : "April Waits" (Dome Records) 1981.

05: Neutral : "Coop" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.

06: Neutral : "Jalusie" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.

07: Artery : "Unbalanced" (Aardvark) 1981.

08: Bruce Gilbert : "Children" (WFMU) 2017.

09: Mark Vernon : "Succulent Gros" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

10: Mark Vernon : "Overflown Elipsis" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

11: Mark Vernon : "The Larum Of The Living" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

12: Mark Vernon : "The Consensus Is To Delete" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

13: Mark Vernon : "Nossos Ossos" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

14: Mark Vernon : "Revolving Rivers" (Misanthropic Agenda) 2019.

15: The Dead Mauriacs : "Still" (NPH) 2021.

16: Dome : "Cancel Your Order" (Dome Records) 1980.

17: Dome : "Cruel When Complete" (Dome Records) 1980.

18: Blod : "Danmark Frit" (Grapefruit Records) 2021.

19: Simon Joyner : "After The Gold Rush" (WFMU) 2011.

20: Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg : "An Gott Verraten" (V I S) 2021

21: Troum : "Dream Theme / Towards The Invisible Being" (Raubauu) 2020.

22: Albert Von Abbe And David Von Behr : "Extratool 3" (Extratool) 2021.

23: Dome : "Linasixup" (Dome Records) 1980.

24: Five Or Six : "Polar Exposure" (Cherry Red Records) 1981.

25: Swell Maps : "Tibetan Bedsprings" (Easy Action) 2021.

26: Wire : "Second Length (Our Swimmer)" (Rough Trade Records) 1983.

27: Dome : "Here We Go" (Dome Records) 1980.

28: Dome : "Rolling Upon My Day" (Dome Records) 1980. 

You can listen to the broadcast in full here :

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-24062021/

The reason for playing extracts from the LP "Dome 1" by Dome was because it was released on June 24 1980. Dome were the duo Graham Lewis & Bruce Gilbert ex of Wire. It's an album that has never left my side since release. 

Links to releases :

Jim Haynes : https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-sky-burned

Grapefruit Records : https://www.grapefruitrecordclub.com

The Dead Mauriacs : https://thedeadmauriacs.bandcamp.com/album/of-course-this-is-dance-music

Troum : https://troum.bandcamp.com

Extratool : https://extratool.bandcamp.com

Thanks for listening. The next MuhMur Radio will be broadcast on July 8 at 20:00 hours GMT. SoundArt radio is available to all those who inhabit the dark corners of Totnes & Dartington, just tune the radio dial to 102.5FM - live streaming is always available vis the SoundArt Radio website : 

https://www.soundartradio.org.uk

You can always contact me via this blog or E Mither me at muhmur.radio(at)gmail.com 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 10 June 2021

 

A new MuhMur Radio Broadcast is available for listening on the MixCloud Archive page. Sounds from Modelbau, Mark Vernon, John Duncan + Stefano Pilia, Nostril Flair, AntiChildLeague and Kazuya Ishigami amongst others ... Please take a listen here : 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-10-june-2021/

A full blog with playlist with links and pictures and the usual ramblings will be posted soon ... 

MuhMur Radio Facebook.

 

Some folk may have noticed that I have come off Facebook over the weekend, I have no presence on that platform at the moment. All notices about MuhMur Radio, upcoming broadcasts etc will be posted here. The after-show playlist + information shall remain the same. 

If you want to get in touch, then please use my E Mail address which is listed in 'my profile' here. This may or not (the FB presence) be permanent. 

The picture above features some, if not all of the sounds that will feature in the June 10 Broadcast. SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM if you're hanging around Totnes / Dartington or listen to the live stream via the SoundArt Radio Web Site. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk Kick-Off as always is 20:00 GMT. 

Sick Days.

 

Sick Days is the sound project of Canadian artist Jeff Sinibaldi. A new name to me and certainly one I wouldn't have chanced upon if it wasn't for their recent releases on the Finnish Hyster Tapes label. It is just over 20 years ago when myself (as part of Dieter Müh) and Putrefier toured the pubs, clubs, sinkholes and dives of Europe and wherever we turned up at the venue there was "Sick On The Bus" graffiti all over the backstage areas, so I have always avoided bands with "Sick" in their name. (Sickness being an exception because Chris is a fine fellow!). Anyway ... 

Sick Days have released an eponymous cassette on the Hyster Tapes imprint. Two pieces spanning 45 minutes. The first is a 30 minute or so piece called "Cold Tones". An improvisation of layered passive frequencies and loops that lead into a sense of isolation, a sense of abandonment in the tones which leads to the visualisation of white, cold bleakness of an Artic tundra. I do get to listen to a lot of releases pertaining to this genre, the genre of Drone, Experimentalism, Field Recordings, Looped Tones etc and Sick Days do rise above.

"Point Abino" (That may not be the title .. the typewriter Hyster HQ use needs a new ribbon) is some sort of 'hydrophonic' piece based on the rhythm and flow of water. The sound of waves lapping upon a pebbled shoreline. The burbling and gurgling of H ² 0. The running time of this piece is 13 minutes but that's because the tape just ends ... I have a feeling this an excerpt from a much longer piece. 

The only other Sick Days release I can find (Discogs as research) is a 2015 eponymous CDR on the Vacancy label. Jeff Sinibaldi is the owner of the Vacancy label. Whether or not this tape is an edited version of the CDR I do not know, the CDR was limited to 18 copies only and I would imagine long sold out by now. 

                                                    A selection of Hyster Tapes releases.

Hyster Tapes started in 2003, at first it was planned to be a cassette only label using recycled cassette tapes for releases. Running along similar lines to the 'Recycled' series on RRRecords. The label is operated by Heikke (aka Plaa from Grey Park / Nolls). Their first release was Dieter Müh "Doin' It Dresden Style". A 40 minute recording of a live performance at the AZ Conni in Dresden (when we seemed to be following Sick On The Bus everywhere!). I came up with the title as a kind of homage to two of my favourite bands; Slaughter & The Dogs and Swell Maps. It was then four years before Hyster Tapes released a follow up with a release by XXIII, followed by their first compilation "Your Own Shadow Blocks The Light" featuring XXIII, Grey Park, Culver, YuriYuri and others. Since 2007 Hyster Tapes has moved up a gear with releases with tapes from Re-Clip, Uton, D.D.Dobson, Dear Beloved Henry, Zoe Polanski, Leitmotiv Limbo, Keijo and Grey Park themselves. Hyster Tapes have also collaborated with Finnish counterparts Ikuissus to release vinyl LPs by A Handful Of Dust, Varropas and Grykë Pyje. 

Over the years I have really enjoyed discovering new sounds and artists through Hyster Tapes. Sick Days being added to that list. 

Contact Hyster Tapes here : http://www.pcuf.fi/~plaa/hyster.html most cassettes cost €2 + postage. 

Vacancy are based in Toronto. No contact details are available. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 27 May 2021

 

The programme begins with a track from "The Saturnine Broadcasts", a double CD album by Inade and Circular. Recorded live on June 6 2020 in Leipzig. (From the CD notes) "In June 2020 Inade and Circular were invited to join an independent broadcasting network and perform an online concert with a new conceptual live series called 'Art & Paranoia'. We decided to prepare a label showcase and perform some exclusive live sets with some classic tracks that have never been performed. The majority of our releases have always been marked by contradictions in their depiction, invoking an expansive array of meanings; encompassing positive, creative facets - such as depth, imagination, and bursts of genius - as well as dark qualities - including gloominess, despondency and isolation. Time was not on our side, and due to circumstances out of our hands the showcase got cancelled". Inade and LOKI Foundation can be contacted here : http://wp.loki-found.de/?page_id=19

Sensory Leakage are a label based in London. Since 2019 they have been releasing cassettes in the "Zener" series. Artists such as Alison Cotton, Greening Lambourne, Tippex Christ and Quiet Clapping (no .. me neither .. what a rabbit hole to climb down). Number 27 in the Zener series is by Grey Frequency. No stranger to the MuhMur Radio playlist Grey Frequency is the solo project of audio / visual artist Gavin Morrow. 'Zener_27' features two tracks, "Kirlian Aura" is from this cassette. Physical releases on Sensory Leakage seem to be limited to 50 copies but downloads are still available through their bandcamp page : https://sensoryleakage.bandcamp.com/album/zener-27-2

Enhet För Fri Müsik (like Grey Frequency) are no strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist. They are, what used to be called back in the 'prog days' a supergroup. An Asia, a Paige, Ashton Lord, a Travelling Willburys of the Gothenburg underground. EFFM are comprised of Dan Johansson (Sewer Election), Gustaf Dicksson (Blod), Hugo Randulv (Typical Girls), Matthias Andersson (Arv & Miljö) and Sofie Herner (Neutral). The three tracks here are from their latest album "Ömhet & Skilsmässa". 

The album is released by Discreet Music. http://www.discreetmusic.se It is sold out on their online store but copies may be available via Discogs. I do recommend joining the Discreet Music mailing list. 

I have been catching up on some old Nocturnal Emissions sounds of late and last month I took the short trip to Lostwithiel to visit Nigel and Lesley and stroll along the beach at Par and talk about old NE recordings and live performances. I never leave Emission Control without a treat and this time I left with a copy of the 10"EP "Imaginary Time". "Skin Deep" is from this EP.

                                                          Myself & Nigel on Par Beach.

"Skin Deep" gives me the chance to use my DJ license so I can play the same title / different song game with "Skin Deep" by The Passions. It's a shame I don't have a copy of The Stranglers single "Skin Deep" but that was released in 1984 and that was well past their sell by date. The Chris & Cosey track is from a new 7" that comes with issue 76 of "Electronic Sound" magazine. "Jamming, Tottenham 1982" is the B-Side to a remix of the classic "October Love Song". The track is an unreleased improvised piece recorded just after the demise of Throbbing Gristle - it still has a certain 'Gristleness' about it. Chris mentions in the accompanying interview "We used to play together for hours in our studio in Crouch End and when we moved and when we moved to our house in Tottenham. It was like a form of therapy, driving out the post-traumatic stress of being in Throbbing Gristle". Copies of the magazine are available from Electronic Sound here : https://electronicsound.co.uk/shop/p/issue76 

The 808 State track is from the compilation album "Edward Not Edward". An album featuring the cream of Hulme and Moss-Side artists from the late 1980's all covering songs by Edward Barton. 

The "On This Day" feature is Eater and their debut EP "Thinking Of The USA" released in 1977 on The Label label. A great read is the Andy Blade autobiography, a great document of the birth of punk music in London. Published by Cherry Red Books.

"Airborne" is the new album from Angel Simitchiev and Linus Schrab. It's the first time Angel has released under his own name ... outside of his dark ambient project MyTrip. Linus Schrab is a musician based in Malmö (Sweden). "Initiation" is from this album. Copies are available from the Amek bandcamp page here : https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com The Soviet France track is from the "What Is Not True" album released in 1993 on Charrm Records. The album is three live tracks recorded at The Leadmill in Sheffield and The Old Vic in Nottingham. I was fortunate to be at both gigs (the latter being arranged by John Everall and Teresa Mills and also featured Lull on the bill). The CD has been re-issued by Vinyl On Demand as a triple sided double album. 

I have (recently) been grabbed by the sound of Himukalt after hearing them (her) on the Helen Scarsdale Agency ten tapes compilation "On Corrosion". "Panic Attack" is from last years album "Sex Worker II" on the German Total Black label. 

"The American Redhead" is from the recent re-issue of the 2018 album "Knife Through The Spine" on Cold Spring Records. The track isn't on the original album (released by Malignant records), it's 'Bonus Material'. I have talked about Himukalt in the past, so will not go in to detail here ... but the album is available here : https://coldspring.co.uk There will be more Himukalt on the next broadcast!                  The Lustmord track is from the album "First Reformed" a soundtrack to the movie of the same name. 

Another regular on the MuhMur Radio playlist is John Duncan. "Homecoming" is from the recently released album "Soft Eyes" in Ideal Recordings. The album also features Stefano Pilia on guitar and the collaboration album "Try Again" (Duncan & Pilia) will feature on the next broadcast. The sleeve / artwork on the LP has a very 1990's '4AD' vibe to it ... I did think it was probably by someone at the 23Envelope studios, it is by Gary Jo Gardenhire, an American visual artist living in Italy.

John's voice always reminds of the voice of David Thomas, so I put Pere Ubu in their next. "Not Happy" was a stand alone single from 1981. 

A MuhMur Radio Broadcast would not be a MuhMur Radio Broadcast without something by Frans de Waard. Although not directly involved (with the music) here, Friends In Low Places featured on the compilation tape "Katacombe Volume 3" released in 1984 on Korm Plastics and Schrei Records. Frans compiled the cassette for Schrei Records. The cassette also features Het Zweet, De Fabriek, Kapotte Muziek and Y Create amongst others. Friends In Low Places were from Leiden, and the project of Matz Decay. They (he) were known also as Love Choir. Earlier this year Staaltapes re-issued the tape on their Korm Plastics D label. For availability try here : http://www.kormplastics.nl

The Hunting Lodge track is from the LP "Shack". A vinyl & CD combination featuring recordings from 1988 - 1992. This put me in mind of the Dormanuu track ... so I slipped it on next. 

Dormanuu were active for only a short length of time (1983 - 1985). They released a trio of singles and one album for Illuminated Records before disbanding. The guitarist was Mark Tinley, older brother to Adamski. The Camberwell Now track is from the compilation CD "All's Well". "Daddy Needs A Throne" first appeared on the 1985 compilation cassette "Ritual : Magnetic North" on Touch. It was recorded at the same time as the first LP "The Ghost Trade", but didn't quite fit on the album ... so, it was used here. 

Every time I read an article , review or whatever about Himukalt the project gets compared with Puce Mary. Single white female syndrome probably - either that or laziness, or the author has never heard "Information Overload Unit" or the catalogue of Gaya Donadio. Anyway, I dug out some of the Puce Mary releases I own ... and have come to the conclusion that perhaps the comparisons aren't as lazy as I thought. 

"Another Dream In Superiority" is from the cassette EP "The Great Panic" released by Freak Animal Records in 2014. The cassette is available still here : https://www.nhfastore.net/noise-tapes/Puce-Mary-the-great-panic?sort=p.viewed&order=DESC 

The programme ends on a classic from Throbbing Gristle. 

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-27-may-2021/

Playlist :

01: Inade : "Über Dem All" (Loki Foundation) 2020.

02: Grey Frequency : "Kirlian Aura" (Sensory Leakage) 2021.

03: Enhet För Fri Müsik : "Orden Du Aldrig Säger" (Discreet Music) 2021.

04: Enhet För Fri Müsik : "Född Med Tänder" (Discreet Music) 2021.

05: Nocturnal Emissions : "Skin Deep" (Disaster Area) 2000.

06: Chris & Cosey : "Jamming, Tottenham 1982" (Electronic Sound) 2021.

07: 808 State : "Sorry Dog" (Wooden Records) 1989.

08: Enhet För Fri Müsik : "Opus 6 - Sommarlius" (Discreet Music) 2021.

09: The Passions : "Skin Deep" (Polydor Records) 1985.

10: Eater : "Michael's Monetary System" (The Label) 1977.

11: Angel Simitchiev & Linus Schrab : "Initiation" (Amek) 2021.

12: Soviet France : "Not Just What To Say" (Charrm Records) 1993.

13: Himukalt : "Panic Attack" (Total Black) 2020.

14: Himukalt : "The American Redhead" (Cold Spring Records) 2021.

15: Lustmord : "Everlasting" (Vaultworks) 2019.

16: John Duncan : "Homecoming" (Ideal Recordings) 2021.

17: Pere Ubu : "Not Happy" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.

18: Friends In Low Places : "Ode An Die Freiheit" (Korm Plastics D) 2021.

19: Hunting Lodge : "Rip You To Shreds (Original)" (S/M Operations/Easy Listening).

20: Dormanuu : "Powdered Lover" (Illuminated Records) 1983.

21: Eater : "Thinking Of The USA (Live)" (The Label) 1978.

22: The Camberwell Now : "Daddy Needs A Throne" (Rec Rec Music) 1992.

23: Puce Mary : "Another Dream In Superiority" (Freak Animal Records) 2014.

24: Throbbing Gristle : "Subhuman" (Industrial Records) 1980.

Thanks for listening and thanks for reading. 

Next broadcast goes out on June 10, listen via SoundArt Radio on the FM dial or via their webpage and live stream. Or, if you're busy on a Thursday night ... there's always the MixCloud Archive. June 10 will have sounds from MuhMur Radio favourites Modelbau, John Duncan and Kazuya Ishigami as well as an "on this day" from Monte Cazazza.