MuhMur Radio Broadcast 9 December 2021.

 

Once in a while there will be a MuhMur Radio Broadcast that happens on or is one day either side of my birthday. These programmes are usually eclectic and as random as a bag of Dolly Mixtures. The programme was recorded sometime in mid November, but knowing it would be broadcast a day after my 59th I kept the eclecticism prevalent. 

The programme starts with a track from Flutwacht. I have recently got my hands (and ears) on a copy of "Puls" released in 2017. Flutwacht is the solo project of German noisician Daniel Simon. I first came across Flutwacht with the album "Nebel" released in 2011 by Licht Und Stahl and have been slowly collecting his releases since. Daniel also works under the name of Fieberflug and has collaborated with French industrialists Muckrackers. "Plus" is on Daniel's own 'Mask Of The Slave' label, a co-release with 'The Tourette Tapes'. Available here : https://flutwacht.bandcamp.com/album/puls

In September this year Genocide Organ released the great single "Khalsa". This made me dig out a few of my Genocide Organ records and I rediscovered the 1999 LP "The Truth Will Make You Free". I think it was 1999 when I first met Klaus and Mikeal from Genocide Organ They were in the UK to play live as Anenzaphalia (could be 2000?), but anyway, we met, we drank, we chatted and a few months later Dieter Müh were releasing on Tesco Organisation. The tracks here are from this album. The album was reissued in 2019, copies may still be available from Tesco Organisation : https://tesco-germany.com 

The Aube track is from the 4x&" Box Set "Quadrotation", the 'glow & fluorescent lamp' single. I thought the Cabaret Voltaire track "Obsession" fitted well afterwards. The Severed Heads track is from the "City Slab Horror" album originally released in 1985. The copy I have is on the Medical Records label, a label in Seattle (USA) that specialises in house music and disco re-releases. I saw Severed Heads live in 1985 at The Leadmill in Sheffield. Just Tom Ellard. He was supported by Hula and a band I have never heard of since called Fabricata Illuminata. Tom did a 40 minute improvisation to a group of 20 year olds stood around in long raincoats and khaki trousers. A couple of years ago a friend went to see Severed Heads play live in London and said the venue was packed with teenage 'rave' types all dancing along to the Severed Heads sound .. the move to Medical Records seems to have been a good one. 

When recording this programme I knew I would be in Lincoln a few days later. Whenever I head back to Lincoln (the place of my birth) I usually walk past old venues and bore the wife and kids with stories from my youth. The New Penny, The Cornhill Vaults, AJ's, Trilbys, The Drill Hall, The Art College, The Regency Ballroom ... the list goes on and on. Anyway, The impending trip back to Lincoln made me dig 

out some old records by Lincoln bands. I know Ultravox! are not from Lincoln but (I think) the best gig I ever saw in Lincoln was Ultravox! in 1978 at AJ's on their "System Of Romance" tour. "Someone Else's Clothes" is from this album. 

Three of my favourite Lincoln 'punk' bands around 1978 - 1980 were The Cigarettes, Pseudo Existors and Whizz Kids. Whizz Kids were the perennial support band at AJ's. If a band turned up without a support then nine times out of ten the Whizz Kids would be playing on a couple of trestle tables set up in front of the stage. (AJ's had a really small stage). I saw them a couple of times when The Lurkers came to town, and Cyanide and I am sure they supported Ultravox! too. 1979 was a great year for singles by Lincoln bands with The Cigarettes releasing the great "They're Back Again, Here They Come" EP on Company Records. "All We Want Is Your Money" is from this EP. There's a great website with an interview with The Cigarettes with some great photos here : https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2012/09/the-cigarettes-interview-with-stephen.html. 1980 and The Cigarettes moved to Dead Good Records and released the excellent 7" "Can't Sleep At Night" .. and then that was it. Two singles and a John Peel Session. In 2019 Optic Nerves Records released a compilation of The Cigarettes singles, live tracks, Peel Session and Demos called "You Were So Young". Copies are only £6! Get one here : https://opticnerverecordings.com/collections/the-cigarettes. Pseudo Existors released their only 7"EP on Dead Good Records in 1979. "Coming Up For Air" is from the "Stamp Out Normality" EP. A decent copy of this EP can cost up to £100 but luckily those good folk at Harbinger Sound re-issued the EP as part of an album that includes live and Demo tracks. Hunt one down via Discogs. 

"Cheek To Cheek" always finished the Whizz Kids live set, it was their version of Sid doing "My Way". The track is from their debut single "PAYE As You Earn". In 1980 Dead Good Records released the obligatory compilation album highlighting the 'sound of Lincolnshire' called "East". It features The Cigarettes, Whizz Kids, Pseudo Existors from Lincoln. Fatal Charm from Nottingham, B Movie from Mansfield (listed as B Movies) and Half Life from Louth. There's also tracks by Sincere Americans and Vick Sinex & The Nasal Sprays. I still have no idea who these bands are / were. A shame Sinking Ships and X-S Energy weren't on there instead. The LP is compiled by Chris Hall who used to run Playground Studios in Wragby so perhaps it was contractual. The LP also has one of the worst covers ever!

The B Movie track "Refugee" is from "East". Using my DJ license once again and playing the 'same title different song' card I follow B Movie "Refugee" with Portion Control's "Refugee". This track is from the -LP "Step Forward". 

Broken Lights is the solo project of Swedish experimentalist Martin Herterich. "In Solemn Ritual" is from the 2013 cassette compilation "Venice Of the North". I think the cassette is out of print and Broken Lights don't seem to be active anymore. Broken Lights do have an active SoundCloud page. take a listen here : https://soundcloud.com/broken-lights. 

I always thought that the Ripchords were from Lincoln. I only discovered a few years back that they were from Somerset. The Ripchords 7" EP inventively titled "The Ripchords 4 Track EP" was always for sale in Sanctuary Records, always in the 7" 'shoebox' that was on the counter. The Ripchords included a guy called Morris Gould and around 1979 - 1980 Morris was treading the piss soaked beer covered boards of many Lincoln venues as The Rhythm Method. The Rhythm Method were one of the finest Lincoln bands at the time. Morris had a WASP synthesiser, microphone and some effects pedals in a suitcase he would then make a great throbbing noise for twenty minutes, pack up and disappear. For a short while Morris had a 'roadie', a good friend called Bernie who would carry the suitcase from gig to gig. Around 1981 Morris moved to Maida Vale in London to work as a sound engineer for This Heat / Cold Storage. I went to his flat a couple of times for parties and such. At the turn of the 1990's Morris became The Irresistible Force and DJ Mixmaster Morris making a name for himself on the rave and dance scene. "Ringing In The Streets" is from this EP recorded in Pater Gabriel's studio in Bath. Another group I thought were from Lincoln but never were are The Bleach Boys. Back to Sanctuary Records shop in Lincoln and just inside the door was a poster advertising the single "Chloroform" by The Bleach Boys. Itv was on the wall for months! It was a cheap DIY photocopy type poster but it was on Tramp Records and Tramp was the name of a guy who worked behind the counter at Sanctuary. He also had a job as studio engineer at nearby Playground Studios in Wragby. I put 2 and 2 together and reached 5. 

Recently Rave Up Records of Rome, Italy have re-issued the 7" "Chloroform" single along with unreleased studio and live recordings and a 1982 version of their 1988 single "Stocking-Clad Nazi Death Squad Bitches". Rave Up also released a great album by Dangerous Girls called "Present : Recordings 1978 - 1982". Dangerous Girls were a prog-punk band formed in Birmingham in 1978. Both albums are available from Rave Up here : https://www.raveuprecords.com. Rave Up Records have also released a retrospective of work by English Subtitles "Ear Piercing (Oranges And Lemons Demos)". It came out last year, I am still to get a copy ... but "Tannoy" is such a good song! It comes as no surprise that both The Bleach Boys and Dangerous Girls are still recording and playing live, unlike Shoes For Industry the Bristol based band from the late 1970's. Shoes For Industry were formed by members of the theatrical troupe 'Crystal Theatre'. The tracks here are from their one and only LP "Talk Like A Whelk". 

'On This Day' features The Bonus and their 7" "The Bulrushes" although I play the B Side "Automatic Doors" as I think the A Side is a bit below par for The Bongos. 

The single is out of print but easily found on Discogs etc. It comes as no surprise that The Bongos have reformed. https://www.legacyrecordings.com/artists/the-bongos/. 

Rudolf's Rache are a punk band from Germany formed in the early 1980's. Recently I managed to track down an original copy of the compilation cassette "International Sound Communication #10", released in 1986 by A Man's Hate Production. The tape features IBF (that's why I wanted it), LD 50, Crawling With Tarts, Katharsis, Stress and Do Easy amongst others including Rudolf's Rache. What jumped out at me was the contact for the band was Lutz Pruditsch. Lutz I know of through his work as Tarkatak and his releases on Drone Records, Bake Records and his own Trümmer Kassetten label. I played live with Tarkatak in 2013 at Der Elefant in Bremen. All these years and I did not know we had a connection. Rudolf's Rache can still be contacted here : http://pruditsch.com/original_majorlabel/rudolfsrache-main.html, or via bandcamp : https://rudolfsrache.bandcamp.com

Tantric Death is Max Eastman and Kelly Koistinen from North Carolina, USA. I am slowly discovering the work of Max Eastman through his solo releases on Tribe Tapes and the Bristol (UK) based label Liquid Library. I managed to get a copy of the Tantric Death split tape with En Nihil (again on Tribe Tapes) and liked it so much I went after other releases discovering "Pearls Before Swine" a cassette on the UK Industrial Coast label. The programme ends with side one of this cassette. Copies can be found at Industrial Coast : https://industrialcoast.bigcartel.com, or if you're in the USA from Max direct at Tribe Tapes. : https://tribetapes.bandcamp.com

The broadcast is here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-9-december-2021/

Apologies in the late posting of this blog ... sometimes life, work and parties take over .... 

Playlist : 

01: Flutwacht : "Brachland" (Mask Of The Slave/The Tourette Tapes) 2017.

02: Genocide Organ : "Who Wants To Be King" (Tesco Organisation) 1999.

03: Genocide Organ : "Turn You Into Gas" (Tesco Organisation) 1999.

04: Genocide Organ : "Inner Crisis Conflict" (Tesco Organisation) 1999.

05: Genocide Organ : "Die Wahrheit" (Tesco Organisation) 1999.

06: Flutwacht : "Brach 3" (Mask Of The Slave/The Tourette Tapes) 2017.

07: Aube : "Para-Lux" (Self Abuse Records) 1996.

08: Cabaret Voltaire : "Obsession" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

09: Severed Heads : "Cycle Rated R" (Medical Records LLC) 2014.

10: Ultravox! : "Someone Else's Clothes" (Island Records) 1978.

11: The Cigarettes : "Can't Sleep At Night" (Dead Good Records) 1980.

12: Pseudo Existors : "Coming Up For Air" (Dead Good Records) 1979.

13: Whizz Kids : "Cheek To Cheek" (Dead Good Records) 1979.

14: B Movie : "Refugee" (Dead Good Records) 1980.

15: Portion Control : "Refugee" (Illuminated Records) 1984.

16: Broken Lights : "In Solemn Ritual" (Unik Eld) 2013.

17: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words : "1992 (Tape Decay)" (Kalligrammofon) 2007.

18: The Ripchords : "Ringing In The Streets" (Cells Records) 1979.

19: Shoes For Industry : "War Of The Potatoes" (Fried Egg Records) 1980.

20: Shoes For Industry : "Fear Of Wages" (Fried Egg Records) 1980.

21: Shoes For Industry : "Invasion Of The French Boyfriends" (Fried Egg records) 1980.

22: The Bongos : "Automatic Doors" (Fetish Records) 1981.

23: English Subtitles : "Tannoy" (Glass Records/Ten Seconds Too Late) 1981.

24: The Cigarettes : "All We Want Is Your Money" (Company Records) 1979.

25: Dangerous Girls : "Look At Me" (Rave Up Records) 2021.

26: Dangerous Girls : "Heavy Fish On Mandrax" (Rave Up Records) 2021.

27: Rudolf's Rache : "Sommerspressensesicht" (A Man's Hate Production) 1986.

28: The Bleach Boys : "Chloroform" (Tramp) 1978.

29: The Bleach Boys : "Stocking-Clad (Version '82)" (Rave Up Records) 2016.

30: Tubeway Army : "Bombers" (Beggars Banquet Records) 1978.

31: Tantric Death : "Pearls Before Swine (Part One)" (Industrial Coast) 2021.

Thanks for listening, again comments are always welcome (if not always published!), or contact me via Email at muhmur.radio(at)gmail.com 

This was the final broadcast for 2021, although there will be the annual four hour festive feast broadcast sometime in the next four weeks, I'll announce the date when confirmed. 

Cheers. 

                                                    forgot to put this picture in the blog !

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 25 November 2021

 

On the 13th of September 2018 MuhMur Radio broadcast exclusive material / sounds by Thorsten Soltau x Comrades, included in the 'session', that also included solo work by Thorsten and collaborative work with Pharmakustik, Marina Stewart and Ragpole Reel, was a piece of collaborative work with German sound artist Emerge called "Kalk & Schiefer". The piece has now been released by Auf Abwegen on the CD "Acker Und Seche". "Postskriptum Eines Traumes" is also from the CD ... the closing piece. The album also includes a lengthy collaborative piece between Thorsten, Emerge and RLW (Ralf Wehowsky). Highly recommended. More information on this release can be found at Thorsten's excellent website : https://thorstensoltau.de. Over the past 12 months UK label Steep Gloss have put out volumes entitled 'Blank Tape Compilation'. Invited artists provide sound made purely from blank cassettes, it's a fascinating collection (three volumes so far) with contributions from Modelbau, Phil Maguire, Matt Atkins, Howard Stelzer, Grant Evans, Brandstifter and Karen Constance amongst others ... the Daniel Vujanic piece is from Volume Three. https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com.

Does anyone remember the Small Wonder records catalogue from the late 1970's? It's where I used to but my Film Cast singles from. The Film Cast, a mysterious project that only produced four 7" singles and all on their own True Friends Music label. I used to (and still do) liken them to bands such as Metabolist, A Popular History Of Signs and File Under Pop. "Life In A Film Cast was their second single. They also did a great cover version of "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted", well worth hunting for ...  Wieman is the duo Roel Meelkop and Frans deWaard. The one minute piece here is from a new 3" CD album "Casiotone Compilation #9" on Ao To Ao. The album is a collection of one minute pieces by various projects with the common link of Frans deWaard. Modelbau, THU 20, Shifts, Kapotte Muziek, Doc War Mirran ... you get the picture. All pieces use a Casiotone VL keyboard. Copies are available direct from the label here : https://aotoao.bandcamp.com/album/casiotone-compilation-vol-9

Camp Sophisto were Peter Hein (formrly of Mittagspause) and Michael König. In 1983 they released the great 7" "Obsession" on the Pure Freude label following a year later with the mini-LP "Camouflage" on Sneaky Pete Records. The track here is from the mini-LP. In 1984 they split with Michael playing in Asmodi Bizarr and Peter joining the pop group Family5. 

'On This Day' features two great records, firstly the 7" single "Afterwards" by Artery (b/w "Into The Garden"). Artery were one of those great bands of the late 1970's / early 1980's that were totally overlooked. I saw them live a few times and they were one of those bands where anything could happen .. and quite often did, the smashing of instruments, audience intimidation and if I remember rightly onstage pissing at The Gallery in Manchester (1984). "Into The Garden" is taken from their 1981 John Peel Session. Also on this day in 1980 The Fall released "Grotesque (After The Gramme)'" LP. 

"Zungsang" is the latest album by Joke Lanz. Released on cassette by the French label Vice De Forme. All the tracks here make up side 2. Inspired by subconscious memories and nightmares. Joke tells me that there'll be a new Sudden Infant album out in 2022 released by Fourth Dimension. Meanwhile ... grab this tape, limited to only 80 copies. : https://vicedeforme.bandcamp.com/album/zungsang

Grey Frequency are no strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist. 2021 has been a busy year for Gavin Morrow (aka Grey Frequency) with the self-released album "Paranormal" and the two cassettes on Sensory_Leakage and their compact and bijou label Remote Viewing. Grey Frequency also appear on the compilation album "Stellar", the third in the 'Drone Series' on Eighth Tower Records. On the 25th of September 2021 Grey Frequency played as part of a "Weird Gardens" evening at Bristol's Rockaway Park venue. The track here is an exclusive listen of that evening's performance. It was the ending sounds of nature that brought to mind "Wu Wei" by Juice Machine. The track is from their CD album "Deep As A Depthless Pond" on the (new to me) Russian Besperch' label. It was hearing Juice Machine on David Warmbier's 'Institute Of Spectra-Sonic Sounds' that lead me into their world. Juice Machine are the improvisational duo R.H. Smith and Heather Chessman from Eugene, Oregon. A lot of their releases are self-released and files only so it's really good to have them physically on other labels. Contact Besperech' direct here : https://bsprch.bandcamp.com/album/deep-as-a-depthless-pond, or get in touch with Juice machine direct here : https://juicemachine.bandcamp.com. It seemed only natural to follow Juice Machine with the new CDR(EP) from Arv & Miljö.

"Jorden Först" is the latest release by Förfall, the CDR label operated by Gustaf Diksson. Limited to 70 copies it comes with a 12 page mini-booklet on how to train as an 'Earth First' activist. Contact for A&M can be found here : http://www.iddb.se/arvmiljo.html

Please take a listen to the broadcast here: 

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-25-november-2021

Playlist : 

01: Thorsten Soltau & Emerge : "Postskriptum Eines Traumes" (Auf Abwegen) 2021.

02: Daniel Vujanic : "Untitled" (Steep Gloss) 2021.

03: The Film Cast : "Life In A Film Cast" (True Friends Music) 1979.

04: Wieman : "VL-1" (Ao To Ao) 2021.

05: Camp Sophisto : "Am Rande Des Abgrunds" (Sneaky Pete Records) 1984.

06: Artery : "Afterwards" (Armageddon Records) 1981.

07: Joke Lanz : "Dirty Looks" (Vice De Forme) 2021.

08: Grey Frequency : "Live At Rockaway Park, Bristol. 25:09:21" (Not On Label) 2021.

09: Juice Machine : "Wu Wei" (Besperech') 2021.

10: Arv & Miljö : "Jorden Först" (Förfall) 2021.

11: Artery : "Into The Garden" (Armageddon Records) 1981.

12: The Fall : "W.M.C. - Blob 59" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

13: The Fall : "Gramme Friday" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

14: Joke Lanz : "Voices In My Head" (Vice De Forme) 2021.

15: Joke Lanz : "Crane Boy (Revisited)" (Vice De Forme) 2021.

Next broadcast will be on December 9, it's what is known as 'the birthday broadcast' as it's the day after my birthday (there's usually one on or around December 8) and will feature sounds from Flutwacht, Genocide Organ, Tantric Death and Aube amongst dance tunes from the 70's and 80's from The Cigarettes, B Movie, The Bleach Boys and The Bongos. Same time, same channel (as always). 

Here's a picture of my daughter Isabel on the balcony of SoundArt Radio the other day ... enjoying the sounds ... as always. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 11 November 2021

 

If it had only clicked at the time of recording this programme I would have started with the B Movie single "Remembrance Day". Ah well, the broadcast kicks off with a track from the Howard Stelzer cassette "I've Told You Once (Suburban Observances Volume Two)". It's a cassette on the US Tribe Tapes label and (I guess) a follow up to Volume One that was released by UK label Chocolate Monk a few weeks ago. Tribe Tapes have European distribution through White Centipede Noise in Germany and Electric Knife Records / Industrial Coast and Tordon Ljud in the UK. Volume four in the Suburban Observances series is a double CD on Humanhood Records. Hopefully my copy will arrive soon ... 

A few weeks ago the new album by Blue Chemise came through and it has a track called "Chrysanthemum No.1" and that got me thinking ... I have a great piece by Aube called "Chrysanthemum" that is on the compilation "Infernal Proteus". Playing the DJ license card I play both tracks back to back. "Infernal Proteus" is a 4xCD release with the CDs being encased in a hardback book, it features artists including Aube, Apoptose, Troum, Yannick Dauby, Chaos As Shelter and Ultra amongst others. Released in 2002 I imagine copies are long sold out but Discogs have copies for sale  ... worth having. 

Blue Chemise is the project of Australian musician Mark Gomes. I first came across the sound of Blue Chemise through the excellent 7" "The Music Lesson" on the I Dischi Del Barone label. "Chrysanthemum No.1" is from the LP "Flower Studies". A collection of eight pastorales on strings and piano inspired by the photographs of Adolphe Braun (1812 - 1877).  Released on the Belgian B.A.D.D.M. label and limited to 444 copies. https://baadm.bandcamp.com/album/flower-studies

Always a treat to hear new sounds / material by Swedish sound-genius Mattias Gustafsson (aka Altar Of Flies). "Utan Titel" is from the new cassette "Piano And Tapeworks Volume II" on Mattias' own imprint Hästen & Korsett. Tordon Ljud and White Centipede Noise are doing the European distribution on this release. Again, worth having. 

Tesco Organisation have been busy with releases over the past few weeks. They have now put out Himukalt's 12th album "Dreaming Of A Dead Girl". Himukalt is the project of American industrial artist Ester Kärkkäinen. Tesco Organisation have also released "Asura" the new album from Linekraft. Linekraft is the project of Japanese noise artist Masahiko Okubo. 

"Asura" is the Hindu god of wrath as far as I can make out, the album has titles dedicated to political assassination and suicide ... it really is a breath of fresh air and it's great to hear well crafted and strutted power electronics again which I can also say about the new 7" single from Genocide Organ. "Khalsa" / "Operation Blue Star" is volume four in the 7" series 'Religious Extremism (Alternativism)' series by Genocide Organ. 

All titles can be bought direct from Tesco Organisation. https://tesco-germany.com/en/ . The track by Grey Frequency is from the cassette album "Essentia". The cassette was released by Remote Viewing on the 13th of August and only available via the labels Bandcamp page on that day. This seems to be a marketing ploy taken up by a few labels recently and I'm not 'a fan' of it. I can understand the point of labels, small labels who do home dubbing, can know the exact figure to copy so there's not a shoebox full in the attic gathering dust for years. But, surely the label will know it's minimum / maximum sales be it 10, 12, 30 or 300. Perhaps I am not keen on this selling technique as there are days when I don't go on the internet - for various reasons - or only get to pages late at night when releases are now "sold out". Remote Viewing is a sub-label of Sensory Leakage. https://sensoryleakage.bandcamp.com The Lee Riley track is from a new 3" CDREP available through the Soloman Tump Bandcamp page. https://solomantump.bandcamp.com. The EP is called "Spl // it" and is a joint release with Soloman Tump. (Two tracks each). The EP also comes as a free download if you buy issue #2 of Soloman Tumps magazine "Intrusive Signals" (mentioned elsewhere on this blog). http://intrusivesignals.limitedrun.com. Lee Riley is a musician / sound artist based in Oxford, back in 2018 he collaborated with Stuart Chalmers to release the cassette "Points Of Vital Differences" on Cruel Nature Records. Well worth hunting down. 

Over the past twelve months or so Stuart has been releasing a series of albums that all summon the heart of 'things'. Beginning with "The Heart Of Contemplation" (Wormhole Wood / Tavern Eightieth), followed by "The Heart Of Instinct" (TQ N-aut) and most recently "The Heart Of Nature" (Ikuisuus / Opal Tapes). The two pieces here are from the latest tape. Digital copies are still available from Stuart. Contact him at : https://stuartchalmers.bandcamp.com/music. No strangers to the MuhMur Radio Playlist, Hairs Abyss are Paul Harrison (Expose Your Eyes / Smell & Quim) and Chandor Gloomy (Cromlech Shadow / Feral Copse). "Looking" is the opening track from the CDR "Looking At The Land" on Brighton based label HREA'M Recordings. https://hream.bandcamp.com/releases. Hairs Abyss also have a CD out on the Baltimore (USA) based label SpleenCoffin. Called "Aposematic Displays" it's available from the label https://spleencoffin.com, or direct from Chandor at https://comakultur.bandcamp.com.

It's really good to hear new releases from Ukranian artist Edward Sol. "Go And Get Dressed" is his latest cassette on his own Quasi Pop Records label. The two Aube tracks "Scrub" and "Passive Attack" are from the 4x7" box "Quadrotation". Alex at Tordon Ljud was selling original copies recently. I am guessing that someone found a shoebox full gathering dust in their attic recently. It's an Aube release I missed out on back in the mid 90's, so it's great to have a copy ... at last. 

The programme ends with a track from the timeless album (mini LP?) "Hit The Pulse" by Portion Control. 

Please take a listen : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-11-november-2021/

As ever, comments are always welcomed. Contact me at muhmur.radio@gmail.com. The next programme will be on November 25th. 20:00 GMT on the FM Dial (102.5) or Live Stream via the SoundArt Radio webspace. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk

Playlist :

01: Howard Stelzer : "There Are Always Hands" (Tribe Tapes) 2021.

02: Aube : "Chrysanthemum" (The Ajna Offensive) 2002.

03: Blue Chemise : "Chrysanthemum No.1" (B.A.D.D.M.) 2021.

04: Mattias Gustafsson : "Utan Titel" (Hästen & Korsett) 2021.

05: Himukalt : "Sehr Empfindlich" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.

06: Linekraft : "An Assassination In The Organic Universe" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.

07: Linekraft : "One Kills One" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.

08: Genocide Organ : "Operation Blue Star" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.

09: Grey Frequency : "What We Become" (Remote Viewing) 2021.

10: Lee Riley : "Be Strange Not Afraid" (Not On Label) 2021.

11: Stuart Chalmers : "Wood" (Ikuisuus) 2021.

12: Stuart Chalmers : "Metal" (Ikuisuus) 2021.

13: Hairs Abyss : "Looking" (HREA'M Recordings) 2021.

14: Edward Sol : "Go And Get Dressed" (Quasi Pop Records) 2021.

15: Aube : "Scrub" (Self Abuse Records) 1996.

16: Genocide Organ : "Khalsa" (Tesco Organisation) 2021.

17: Aube : "Passive Attack" (Self Abuse Records) 1996.

18: Portion Control : "Crash Weight Gain" (In Phase Records) 1983.

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 28 October 2021

 

The first quarter of the programme is very much set in the 1980's. Between 1980 and 1982 there were some classic records released 'On This Day'. Although the broadcast kicks off with Cabaret Voltaire's "Split Second Feeling" from their "Red Mecca" album ... which was released in August 1981 ... the following tunes were / are all October 28 releases. (The track "Red Mask" at the end of the programme is also from the "Red Mecca" album). 

The Throbbing Gristle tracks are from the LP "Funeral In Berlin". The album was recorded over two nights at the S0 36 Club in Berlin. According to the sleeve notes "A Turkish circumcision ceremony preceded the events ... The album is dedicated to redundant institutions everywhere, above and below ground". The sleeve is a painting by Val Denham of Death & Beauty Foundation fame.

In 1981 Bauhaus met Bauhaus. "While still a member of the pre-eminent gothic rock band Bauhaus, David J had the brilliant idea to collaborate with René Halkett, artist/poet of the Weimar Bauhaus art school in the 1920's. On July 28th 1980, David took a trip to René's cottage in Cornwall. Using a portable cassette recorder, he recorded an 80 year old René reciting his own poetry. In 1981 David added musical accompaniment to two of the poems and released them as a one-off single for 4AD". (taken from the David J bandcamp page). In 1981 The Pop Group split and singer Mark Stewart moved to London to work with Adrian Sherwood and his On-U Sound label. The first release was the 12" EP "Jerusalem". The Mafia on this release were members of Creation Rebel and Noah House Of Dread. 

The Fire Engines debut 7" was recorded in a bungalow in Fife, Scotland at a cost of £46 and was the first release on the Codex Communications label. The label was set up by the Fire Engines manager Angus Groovy. After the band split in 1981 drummer Russell Burn went on to form Everest The Hard Way a band I saw live at Futurama 3 festival (Bingley Hall, Stafford) but have never come across any of their releases. 

The programme comes back in to the now with another track from the new Fossil Aerosol Mining Project "Zombi Traditions (37 Years)". Released on their own Afterdays Media imprint copies are available here : https://fossilaerosol.bandcamp.com/album/zombi-traditions-37-years

Radboud Mens is a Dutch sound-artist, composer and radio presenter. Radboud started making noises in the late 1980's building noise machines and destroying turntables. In the mid 1990's he created the project L.O.S.D. with Peter Fleur. This is the first time I came across the sound of Radboud Mens. Radboud left L.O.S.D. in 1997 to work under his own name making more minimal and conceptual sounds. In 1999 he created the ERS label to release ambient / drone music. He has radio shows on dfm.nu. The tracks here are from his latest album "Sine~Plus+".

"Sine" was released in 2000 on Staalplaat Records and twelve years later as a download file on Form Digital. This new vinyl version includes three new pieces recorded last year. Available in glorious purple vinyl. https://staalplaatlabel.bandcamp.com/album/sine-plus. I know very little, in fact next to nothing about the project called The Incidental Crack. I got their latest cassette album "Detail" through from Anticipating Nowhere Records and I'm really enjoying it. Limited to 20 copies, some are still available via the label's bandcamp. https://anticipatingnowhere.bandcamp.com/album/detail.

The Column One track is from the "Classic Chill Out Rhythms" CD by Column One & DJ Uncle - Brain - Bridge ... and I'm still playing the Bron Area "The Trees And The Villages" album. It's one of those great slices of early 1980's post-punk pop.

The Swedish trio Typical Girls are comprised of Felix Skörvald, Julia Bjernelind (also of Amateur Hour) and Hugo Randulv (Amateur Hour, Enhet För Fri Musik). Hugo also released the excellent LP "Radio Arktis" under his own name on Förlag För Fri Musik earlier this year. "Girl Like You" is from their debut 7" EP released last year, it's a cover of the old Troggs hit. The EP is on the Happiest Place label, a label I will now follow after this 7" and their Neutral Live LP release. The EP has sold out from the label but it's always worth trying Discreet Music. https://discreetmusic.se

The programme finishes on the 'Berlin' side of the Throbbing Gristle "Discipline" 12" released in 1981 on Fetish Records. It was recorded at the same concerts as the "Funeral In Berlin" album. 

Please take a listen here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-28-october-2021/

Playlist :

01: Cabaret Voltaire : "Split Second Feeling" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.

02: Throbbing Gristle : "Stained By Dead Horses" (Zensor) 1981.

03: Throbbing Gristle : "Trained Condition Of Obedience" (Zensor) 1981.

04: Throbbing Gristle : "Zero's Death" (Zensor) 1981.

05: René Halkett & David Jay : "Armour" (4AD Records) 1981.

06: Mark Stewart + Mafia : "Jerusalem" (On-U Sound) 1982.

07: Mark Stewart + Mafia : "High Ideals And Crazy Dreams" (On-U Sound) 1982.

08: Fire Engines : "Get Up And Use Me" (Codex Communications) 1980.

09: Fossil Aerosol Mining Project : "The Shopping Mall Has Long Since Flooded" (Afterdays Media) 2021.

10: Radboud Mens : "Metal / Dub / Plate" (Staalplaat) 2021.

11: Radboud Mens : "Circle Of Fifths (Remix)" (Staalplaat) 2021.

12: Radboud Mens : "Funkenkammer" (Staalplaat) 2021.

13: Richard H. Kirk : "Devil In Your Name" (Touch) 2000.

14: The Incidental Crack : "We Might Bump Into Each Other" (Anticipating Nowhere Records) 2021.

15: Column One : "Your Funky DJ" (Dossier) 1996.

16: Bron Area : "Love Stories" (Glass Redux) 2016.

17: Typical Girls : "Girl Like You" (Happiest Place) 2020.

18: Cabaret Voltaire : "Red Mask" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.

19: Throbbing Gristle : "Discipline (Live In Berlin)" (Fetish Records) 1981.

Thanks again for listening, comments and communication always welcome. muhmur.radio@gmail.com. Next broadcast will be on November 11, same time, same channel. SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM if you're anywhere near Totnes, Torbay or Tuckenhay. https://www.soundartradio.org.uk

On the pre-record for these programmes good friends of the show Nathan Carter + Tony Whitehead (Wildlife Disco) and Tamsin (Mrs. MuhMur) popped in for a chat ... 

                                                  Tony, Nathan & Tamsin (MuhMur Posse)!

Intrusive Signals

 

A few months ago a copy of the magazine "Intrusive Signals #1" landed at MuhMur HQ. The magazine was put together by Andrew Fletcher. "Intrusive Signals" is a title taking over from "Snare Rush", a magazine that Andrew produced for seven issues. A little like when "Just Glittering" changed its' name to "Idwal Fisher".  With the magazine came a request for a Dieter Müh interview, or some contribution to #2.  Over the past couple of years or so I have done quite a few interviews, the last being for Richard Johnson's  revamped "Adverse Effect" magazine and Thanasis (of Electric Knife Records) printed a rather fine overview of Dieter Müh in his "Oblique Tapestry" magazine. Dave Goodchild of the Exeter Cavern has also interviewed me for his occasionally printed fanzine "Notes From The Post Punk Underground". With the latter two of these publications being (Devon) local I was a little reticent to do yet another Müh piece and besides I haven't really done much (as Dieter Müh) since the Swiss/German tour in December 2018 - the one with BºTong & Grodock. 

During this pandemic Andrew has moved from Oxford to a small market town called Bovey Tracy in South Devon. Bovey Tracy is about ten miles from MuhMur HQ and also known as "The Gateway To the Moors" (Dartmoor that is). On his move to the Deep South he got in contact with Thanasis who pointed him in the direction of SoundArt Radio, a community radio station in Dartington broadcasting from the Dartington Hall Estate. Andrew now broadcasts "The Tump Clump", a monthly hour long programme built of noises, pulses, rhythms and home-made electronics. 

I wanted to get involved with issue #2 so I offered to write a piece on MuhMur Radio, the reasons, the whys and the wherefores. I also offered my services as a reviewer, to say a few words about what has excited me, intrigued me and made me dance over the last few days, but Andrew moved at such a fast pace I never got around to the reviewing ... I also didn't quite finish the MuhMur Radio piece .. but I think I got away with it. 

Issue #2 features interviews with Canadian artist Moss Harvest. A great interview that has made me want to hear his sounds .. Blackcloudsummer and Neuro ... No Neuro. There's a piece on HREA'M's 'Music For Mental Health' project, poetry by Plague Arish and a diary (by Andrew) of the "Radical Chip Party" that took place on the  Dartington Hall Estate over the summer. There's random artwork and photography in the pages too. 

Each copy (seems to) come(s) with a free download of Andrews' new release. A split 3" CDR of Lee Riley and Soloman Tump. For the past year or so Andrew has been recording and releasing under the pseudonym of Soloman Tump. Experimental free-form crunching entropic electronics. Lee Riley is a guitarist who has released split albums (in the past) with Stuart Chalmers, Timothy C Holehouse and Robert Ridley-Shackleton on a variety of UK DIY labels. 

A physical copy of the split is available : https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/spl-it Limited to only 30 copies. Intrusive Signals #2 can be got from here : https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/merch/intrusive-signals-zine-2 for only £4 plus postage.

The Tump Clump can be listened to here : https://www.mixcloud.com/solomantump/

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 14 October 2021

 

Over the past 18 years the Finnish label Hyster Tapes has been gathering quite a cannon. In 2003 they put out the cassette "Doin' It Dresden Style" by Dieter Müh (the title being a mashed up homage to two of my favourite bands, Slaughter & The Dogs and Swell Maps). The catalogue number is HYSTER 002, I don't think there was a 001. All Hyster Tapes releases come on 'recycled' tapes, rather like the RRRecords "Recycled Music" series of old and it's a tradition carried on now by Vacancy Recs of Canada. I mention this because Hyster Tapes have just put out a great cassette by Finnish artist / Berlin Resident Lost Snivel. In 2015 Hyster Tapes put out the split Lost Snivel / Tietokoneduo J&J release but the sounds didn't really grab these ears and I thought nothing more of these artists, but now "Further Down The Spora" by Lost Snivel is never far from the tape player. 

I managed to chat with the main protagonist, the head Sniveller so to speak about the release. Side A (which is what starts the broadcast) is a collection of pieces spanning around ten years.

 

"Once I made a track that had an industrial sounding part, like Nine Inch Nails.... And I came up with a pun on the remix album of 'The Downward Spiral', 'Further Down The Spiral'. I called mine 'Further Down The Spora', since Spora is Helsinki slang for a tram". So the cover was for me an attempt to deliver the essentials of a drunken person in a tram, whose objective was perhaps to make it to the next exit and get off to have another beer from their bag. The associations are rather Finnish ... including the shopping bag". 

Before Lost Snivel there was RST, a collaboration with Grey Park member Heikke. They put out a cassette on Totes Format called "Haikus" before resorting to the project name RNP No.2, but neither of them can remember why. Both RST and RNP No.2 appear on Hyster Tapes compilations. 

"I don't really do that much music, but once in a while I get this impulse ... like bzzz, OK .. I'm going to make a track. And I take whatever I have around to make it. It's mostly embarrassing, but sometimes I like it enough to send to people or to play live ........ Last year I moved to a flat above an empty flat. Last spring I heard some shouting from our yard and looked out the window to see someone pushing out a mattress. Poof. Once the mattress was there out came the furniture .. softly breaking apart on the mattress. I was just taking my trash out and I noticed a keyboard against the wall. 'You guy's throwing all this out?' 'Yeah'. 'Mind if I take something?' 'Go ahead' .... hence "Dead Man's Synth". 

Releases by the likes of Re:Clip, Varropas, A Handful Of Dust, D.D. Dobson, Sick Days, Grey Park and of course Lost Snivel can be found here : http://www.pcuf.fi/~plaa/hyster.html Tapes are (as a rule) only 2€ plus postage and Hyster Tapes have a great distribution list too. 

The Skull Defekts track is another from the excellent Fang Bomb CD compilation "Gothenburg 08". In the last broadcast I played the short version of Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words song "Faceless Erases Every Trace Of Humanity", here I play the nineteen minute version. 

The long version appears on the eponymously titled cassette released by When Skies are Grey. It's a limited edition of 49 copies that were only available at the Norberg festival on July 25th 2008. When Skies Are Grey have a great and informative website : http://www.whenskiesaregrey.se Copies of "Gothenburg 08" can be found at Fang Bomb. https://www.fangbomb.com

An extensive "On This Day" section spreading over five years of great releases. 

I have done a few interviews in the past where I have been asked 'what my favourite album is'. Nine times out of ten I answer "Ha! Ha! Ha!" by Ultravox! It was my big sister Julie that turned me on to Ultravox! She went to see them live in 1976 at Lincoln Tech College (could have been Bishop Grosseteste College, but I'm sure it was the Tech Coll). She bought the first album, she had a huge AO poster for the LP (jealous). By the time "Ha! Ha! Ha!" came out (October 14 1977) Ultravox! were my band. I didn't get to see them live until the following year on the "Systems Of Romance" tour. I used to have an AO poster for that album! Back in those days I was one of those kids who would go in the dressing room afterwards for a chat and try and grab something off the rider*, so I got to chat with John Foxx and Chris Cross. It was at Lincoln AJ's where Chris taught me how to open a bottle of Holsten Pils without the aid of a bottle opener.  I was 15. 

* This is how I have arm wrestled with Esso Manic (The Lurkers) and seen Jenny Darren in her underwear. 

"Ha! Ha! Ha!" has been re-issued a few times and available on vinyl and CD quite easily. Try Discogs. I like The Damned "Music For Pleasure" album, it's their difficult second album. The one where they're a five-piece with the addition of Lu Edmunds on guitar. The album that is produced by the Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. "Problem Child" was the first single from the album released in 1977. Lu Edmunds didn't last long in The Damned ... I think they split soon after the LP was released with Brian James forming Tanz Der Youth and Dave Vanian going to sing with the Doctors Of Madness. (There's no research here .. this is from memory so may be wrongish)! Rat Scabies formed The White Cats and a few months later when they did reform they called themselves The Doomed. Anyhow ... it's a great single. Lu Edmunds went on to form The Edge before joining bands as diverse as Jane Are & The Belvederes, 3 Mustaphas 3, Shriekback, The Mekons and Public Image Limited. Also released on this day back in 1981 was "Alternative Hits", a compilation of singles and album tracks by Chelsea. "Urban Kids" was released as a 7" single in August 1978 on Step Forward Records. ATV members Mark Perry and Alex Fergusson wrote the lyrics. It comes as no surprise that Chelsea are still recording and gigging. I saw them in December 1978 at Lincoln Technical College (it was a great venue) supporting The Adverts. To take a trip down memory lane go to http://www.chelseapunkband.com/index.htm

"Life During Wartime" is one of the singles pulled from Talking Heads' "Fear Of Music" album. Also on this day in 1981 the Slits released their second album "Return Of the Giant Slits". A slight departure from the "Cut" LP with Steve Beresford and The Pop Group's Bruce Smith contributing, it took me quite a time to get in to this album ... "Difficult Fun" is from this LP. 

Ending the 'On This Day' section is the B-Side to "This Sporting Life" by The Mekons. In my mind the last great Mekons single. "Frustration" fits in to The Mekons second album style and the "Snow" / "Another One" single. I think there was a major line-up change in 1982. (Again, no research here). "Never Been In A Riot" was recorded in Wuppertal in 1980. 

Max Julian Eastman is the main operator of US label Tribe Tapes, Active since 2019 I became aware of their existence earlier this year when they put out the cassette "Prey" by Modelbau and since then have bought releases by Howard Stelzer, Tantric Death, En Nihil and the Max Julian Eastman tape "Pygmalion Styled & Out Of Vogue". Tribe Tapes are based in North Carolina and have releases by Gen Ken Montgomery, Dave Phillips, Dog As Master, K2 and Territorial Gobbing amongst others. Check them out : https://tribetapes.bandcamp.com "Out Of Vogue" is available here.

A busy last few months for Mark Vernon with the release of two great albums, "Magneto Mori : Vienna" a CD on Canti Magnetici and "Sonograph Sound Effects Series Volume 2 : Public And Domestic Plumbing And Sanitation". A vinyl LP on the Calling Cards Publishing imprint. It's an album of recordings of plughole, washing machine draining pipes and toilet cisterns all in various locations. A fascinating piece of art. It should be filed alongside the MuhMur Radio favourite "Cattle Grids Of Dartmoor" by John Levack Drever. The two Vernon tracks here are from the 'sound effects' LP. Calling Cards Publishing are contactable here : https://callingcardspublishing.bandcamp.com

"Hairy FM" by Mark Dicker is from last years cassette album "Carrier Waves". Copies are still available from the label here : https://hominidsounds.bandcamp.com/merch. The pre-Trepaneringsritaulen project of Thomas Ekelund, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words end the broadcast with a piece from his album "Fall, Fall, Falling". It was recorded in 2005 and released on the Kalligrammofon label in 2007. I think the CD is sold out but reasonably priced copies are available via Discogs. (It's where I picked up mine from). 

Thanks for listening : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-14-october-2021/

Playlist :

01: Lost Snivel : "Intro" (Hyster Tapes) 2021.

02: Lost Snivel : "Further Down The Spora" (Hyster Tapes) 2021.

03: Lost Snivel : "Für Esa". (Hyster Tapes) 2021.

04: Lost Snivel : "Many" (Hyster Tapes) 2021.

05: Lost Snivel : "Squirrel Swirl" (Hyster Tapes) 2021.

06: Lost Snivel : "Dead Man's Synth" (Hyster Tapes) 2021.

07: The Skull Defekts : "Invocation Of Brother Rune Linblad" (Fang Bomb) 2008.

08: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words : "Facelessness Erases Every Trace Of Humanity" (When Skies Are Grey) 2008.

09: Ultravox! : "The Man Who Dies Every Day" (Island Records) 1977.

10: Ultravox! : "Artificial Life" (Island Records) 1977.

11: Ultravox! : "RockWrok" (Island Records) 1977.

12: The Damned : "Problem Child" (Stiff Records) 1977.

13: Chelsea : "Urban Kids" (Step Forward Records) 1981.

14: Talking Heads : "Life During Wartime" (Sire Records) 1979.

15: Slits : "Difficult Fun" (CBS Records) 1981.

16: The Mekons : "Frustration" (Pure Freunde) 1981.

17: The Mekons : "Never Been In A Riot (Live)" (Pure Freunde) 1981.

18: Max Julian Eastman : "Out Of Vogue" (Tribe Tapes) 2021.

19: Mark Vernon : "Kitchen Sink Plughole During Washing Machine Cycle" (Calling Cards Publishing) 2021.

20: Mark Vernon : "Wet Room Drain" (Calling Cards Publishing) 2021.

21: Mark Dicker : "Hairy FM" (Hominid Sounds) 2020.

22: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words : "I Could've Sworn I Heard Them Sing" (Kalligrammofon) 2007. 

MuhMur Radio Broadcast 30 September 2021.

 

Tape letters straight from the heart to misquote Ketty Lester. I guess it was an 80's thing, the tape letter. I used to make them for and receive them from a friend who lived in Austin, Texas. I used to mail him John Peel Sessions and talk in-between and in return he'd send tapes with rare stuff by the likes of The Residents and NKVD or Soviet France and interviews with John Duncan and Paul McCarthy. Fair exchange no robbery there ... Duncan Harrison's label AdHuman have just released a cassette of Emil Beaulieau's unique noise featuring a couple of 'private' live performances that were recorded for an (unrealised) compilation being put together by Frans de Waard. Whilst hunting for other stuff Frans discovered a cassette marked "Franz From Emil", a tape letter from Emil. (aka Ron Lessard of RRRecords). The letter, now edited and digitised (by Frans) takes up Side 2 of this great cassette. Grab a copy from : https://adhuman.bandcamp.com/releases. I think you have to request if you want a cassette version. 

I Love Emil ... I Miss Emil .... I Need Emil ... America's greatest living noise artist. 

Fossil Aerosol Mining Project offer songs of enhanced delay and faked resurrection. Active since the mid 1980's they have been releasing album after album of great sounds. They / He are no strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist. September 2021 and FAMP release "Zombi Traditions (37 Years)" on their own Afterdays Media label. This album uses sounds from films 'about fake corpses' used in the earliest recordings by Fossil Aerosol Mining Project. Sound sources found on a section from an old film trailer in an abandoned drive-in film theatre, the first FAMP album had the topic "If You Loved Dawn Of The Dead", released on iTunes only .. it has since been deleted from distribution. 

"During all of this reanimated revisionism, certain tracks were left behind while others merited remastering or even remixing. So during lockdown last year, that's what we did. We addressed the entire zombie back catalogue, culling from it what we thought was the strongest and most representative material, remixing or remastering just about everything and at the same time pulling in the missing pieces.  The result is a 15 song collection of synthetic resurrections from the Reagan Era - our desert island selection of fake dead bodies and the worlds created for them."

More information on the great Fossil Aerosol Mining Project and their releases can be found here : http://www.fossilaerosol.com/Home.html. Expect to hear more from this album on upcoming broadcasts. 

Back on a Frans de Waard tip. The two pieces played here (and seriously, I might have got the titles mixed up a bit) are from the new cassette album "April Shower" on the German Grisaille label. Limited to 38 copies on cassette now sadly sold out from source, digital copies are available direct from here : https://grisaille.bandcamp.com/album/april-shower. Two tracks from the new Howard Stelzer feature on this broadcast. Both pieces are from "Shaking Off The Metaphors (Suburban Observances Volume One)", a CDR on Chocolate Monk. It now appears that there are going to be many volumes of 'Suburban Observances' released as the next two volumes are on Tribe Tapes and Humanhood Recordings. 

"On This Day" features two very important records. "Sandpaper Lullaby" by The Virgin Prunes (God Bless The Virgin Prunes .. as David Fanning once said). Released in 1981 this 7" was the first in a series of releases called "A New Form Of Beauty". The series featured releases on 7", 10", 12", VHS Tape and cassette. 12 months after releasing their debut LP Dome put out "Dome 3". Experimentations by Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis (from Wire) recorded with John Fryer and Eric Radcliffe at Blackwing Studios in London. "Dasz" features the voice of Angela Conway. 

Fang Bomb are a label from Gothenburg based in London. The first releases in 2006 were from Wolf Eyes, The Skull Defekts, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words and Martin Birgersson. In 2008 they released the compilation album "Gothenburg 08", this album was a follow up (of sorts) to the compilation "Gothenburg 84" released by Radium 226.05. "A similar idea but in a different era" is what Fang Bomb boss Petter Ottosson calls it. Swedish experimentalists Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander appear on both albums. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words "Facelessness Erases Every Trace Of Humanity" is from this compilation. DLSODW is a pre-Trepaneringsritualen project by Thomas Ekelund. In 2014 Fang Bomb released the second solo album by Paul Baran called "The Other", a follow up to the 2009 album "Panoptic".

Paul is half of the Glaswegian experimentalists The Cray Twins. (Alongside Gordon Kennedy). A new Paul Baran release on Fang Bomb will be out later this year. Sons Of Viljems are another duo, this time from London. They are Nejc Haberman and Andrea Giommi (formerly of The Emerald Leaves and Edible Woman). "Jelena" is their first vinyl release and features a guest appearance by film composer Filip Sijanec. All Fang Bomb releases can be found here : https://www.fangbomb.com. 

Words cannot express the sadness I felt when I read of the passing of Richard H. Kirk. Cabaret Voltaire are a large part of my life. Doors were opened back in 1978 c/o Richard. I remain indebted. 

No strangers to the MuhMur Radio playlist Neutral have a new vinyl album out on Happiest Place. The album is a re-release of a 2017 ultra-limited cassette, the first ever release on Happiest Place. "Live På Autodiktat" was recorded live in Växjö (Sweden) in November 2016.

The album and other Happiest Place releases can be grabbed from here : https://happiestplacerecords.bandcamp.com

Browning Mummery are an Australian industrial band formed in 1983 by Andrew Lonsdale and John Jacobs. It is only natural that John Murphy would also be involved (Australian / industrial / experimental music) and on the 40th anniversary of the John Murphy "Krang Music" cassette on Coded Information Systems the Australian label Novichok have put out a limited 7" featuring Krang and Browning Mummery. "Lament For Comrade Time" features the line-up of Andrew Lonsdale, Rob Cummings, Annie Stubbs and Julian Percy (of Last Dominion Lost). Murphy collaborator Jon Evans assisted in the production.  https://novichoklabel.blogspot.com for more information.

I am still playing the "Lucy & Aaron" album .... 

The broadcast can be found here : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-30-september-2021/ . Next broadcast is on October 14. SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM if you're down in Devon or stream it here : https://www.soundartradio.org.uk. 20:00 GMT kick off time (as usual). 

Playlist :

01: Emil Beaulieau : "Franz From Emil" (AdHuman) 2021.

02: Fossil Aerosol Mining Project : "Damaged Years Ago (2020 Mix)" (Afterdays Media) 2021.

03: Modelbau : "0406543" (Grisaille) 2021.

04: Modelbau : "0416504" (Grisaille) 2021.

05: Howard Stelzer : "Sayanora Baby" (Chocolate Monk) 2021.

06: Virgin Prunes : "Sandpaper Lullaby" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.

07: Dome : "Dasz" (Dome Records) 1981.

08: Dome : "Roos-An" (Dome Records) 1981.

09: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words : "Facelessness Erases Every Trace Of Humanity" (Fang Bomb) 2008.

10: Paul Baran : "Britonia" (Fang Bomb) 2014.

11: Sons Of Viljems (ft Filip Sijanec) : "Jelena" (Fang Bomb) 2021.

12: Cabaret Voltaire : "Capsules" (Rough Trade Records) 1979.

13: Cabaret Voltaire : "Jazz The Glass" (Rough Trade Records) 1981.

14: Cabaret Voltaire : "Silent Command" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.

15: Neutral : "Intro" (Happiest Place) 2021.

16: Neutral : "Du" (Happiest Place) 2021.

17: Browning Mummery : "Lament For Comrade Time" (Novichok) 2021.

18: Howard Stelzer : "Pine Tree And Shooting Star" (Chocolate Monk) 2021.

19: Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : "Yodeling Slits" (Hanson Records) 2021. 

Comments always welcomed ... muhmur.radio@gmail.com 

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.