MuhMur Radio SoundArt Radio Broadcast 29/10/2015 :

Dark nights at the studio, Glowing orange lights floating outside the window. Last nights programme was a selection of sounds from my collection. The old cassette machine has been replaced with a new Denon model. Excellent - more cassette plays to come.
The next programme is on November 12 and will feature exclusive material from Kazuya Ishigami.
Please take a listen, comments always welcomed : (Copy & Paste) :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-radio-broadcast-291015/

Playlist:
01: Artificial Memory Trace : "Scene 13 - Daytime Rainbirds" (Monochrome Vision) 2011.
02: Stephen Cornford : "Migration #2" (Rumpsti Pumsti Edition) 2015.
03: Andrea Borghi : "Vetrale #2" (Observatoire) 2013.
04: Resgestae : "Technoscience, Whither Do We Go?" (Force Majeure) 2015.
05: Splintered : "Outpost" (Pitsbull Records) 1994.
06: John Foxx : "Miles Away" (Metal Beat/Virgin Records) 1980.
07: Family Fodder : "Dazomo" (Fresh Records) 1981.
08: BBBlood : "Xinbad Rapid" (Not On Label) 2015.
09: No Intention : "Good Intentions" (I Dischi Del Barone) 2014.
10: Grey Park : "Juri Gasolin" (Not On Label) 2003.
11: Shining Vril : "Of Coin & Ruin" (Old Europa Cafe) 2008.
12: Ultravox! : "I Want To Be A Machine" (Island Records) 1977.
13: Shine On Me : "The Sea Cannot Be Seen From Here" (Neus-318) 2011.
14: Stephen Cornford : "Migration #3" (Rumpsti Pumsti Edition) 2015.
15: Stephen Cornford : "Migration #4" (Rumpsti Pumsti Edition) 2015.
16: Emaciator : "Ruined (Side B)" (Morbid Tapes) 2007.

Pictures:
01: Broadcasting.
02: Playlist.
03: Orange light.

MuhMur Radio SoundArt Radio Broadcast 15/10/2015 :

Tonights programme features a twenty minute piece from Swedish Occultist / Author / Sound Artist Michael Idehall. I have been listening to Michael since he released the "Sol" cassette on Belaten in 2012. I am quite honoured that he recorded a piece and entitled it "MuhMur" especially for the programme. More on Michael's work can be found here : http://michael.idehall.se (copy & paste).
I ended the broadcast with a couple of pieces that involve the recently departed John Murphy.
Please take a listen : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-radio-broadcast-15-10-2015/
Also in the mix is a track by Kazuya Ishigami. November 12 programme will feature an exclusive piece from Kazuya.
Next programme will be on October 29.

Playlist : 
01: Tibetan Red : "Kalahari Frire Birth" (Gràcia Territori Sonor) 2000.
02: Kazuya Ishigami : "The Great Hermit" (Neus-318) 2011.
03: Clock DVA : "Psychoactive Magnetic Fields" (Vinyl On Demand) 2015.
04: Erdlicht : "Erstes Licht" (Licht Und Stahl) 2009.
05: The Cure : "All Cats Are Grey" (Fiction Records) 1981.
06: Current 93 : "LashTal" (L.A.Y.L.A.H AntiRecord) 1984.
07: Aqua Dentata : "Untitled" (Not On Label) 2015.
08: Michael Idehall : "MuhMur" (Not On Label) 2015.
     (piece exclusively recorded for MuhMur Radio).
09: Clock DVA : "Subliminal Suggestion" (Vinyl On Demand) 2015.
10: Current 93 : "The Mystical Body Of Christ In Chorazaim (The Great In The Small)"
                             (Durtro) 1992.
11: John Murphy (Shining Vril) : "Rose Garden" (Edizioni Passarotto) 2013.

John Murphy 1959 - 2015

I was kind of knocked for six today when I read about the death of John Murphy. I am saddened. I knew John, not too well, but I knew him and we laughed and chatted and drank beer whenever we met.

I first met John in 1983 when he was touring as part of S.P.K. The "Metal Dance" tour of the UK. Manchester Hacienda. I kind of followed S.P.K. around on the tour and ended up being some kind of unpaid "roadie". Unfortunately when they played towns and cities where I had nowhere to stay (a friend's floor etc) I stayed in the same hotel room as John and the S.P.K. bassist Derek. I don't think either liked the arrangement. I slept on the floor, the uninvited guest. The first time this happened, just as I was settling down for some sleep, John holding a tube of toothpaste, told me that when I closed my eyes he was going to "shove this tube of toothpaste up my arse", which kind of "broke the ice". It was a great tour with John and Derek and Dave Kenny on the mixing desk.
The next time I met John I reminded him of the "toothpaste" incident and he laughed and apologised. On that occasion (February 2001), Dieter Müh were supporting John's latest project Knifeladder. We supported Knifeladder a couple of more times and it was always a pleasure to see John. After one gig we went back to Lloyd James's house and spent the night chatting away.  I questioned John about his time with Shriekback. John had played with them all … Whitehouse, The Associates, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Death In June. Fascinating tales of London in the early 1980's.
Recently I met John in Berlin, at the NK Gallery. He was drumming with Jordi Vall's Vagina Dentata Organ. We caught up,  and as ever John was talking about a variety of projects he was involved with … and he was instrumental in getting Dieter Müh a gig at the NK in 2013.
And now I shall never see John again.

The picture above is taken from the 1983 tour (not by me), I don't know which venue but it is as I always remember him, this is how John was when we first met.
A sad loss.

MuhMur Radio SoundArt Radio Broadcast : 01/10/2015.

Tonights programme was built around the 70 minute mix "En To Pan" by Thomas Ekelund, and features only Swedish projects. I asked Thomas to provide "something" for the radio programme and he kindly provided "En To Pan" a mix of ritualistic, occult, dark ambient magickal mastery. I have tried to playlist the programme to the best of my abilities but a lot of what Thomas played I remain blissfully ignorant!
Copy & Paste : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-radio-en-to-pan-01-october-2015/

Playlist:
01: Arkhe : "Softets Hus" (Cipher Productions) 2015.
02: Ättestupa : "Vattnet Drog Sig Tillbaka, Stenarna Blev Synliga (Side B)" (Järtecknet) 2015.

      Thomas Ekelund "En To Pan"
03: Unknown Artist.
04: Herman Kropp : "Umbilical Cord Strangulation"
05: Metgumbnerbone : "Death" (Nekrophile Records) 1985.
06: Unknown Artist : "Chung-Võ-Diēm Parts 1 & 2.
07: Alone In The Hollow Garden : "Dharmata" (Red Cavity Records) 2015.
08: Unknown Artist : "Shiva Full Moon Ritual".
09: Dernière Volontė : "Der Kinder Nacht" (Hau Ruck!) 2000.
10: Normand Edmons : "Kingdom Come".
11: Huun-Hur-Tu : "Oske Cherde" (Shanachie) 1993.
12: Halo Manash : "Feast On The Bitter Fluid-Flowing Through The Lips Of Her Vulgar Womb-
                                 Ingest Inebriate Initiate" (Aural Hypnox) 2008.
13: Unknown Artist : "Seto Gompa".
14: Arnica : "Una Bestia Astada" (Percht/Soliferro) 2014.
15: Trial Of the Bow : "The Promise" (Release Entertainment) 1997.
16: Kara Ool : "Chant. Rec. Kysyi" (Supposé) 2007.
17: Tvlpa : "Schechiriron Sabbath" (Belzebez) 2015.
18: Current 93 : "Fields Of Rape" (L.A.Y.L.A.H. AntiRecords) 1984.
19: Wardruna : "Fehu" (Indie Recordings) 2015.
20: Teeraal Räum Pheynix : "En To Pvan".
21: Les Joyaux De La Princesse : "Adieu Chèrie" (Les Joyaux De La Princesse) 2006.

22: Karmanjakan Intonarumori : "Pseudocircular Downer (Parts 1&2)" (KI Produkt).
23: Altar Of Flies : "Texel And Oxford Donn Part Two" (777 Was 666) 2015.

                           

MuhMur Radio SoundArt Radio Broadcast 17/09/2015.

On Friday 26th September 2014 the lovable polymath known to us as John Several (aka. John ‘Evil E’ Everall) sadly passed away just 10 weeks after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. 

John made a significant contribution to the creation, promotion & sharing of emerging new sounds. From his early experimental noise compositions with tape loops/tone generator and the fanzine ‘Spreading the Virus’, John  continued to approach the avant-garde with a punk ethos. As the boss of Sentrax Corporation, gig promoter and writer for MFTEQ, The Wire, etc. he  demonstrated a selfless generosity and enthusiasm for bringing unknown sounds & unrecognised people together. 

                                 The above comes from the Sentrax Corporation website.

This broadcast is dedicated to John. I feel honoured to have counted John as a good friend. I know him for around 10 - 11 years after being introduced at one of his Harcourt Road gatherings in 1989. The last time I saw John was on millennium eve at a party hosted by Martin Cooper. (Mr. O'Bollocks). I seem to remember John was dressed as a rabbit, a giant Harvey moving between rooms dispensing wit and wisdom and dispensing of any alcohol that was left on surfaces … I was on a mixture of cocaine, ecstasy and hash that night hugging a litre bottle of home mixed vodka and coca-cola so of course none of this may have happened …..
Like all good friends who "disappear" I thought about John, wondered about him … his whereabouts and activity. Rumours came through … Tactile releases happened … John seemed to OK, and then I played a gig in 2012 at The Chameleon Arts Centre in Nottingham and was given a piece of paper with John's phone number on it. 12 years after we last spoke telephone conversations became a regularity, phone calls that would last for at least an hour. John was enthusiastic, restarting Sentrax Corporation and Tactile. 
The last time I spoke to John was in July 2014. I miss him, and so this programme is for him and the time we spent together. There are some Tactile pieces as well as Blind Amongst The Flowers, a band John played bass guitar for in the late 1980's. The Soviet France piece comes from the "What Is Not True" CD and was recorded at Nottingham Old Vic in 1993, a gig that John and his (then) partner Teresa organised. Lull were support. There are records that we used to shout over and jump about to when we had evenings around his place in Worcester Road (Woodthorpe) and some sounds from his friends. 

The final Tactile release "Deep Immersion Electronics" will be released as a double LP on Sentrax Corporation on September 26th. Pre order here : http://www.sentrax.co.uk/shop.html

Playlist:
01: Nocturnal Emissions : "Ophiccus Rises!"
02: Nocturnal Emissions : "Retrovirus".
03: Nocturnal Emissions : "The A.I. Man".
04: Nocturnal Emissions : "Blue Pollution".
05: Nocturnal Emissions : "Transgression".
06: Nocturnal Emissions : "Bring Power To It's Knees".
07: Nocturnal Emissions : "No Separation".
     ( All tracks from the CD "Mort Aux Vaches" (Mort Aux Vaches) 2000 ).
08: Tactile : "Incubation" (Sentrax Corporation) 1996.
09: Scorn : "Soleil Noire" (Dying Earth Records) 1993.
10: Soviet France : "Public Service Announcement" (Charrm) 1993.
11: Coil Vs. Eskaton : "First Dark Ride" (Eskaton) 1994.
12: Michael Prime : "Rotifers" (RRRecords) 1993.
13: Blind Amongst The Flowers : "Back In The South" (Snarling Red) 1987.
14: Public Image Limited : "Graveyard" (Warner Brothers Records) 1990.
15: A Certain Ratio : "Thin Boys" (Factory Records) 1979.
16: Tactile : "The Unspeech Of Angels" (Else Product) 2005.
17: Throbbing Gristle : "Mother Spunk" (The Grey Area Of Mute Records) 1993.
18: Whitehouse : "Her Entry" (Susan Lawly) 1994.
19: Project DARK : "Tongue And Groove" (Outsider Records) 1997.
20: Crass : "Shaved Women" (Crass Records) 1994.

Please copy & paste : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-radio-17092015/ and feel free to comment. Next broadcast is on October 1 at 20:00 (gmt) and will feature a special 70+ minute mix by Thomas Ekelund of Belaten / Trepaneringsritualen.

MuhMur Radio SoundArt Broadcast 03 / 09 / 2015.

Back to broadcasting on a Thursday evening after the Bank Holiday (Harbinger Sound) special. I included the Zoviet*France & Fossil Aerosol Mining Project track that came as a download with the "Flexible Pooling" 7" Flexi disc as well as the John Duncan piece "Stay Alive" from the new Phantom Plastics 7" Flexi on Gerauschmanufaktur Records. Also included the mammoth "War Has Come Home" piece. A piece based around the events of 9/11 and its' aftermath.
Copy + Paste : https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-fm-broadcast-03092015/

Next programme will be on 17th September at 20:00 GMT.

Playlist:
01: Zoviet*France & Fossil Aerosol Mining Project : "Apeture Apparent" (Alt Vinyl / /Baltic) 2015.
02: Phantom Plastics : "Stay Alive" (GerauschManufaktur) 2015.
03: Jürgen Ecklohn & Stea Andreasson : "War Has Come Home" (90% Wasser) 2006.
04: Kostis Kilymis : "The Ghost In The Typewriter" (Rekem Records) 2015.
05: Aaron Dilloway & Jason Lescalleet : "Building A Nest (Side A)" (Hanson Records) 2013.
06: Circuit Breaker : "Muted Consistencies" (Harbinger Sound) 2015.

MuhMur Radio SoundArt Radio Broadcast : 30/08/2015.

A programme that has been in the planning for about a year or so finally came to broadcast yesterday when Steve Underwood commanded the turntables of a MuhMur Radio show. Steve packed a box full of his favourite 7" singles (with a couple of albums  - just in case the show was "under-running") and headed down from Nottingham to play them.
Apologies for all the folk who thought this was to be a Harbinger Sound programme with a selection of the great label's output or a programme of Sleaford Mods out-takes, or even a show where I interview Steve about his life & times and 20 odd years at the helm of Harbinger Sound, that was never the case. I just asked Steve to fill the three hours any way he wanted.

Thanks go to Chris for sitting in as producer type guy and making certain it all ran smoothly, to the White Hart for the beer and of course Steve for a great programme.

Playlist:
01: The Agitators : "Alien Sketch" (Redball Records) 1979.
02: The Agitators : "Johny W." (Redball Records) 1979.
03: The Agitators : "Fat Boy lager" (Redball Records) 1979.
04: The Agitators : "The Very Reverend 'Slow Talking' Jack Ruby" (Redball Records) 1979.
05: The Agitators : "RASCLAAT" (Redball Records) 1979.
     (All tracks taken from the "Bound & Gagged With A Length Of Rubber Tubing" EP).
06: Pre Fix : "Underneathica" (Subterranean Records) 1981.
07: Der Spielverderber : "Spielverderber" (Zick Zack Records) 1980.
08: Pulp Music : "Low Flying Aircraft" (Pulp) 1982.
09: Dix Denny/John Denny : "Adulthood" (Numbskull) 1979.
10: Zyklon : "Part Time" (Grim) 1981.
11: NG : "Ambivalence" (Unbalance Recordings) 1980.
12: Residenz : "Albert Hilsberg" (Rondo Records) 1980.
13: Anemic Session : "Anemic Session" (Output Records) 1981.
14: Eazy Teeth : "Car Noise" (Dental Records) 1980.
15: Orchid Spangiafora : "Dime Operation" (Orchid Spangiafora) 1978.
16: Enstruction : "Keep Out Of My Body Bag" (Deux Ex Machina) 1982.
17: Die Lemminge : "Im Himmel" (Pure Freunde) 1981.
18: Flesh : "My Boy Lollipop" (Flesh) 1979.
19: Michael Atavar : "Cabral Dynamic" (Chance Records) 1980.
20: Sex : "Correlation Coefficient" (Index Records) 1979.
21: Annie Anxiety : "Hello Horror" (Crass Records) 1981.
22: Anonymous : "Snake Attack" (Flat Records) 1980.
23: The Barons : "Boiled Dinner" (Doublethink) 1981.
24: 8 Voices : "8 Voices" (Plurex) 1980.
25: Rectifier : "Perversion Of A Refined Nation" (Local Anaesthetic Records) 1982.
26: Nun : "Riv Skf" (If Product) 1984.
27: Another : "Paris Tribe" (Backstreet Backlash Records) 1982.
28: The Magits : "Fragmented" (Outer Himalyan Records) 1979.
29: Survivors : "We Died …" (Peoples Records) 1979.
30: Collective Horizontal : "Beach Coma" (Dolmen Records) 1981.
31: Phil Bedel : "Voice Of Concrete" (Happy Squid Records) 1980.
32: Daisuck & Prostitute : "Ai O Itamu Uta" (Altamira) 1980.
33: Omming For Woks : "Cut Of Knives" (Jabberwok Records) 1984.
34: In The Pink : "Running In The Family" (Grey & Anxious Records) 1982.
35: Idol Death : "New Lesson" (Dispy) 1980.
36: Radio Free Europe : "Eno's Funeral" (MiG Records) 1979.
37: Monty Cantsin : "Paper Bag Syphon" (Syphon) 1978.
38: Men/Eject : "Draw" (Not On Label) 1980.
39: Neu Electrikk : "Converse Of Tapes (Synesthesia) 1980.
40: Neu Electrikk : "Hand" (Synesthesia) 1980.
41: Hovlakin : "Unknown Title" (Unbalance Recordings).
42: The Poems : "Achieving Unity" (Polka) 1981.
43: Culturcide : "Consider Museums As Concentration Camps" (Information Records) 1980.
44: Debt Of Nature : "Gospel Light" (New Alliance) 1982.
45: What Is Oil? : "Scrosh!" (Oof Potato Enterprises) 1982.
46: Precision Bearings : "Don't Fall Down" (Fowl Records) 1982.
47: Mu : "Turn Off The Radio" (Backstreet Backlash Records) 1981.
     (Taken from the "Motion In Tune" LP).
48: Grønvirke : "Grønvirke" (Gry) 1982.

 I have split the programme in to two halves for easy listening please copy & paste …

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-broadcast-steve-underwood-30082015/

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-broadcast-steve-underwood-part-two-30082015/

The next programme will be back at the regular slot of Thursday night, 3rd of September at 20:00 hours (gmt).

Pictures:
01: Table of records.
02: Steve wandering the grounds of Dartington Hall (outside The White Hart).
03: Chris Booth : "Tweet Tweet Tweet".