The Tump Clump #50 - 11/09/2025

Hello Clumpers!

So it was with great enjoyment that I put together my 50th show for SoundArt Radio (there was an extra "mixcloud only" edition on top of these). A pleasure and an honour to still be on the airwaves with them, live and direct from Dartington Hall. 

Lots of unreleased / independent sounds this month, with a fairly industrial / droney kinda rhythm pulsing throughout. 

  >>>MIXCLOUD ME HERE PLS<<<

I particularly enjoy the Sugababes cover by INIT that features.  I first heard this on Rinse FM over the summer, and had to instantly seek it out - found it on the artists Bandcamp page in the end. Then someone played it at this years Houghton Festival and it gained a bit more traction.  But its suitable dismal for this show and its a pleasure to play something different for you.

Also on the show, opening with a lush track by Fencepest and I urge you to check out the full album of Bloom & Decay because it is an absolute belter. 

Also a couple of tracks from the RTR2 Sessions release on Burnt Seed Records.  Burnt Seed is a label based in Perth, Australia, and hopefully something new from Soloman Tump being released through them at some point in the near future.  I just need to sort out the sounds and be happy with them.  It's a forever difficult thing for me. 

01 Fencepest - Decay III (Bloom & Decay) - Inner Demon Records

02 Vacant Land - Delivering Shared Ownership Homes (Strategic Flood Risk)

03 Dr Trousers - Wickerman (RTR2 Sessions) - Burnt Seed Records

04 Lürgid - Errorsion (RTR2 Sessions) - Burnt Seed Records

05 Lucidet - Sacrifice-Statistic, Ritual-Routine (Massive Machines LP)

06 Plague Arish - Gruinard-Rosen Bridge (Unreleased)

07 INIT - Overload (Sugababes cover)

08 Soloman Tump - Roamer (Unreleased)

09 Swamp Donkey - From One State Of Existence To Another (The Last Echoes Of Suns Now Dead LP) - Grimm Goat. 

10 Organ Of Corti - Defuncti (Insania LP)

11 Soloman Tump - Clump Loop 3 (Unreleased)

 

Thanks to Plague Arish for sending me his new music.  Cheers bro.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the show over the years, especially Chris (SoundArt big boss) and Steve (Muhmur Radio) for his continued support. More to come!

There is slow progress on new Soloman Tump music, I record a load, listen back, bin about 95% of it, start again... but every now and then, a little nugget or idea comes good and it gets put in the possible/save pile.   But i'm getting there.

Tump happenings

So whilst it has been a busy summer with loads going on outside of Tump life, the inner workings of Tump HQ have been busy with new creations.

Firstly, I'm very happy that the new book by Himukalt has been published, Sex Works, and I know Ester worked hard on this over a long period of time.  All sorts of issues along the way, but its finally out.  Im particuarly proud because my interview which was first published in Intrusive Signals zine #3 is featured in the pages of this wonderful book, alongside the well regarded Noise Receptor interview and others. 

There is a ton of content here, including plenty of Ester's collages of herself as well as other women she has worked with, information and reviews of her music, all beautifully presented in a very black print.  Himukalt is a deeply personal project, covering themes of "rage, mania, depression, and lust through noise, voice, and electronics" -  so it might not be for everyone, but I consider myself a fan of this powerfully expressive work.  The music is hard hitting, rhythmic, punishing and expressive.  You might be lucky to still find a copy of the book somewhere but most were sold via Kickstarter.   The first batch were damaged in transit and were available to purchase - keep your eyes peeled if you don't mind a B-grade copy. 

Here's my original zine cover from back in 2022.  The release of the Sex works book has made me nostalgic about getting issue 4 bloody well finished, so it might happen at some point soon.  

Maybe.

Other things i've been upto.... a collaborative track with Stuart Chalmers which was released this Friday.  Of Blood, Moon and Thorn features in Part 8 of Stuart's monthly digital 2025 Resonant Landscapes series, and it was a pleasure to create some sinister sounds to accompany the drumming, gongs and metal gate that Stuart used!  This is a wildly creative dark folklore and land inspired series and I need to spend some more time taking in all the other contributions to the series so far.

 I love that Stuart has taken full inspiration from the land, embracing field recordings and the chaos of nature throughout this body of work, as well as working with a wide variety of collaborators.  I'm really happy with how this track worked out, and at the time of writing, I think an alternative version of this will feature on my forthcoming album.

The Tump Clump #49 - 14/08/2025

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Sorry for slow updating the blog - busy summer holiday / funerals / work / cheese / etc

30/08/25 - Finally updated tracklist - apologies for that! Busy few weeks.  But I have been working on Tump Clump #50 which im happy to say is shaping up to be a depressing mess.

01 Hello Spiral - Frequency Fold ( Detached Objects)

02 Banhof Sekte & The Haunting - Autopsy Instruction- Part I- Brain Removal (Gazes (The dream & The nightmare) (comp.) 

03 Messier 106 - Extraterrestrial Manifestation (Eternal Cosmic Connection )

04 Chris Hill & Matt Atkins - 4 (Aether)

05 A Vibrant Struggle - Crystal Cauldron (Static Fever)

06 Eflär - Spring as a Musical Instrument (Homeland)

07 BLACKSMITH - 05 ⚒ (Nude Blacksmith Hammering an Anvil)

08 Kafka Semyavin & The Haunting - Untitled extract (Gazes (The dream & The nightmare) (comp.)

09 IOM - A2. Paaraatt15 9 (Happines and Sacrifice)

10 Shaun Robert - Grotto  - Institute For Alien Research

11 LAST STEP - My Off Days (Sleep LP) - Planet Mu

 Was going to close out the show with something new by me but ran out of time - maybe next month.  Thank you for listening :)

New things from me

Hello lovely people of Earth,

A little update from me, attempting to give myself some creative space and get myself motivated again.

I just released More Bun Rights on Bandcamp! This was originally released by the wonderfully supportive Human Geography Recordings almost 2 years ago, but with their permission, I have re-released this digitally with a couple of extra tracks from the same recording session.  A little toe dipped in the water of clearing some hard disk space and getting some more sounds out there in the wild.

I also submitted a track for the recent end of season Hello Goodbye Radio Show - 60 seconds maximum track length was the requirement and I duly obliged! Thanks to Dexter Bentley and Resonance FM for the airplay :)  You can find my offering near the end of the show, but I recommend listening to the entire thing because its brilliant all the way through, and a few friends of the Tump Clump show are also featured in there too. 

More soon....

 

The Tump Clump #48 - 22/07/2025

Apologies a bit late updating this - you know how it is.

If you already listened to the show you might know i've been feeling a bit under the weather.  Household of plague strikes again.  But over the worst now, thankfully, just in time for the summer holidays....

No talking from me because my voice hurt.  Just a random little text to voice AI experiment (or 2) partway through to break the monotony. 

This month, a collection of dismal sounds.  

Some older, some newer. 

And here's a link because it's already on mixcloud - 

https://www.mixcloud.com/Soundart_Radio/the-tump-clump-edition-48-170725/

I opened with something from Feghoots that came off a tape I purchased a few years back, "Loiter Adjourned" on Beartown Records.  Marvellous.  Then a brand new thing from Shaun Robert that popped into my inbox just days before putting the show together, always a pleasure to include a track that is exactlty 4'33 long, as always. 

Some things that came via lurking on Reddit, such as Astryx, Entartete Musick and Swamp Donkey, more sounds to explore from across the globe and the murky world of noise.

Can't quite remember how I discovered Saint Elisabeth, but I did, and its wonderful crunchy noise/drone wall, highly thematic and poignant.  Beautiful. 

So there we go, another show for the wonderful SoundArt radio done and dusted.  Episode 50 is flying towards us at breakneck speed! Will I do something different / radical? Possibly not.  We shall see.

Thanks for listening and please support the artists played on tonights show.

01 Feghoots - Stridular Chafe

02 shaun robert - asymptotic behavior (institute for alien research)

03 Entartete Musick - Homo Strepitus

04 Kirril - ON052 - 01-23-07-23 - 07 VII (O)rmxVI+V

05 Swamp Donkey - Reel #ASP5674-1 (Out Of Focus, Out Of Empathy)

06 Thrill Behind Barks - Funky Dental Piggentwingers (A Small Quagmire)

07 Steven Leak - molybdenum  (Anniversary) - Bromtol Largesse

08 Saint Elisabeth - Aqueduct (Mechanical Antiquity)

09 Hannya White - Holding it down in Mexico

10 Astryx - Eta Carinae (Speculum Glacialis Memoriae)

11 Basic House - Nurse (Oats)

12 Uncle Grasha's Flying Circus - Air Raid- Baltic Sea 1944 (Hang On To Yourself- Noise Against Suicide)

Also, woo for the stats! 27th in the world this week for shows tagged with 'drone' on mixcloud. Hah, brilliant.