Beltane greetings

Mayday! 

I *almost* had a new Soloman Tump album ready for Bandcamp Friday tomorrow (2nd May) but its just not quite there yet.  I don't want to rush it, and theres a couple of tracks that I'm not fully satisfied with yet to call them done. But for me, this has been great progress in terms of having an idea, recording things, and being happy with the process / output.

The release will be limited CDr and digital, and i've not quite settled on the name of the album yet.  I had fun printing the card sleeves, an excerpt below, I used storm-fall lichen gathered from Dartmoor, dried out then used as a sponge on ink pad.  The results are pretty striking and each cover will be unique.

The album is a dark drone love affair with discordant dismal loops and low-key murky noises.  Currently 6 tracks weighing in at around 50 minutes long but subject to final tweaks and sprinklings of  mushroom dust.  Hopefully released later in May or I might wait until the start of June.  I will probably play a track on Tump Clump Radio #46.

Happy Beltane one and all.

The Tump Clump #45 - 24/04/2025

Hello! Back once again sir.

But this time with a kinda dark ambient / techno spesh.

Listen to me, hear!

https://www.mixcloud.com/Soundart_Radio/the-tump-clump-edition-44-240425/

This was a pleasure to play some great dark techno stuff from artists I rate.  I listen to a lot of techno and it was fun to put some into the show tonight.  I wanted this to be a vinyl mix but last week I managed to bust the needles on a deck and I've not been able to replace it yet. To be fair they lasted quite a few years and the sound quality had been dropping lately, so I should have seen it coming.  Also, a lot of my records are getting old and they do pick up a lot of dust.  Just shows that you gotta look after your wax and your pins.  Ho hum. 

But cheers to MORD Rotterdam for posting the new tapes out super quick - they seemed to arrive quicker than most domestic orders do! 

Songs I did play for you tonight:

01 SHXCXCHCXSH - SHUBUBUBU  (SHULULULU EP) - Avian / Berlin

02 Mordant Arrow - Circumambulation (Death Shapes LP) - Owlripper Recordings - Czech

03 Charlton - No Sense (In Plain Sight) - MORD / Rotterdam

04 Nothingness - Memento Mori (Into The Valleys Of Murk) - MIST / Brazil

05 Surgeon -  Discipline (Body Request LP) - Dynamic Tension (own label) - UK

06 LEE RILEY - LIFTING UNDERTOW (FROM HERE WE ARE NOWHERE) - S/R - Oxford

07 VFH - weird loser (Blub Blub Blub EP) - Larry Crywater Tapes - Nottingham

08 Phase Fatale - Empty Whip (Reverse Fall) - Ostgut Ton / Berlin

09 Beyond Abyss - Movement II (Into The Valleys Of Murk) - MIST Brazil 

10 Wernyhora Nadchodzi - ...c.n K....s (Vertical Spectrum) - MORD / Rotterdam

11 Autechre - shimripl air (NTS Sessions 4) - WARP Recordings - Sheffield / London

12 Photophobik - Mutilage (Dystonium LP) - Molt Fluid / Edinburgh

 

Thanks for listening and hope the soundtrack was still dismal enough for you! A few Tump Clump regulars still in there, but some new artists / labels that I would not normally get to play.  Get in touch and let me know what you think of the selection please.  

The Tump Clump #44 - 27/03/2025

Edition 44 of my little radio show, huzzah.

And still slightly suffering with weird spring flu / sinusitis / melancholy, but hey, Spring is kinda here and we can all breath a sigh of relief and go outside, touch some grass, hug a tree, smile at the sun a bit.

This time around I had the honour of playing the following things, which you can search for and find online at the your repository (mostly bandcamp I guess...)

Although if you are lucky you might be able to find a cassette tape at your local record store still? Who knows! Please support the artists played in tonights show, buy their stuff, listen/stream and share the knowledge around if you enjoy what you hear.  Because that after all is the point.

Hello Spiral & Bryan Killingsworth - Sunrise (Full Spectrum Warrior) - 'Not As Good As Evening Cowards' [Steep Gloss]

NNJA RIOT and PARADOX ENCOUNTER GROUP - Resisting Static Silence - 'Dissent Particles' [Fusion Audio Recordings] 

Timmy the Tapeworm - All the Birthdays - 'Anniversary' [Bromtol Largesse] 

𝕶𝕺𝕯𝕰𝖃𝕮𝕰𝕾 - eyhiijunlokt - 'Anniversary' [Bromtol Largesse]

On Their Way Back From Paris - untitled 4 + 7 [Processed Data] 

SILIM! - Yell - 'Silim' - [Steep Gloss]

Prognosticon - Transmission # 4b- (Undefined) - Middle - Error (Rebuilt From Cache)- 'Onetheon' - [s/r] 

Jim Mckenna - junk funk - 'Encrusted Retort split' - [s/r] 

Monika Badly - All Tension, No Release - 'Love Songs' [Eggy Tapes]

Matt Atkins and Ivy Nostrum -The Sign of Four ' Gestures and Constructs' - [Minimal Resource Manipulation] 

Territorial Gobbing - Jabbing Your Finger Into Someone's Chest -Like This- - 'Rites of Kindling' [Liquid Library]

NAILBREAKER - Exit Bag '- Robert Knight Wine Cellar' [Eggy Tapes]

Bonus outro track as had about 90 seconds to fill: 

Soloman Tump - 'paulstretched sounds with a beat loop chucked over the top'

So it was good to play a couple of bits from Bristol's Eggy Tapes this time around. - check out their stuff here - https://eggytapes.co.uk/ - and i'm heading to town April 5th for their EggFest which has a cracking lineup of Tump Clump alumni and acts i'm also bound to include in May's show....  exciting to be getting out to a big noisy allday gig once again to clear away some cobwebs....

Soundart Radio Licence Fee Fundraiser

 

Come join the party on April 4th at SoundArt Studios, Dartington, Totnes, Devon UK.

Every year, Soundart Radio pays a licence fee of £850 to media regulator Ofcom.

Let's raise this together with music and dancing! Join us for a fundraising fundraising party at our community studio, in the old DCA " Rat and Emu" student union.

Soundart DJs from 6pm:

DJ Karismatic, DJ Mx Mikki, Beat Circus DJ's, DJ Tzararadio and DJ Erf Ling.

Bar with local beer, cider, cocktails, soft drinks and snacks.

(Cash only for bar and OTD tickets)

18+

Come along to keep community radio broadcasting!

Friends and supporters from afar can tune in to the event, live on 102.5fm (Totnes) and www.soundartradio.org.uk/listen

Last orders at the bar: 11.30pm

In person and "online" listening tickets can be purchased here!!!

New recording: Live Ritual

A live recording from home. No editing.  Some clipping.  Some big feedback.  All part of the natural order of things.  Free to you as a gift, or pay something if you wish to support my project.  But listening is the best support you can give - and feedback is always welcome especially the noisy kind. 

https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/track/live-ritual-08032025

Affirmation of the process.

Photo taken on holiday in Hope Cove, Devon, June 2009, ages before we decided to move down here.

This is a work in progress towarsd other things - a proof of concept and snapshot in time. 

From this, some things will be kept, others replaced and the cycle will continue....

Recording made possible by having a "weekend at home by myself" and a trip to Ashburton to visit the wonderful FIELD SYSTEM.  You should go if you are in the area, a very inspiring shop! 

https://fieldsystem.co.uk/  

And this is a milestone of sorts, so thank you to everyone who has streamed my sounds via bandcamp, and to everyone else who purchased something along the way.  It is encouraging getting people purchasing my sounds still, and it really does give me inertia towards carrying on this little endeavour.....

The Tump Clump #43 - 27/02/2025

 

Hello once again t-rave-llers,

Another 4 weeks has passed and another Tump Clump is committed to the airwaves via SounDART radio. 

For this show I offer you the following sounds, a few Tump Clump regulars once again bring some great new sounds - Disgusting Cathedral who appeared on the very first Tump Clump back in 2021 for example, oh and regular Ekoplekz who ive most likely played more of than anyone else.  And I don't even get commission :)

Included in this show tonight is a 10 minute snippet of a live recording of Soloman Tump sounds, created in preparation for the Acid Morris Wassail that happened last month but unfortunately not a gig I was able to attend and perform at.  So this is perhaps a taster of what was missed.  You may or may not think this was a good thing after listening!

Disgusting Cathedral - Inarticulate Warlock (Moths Drink the Tears of Sleeping Birds)

Mademoiselle Marchand - Architecture V (Inner Demon Records)

Nichole & Paul Pichon - A fine (Craft Crates)

bigroadbreaker - Dome (Disterplication - Collected Works Volume 2 (1997-2000))

Chelidon Frame - Nvs_k3 (Framework)

Soloman Tump - Live session preparing for the Acid Morris 24hr Wassail

Ekoplekz - Luminate Verzion (Live In The Eko Chamber)

Basic House - AR II (Oats) - Opal Tapes

False Maria - Why Would I Follow That (Letting Go)

German Army - German Army - Valley Maidu (Biloxi)

Edit.... oops sorry, wrote this a couple of weeks back and forgot to hit "submit"! D'oh

 

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA

Some here may follow my Instagram page @instrusivesignals but following the recent inauguration of the US President and his shmoozing with the tech overlords and their disgusting behaviour towards ordinary humans, I have decided to finally cut my ties with the company known as Meta.  Division and hatred towards different facets of humanity is allowed to thrive in these places and I can no longer be a part of it.

Therefore you won't find any new content from me on there.  

Which is a real pity because I had quite a lot of connections with people from all over the world, and many great conversations with artists and musicians from all walks of life. 

The page is still live and available to see - I've just logged out and purposefully didn't make a note of my password.  Interesting to note that my old page @solomantump is also still alive even though i've not logged into that for years now.  Maybe one day they will be nuked from orbit.

So for now, you can just find me here on this blog.  And on my bandcamp page - 

https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/

Maybe I'll reappear somewhere else online at some point, but for now I've not missed the general toxicity associated with social media.  I will aim to update this blog a few times a month with photos, music updates and of course tracklists from The Tump Clump radio show.

Please feel free to contact me here! Or email intrusivesignals @ gmail dot com