The Tump Clump #58 - 23/40/2026

It definitely feels like spring now.  The Oak tree at the end of the garden is starting to turn green, and there have been some newt sightings in the Tump family pond....

So now, a clutch of apologies.  

1) Gravelly voice - plague acquired from kids. Thanks!

2) Pronounciation of various artist and track names once again. I shall never learn!

3) The inclusion of the Tump Wassail broadcast that was originally aired on SoundArt back in January when the Acid Morris took over the Things Happen Here venue for a night of rave and electronic fun. 

A nice little collection of noises for you this month, starting off with recent new fun favourite cornish semiconductor corporation... I hope I can hear some more new sounds from this project soon! If you like the track, its available for free download at their bandcamp, so go seek it out.

The Dis och Dimma track is from the momumental Svartfåglar compilation that I recently purchased from Mima Kass - hours of lavish noise and live recordings in a truly dismal style. 

Hope you enjoy this little collection as we steamroll towards episode 60... am thinking I might do something different for that.  And also, it crossed my mind, maybe it will be the last of The Tump Clump in its current format.  Perhaps a break to try something different?

01 cornish semiconductor corporation - from a forgotten lode (east wheal maid chalcopyrite trio)

02 Cumsleg Borenail - Dream Grunge (Wrapped In A Carpet And Kicked To Death)

03 Dis och Dimma - Gässen flyr hösten (Svartfåglar)

04 Kirril - 09-25 - 12-25 - 03 III

05 Worm Monolith - Fugue State - 02 Cave Dweller

06 Séraphitüs-Séraphîta + anna bortionist - numinous tapes IV - 02 lacunae - anna bortionist

07 Séraphitüs-Séraphîta + anna bortionist - numinous tapes IV - 03 peccávimus - Séraphitüs-Séraphîta

08 Soloman Tump - Live @ Do You Wassail? <SoundArt original Broadcast 17.01.26>

The Tump Clump #57 - 26/03/2026

O to the M to the G!

Throught darkness and filth I totally forgot to update the blog with the tracklist and stuff for the March Tump Clump! Thanks to the 2 people who nudged / reminded me. It proves that people do actually listen and are interested in the music that I play...

I recorded fresh after visiting SoundArt studios for the Water Is The Sun Ritual Fever album tour.  A fantastic evening, which started off with Exeter's own Al Fresco Skronk Squadron.  The sound built from a few sources, played out through various battery powered speakers that were subtly moved and adjusted across the performance to give your ears something fresh every now and then... samples looped and layered (including an electric toothbrush head) made for an interesting evening indeed!

Water Is The Sun are an exciting duo combining vintage tape manipulation, synths, samples and a ritual visual element. I was captivated by their performance as it ebbed and flowed through gentle strange passages and noisier energetic moments.  The Higher Close studios where SoundArt is based is also a great space for a performance, so check it out if you are in the area. 

So here was the last selection:

01 Hideous Gomphidius - The Stench of a Foul Stinkhorn (Apparitions of the Sporeborn) - s/r

02 Nomad Tree - Enter the dark of Caverns (with Lee Riley) (Shadow Dance) - Aphelion Editions 

03 Riders - Slow Horses (She Is Not Alone) - Eustress Tapes

04 Stephen Bishop - Grave Stele (Jerusalem Artichokes) - Opal Tapes

05 BLACKSMITH - Smithy (Blacksmith Shop in Burlington, N.D., 1880) - Destroy All Music

06 Carnivorous Plants - Phantoms (Copper) (And From That Moment Hell Entered My Heart)

07 German Army - Kaieteur Mist (Pyura Chilensis)

08 raxil4 - t (covet- 6 pieces for sampler, synth + reverb)

09 Hoodrat Messiah - Perennial - 01 Foxglove

10 aLICE kEMP - 9 Dreams In Erotic Mourning - 08 The Painting In The Chapel Under The Stairs

11 Edward - Voices of Spirits (March 2026 demo)

          12  Soloman Tump - Random Loop for HW#7 

Big up the expertly lit merch table that looked far too tempting, and im glad I purchased a bundle of tapes (including the Ritual Fever album, recommended!).  Until next time,....

 

The Tump Clump #56 - 26/02/26

Well this episode really crept up on me.

January felt like it took FOREVER, and February breezed by without a care in the world because I had been so dang busy with in real life stuff.  But, I think I managed to 'pull it out of the bag' because as ever there is some great music being created out by a whole raft of lovely folk from across our strange planet.

So generally a mixture of slightly old, new, and brand new, covering noise, drone, experimental electronics and even some guitar music this time (thanks SUERO).  The NOISE COMPILATION OF THE MONTTHHHH comes from the WITH LOVE AND NOISE fundraising compilation courtesy of Blacksmith Noise Records wihch I spoke about already in this blog - pulling together essential funds for Mima Kass essential health care but also, in the spirit of Mima Kass, providing an amazing platford for 180+ projects to come together and make some noises.  It was a pleasure to be a part of this, and also to discover loads of new artists. So 3 tracks from the release this month, and because there are so many excellent choices, maybe some more next month too. 

I also included a couple more tracks from the recent Eggy Tapes 4xWAY split - both from Romxn to end out the show, because this was another sort-of compilation that was also excellent.  The collaborative power of noise artists is where it truly shines for me, and the communities across the globe always seem to come together and form these powerful statements for all sorts of different reasons.  So support the artists and the labels and enjoy this lot:

01 SAKOSTAMU - Abu Tor (Break Down) - Brachliegen Tapes

02 SUERO - the mima (WITH LOVE AND NOISE) - Blacksmith Noise Records

03 CHEFKIRK - Meal of Glory! (say hello to my suffering) - s/r

04 knifedoutofexistence - Once Acknowledged (Objects That Once Breathed) - s/r

05 cornish semiconductor corporation - 220 below adit (Techno From Mine Waste) - s/r

06 Soloman Tump - 1 minute for Autohypnosis - coming soon....

07 Séraphitüs-Séraphîta - Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) (WITH LOVE AND NOISE) - Blacksmith Noise Records

08 PERCIPIENT - Dr Kruvajan (WITH LOVE AND NOISE) - Blacksmith Noise Records

09 Disgrace - END OF YEAR HARSH NOISE (JULY-DECEMBER 2025) - 07 Zk 1.wav (december 17)

10 Romxn - Bottom Lines (4-way split) - Eggy Tapes

11 Romxn - Exile (4-way split) - Eggy Tapes

You can listen to the show here - https://www.mixcloud.com/Soundart_Radio/the-tump-clump-edition-56-260226/

And if you are feeling like a super person, you can click the SoundArt Radio website here throw them a few coins to support the cause! Thanks for listening and we do it all again in 4 weeks time :)

The untimely return of Postman Lomu

Around 4 years ago I birthed a project called Postman Lomu, a kind of harder-edged noise-wall-ish adjacent sound that was a bit too cut-throat for my usual Soloman Tump sounds.  The project was a response to the feelings on the sudden Russian invasion of Ukraine - and its sad to note that the whole bloody war still rumbles on and civilisians are still dying in ghastly numbers every day.  

My original blog post can be found here.

I have updated the original стіна EP release with an additional long form track, a 20 minute recording of harsh noise rumblings and synth grumblings. The EP also now includes the track "attempt 3" which was featured on the Monolithic Blocks compilation by Camembert Électrique, also from 2022.

https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/- is where you will find the updated EP....

So this is very much a Postman Lomu month.  I submitted a new original track for the incredible Mima Kass fundraising compilation WITH LOVE AND NOISE by Blacksmith Noise Records, 180+ tracks covering all forms of experimental sounds and noises, an incredible listen and an honour to be part of the project. For a minimum donation of $1 (please give generously) you get 16+ hours of sounds to entice, arouse, perplex and stun you with.  Do it!  Oh, Postman Lomu - "Noise for Mima Kass" is track 129 if you were wondering :)

AND...

On top of all that, I just decided to relaunch a couple of my old Soloman Tump releases under the Postman Lomu banner.  These 2 x 20-minute long (ish) tracks were early experimental netlabel releases by me, on The Dark Thursday netlabel.  That label is no longer with us, so I felt it was time to resurrect these archival recordings, update the artwork, and share them for all once again. 

You can give the new/old tracks a listen here.  I would be interested to know what you think! It is interesting for me to listen to these again after a few years and hear the gestation of the original Soloman Tump sound, although be it a bit "harsher".  There is the structure and rhythm (kinda buried under the noise a bit), but also the field recording manipulations and meddling that went on to become a main part of my early EP recording methods. I think I started making these tracks in 2017, and I can't really remember what equipment I had available to me around then.  But its nice to hear the primitive workings with less kit, and its been a fun process to visit them again and makes we want to return to that method of working.  So, expect maybe some more sounds of this ilk coming again soon.

The photograph for On A Dark Thursday comes from Nesscliffe Training Camp in Shropshire, which keeps with the military themes explored with the cover photo of the стіна EP.

As always thanks for reading / listening.

The Tump Clump #55 - 29/01/2026

Hello and welcome to 2026 at The Tump Clump.  Episode 55! 

Tonight as I sit and write this up, its proper wet and windy outside as Storm Ingrid lashes at us and deals some pretty brutal damage,  So soon after Storm Goretti too! Luckily was pretty calm last weekend when the AppleKore Do You Wassail? event took place at Things Happen Here Dartington - much fun! More on that in another post when I have gathered my thoughts into one place. 

So to brighten the mood and raise the spirits, I present an hour of dismal noise/drone/electronics to blast any remaining dust badgers away, and wassail in some good feels with sound. 

On tonights show I offer up...

• rikardfvs - do what ever filth shall be the whole of the Law (ALLISON KOWTOW) - BLACKSMITH NOISE RECORDS
• Alta Silvae - Time (John 11-35) - BLACKSMITH NOISE RECORDS
• Hiraeth - cycle (the beginning) (PMS) - s/r
• Omniwhore - Visos durys atlapos!  Sanity Frontier (La Grande Phantasia Asociale) - Mima Kass
• luxul - Rat (Materialisations) - s/r
• Dogstare - I'm Not Malfunctioning... You Are (Waes Hael) - MIGHTY FORCE
• Substak - Saturated Broadcast (V.A. - (703) My Studio Compilation) - Petroglyph Music
• Noise Cluster - my studio (V.A. - (703) My Studio Compilation) - Petroglyph Music
• METGUMBNERBONE - CORPSE CANDLES (THE MORDEN TOWER CONJURATIONS) - s/r

And it all went by ever so quickly, couldnt fit everything in possibly because I waffled on a bit more than I usually do.  Well that just means there is a bit more for next time.

A pleasure to still be able to bring this show to you - please look up and support the artists featured and please send me a hi if you enjoy listening to the show.  Thanks as ever to SoundArt Radio for hosting the show and allowing a platform for all these outsider sounds. 

DO YOU WASSAIL?

Do you Wassail?
Please say that you do!

After real life got in the way last year and forced my cancellation, im trying again, and feel privileged to have been invited along by the Acid Morris Crew to support their January event at THINGS HAPPEN HERE in Dartington, January 17th.  Devon, aye.  Grab a ticket, g'wan. 

From me, expect some creepy ritualistic beats and noises to unsettle your dance moves.  Or maybe something a little more pallatable? I have not decided, but I shall more than likely just keep it proper 'Tump'. 

A dazzling cast of local talent and psychedelic colours on display for the event - grab a ticket and come on down! Warm your cockles with a fine array of alcoholic (and non-alcoholic) drinks, pizza available next door, and a grand cast of folk Wassailing and dancing like their livlihood's depend upon it. 

Big shout out to the poster designer - it's a lush one.

Here's a little snippet from the Acid Morris in action at Balter a couple of summers back! Exciting times, 

The Tump Clump #54 - 25/12/2025

In the spirit of the season of giving, I present to you a 2 hour "festive" edition of The Tump Clump.

No gimmicks, no extra special treats, just 2 hours of dismal sounds to assist with powering us through the dark months and the silly season.

The elves and piskies at SoundArt Radio saw it fit to first broadcast the show on Christmas Day nonetheless, and as per usual you can now find it archived on Mixcloud here. 

So as I say, nothing particularly Christmassy, just a chance to dig a little deeper in the vaults and pick out a few slightly longer tracks than usual, and maybe play a few bits from my favourite releases and artists of 2025 and the past few years, 

A nice offering of the usual blend of drone, noise, experimental electronics and anything else that takes my fancy.  Don't expect any nice twinkling melodies or catchy tunes here im afraid.

The Tump Clump #54 - 25/12/25

Metgumbnerbone - Hoblin's Ebe (Anthropoligical Field Recordings For The Dispossessed) - Café Europa 2020.

LORN - MAROONED (Vessel LP), Self Released 2015.

Hoodrah Messiah - Smooth Sailing Divorce Radio, (Split w/ The Owl), Outsider Industries 2025.

    NOISE COMPILATION OF THE MONTH (Part 1, and not really a compilation, but feels like it given     its HUGE) - a 4-way Split from Distraxi, Monika Badly, Romxn, Noise {Hz}.  Over 100 minutes of searing noises and pain and doomy harshness.  Frequent listeners of the show will know im a big fan of these artists as well as the Eggy Tapes project so this had to feature....

Distraxi - Hicksite Waiting Outdoors (4-way split ) - Eggy Tapes 2025.

Monika Badly - The Forest At Night (4-way split) - Eggy Tapes 2025.

Sebastian Tomb - Bangles (Homicide Costume), Self Released 2025.

LEE RILEY - UNDOING THESE KNOTTED TIMES (FROM HERE WE ARE NOWHERE LP) - Eyeless Records 2023.

    RELEASE OF THE YEAR - The accolade goes to this wonderfully dark album that surprises me every time I listen to it.  A dark dismal soundtrack to a horror movie that needs to exist.  Twists and turns all along the way, sounding massive and deadly all at once.  Possibly also on my LABEL OF THE YEAR if I were to have one. Fencepest, take a bow.  or don't. 

fencepest - bloom_I (bloom & decay), Inner Demons Records 2025.

La Brea Pulpit - Bluntdestroyer (Anandamide Aberration), Liquid Library 2025. 

O Ratel Ratel - Zoölogie (Zomerzonde), Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere 2017.

Jay Tripwire - Hoia Baciu Forest (For David Lynch), Self Released 2024.

    NOISE COMPILATION OF THE MONTH (Part 2) - Adventurous Music 5th Anniversary Compilation - from Leipzig, Germany. 

Laure Boer & Conure - Midtown Sea (AM 5th Anniversary) - AM 2024. 

SUFRD & fencepost - A88SRV3T4MR (AM 5th Anniversary) - AM 2024. 

                (I thought Fencepest was the same as Fencepost but its not - but it kinda of is! Fencepost +                       Pestzone = Fencepest, so this is a different collaborative offering from FP). 

Shaun Robert - expel (unbecoming), Self Released, 2015.

Su Sous Toulouse en Rouge - Gumbo-Limbo (Eadem Mutata Resurgo), Forever Escaping Boredom, 2024.

Trou Aux Rats - Mes mains sur ta seconde peau de cuir (Le Cloaque Apres La Romance), At War With False Noise, 2020.

So thats it for 2025, another year ticked off.  Proud to have supported all these artists and labels in their quests for bringing new sounds to the world.  I shall try again in 2026. 

2025 completed side quests

I like to do a little round up of the year to sort of summarise achievements and keep me motivated for what else could come. So here we go.  

• Jan-Feb: A very slow start to 2025 due to various family and friends crises; not a year to remember for many reasons. But, I clawed through....
• March: Released a live album "Ritual" - which replaced the gig I had to miss out on for the Acid Morris at ThingsHappenHere in January. 
• April - May: Recording and scheming the new album....
• July: Re-released "Bun Rights" digitally as "More Bun Rights" with a couple of bonus tracks from the same sessions and photo - now available as pay-what-you-want.  Originally released on cassette via Human Geography Recordings in 2023. 
• August: A 60 second collage track created for then played on the Hello Goodbye Radio Show on Resonance FM with Dexter Bentley. 
• August: A collaborative track with Stuart Chalmers "Bloodmoonthorn" which formed part of his ongoing Resonant Landscapes series.  Always a pleasure to collaborate with someone new, and this track worked out well.  An alternative version / mix of this collaboration ended up on my Open Access Land album a few months later, which I felt was a highlight too. 
• September: The long awaited book by Himukalt "Sex Works" is finished  - and it is wonderful to see in print. The book includes the Intrusive Signals #3 interview I conducted over email with Ester; some copies can still be found online from the manufacturer but might be costly to ship to the UK....   I am very grateful for having my words included in such an intimate and passionate project.
• October: Released "Open Access Land" - album as limited CDr and digital. A couple of CDr's still available and i'll even chuck in a sticker now (pictured above). I was pleased with how this album came together, which is the main thing. 
• October: Provided a track for "𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚗𝚛𝚡𝚡𝚡𝚡𝚟" from the Vacuum Noise Records Group. 'Hundatorra' was a track recorded in the Open Access Land sessions but didn't quite fit with the rest as far as I was concerned.  I think it sat nicely in this Halloween themed noise compilation though. 
• October: A busy month! Ending with a live show for Muhmur Radio which you can still find on Mixcloud here, as well as an interview with Steve here.  Very grateful for having the opportunity to perform some live sounds, and I was pretty chuffed with how the session went. 
• November -  December: Plotting and scheming things for 2026......
• Plus of course 12 new Tump Clump radio shows throughout the year. And maybe a bonus 13th show that will make the SoundArt Christmas playlist if I pull my finger out....

It never feels like much until I write it all down.  So a good year overall it seems. 

Thanks for listening to my sounds, be they my own Soloman Tump productions or other people's work via the radio show.  Please support the artists I play, it helps them want to make more!

If you want a Soloman Tump sticker, hollar and I shall get on in the post.  Especially if you have a sticker you can send me in return.  My studio wall is looking pretty stickerlific these days. 

Stickers.

Andrew Tump. 

The Tump Clump #53 - 04/12/25

This month I decided to raid the vinyl archives and do a totally turntable mix.  I have been playing a lot more techno/house recently, I even visiting Exeter Dance Music Record Fayre (hosted by Total Tunes Records of Torquay, apologies for the Facebook link) which was held at Bomba a couple of weekends back. Nice to get back into "mixing" and exploring my club tendencies again. Not everything in life has to be noise. 

So here's this months offering, a collection of things purchased, traded or gifted that have joined my collection over the years:

Necro Deathmort - Channel Fever (Distraction Records 2014) 12"

Ambulance - Antiques Roadshow (Planet Mu 2002) 7" single

Sly & The Family Drone - Tsukiji (Feeding Tube Records 2020) 12"

Shaun Robert - Envelope (The institute of Alien Research 2015) 7" single

Justice Yeldham - Fresh Balls [excerpt] (Feeding Tube Records 2019) 12"

Ekoplekz - Ekztrakz (Self released 2022) - not sure which side 1 or 2 as its an unlabelled 7" lathe cut. Nothing on the run-out groove either of course.  Limited edition number 11 of 30. 

Lucy & Aaron - Trueno (Hanson Records 2021) 12"

The Fear Ratio - arel (Kasm 2015) 10"

O.S.T - Iring (Emanate Records 2000) 12"

Pselodux - Eramer2 (8-bit Records 2002) 12"

qebrµs - ⊶⊑ ♉ ♋ ☮ ♋ ♉⊒⊷ (Love Love Records 2017) - although this 12" is from the 2024 issue, originally this was CD only. Huge thanks to LoveLove for reissuing this one (with proceeds going to the family) - long time fans may remember I interviewed qebrµs for SnareRush Zine a few years back, shorly before they passed from this plane.

BLACKCLOUDSUMMONER - My Purest Heart To You (Nim_Brut 2021) Ltd 12" lathe cut. 

The Mike Sammes Singers - Wombling Merry Christmas (Music For Pleasure 1975) 7" single - yes i'm aware I played it at the wrong speed.  It needed to be dismal.  A fun track and still not sure how I acquired this but there you go. 

          Outro: Some Soloman Tump live Drone stuff to fill out the allocated 60 mins :) 

It was fun to dig through the archives and play some different stuff again - still fairly dismal but maybe not quite as noisy as the show sometimes gets.  I guess a slight reflection on the music I buy on vinyl - more electronic based / club adjacent / leftfield, rather than drone/noise. 

Well thats it for The Tump Clump in 2025.  Another year ticked off and I shall return in 2026 for perhaps more of the same or something slightly different - havn't quite decided yet.  Thank you for tuning in and see you again in some capacity in the next one. 

The Tump Clump #52 - 06/11/25

Episode 52 of the Tump Clump Radio show features a brevvy of new music and a live session from yours truly - a practice recording made ahead of my recent Muhmur Radio appearance.

Made with the same setup that was used on the live broadcast, some similar results but some differences too... listen to them both and see if you can spot the differences?! The beauty of improvisation I guess.

Tonights show starts with a couple of tracks from a split tape I received in a recent trade - thanks to Ville of Finland for that.  Check out Harva Tapes if you want to hear more. 

Then something from a new Leeds based act called Wire Mothers - intrigueing gothic noise indeed - hope to hear more from this project soon.

Paul Harrison was kind enough to send me his latest albums - so tonight I played a track from Light Step which was refreshingly synth heavy and quite "easy" listening compared to some work I have heard from him.  Great stuff.

Jabe Ledoux is the latest fantastic release from Inner Demon Records, pretty sure I gush over something from that label every month. 

Eustress Tapes supply recent sounds from Substak as well as Cody Brant & Carl Kruger. I love the aesthetics of their tape releases - transluscent shells and misted cases make for a great thematic work. eg 

Ain't they stunning :)

Tracklisting 06/11/2025:

01 VILLE RANTANEN - LOW CONTACT I (VILLE RANTANEN - BLOODKRY split)

02 BLOODKRY - KOLINAPÄÄ (VILLE RANTANEN - BLOODKRY split)

03 Wire Mothers - RAGGED (Ragged Desire)

04 Paul David Harrison - When It Can All Lie About Itself (Light Step)

05 Jabe Ledoux - Falls Breathe 3 (Falls-Breathe)

06 Substak - Cache Dust (Exolife)

07 Cordial Fare - Salt Of The Earth (How Much Is Enough)

08 Cody Brant & Carl Kruger - No One Said Anything (Nova Detour)

09 Soloman Tump - 241025

Noise Compilation of (next) month

 I contributed a track to this Halloween themed noise compilation, courtesy of Vacuum Noise Records. 

https://vacuumnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/album/--22

My offerinf for the release is called "Hundatorra", a track that was born from the Open Access Land sessions but didnt quite feel like it fit with the rest of the album.  It did however feel quite doomy and creepy, which lent itself to the Halloween cause.

Hundatorra is the name of the long abandoned / ruined medieval village up on Dartmoor, near the rocks of Hounds Tor. Hounds Tor itself was made famous by the Sherlock Holmes novel 'Hound of the Baskervilles' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and is an amazingly atmospheric location any day of the year.  Robert Eggers has been nearby recently filming scenes for his upcoming Werwulf film.  So therefore, all ties in very nicely with the theme. 

I love the artwork that accompanies this compilation - gloomy moth-like creatures. The artist is https://francescastrada.com/home.html so check out more of their work.

The compilation of music itself is a great variety of sounds and styles and certainly not just a straight up NOYZ comp.  I was impressed by the width of offerings and look forward to hearing the bonus tracks when I get the download. As usual, there will be some artists ill explore more into.  Did I ever mention I love compilations!?

Hope you enjoy and can support the compilation if you are able.  I will feature a couple of tracks in Tump Clump #53 (December edition). 

Soloman Tump - Live for Muhmur Radio, 26/10/2025

Sunday 26th October 2025, remember it well for that was the date that I performed a session for Muhmur Radio, live and direct from the SoundArt studios in Dartington.  So a massive thank you to Steve for having me along and trusting me with about 27 minutes of your show, and to Chris for being the ever wonderful host and head honcho at the studios.  

I will admit to being a bit nervous beforehand, and especially when I discovered that the only other live broadcast that had gone out on Muhmur Radio was by Nocturnal Emissions in 2018.  So a true honour to be invited along and personally I think it ended up sounding "quite good". 

Also thanks for the cold beer! Much appreciated on the night to help calm the nerves :)

You can find more on the full broadcast, including a tracklisting of everything else that Steve played here -

https://remuhmuration.blogspot.com/2025/10/muhmur-radio-broadcast-286-26-october.html 

It turned into a solo men special, mostly (because there are always exceptions).  But I guess it shows how many guys there are out there, sat in dark rooms alone, making noises.  Perhaps we will get solo women in the future, would make for a great show.  I shall put the idea forward!  

The original Muhmur setlist - slightly altered on the night

I also gave some words for a pre-match interview with Steve over email, which have been published here - https://remuhmuration.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-muhmur-radio-soloman-tump-interview.html  - after all the interviews I did for the various zines over the years, this was the first one I had ever done for someone else.  So I probably waffled on for a fair bit after being given the opportunity.  

A few thoughts about the set itself;

It was partly planned, and partly improvised.  

I had 3 prepared recordings that I used as baseline sound sources to play and manipulate throughout the set.  There was an oscillating sine tone,  a vocal sample from "The Age of Steam" BBC Sound Effects record, and a synth recording I previously created for one of my previous releases "Weland" - so I guess this became a live version of that track.

I recorded a few practice sessions around these samples, using them in various ways with different effects and equipment, before settling on the rig that I took to the studio. The run time left a lot of room to experiment and play around these, and luckily on the night I managed to keep roughly to the allocated time.

There was the temptation to bring along EVEN MORE KIT than I did, but after a bit of whittling down, I managed to fit everything onto an offcut of timber I found in the garage, which made transporting and setting up in the studio a lot easier. 

Listening again, there were a few things I would have done differently, but thats the beauty of improvisation (and also possibly why I felt a bit nervous!).  

I kept the volume out of my mixer fairly low as im not used to blasting it out too loud at home - I also wanted to keep some headroom so that I could master the recording with ease (and yes, I think I will release a 3" CDr version soon...)

One of the alternative practice recordings will feature on the next Tump Clump radio show to give an idea of how the live process works.

Overall, great fun to do this, and it has given me the itch to do it again!  Thanks again to Steve for supporting my work and giving me the desire to do more....

Soloman Tump - Open Access Land

I kind of panic released my new album called Open Access Land and it was a fun creative process.

I flirted with the idea of approaching a few different labels to see if they were interested in my sounds - but i've always been a bit of an outsider to the ousiders and usually end up doing things by myself.

So this was a nice return to DIY projects using up some black backed CDs and cardboard sleeves that I picked up from the always fruitful Proper Job re-use centre in Chagford.  This is also where I bought an external CDr/CD-rw drive for £3. I must make time to go again soon.

The recordings for this album started in the spring, feeling endlessly inspired by my Field:Tone Weaver instrument, i've always recorded my sessions but having this bit of kit in the setup means that you can never "go back" to a sound.  So recording is now essential.  It also means I have a LOT of audio to listen back to, and to learn from, and perhaps has forced me to go a bit more minimal in my sounds in case something sounds really good and I can use it as a layer or sample at a later date.  A couple of the tracks were played on Tump Clump shows in their earlier forms, as I was sort of testing them out. 

So by nature, this album feels a little more stripped back than previous Soloman Tump efforts.  Sure, there are still erratic noises, and dark layers, and dense bits, but to me if feels a little bit more easier or free.  

Dartmoor has been the centre of a media storm over the past few years due to the wonderful RIGHT TO ROAM movement, whom I place as my main inspiration for the making of this album.  A light at the end of the tunnel in a bleak situation where parts of the open access land of Dartmoor being slowly sold off and withdrawn from public use.

Keeping in this spirit,   the digital version of this album is available for free, and always will be.  Or, you can pay something if you prefer.

As previously mentioned, I made a few physical copies of the album which was actuallty quite an inspiring artistic process and not something I usually allow myself to get too engrossed in. 

I foraged lichen and mushrooms from nearby woods following a storm. I dried the lichen to make "brushes" that I stamped in ink to pattern the blank CD cases.

I then made spore prints with the mushrooms; which had various effects from really quite good to terrible; a great DIY learning process! Different mushrooms drop different colour spores at different intensities.  I picked a wide variety of fruits from the woods, placed them on different coloured cards, covered them overnight, and kept my fingers crossed.  

The combination of white spores on yellow card was unfortuantely a bit too weak to be of any use.  But there were some blackended spores on pink card which looked excellent, and then white spores on white card too.  A great learning process.  I then used some sealing spray glue to try and preserve the prints.  If you ordered one, I hope they last a little while before degrading! 

Generally I hope you enjoy listening to the album and I am always keen to hear thoughts on my work, critical or otherwise.

1.Squirreling 05:55

2.Roamer 04:32

3.Slow March 06:43

4.Runjun 04:57

5.Bloodmoonthorned 07:54 (Produced alongside Stuart Chalmers)

6.Dub You 08:33

7.The Long Way Round 12:02

8.[Exclusive bonus Track for anyone who ordered a CD]

The Tump Clump #51 - 09/10/2025

Hello Muddy Tumpsters and welcome once again to another fun packed edition of The Tump Clump.

I said on the show I had 15 tracks for you... well I did a little fib, I actually snuck in a 16th as there was a little bit of time at the end.  So a sneaky bonus offering from the exceptional Hannya White. 

A pleasure to roll on with the new feature ** NOISE COMPILATION OF THE MONNNNTTHH **, now in its second month but unofficially lets be honest, has been around since day 1.  2 noisy little samples for you to attempt to digest this month, courtesy of the Welcome to Clydebank collective in Glasgow, and their first ever harsh noise compilation.  Lush. 

Metal waste skip at my old place of work

Here be what I played this month, please seek out the labels and artists and give them a support:

01 Trepaneringsritualen - Taiɳted Totem Nothing (1) - Diadem of Fire  [Ant-Zen]

02 B1TWRA1TH - he tunnels breath when no one's listening -INTERLUDE III - 513

03 Jay Tripwire - Obscure Tongue - For David Lynch

04 Messier 106 - A New Creation - Eternal Cosmic Connection [Gates of Hypnos]

05 Michael Idehall - Seantronique - deep code sol [Ant-Zen]

06 Dead Wood - Scar - Permanent Discharge [Welcome to Clydebank]

07 Brent Gutzeit - Captivated - Permanent Discharge [Welcome to Clydebank]

08 Anne-F Jacques - poumon probable - l'ampoule et l'insecte [Molt Fluid]

09 Abby Lee Tee & Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy - Degraded Streams - Grounds [Molt Fluid]

10 Abby Lee Tee & Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy - Hedgerows - Grounds [Molt Fluid]

11 Moss Harvest - Untitled V - Aerosol EP

12 Autechre - Fol3 - Quaristice [Warp Records]

13 Trepaneringsritualen - Taiɳted Totem Nothing (2) - Diadem of Fire  [Ant-Zen]

14 Ekoplekz -  Dvectif - Four Track Mind [Planet Mu]

15 VILE PLUMAGE - Conceived On The Sick Wurlitzer (EXCAVATION AT HOBBS LANE- THE EARLY DAYS OF COMMUNITY RADIO)

16 Hannya White - More than anything else (No Preview)

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

 Listen to me here! 

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.  

The Tump Clump # 47 - 19/06/2025

Hi!

Another month of existance rolls around and I've been marvelling at the strawberry moon and complex weather systems we have been experiencing.

Midsummer approaches already and it only feels like last week that we were in the depths of wintery despair. 

Tonight's tracklisting for your deliberation... please support the artists and labels featured in the show by buying their stuff if you can, or at least give them a social media boost or tell your friends or local pigeons to spread the word.  

The Tump Clump - Episode 47 - Broadcast 19/06/2025.

01 brandon invergo - act 1 scene 2: where the sea once was  [ Here, Beneath the Ash-Choked Sky ]

02 Sean Addicott - Cat's Eyes in Absentia [True Listening Is Love In Action ] - Outsider Art compilation

03 Su Sous Toulouse en Rouge - Gumbo-Limbo [Eadem Mutata Resurgo] - forever escaping boredom

04 UgUrGkuliktavikt - Go quickly, travel safely, my young friend, to the land of ghosts [The Ghost of a Ghost]

05 GRAT - Emerging Crystal [FROST]

06 886VG - Slowly Finding Home (Hopefully)  [Permanent Discharge] - Welcome to Clydesdale

07 Gorge Ripper - Mouthful of Gravel [Permanent Discharge] - Welcome to Clydesdale

08 Isobel McKenna - I am going to need the opiates if you want to keep speaking [Live Aktions] - Welcome to Clydesdale

09 Tristan Burfield - Live @ Dartington College of Arts 2003 [Live Aktions] - Welcome to Clydesdale

10 Sunken Fence - Caff II [Lotic]

11 Itching - regular dust [Complexities]

Trying to decide whether to carry on the current format of Tump Clump or try something different....  maybe after episode 50 I shall regroup, reset, and perhaps try something different.  Or maybe more of the same! Who knows.  Opinions anyone?