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.

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]

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.  

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.

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 #40 - 21/11/24

My little radio show reaches its 40th edition! Its almost as old as I am in shows vs my orbits around the sun.  Almost.

This month, a revolutionary change of tact as I publish the blog at the same time as the show is on air on SoundArt Radio.  I know, right?!

So I'll do a little running commentary as the show plays through and talk a bit about the tracks for a change.

Opening up the show was a track by Shredded Nerve called Precipice.  This from the amazing F.L.A.W festival ( aka Final Live Audio War in Cleveland, OH on October 12th, 2024) double cassette compilation.  This track was actually the final one on the compilation and provides a lush throbbing opener for this show.  Shredded Nerve is a US based artist that I really should know more about - they have released on NoRent Records and New Forces, 2 labels I'm a fan of, plus being part of this festival lineup means I will no doubt like what I hear elsewhere! To be continued. 

Next up "untitled" by NEXUS RASP, a self released experiment that I found enticing at first because of the use of Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks in the artwork.  But its also a very cool collage style track in its own right. NEXUS RASP is a California based artist with just a few releases on their Bandcamp page. 

Strange Devicers next with a track from the new album called New Urgences. Strange Devicers are Matt Atkins and Andy Rowe, and i've played some bits from them before on the Tump Clump, namely from the Orchid Terrace Preface album which was released on Steep Gloss last year.  This new album comes via Kirigirisu Recordings of Japan on CDr and at the time of writing there are a handful left...

I discovered Haddow on an Instagram live stream, from a show put on by James Shearman at New River Studios I think.... and I was captivated by this live performance despite the poor sound and audio quality of the stream.  I purchased this latest album called "o sono no arco" and the track I played on tonights show is Kitsch Corner.  Haddow creates most of his sounds with home made (string?) instruments, and applies affects, loops and layers to create haunting murkiness.  Beautiful dismal sounds! But also rhythmic and ritualistic.  Very much a recommended release.

Any long time listeners of The Tump Clump will know that I am a fan of digital compilations.  An often brilliant way of discovering a whole raft of new artists for a bargain price.  This was the Eroding The Walls compilations from Outsider Industries of Arizona, and I played "Gates Pass" by the artist Oscillator for you tonight.  I love digging through these label  / theme compilations to find suitable delights for my show. 

A couple next from one of my new favourite UK tape labels - Brachliegen Tapes.  The label set the bar really high right from when they started, and have maintained a consistently high schedule of quality throughout.  The latest batch includes David Walraf with a tense lumbering excursion, and Gorgeous Gorgeous from South Korea with a frantic noisy barrage.  Two high quality releases once again, and this time I have to thank Muhmur Radio with linking me up with download codes for these.  I usually do purchase everything that I play on the show, unless it has been gifted of course!  I support artists and labels, and share with you some of my favourite bits on the hope that you will support them too.

Static Fever by A Vibrant Struggle! Fantastic tape I discovered recently via Grisaille Records of Germany.  Another label that I need to explore the catalogue of.  There really is so much great stuff being recorded and released still.  You just have to find it.  This is a long sold out tape released in May 2023 by a trio of sound artists credited as Sindre Bjerga, Jan-M. Iversen & Steffan de Turck.  Really great dense sounds and as I type this I have just found a whole raft of their releases on Bandcamp that I need to dive into next...

Then a favourite of mine for this time of year,  a track from At A Glacial Pace by Topiary.  Cold noise drones for the bleak midwinter.  This track is "Retreading the Old Path".  Maybe ive played half of that album on this show by now.  Its beautiful and haunting and would definitely make it onto a Tump Clump best of :)  Topiary is a collaboration between Death Knell and Moss Harvest, two artists who produce amazing music by themselves also. 

Some crumbling noise wall next courtesy of Rural Noise with "No Fishing".  This taken from the digital portion of Plastic Bag: A HNW Tribute to Vomir compilation.  This ended up as a 37 track album from artists all over the world providing exactly 5 minute long harsh-noise-wall tributes to Vomir, one of which was me! My first ever HNW release and it made it onto a compilation for the figurehead of the scene.  Quite gobsmacking really.  "No Fishing" is quite a soft take on the HNW ethic but one that I find fascinating.  Static loops and filtered breaking things make for a really interest aesthetic.  

Last track, as promised to bookend tonight's show, is from the almighty Fleshlicker with a track called Hair Love.  If you were at the F.L.A.W Festival or any of the myriad UK performances from this artist over the past few years, you will know how impressive a battering of the senses this artist provides.  The sound, whilst massive and uncompromising by itself, is definitely only a part of the Fleshlicker experience. 

So until next time, A Christmas special perhaps?!

Thanks for listening and reading if you made it this far. 

Soloman Tump

The Tump Clump #39 - 24/10/24

 

The Tump Clump #39 was broadcast on FM via the beautiful SoundArt Radio from Dartington Hall, Totnes, on 24th October 2024, also digitally via their website at https://www.soundartradio.org.uk/ and then archived on the MixCloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/Soundart_Radio/the-tump-clump-39-241024/ 

So there were/are multiple ways for you to listen to it.  If needed, perhaps I could record it to a tape and post it to you? I am happy to do that also.  On this show, you can hear the following songs interspersed with a few spoken words from me, Soloman Tump. 

I think on this particular occasion, everything played can be found on Bandcamp for you to purchase/stream, apart from the track by me which was an exclusive for this show.

I hope you enjoyed listening and see you next time!

• Shaun Robert - pîåfffé (Art Brut)
• Hedra Rowan - YESTERDAYS ASSURANCES MEAN NOTHING TO US NOW (This Beautiful Moment Sours)
• Hoodrat Messiah - Earl Grey (Gospel EP)
• LIKE WEEDS - ITS WHAT YOU DID (Bog Standard)
• Distant Animals - Ranby Prison (Public Sector Prisons...) (Even Shit Sunsets Look Pretty in Retrospect)
• Beattie / Canon / Hignell - 10 48 (Brexshitting) (Even Shit Sunsets Look Pretty in Retrospect)
• Appleblim - Sharp Tor (Hexworthy)
• Ekoplekz - Frampton Kotterell (Dirtbokz)
• Ibiza Shock Troops - 12/12 (Travel)
• Soloman Tump - Mundayne (Unreleased)
• Moral Order - Black Fire (2017-2020 archive) Old Captain
• Matt Atkins Stuart Chalmers - Ante-Choir (Random Architecture)

Soloman Tump - Torpid State LP

I finished working on my debut full length album, and actually it wasn't too arduous, all things considered.

The album is called "Torpid State" and is a reflection of the long deep sleep of Winter and the promise of the warmth of Spring.  Its kinda almost got some positive stuff in it, but dont worry... its still mostly dismal.  

Partly inspired by the dungeon noise of Disgusting Cathedral I've introduced keys into the Soloman Tump sound for the first time... sitting around the usual dirge and simmer of crusty noises and stuff.

The main thing is that it was fun to produce and I tried not to dwell for too long on "tweaking" the tracks after they were recorded.  As usual, a lot of the tracks started as session recordings whilst others were created from separate layers over time.  Plenty of field recordings and foley sounds in here too, such is the way of things.

I plan to release the album just in time for Supernormal Festival 2024, where I hope to have a few copies for sale / trade (CDr) and also stick the digital up for sale then too via my bandcamp page.  There is a preview track on episode 35 of The Tump Clump, where you can hear the track "Nocturne".

Thanks for listening!

The Tump Clump - Episode #34 - 06/06/24

The Tump Clump episode 34, first aired on SoundArt Radio 06/06/24...

Apologies again for being v v v v ve e e e e r r r r r y y y   y y    y    slow at posting this track listing up on the blog.  Slap my wrists and call me naughty!

Lavatone - How I Started My Own Finger Collection (Mr Bundle Compilation) - Owlripper Recordings

violeer - changeling (Fairgrounds) - self released

Ekoplekz - Circular Spin (Ekochamber) - self released

Dead Space Chamber Music - Track for Kodak Ghosts zine - sorry still can't find the name of this one but it was released on CDr for the zine last year!

Perc - Calcify (The Cut-off) - Perx Trax

Luxury Mollusc - A Noxious Tithing (Choir of Deluded Mass)

Pakkokon - From Black Skies (Noise As A Form Of Expression Vol.1) - DramaRecorder

Kirril - III (01/23-07/23) - Owlripper Recordings

Private Arms - Private Arms (Your Words Drip Like Wet Saliva) - self released

Junkyard Shaman - Stones & Metal ( Materia ) - self released 

Hannya White - Just Yours (I call you another name)

ZREEN TOYZ - Passage Of The Grim Reaper (Mr Bundle Compilation) - Owlripper Recordings

HERE BE THE LINKETH for post-FM broadcast Mixcloud archival reasonings.

The Tump Clump - Episode #33 - 09/05/24

 /// sorry - catching up on my blog! Been a weird few months ///

The Tump Clump Episode #33 - 09/05/24

All sounds tonight can be found on bandcamp, I think,  Maybe not the Plague Arish one though...

THE SORE BIRDS ARE COLD HERE - Debris Reign - self released

Lee Riley - Portrait 11 (Portraits 5) - self released

Fish El Fish - Gynaecology Locker Room Banter (Dog Wearing Dracula Fangs) - adHuman

Nocturnal Emissions - Panacea (Minimal Works 8) - self released

Distraxi - Recovery Hours (There Is A Warmth I Crave And Never Get) - outsider art

False Maria - Then The Letting Go Pt. II (Letting Go) - Creative Institute Records

Xqui - DDos (Launch) - Self released

Plague Arish - Chrysothrix Chlorina - self released

Linekraft-Prurient  - The Night Before Shatter To Pieces (Government Controlled Shrines) - self released

Pale World - Sedatives (Destitute) - Trust Collective

Soloman Tump - Bun Rights

 

The wonderful Human Geography Recordings released a few of my tracks under the name "Bun Rights" and I'm very proud of this one.  It's the second of their C-15 series, the first being released by the wonderful Stonecirclesampler  but you should also check out other excellent releases from the likes of Black Hair Rolled in Dried Blood, QNDFK and Liminal Haze which have all featured on previous episodes of my Tump Clump radio show. 

So anyway, you can grab a final copy of the tape here if you are quick, or the digital, and both come with a bonus track recorded from the same session:

https://human-geography-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/bun-rights 

My text for the label to stick under the release;

Soloman Tump - Bun Rights

Recorded at home and in the field May - July 2023.

Field recordings from across Dartmoor, UK.
Sounds composed through no-input mixing, resonant instruments Geiger Lab (thanks to Plague Arish) and homemade scrap metal instruments, all connected through various effects pedals.

Side A - Bun Barrow
Field recordings from visiting Bun Barrow and the nearby Blackslade Ford. It is meant to be summer, yet the weather is abysmal.

Side B - Shewte Rights
No input-mixer drones and collapsing feedback. A response to the wild camping ban - which has since been lifted. Not that we stopped anyway. Leave no trace; create only memories.

Side C - Knave-Go-By (digital bonus track)
An additional recording spawned from the recording sessions, named after the village, which is sometimes thought to be on Dartmoor yet is located in Cornwall. A real outsider.

 

Photo is from near Meldon Quarry, Dartmoor.  Nature reclaiming the steel that we put there years ago. '

Thank you for having me Human Geography Recordings! I really like the aesthetics of your label and the exciting sounds that you are putting out there.  

The Tump Clump Episode 27

Wow that month went quick.  I think it was because the sun kinda came out again and it feels like proper summer.

And then I suddenly realised I needed to pull together a new radio with a couple of days notice,.. but luckily I have a ton of new music at my disposal from which to collate an hour of dismal sounds for you,.

The Tump Clump Episode 27 - First broadcast 07/09/2023.

LINK: https://www.mixcloud.com/Soundart_Radio/the-tump-clump-070923/ 

01 Plague Arish - What happened to the shorts weather- - 01 Sunscreen 1

02 Claude & Ola - uume - 22 uume 22

03 Juhyo - StaticSound Live - 03 Buka

04 Itching - Complexities - 03 regular dust

05 Stonecirclesampler - Pymthek Menhirs (C-15#01) - 01 Out at Sea

06 Territorial Gobbing - This Is How I Win - 01 This Is How I Win

07 Seven Seven - LIGHTS OFF - 01 ACT 1

08 Plague Arish - What happened to the shorts weather- - 05 Sunscreen 5

09 Claude & Ola - uume - 05 uume 5

10 Strange Devicers - Orchid Terrace Preface - 08 Tangled Hexagon

Maybe i'm getting lazy but i'm not gonna link all the individual tracks for you this time.  I'm sure you know how to use a search engine.  It's all out there!

This month, I was super glad to play the track by Territorial Gobbing called "This is how I win" which, in its full glory, its a monstrous 26 minutes of looping wooziness that takes you on a lethargic trip through a deserted town, 1970s Yorkshire. Or something like that. I call it a dismal masterpiece.

Other highlights this month are a couple of tracks from Uume by Claude & Ola, a wonderful already recently released by the Tone Burst tape label.  Grade A improv sciffle.

Plague Arish provides a couple of short tracks that break from his usual long form ethos - keep up the great work!

Strange Devicers is a new project on Steep Gloss, probably one of my most frequently played labels on The Tump Clump, such is their excellence in curating experimental collaborations.

After featuring a track by Juhyo last month, I did a bit of digging and found a digital only EP by them featuring live "interlude" tracks.  So happily I feature one of those tonight.

Seven.Seven hails from somewhere in Australia and I think I got hooked up with this release via checking out a tumblr link maybe? Remember Tumblr? Well, I always like digging in weird places for weird sounds and this one is good so yeah.

Also... Itching! I love this project.  I seem to have amassed quite a few tapes and CDr's over the years without even realising I have an Itching collection.  Great works, and all samples from the household cat mangled into noisy oblivion.  Wonderful. 

Last track to mention on tonight's show is by Stonecirclesampler, the kinda mysterious folk history project of ethereal electronic sounds.  This comes courtesy of Human Geography Recordings and their new C15 series of tape releases.  Keep an eye on that series for some great stuff still to come soon! Nudge nudge wink wink.  Maybe.

Thanks again for Soundart Radio @ Dartington Hall for hosting me.  I love it. 

More come soon.

Bun Rights!

There will soon be a new release from Soloman Tump, on a cassette tape and accompanying digital (with a bonus track) via a record label that I admire.

 

World Drone Day (an attempt)

 I tried making a drone track for the Fallen Lo world drone day compilation - "this trempling place".  I ended up with an 11 minute long crunchy static beast which had more akin with the aesthetics of harsh noise wall.  But with some keen listening, you may find some drone tones underneath the crunchy full freqency noise and skittering tones.  So, slightly droney, but not fully, but possibly as close as the Soloman Tump sound gets to a purists drone.

I called the track Cyclopean Trawling, and you can find it here as a pay-what-you-like digital download/stream album via Bandcamp.  Also on the compilation are noise associates Ritual Dust and The Crawling Man amongst a total of 31 killer tracks.  Some great variety here and I love being part of collected compilations of artists from all over the play.  

I did a real tape

I failed at mentioning it too much on this blog prior to release because I didn't want to broadcast details before the label did; and then it sold out pretty quickly, and then I forgot. 

My collaborative album alongside Paradox Encounter Group (aka Paul Xemporium) seemed to go down pretty well.  It was one of those long distance pass files backwards and forwards editing as we go along type things.  

If you so desire you can grab the digital direct from Tone Burst here, they did a fantastic job on the artwork and the physical media so I suggest supporting them if you are able. Couple of aleftover artist copies of the tape available on my bandcamp page if you wish....

Was a fun and slightly chaotic album to work on.  Paul sent me 4 of his tracks; I worked some ideas of them.  He liked them so much he called them "finished". Hah! Brilliant.  Me, the forever procrastinator, wanted to work some more magic into them.  But in the end we kept with the raw / DIY approach of calling it down.  I then sent him 4 of my tracks which became 5 once Paul had finished.  8 of them made it to the tape and the last one was played on Tump Clump a few months ago.  It might end up online at some point. 

the P.E.G sound is one of harsh noises and volume shifts.  The Soloman Tump sound is one of dismal repetitions and electronics.  I think they go together quite well. 

My original photo which inspired the artwork

The Tump Clump Episode 22

Episode 22 of The Tump Clump rears its ugly head from the foetid abyss and snarls angrily at the clouds passing gaily overhead.  

01 Ahrimanic - Formless Terror (from CAOSAGI)

02 Burnthouse Lane - Subcontent (EUPHORI)

03 Dave Fuglewicz - The Dance of Wendy (Selected Works, 1990-1997 / NO PART OF IT)

04 Dylan M. Howe - Pottery Fragment (Criterion Summer, Cornwall's Dub Cthonic)

05 Dreadful Monkey Machine - Embrace the Wet Pavement (20p Carpet Service)

06 Jo Montgomerie - they all fell so easy (Those Things Beyond & Within, Brachliegen Tapes)

07 Shaun Robert - açtíçañiämûs (IFAR) 4:33

08 VX - FUTB 0001 (The Unpleasant Archive, Preston Capes)

09 EXIT ELECTRONICS - DOING IT WRONG (LEARN THE HARD WAY)

10 Coma Cluster - NGC 4874 - 02 В течение движения

11 BLACKCLOUDSUMMONER - FRUITING BODIES FORMING WORDS (THE REDHEAD)

12 Tweaked field recording of Plague Arish squeaking his wet shoes on the decking outside the Cott Inn, Dartington, October 2022. 

The above is what got played.  This time, pretty much all of it available via bandcamp, and I guess that's just a reflection of the stuff I have been buying / getting codes for / attempting to support artists and labels direct.  As you should too of course. 

I do have a couple of "mainstream" albums I want to pick up soon, so will probably head to Drift Records in Totnes to grab those as its good to support brix and morta whenever poss. 

So anyway....

I love the new Burnthouse Lane album, it came out via Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings from Newcastle upon Tyne.  I have a track by this collective before, way back in the early days of the show.  In typical Tump Clump style it's tricky music to categorise but I guess it falls into the niche zone of cut-up ambient drone? Who knows.

A shout out must be said for the VX album The Unpleasant Archive.  Preston Capes is a new offspring label to Woodford Halse, showcasing the weirder and more experimental sounds that would not find their way on to the main label.  Already up to 12 cassette releases, it is turning into an excellent source of new sounds. 

Finally this month I play a track by BLACKCLOUDSUMMONER from their new album THE REDHEAD, which I believe to be their best body of work to date.  It's got that unhinged crazy that I love, but also plenty of consideration to depth of sound, space and aesthetics.  Kit list: FLESH, METAL, ELECTRICITY, SYNTHS, PEDALS, SAMPLER, MENTAL ILLNESS ETC.  Wonderful. 

Enjoy, or don't, etc..

appyh ewn eary

Welcome to 2023. 

Some exciting things afoot!

• Tump Clump episode 19 airs on SoundArt radio this week (post to follow with tracklisting and links, etc)
• Soloman Tump collaborative album, produced alongside Paradox Encounter Group coming soon on cassette tape and digital via Tone Burst.
• New audio/visual feast for Wonder Valley Experimental 15 virtual edition
• Intrusive Signals issue 4 - I started making some enquiries and content might start coming together soon.  It will be a slightly smaller page count than previous issues so I dont get stung for postage as bad as issue 3....

Yeah so im pretty busy with my new irl job but i've decided to try and keep up with the zines / music / stuff because I love it.

So, see you soon.

glad tidings we bring

To you and your kin

New content for those who listen to The Tump Dump

The Tump Clump Episode 18

 And with this show, my time in 2022 is up.  How on Terra did that happen.  

I didn't specifically set out to make this show a "festive" special but it was still November when I recorded it, and Christmas was but a dim and distant memory from the previous year.

Yet it was very easy to re-use my "festive" logo from last crimbo and change the colour scheme slightly, and shazam! Instant festive edition.

Tonight's episode opens up with Breezeblock Tomb by Rovox 625, taken from possibly my most listened to tape of 2022 "Cut Into" which is on Steep Gloss.  A great label, and a massively awesome album.  Top drone / noise collage / weirdness in a very cohesive manner.  Breezeblock Tomb is a great example of a fairly simple drone track that comes to life if you listen over a good pair of headphones - its creepily panning all over the place and theres some subtle deep bass things going on in the background.  Lush.

Boobs of Doom - #29 Filthkiller is next, with the track Poisoning The Peace Pipe.  Boobs of Doom were a lockdown discovering of mine, and after a fairly quiet 2022 from them, I was (dis)heartened to discover this new album in their ongoing bid for digital domination.  An electronic doom-rock-electronic duo hailing from Scotland, their output is solid, noisy, sometimes groovy, but never positive.  This track has a bit of guttural doom amidst some head nodding drums... lovely.  This is not a show just for fans of noise or drone... I do like to stick in the odd thing with rhythm or repetition every now and then. 

Photophobik with "Exit Strategy" gets played next.  This is by no stranger of the show, Nick Edwards aka Ekoplekz, in a slightly more bizarre side project.  Quirky synth bleeps and decayed textures are the order of the day here. As a bit of a fellow gear nerd, I enjoy the fact that Nick lists his equipment on the bandcamp page, so for these sounds he used "Strega - 0-Ctrl - Liquid Foam - Quadrantid Swarm - Benidub Echo". . Nice.

Time for some noise! I discovered this tape on a rather cool London based label called Dusty Ballz.  The artist is Deng Boyu, a cut-up noise/idm artist hailing from China. Using metallic objects and various processing they deliver a rather excellent tape of intensity.  The artwork is awesome too.

Human Mask by OMNICIDE - from the "Blue and Yellow" album which was re-released in March of this year in order to memorise the Russian attacks on Ukraine.  Yodest from Leicester is the artist behind this diverse body of works.  Mostly drones and weird noises, you know, like what you would expect to hear on The Tump Clump.

And then my favourite discovery of 2022, O Ratel Ratel, with a track called Zindering released by Audio Visual Atmospheres from Belgium.  The story goes that Knifedoutofexistence played the Crude Transmissions Festival in the Dutch town of Leiden back in March, and O Ratel Ratel was on the line-up.  After reading impressive reviews of the performance I did some digging and discovered it is perfect material for the Tump Clump.  Decaying loops, wasp-like noises, desperate tension... wonderful.  

Bloodkry next, with Existence V from the Existence album, which I gained in a trade with the Finland based artist earlier this year.  Cold industrial repetition and smudged hiss combine with intriguing shifts in tone.  

I then thank Steve from Muhmur Radio for hooking me up with the next artist which is Minneapolis based Stomachache with the title track from their Good Machine album.  Building loops, noises and intensity make for a generally nauseating experience.  Proceeds from sales of this album go to the Minnesota Environment Fund, so support if you can. 

The excellent NoPartOfIt label are very liberal with their bandcamp codes, and I grabbed my code for Thirteen Hurtz UVB-76 this from a Reddit post.  Thank you! I play here the track called MDZhB.  This is quite a blistering noise workout of blown-out wind sounds, high frequency alarm shrill and constructed thingamybobs. 

Finally, time for some self-promotion because why the hell not.  I managed to squeeze in the track Demo(n) 3 from my own recent release as Soloman Tump called Safehouse Demo(n)s which I have detailed elsewhere on this blog.  You can find it here at name your price if you feel kind enough to support my artistic endeavours and maybe encourage me to do more of this stuff. 

And that is that.

Mixcloud now only lets me upload 5 shows for free, so i've deleted a load of old shows to make way for the new (as i'm skint and not paying for a premium account).  If there are any old shows you want to listen to again let me know and I can upload them. 

Well, I've waffled on loads this time.  It's nice to put a bit of time into the blog. Not sure when The Tump Clump will be back on the air in the new year yet but I shall update the blog when I know.

As ever, thanks to SoundArt Radio for putting me on.