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....
