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)

The Tump Clump Episode 28

 Wowzers... this month flew by.

Apologies for being slow to update the blog. Episode 28 hit SoundArt Radio 102.5fm last Thursday evening at the princely time of 20:00hrs.  And it's now on Mixcloud, you can find it here or directly to the right with the blog widget:

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Tonight opening with a couple of artists who featured at the recent Wyrd Wild West Festival in Yeovil which was a triumphant and wonderfully chaotic evening in the best possibly DIY way.  Sound system issues? Check.  Cheap cider? Check.  Wonderful music all day/night? Check.  Great friendly people enjoying themselves? Huzzah! A few photos that came out "ok".....

EKOPLEKZ live @ Wyrd Wild West 2023. First time seeing him perform live, loved it! And I was quite drunk happy dancing. 

Swine live in EPS store, doing their wonderfully improvised things. 

Me, Plague Arish and Steve Muhmur at the bar

1. Kemper Norton - Sirens (From the album "Toll" which I purchased from the merch table, of course, but you can also find it via Manchester's Front & Follow label)
2. Swine - Ah Those Endless Trances (From the live at EPS EP, recorded in the EPS Project Space Yeovil store, October 2021.   I massively enjoyed their live performance in the store and I hope it gets released at a later date, warts and all.  An improv duo from Somerset I believe, fusing home made drone instrumentation with jazzy skronks.  This recording from the same space a couple of years previous...)
3. Hedra Rowan - YESTERDAYS ASSURANCES MEAN NOTHING TO US NOW (from the album "This Beautiful Moment Sours" which is a proper eclectic album from the US based sound artist.  Some guitar loopy bits, some experimental electronic noises, and I chose a weird drone thing to play)
4. T. Jervell & ChromaDots - Dag 2 (Faksfjord - Fragsfjord)
5. T. Jervell & ChromaDots - Frag 5 (Faksfjord - Fragsfjord) - 2 short tracks from the new album out on Steep Gloss, yay, I think I play something from this label every month on the show.  Such is the forever quality).
6. Don Mackerel - Tears On My Pillow (from the album "Tears on my Pillow".  Frequency hammering chaos ensures as the big Don is back in the house.  Burselm Crypt represent). 
7. Don Campau - Too hot For Hands (Electric Cottage Compilation 04)
8. Thomas Park - Rite Cycle (Electric Cottage Compilation 04) - 2 more short tracks, this time from the Electronic Cottage compilation coming straight out of the USA from no other than scene legend Hal McGee. 
9. Hannya White - I call you, tonight (from the new EP, "I call you another name" which is released next week and I cannot wait to hear it all.  A forever fan of her beautiful strangeness.  If you support one new release this month, choose this one). 
10. Green Tea - Rabid Aura (from the Snowblower LP out on New Forces.  I wrongly credited this track to Snowblower on the show, apologies! I blame the fact that the album is so white hot savage that I lost all sensibilities.  New Forces, you know the drill.  And this is probably the calmest track on the album.  Ha)
11. Xosar - Realm ov Chaos (The Possessor Possesses Nothing, great album from a couple of years back that can be found in a remastered bandcamp state here. Its like listening to a techno trance ritual forged from industrial noise whilst summoning demons.  Super powerful stuff that makes you wanna dance and lose it in an angsty way.  Hot.  Recently active on Instagram again - I hope for new sounds from her soon!
12. Vasectomy Party & Chefkirk -Surrealistic God Laid Down (from the album " Will Power and Personal Magnetism Vol. 2" just out on Forever Escaping Boredom, my favourite Florida based niche DIY noise label. Big shout out to Hal Harman himself for posting this out to me recently, and I finally got issue 7 of his amazing DIALTONE AGGRESSOR zine). 
13. Soloman Tump - Contiguous 3 (new weird stuff from me!)

Thats all for now - a couple of interesting things in the pipeline which hopefully come off soon! Including, the possibility of a live show. 

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.

The Tump Clump Episode 25

Time goes by so quickly for those who wait.  Let that be a lesson to Masonna.

Or something.

New clump time!  Hot summer action for you tonight. Muggy and dank is the order of the day. 

Thanks once again to soundartradio for hosting my nonsense. This episode first aired 13th July 2023, 20:00 hours British Summer Time. 

For starters;

Pestzone - The Noise In The Night (The House On The Borderland)

Scum Alice - New Old Versions (Normal Modes 2022)

Scum Alice - Cry Over Neck (Normal Modes 2022)

Romxn - Talking To Myself (ROMXN)

For the main course;

Vasectomy Party - Cut My Leg Off

Su Sous Toulouse En Rouge - Narr De Vilegveld

Disgusting Cathedral - A Steel Sword Floats Within a Cube of Ooze  (Besieged Defenders)

The Day Of The Antler - Earth's Circular Breath (Love Beyond Love)

For pudding;

drreic -  2kkkdskdkdkRX (trcde)

VILE PLUMAGE - The Malignant Line (EXCAVATION AT HOBBS LANE- THE EARLY DAYS OF COMMUNITY RADIO)

And shots at the bar (new stuff that's not yet available to buy!);

Plague Arish - Day 1 in the cave par deux, I cant wait to be a chocolate bunny

Soloman Tump - Knave Go By 

Another enjoyable show to put together.  A few older bits tonight such as the split 7" from Forever Escaping Boredom - probably my favourite niche noise label in Florida.  And they make excellent zines too - check out the mighty DIALTONE AGGRESSOR. 

Mixcloud

It looks like they are imposing a posting limit soon on Mixcloud - 10 shows only.  So... I shall start removing the old episodes as we move forward.  I cannot afford the premium thing right now (and there's no point doing it for 3 months only to then lose the privilege and have to delete everything anyway if I want to add a new show).  More info on it here.

I understand why they are doing it - server costs and loads must be through the roof.  This will definitely clear out some of the chaff for them, but may also lose them some customers.  I guess they have properly done a cost/benefit thing and it should earn them some money.  Hey ho, not from me unfortunately. 

This is a shame because I have enjoyed the Mixcloud platform to date.  The main thing that was a bit slow and awkward is the tagging of shows (because I do it all manually rather than using a tracklist app... yeah I know, i'm still fairly analogue.  Hence this blog I guess...)

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So what next for Soloman Tump?  Well, the Christmas / final episode of The Tump Clump in 2022 is up next on 2nd December. And I am slowly working on a new Ep of tracks.  Some potential collaborative stuff bubbling under but nothing concrete on that yet.

Also, the latest RENTAL YIELDS volume is imminent, featuring the Megaheadphoneboy rework of some Soloman Tump sounds.  These compilations are fantastic and well worth throwing a few pounds at as we head into winter.  Proceeds are supporting a homeless charity based in Manchester and those without a roof could really do with the help right now.  On this release you will also find Tump Clump friends and alumni Robin The Fog, Decommissioned Forests, Pulselovers, Polypores, Field Lines Cartographer, Pettaluck, Giant Head, The New Emphatic and Concrete/Field.  What a role call!

Amazing work by Front & Follow putting these compilations together, curating so many artists and being generally fab at organising a bunch of disconnected people who are probably all working together for the first time.  Very inspiring and I hope it has kick started some new projects around the place.  I enjoyed working with Megaheadphoneboy and Klaus Von Mork in our little round-robin trio, it felt fairly effortless and all of our creations are very different and inspiring.  More please :)

The Tump Clump Episode 17

The clocks have changed, and Halloween hangeth over our heads like a string of luminous pumpkin bunting. 

Episode 17 of The Tump Clump appeared out of nowhere; suddenly October was done I realised that I had not managed to put much thought into the next radio show at all.  A combination of a new job (which is going well), school half term (pretty good, saw some friends, did some things), and generally trying to decide if I want to start work on a new zine or carry on making Soloman Tump sounds - I really do not know if I can commit enough brain power to be able to do either or both justice right now.

So I picked out some music from my collection - some tracks a few years old, some brand new and not even released at the time of recording.  And actually I enjoy how these tracks sit together, especially the IOM track that Iker sent me a download code for over the weekend.  This track in particular really clicked with me. The Bloodkry EP (and Existence LP) are also both amazing pieces of work, and really fit with The Tump Clump aesthetic of dismal. 

The Tump Clump #17 - 03/11/2022

1. Stuart Chalmers & Lee Riley - 5:5 (Points of Vital Difference) 
2. O Ratel Ratel - Roerloos (Translucent V/A) - ARCHIVE
3. Mordant Arrow - Nettles (Death Shapes) - Owlripper Recordings
4. Decommissioned Forests - Drop Brick (Industry)
5. Jonas Geiger Oglin - 22 (Januari har trettioen dagar) - ToneBurst
6. Jonas Geiger Oglin - 06 (Januari har trettioen dagar) - ToneBurst
7. Jonas Geiger Oglin - 09 (Januari har trettioen dagar) - ToneBurst
8. IOM - A2. Paaraatt 15 (Happiness & Sacrifice) - SOIL
9. Bloodkry - My Shelter (Dark Paradise EP)
10. Plus Size - Another Boring Product Wealthy People Buy (Translucent V/A) - ARCHIVE
11. Plague Tump Soloman Arish - Live @ Dartington Hall 01/10/22 (Cartes Postales) - Camembert Electrique
12. Soloman Tump - Banquet (demo / unreleased)

The Plague Tump Soloman Arish track was recording in a fancy camping pod at Dartington Hall on a rainy / sunny / afternoon / evening.  Fuelled by cider, ale and pizza.  With apologies to anybody camping nearby who could hear what we were up to, but the acoustics in those pods was pretty lush.  We recorded about 2.5 hours of sounds, with a variety of gadgets, foley, battery powered speakers and rummaging.  This snipped is a trimmed/layered/EQ'd compilation of some of the more interesting parts to our ritual.  The recording appears on the Cartes Postales compilation through the hugely prolific Camembert Electrique label, alongside a talented bunch of international artists (including James Nathan Powell who's crumbling noise wall efforts I am especially fond of). 

I finished the show with a demo track I am working on called "Banquet" - I did not talk about this in the recording as I just wanted to see if anybody was actually paying attention.  The track was created with the Behringer Neutron, some time stretching, and a recording of me fiddling with my office chair.  I quite like it and it may appear on a forthcoming release.  

The Tump Clump Episode 15 - MIXCLOUDSPESH

The Tump Clump reaches episode 15, and due to the summer siesta for SoundArt Radio, this is a Mixcloud exclusive edition for July / August.  Which also coincides with my 40th birthday so I decided to play a few extra tracks because I do not need to stick to the usual prescribed one hour slot......

Another disclaimer: I only play tracks I own. Either physically, digitally, or gifted to me direct from the artist/label.  If you enjoy the sounds played on this show, please directly support the artists and labels buy purchasing some of their art.

https://www.mixcloud.com/solomantump/the-tump-clump-15-040822/ 

Opening with the monolithic drone of Shiverdust by Lucidet which is taken from the Life Death Chaos Order album, a sprawling 4xCD / digital album of longform dirge and dark dynamics.  A feast of a trip if ever there was one.

Drek 5 by Ekoplekz is next - part of a suite of unreleased tracks that Nick was kind enough to send me a while back.  Check out his new single release which is on 7" lathe - be quick, not many left!

The next couple of tracks come from the compilation album The Quietened Mechanisms which was released by A Year In The Country back in 2018.  I recently revisited my CD copy and released again just how many great tracks there are on the release.  So I have included the offerings by Field Lines Cartographer and Grey Frequency which seem to sit well amongst the opening electronic drones of tonight's show.  I love the way the Grey Frequency track melds into a lush pad with birdsong halfway through.

A track by False Moniker from the Screen Memory tape which was released on Strange Rules in 2020.  Pretty much everything on the label is gold, but it seems to be a bit quiet of late as label owner Cremation Lily is concentrating on touring and releases their own sounds.  

Then I gratuitously played my remix of the Klaus Von Mork track "Little Owl" from the Rental Yields Volume One compilation, out now on Front & Follow.  It is really great to be involved in this digital series, and I thoroughly enjoyed putting this track together.  It's a sort of noisy / squelchy distorted vision of KVM's original session recording and found samples.  Future editions of the compilation will include the Megaheadphoneboy interpretation of my samples, and then the Klaus Von Mork rework of a Megaheadphoneboy track.  There are 20 tracks on this volume, all of excellent quality and touching up the various strands of electronics / experimentals, and sales are raising money for the homeless shelter charity in Manchester, so please support if you are able.  

AUTECHRE! I previously said on The Tump Clump that I wouldn't play any Autechre because if you wanted to listen to them you know where to find them.  But for this special edition of the show (and to kind of commemorate my 40th birthday!) I decided to play Tankraken, lifted from the Versions edition of their 2008 Quaristice album.  It still sounds superbly future, with icy percussion and moody grumbling bass.  I hope the mixcloud algorithm AI doesn't pull my show because I played this.

Then more excellent moody electronics from Helm, with a track called MOLE from the recent Axis album.  

Time to play some noisier stuff... kicking off with GRIMWITH who I recently discovered via the double edged sword of Instagram.  Some great digital / tape noise coming at ya from Leeds.  Check it. 

I dipped back into the Rental Yields album with a track from Kinver Ponds and TarotPlane, with a track called For The Benefit Of The Community.  Lovely brutal repetition and ethereal voices.  Some might say "dismal".

Some may say that quite foolishly I decided to then play RatCornSample by DK.  This beast of a track appeared in my inbox recently and I cackled hard and had to play it.  So there.  VAMPIRES!

Then a bit of crackling noise wall for you, 5 minutes to be exact, courtesy of Gynaeolotry and the Plastic Bag: A HNW tribute to Vomir.  You will also found my Postman Lomu tribute to Vomir on the digital download extension should you really wish to listen to more.  

Black Lead Crucibles is a side project of the mighty Disgusting Cathedral - a long form tense droning beast of dungeon noise.  This meshes nicely into.....

....Hoodrat Messiah and the track Casablanca from the new EP called Gospel. Panic inducing atonal drones! Lovely stuff.  Another artist I discovered via Instagram, and they often put up pictures of their wonderful array of pedals and synths used in the creation of these sounds.  

To finish wish, I play a track by another Tump Clump favourite which is Salac, with their album closing number called Manifesto from Illicit Rituals.  It's a few years now since they interviewed for my now defunct Snare Rush zine, so maybe I should try and entice them back to Intrusive Signals for some more.  Hope to hear some new stuff from them soon! 

That's it for now.