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?