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Morc Fm
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First episode aug 26th 2021
broadcast on a montly basis

Since the summer of 2021, we're hosting a monthly radio show on camp radio - we're playing music we listen a lot to here at morc hq, with short introductions. you'll hear tracks by morc artists, old favorites, new discoveries and the occasional live-recording or rare version.

listen via camp radio, and head to 'morc fm'

or: use the embedded mixcloud-registrations below.


Morc FM episode 21 - thursday march 9th 2023

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march is traditionally a month with a lot of shows happening, and this time it's no different. Annelies Monseré (whom we played last time) is doing an album presentation here in ghent on march 31st, and since hellvete and Goldscammer are performing that evening as well, we're playing them here. you'll hear an unreleased Hellvete-track, and a message for goldscammer. more local shows that we refer to: Frankie Traandruppel, Ana Roxanne, and Alasdair Roberts. also: birthday wishes to okraïna, and a few words about the kid congo powers autobiography (that's kid's arm you see on the picture here). to top it off: new/recent work by Carola Anne McGowan (a welcome return!) and Carla dal Forno. + classics by Deux, Dark Day, Ritchie Cunningham, and the regular praise of the work of Ray Raposa. it's a neat episode, really.
the playlist:
  • Deux  - Game and Performance (from the cd/lp 'BIPPP : French Synth-Wave 1979/85', Born bad records, 1983/2006)
  • Carla dal Forno  - Mind you're on (from the cd/lp 'Come around', Kallista, 2022)
  • Dark Day  - The haunted Child (Wales Whales Wails) (from the lp 'Darkest before dawn', Dark Entries, 1989/2019)
  • Goldscammer  - Dirty Tricks (from the dl 'GG', Krut, 2020)
  • Raymond Byron  - Gone Rider Spur (from the lp 'Bond wire cur', ESP Disk, 2022)
  • Hellvete  - Banjodrone (unreleased, 2011)
  • Ritchie Cunningham  - You're really great (from the tape 'soup vs potatoes vol.1', Morc records/Kaw tapes, 2000)
  • Frankie Traandruppel   - Whatever (from the 7" 'Corona Blues ep', Ronny Rex, 2020)
  • Wolfmanhattan Project  - Smells like you (from the 7" 'Smells like you', In the red, 2015)
  • Carole Anne McGowan  - Apochrypha (from the dl 'Aer', self-released, 2023)
  • Ana Roxanne  - Nocturne (from the lp/tape '~ ~ ~', Leaving Records, 2019)
  • Rev Galen  - Irony (from the 10" 'Rev Galen', Okraïna, 2015)
  • Alasdair Roberts  - The Lichtbob's lassie (from the cd/lp 'Grief in the kitchen and mirth in the hall', Drag City, 2023)

Drinks & sounds - the first ten years of morc

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The kind people of drinks & sounds invited us to play morc-releases and talk about them for a full evening. i'll save you the banter, but these are the tracks of the first ten years of morc we played that night. you'll hear songs from tapes, cdrs and lathe cuts that were never available digitally (well, just one). some people we still work with, some people we have no idea what happened to them. as you'll hear, it's not necessarily what you'd associate with morc, but i hope it makes sense? still love all of these tracks.
(and of course: i played a lot more recent stuff too, but that's all available online via bandcamp etc)
  • Zent one  - Waking dream (from the tape 'Mummer', Morc 12, 2000)
  • Michael J. Hex  - Insane (from the v/a tape 'a morc compilation', Morc 13, 2000)
  • Astroboy  - Tiny tears (from the tape 'Innocent tears', Morc 11, 2000)
  • Psychon Mist  - Brazilian goldmining (from the tape 'Fompas', Morc 17, 2002)
  • Frank Peck  - Glacier (from the tape 'Norway Doorway', Morc 23, 2004)
  • Vollmar  - Pomeroy, OH (outtake from the v/a 3" cdr 'Hilversum nov 3rd', Morc 42, 2005)
  • Holy Sons  - Underdog Cringe (from the lathe 10" 'My only warm coals', Morc 43, 2006)
  • Minmae  - Since before inertia (from the tape 'Since before inertia', Morc 24, 2002)
  • Remora  - New loop (from the tape 'live in Oslo', Morc 36, 2005)
  • Circle Brothers  - Hurt (from the tape 'Form', Morc 01, 1998)
  • Karina ESP  - Fields (from the tape 'Extra Sensory Projections', Morc 30, 2004)
  • John Merrick Band  - Rimbaud (feat. Yumi) (from the lathe 10" 'About those days i picked dandelions and started crying', Morc 36, 2005)
  • Bingo Trappers  - Coda of seasons (from the split tape 'soup vs potatoes vol. 2', Morc 15, 2005)
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Morc FM episode 20 - thursday february 9th 2023 

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Recently read the book 'you're with stupid', and really enjoyed it. about written by kranky-founder Bruce adams. so: a few references to that in this episode. also: some words about the upcoming label night at cafe oto, with the fine people of Horn of Plenty records. more compliments about 'de algemene verwarring'. love is all around in this episode. maybe it's because valentine's day is coming up?
stuff i meant to say in the show about the book, but didn't / forgot: It's pretty obvious that musicians have influences, but you know: labels do as well. BBPTC, Best Kept Secret, Shrimper, Kraak, Bluesanct, KAW, Unread: all favorites overhere when starting up morc; and of course: KRANKY - which was/is playing a few leagues above these others, but a major insparation none the less. I got into the label via the sampler 'Kompilation' in 1998 and was hooked eversince. I picked up and enjoyed releases by pretty much every artist on that sampler. Some turning into lifelong favorites, and throughout the years: i've been fortunate enough to work with some of these artists as well (Hello Jessica Bailiff! Lichens! Boduf Songs! Dawn Smithson!) so: i'm a kranky fanboy. Not just musically: i've always appreciated the 'artist first' approach of the label, in a way that that's a very direct inspiration for morc.
Bruce Adams wrote down what the early years of the label were like, and in a broader perspective: working in the independent music industry in the late 80's - 90s, and what the local scene in chicago was like. A good read: i've never read much about distribution before, and that seems like a world of its own. And of course: great to read the stories about how bands/artists like Labradford (especially Labradford!), Jessamine, SOTL, GYBE! And Roy Montgomery were doing things. Only downside: Bruce tells us the beginning of many, many stories, but the follow up often stops once the path of Bruce and a specific company/artist seperate. Makes me curious to find out the rest, but can't really blame Bruce for not going into detail into that. Also: the book stops in 2002-3, around the time mp3s were shaking up the way distribution etc was run. and a few years before he left Kranky, and started Flingco sound system. A bit of an early ending, i thought. Maybe that's for a second book?

​anyway: the tracklisting.
  • Annelies Monseré  - shells (from the lp 'Mares', Horn of Plenty, 2023)
  • AMP  - scarborough fair (from the 3xcd 'All of yesterday today', rroopp, 1995/2007)
  • Father you see queen  - Teratoma (from the cd '47', Flingco Sound System, 2012)
  • Magnog  - A moments seam (from the cd/2lp 'Magnog', Kranky, 1996)
  • Sonic Youth  - Jean-Baptiste à la fenêtre (from the cd/lp 'Simon werner a disparu', naïve, 2011)
  • The rising storm  - frozen laughter (from the 2lp 'Sky Girl', Efficient Space, 1967/2016)
  • Ignatz  - at night she saw her son (from the lp 'I hate this city', Conspiracy , 2011)
  • The apostles  - Red (from the 2lp 'Best forgotten', Horn of Plenty, 1982/2022)
  • Bingo Trappers  - your parents (from the lp 'Roger', Almost halloween time, 2012/2022)
  • Lowered  - emptiness (from the cd 'music for empty rooms', Morc records, 2020)
  • Angelo M Farro  - clock osc pt 1 (from the cd 'The nigh of the electric insects', Three:four, 2022)
  • Raphael Loher  - IV (edit) (from the cd/lp 'Keemuun', Three:four, 2022)

Morc FM episode 19 - thursday january 13th 2023

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the first episode of this year is largely inspired by a recent trip to paris - we unexpectedly got to see a show by Ela Orleans, saw an installation by Patti Smith at the pompidou museum and went recordshopping. as if this episode wasen't french enough yet: track from the Bippp compilation and recent work by roxane métayer too. oh, and during our rambiling, we mention Red Zebra at some point. not sure what happened. hah. you'll hear one unreleased track by pacific walker, whose album got released the day after the broadcast. all in all: more uptempo tracks than usual in this show. it's all good!
  • ​Roxane Métayer  - Sur les ailes, huit tâches (from the tape 'Visage Zyg​è​ne', Wabi-sabi tapes, 2022)
  • Trii Group  - Borrowed clock (from the lp 'Interest in music', Stroom, 2021)
  • Perimeter O  - Below Below (from the download 'Seasonal Diary I: Radical Tenderness', Objects & sounds, 2022)
  • Ela Orleans  - Something Higher (from the lp 'Movies for Ears', Night School, 2019)
  • Dirty Beaches  - No Fun (from the 7" 'No fun', Italian beach babes, 2011)
  • Alexis Degrenier  - Noyer (from the lp 'La mort aura tes yeux', Standard in-fi/murailles music, 2022)
  • Marie Möör  - Pretty day (from the lp 'BIPPP : French Synth-Wave 1979/85', Born bad records, 1982/2006)
  • Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons  - Liberty (from the lp 'Killed by deathrock vol.1', Sacred Bones, 1980/2014)
  • Dry Cleaning  - Gary Ashby (from the cd/lp 'Stumpwork', 4ad, 2022)
  • Carola Baer  - Solemn Cattle (from the lp 'The story of Valerie', Concentric Circles, 1991/2018)
  • Patti Smith  - Paths that cross (from the cd/lp 'The dream of life', Arista, 1988)
  • Pacific Walker  - Mycelium Ab Astris ad astra II (from the tape 's/t', Bluesanct/Orphanology, 2023)

Morc FM episode 18 - thursday december 15th 2022

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final episode of the year. the only 2022-releases you'll hear in this episode are archival releases though (patty waters, amateur hour, nova scotia). so: plenty of older material here- most artists in this episode have been favorties here at morc hq for 15-25 years. we recorded this the day before we heard that wouter van veldhoven did a new collaboration with mariska of soccer committee. and two days before angelo badalamenti passed away - he wrote the music of the julee cruise track we're playing here. on a brighter note: a couple of songs are dedicated to jochen, who just joined the morc team. 
  • Patty Waters  - Love is the warmth of togetherness (from the lp 'You loved me', Cortizona, 2022)
  • Tiny Vipers  - The summing of moments (from the cd/lp 'Laughter', Ba da Bing, 2017)
  • Jessica Bailiff  - For April (from the cd 'Old things', Morc records, 2007)
  • Karina ESP  - Fieldsong (from the tape 'Extra sensory projections', Morc records, 2004)
  • Amateur Hour  - Waiting here for you (from the lp 'Framtiden Tillhör Inte Oss', Appetite, 2019/2022)
  • Cindy Lee  - To the limit (from the lp 'What's tonight to eternity', W.2 5th, 2020)
  • Julee Cruise  - I float alone (from the cd/lp 'Floating into the night', Warner Bros, 1989)
  • Wouter van Veldhoven  - Schets 2 (from the 3" cdr 'Schetsjes', self-released, 2011)
  • Nova Scotia  - Exhausted & Regal (from the lp 'Old light', Horn of Plenty, 2022)
  • Supreme Dicks  - Blue Elephant (from the cd 'Workingman's dick', Jagjaguwar, 1994/2011)
  • Roy Montgomery  - Pressed Bloom (from the split cd/lp with Grouper, Yellowelectric, 2010)
  • The Azusa Plane  - Cheltenham I (from the 10" 'Cheltenham', Ochre, 1998)

Morc FM episode 17 - thursday november 17th 2022

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As promised in the previous episode: we're kicking of with a track by Roxane Métayer from her split lp with Pefkin that just came out. we owed you that. great way to start! but: plenty of other new releases in this episode too (princess diana of wales, lise barkas, the idealist) as well as old favorites (pj harvey, liars, bridget hayden). and we're talking about recent/upcoming shows (warm currency, pj harvey, oh-ok/magnapop, la merde) and a KILLER exclusive track: puddle parade performing a song by soccer Committee, how about that?
  • Roxane Métayer  - Première Image (from the split lp with Pefkin, Morc records, 2022)
  • Princes Diana of Wales  - Fragments of blue (from the lp 'Princes Diana of Wales', A colourful storm, 2021/2022)
  • Klein volk  - Mollusk (from the lp 'Gulden onversneden', kort dag, 2019)
  • Liars  - Leaving my old life behind (from the split 7" with No Age, Hand held heart, 2011)
  • Duster  - Topical Solution (from the cd/lp 'Stratosphere', Numero Group, 1998/2019)
  • Warm Currency  - Spider Credit (from the 10" 'Returns', Horn of Plenty, 2022)
  • PJ  Harvey  - The Garden (demo) (from the cd/lp 'Is this desire (demos)', Island, 2021)
  • Lise Barkas  - Mai (from the tape 'Mars', Titiana Tapes, 2022)
  • Bridget Hayden  - Solace (from the lp 'A Short Illness From Which He Never Recovered ', Blackest ever Black, 2019)
  • The Puddle Parade  - Moi & mon coeur (soccer Committee cover, unreleased, 2022)
  • La merde  - Overstaying a Welcome (from the tape 'L'amour et la merde', self-released, 2019)
  • Red queen hypothesis  - New frontier Crew man (from the cdr '2005 summer sampler', self-released, 2005)
  • The Oh-OK  - Playtime (from the lp/tape 'The complete reissue', Happy Happy birthday to me, 1982/2011)
  • The idealist  - Church of the deep zone (from the lp 'A lion is a lion not a lamb', Meakusma, 2022)

Morc FM episode 16 - thursday october 20th 2022

the best part is when we can premiere an upcoming release, no? we'll start this episode with a track from the upcoming Pefkin / Roxane Métayer lp. no need to tell you: this will a good one. you'll hear that from the opening song of this episode, 'The lunar pull', by Pefkin. which happens to be the first song from the split lp as well. and further in the episode: it's a bit all over the place: old and new (luc van acker or jon collin), from far away or close to home (Cat's miaow or Puddle parade, regulars and new names (raymond byron and it hurts), danceable or abstract (liaisons dangereuses or zim zim zim). it all makes sense though.
  • Pefkin  - The lunar pull (from the split lp with Roxane Métayer, Morc records, 2022)
  • The Cat's miaow  - You know it's true (from the lp 'Songs '94​-​'98', World of echo, 2022)
  • The Puddle Parade  - White cloud (from the cd 'Origami', Morc records, 2009)
  • Mess esque  - Big old Blue (from the lp 'Dream #12', Bedroom suck, 2020)
  • Raymond Byron  - Paris Trout (from the lp 'Bond wire cur', ESP Disk, 2022)
  • Zim zim zim  - 2 (from the 3" cdr 'zim zim zim', self-released, 2007)
  • Jon Collin  - That is my story (from the lp 'Bridge Variations', Discreet Music, 2022)
  • Hero Wouters  - Ismene (from the lp 'Muziek voor leven en dood', Enfant Terrible, 2007)
  • Luc Van Acker & Anna Domino  - Zanna (from the cd/lp 'The ship', Emi, 1984)
  • It Hurts  - Washed up (from the tape 'The thing that stings', Albert's basement, 2013)
  • Liaisons Dangereuses  - Dias cortas (from the cd/lp 'Artificial dancers - waves of synth', Rush hour, 2020)
  • Raymond Byron  - Old Unconscious (from the lp 'Bond wire cur', ESP Disk, 2022)

Morc FM episode 15 - thursday september 22nd 2022

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Morcfm episode 15 is a one hour long special. About my friend mkl anderson, who's touring Europe the next month. You probably know him best as Drekka, but in this special, i'm playing tracks by quite a few related bands too. The opening track is the very first drekka track i heard myself. It's a good starting point, i can tell you. Further in this episode: more tracks he played on, mastered, introduced me to, or released on his fenomenal Bluesanct-label. i'll be seeing him live in brussels this weekend, hope to see you there.
  • Drekka   - L²+S=? (from the 2xcd 'Collected works vol 1', Morc records, 1996/2009)
  • Jessica Bailiff  - Shadow (from the 7" 'live at vpro', Brainwashed, 2005)
  • Elephant Micah  - Pipe Diversions/Bored Auroras (from the cd/lp 'Vague Tidings', Western Vinyl, 2021)
  • Vollmar  - Pomeroy, OH (live at morc hq, unreleased, 2005)
  • Tiltmaster  - Waterbased (demo) (from the cdr 'Losing Yesterday', Bluesanct, 2000)
  • R.O.T.  - 06 (from the cd 'Klein eiland', Morc records, 2020)
  • Lightning white bison  - …and eaten (from the tape+USB 'Open Body: A Complete Discography', Bluesanct, 2020)
  • Lichens  - Skogi (from the lp 'Litio Folk', Morc records, 2012)
  • Mark Trecka  - Sheep ranch (from the tape 'Everything falling crosses over', Orphanology, 2019)
  • Roxane Métayer  - Phaleine Somnolente (from the lp 'Éclipse des ocelles', Morc records, 2021)
  • Drekka   - Tarwestraat 52 (from the lp 'Ekki Gera Fikniefnum', Dais, 2014)

Morc FM episode 14 - thursday august 25th 2022

If we met up somewhere between 2007-2012, chances are that i told you that Castanets was my favorite 'new' band. Ray Raposa released a string of incredible albums around that time, records that i still listen often to, especially 'City of Refuge'. His live shows, aspecially with Castanets as a duo, were always quite an event too. turns out Ray had a new album ready, under his own name. Ray passed away last month. we'll play some of our favorite songs of his. 
also: quite a few songs from releases we picked up while on holiday in the uk. and older lofi and janglepop. exclusive of the month is not that exclusive: you'll hear a track by Frank Peck, that we put out on a tape in 2002 and hasen't been played online anywhere, to the best of my knowledge...
  • Monade  - Ode to a keyring (from the 7" 'split with M is the Thirteenth letter', All City, 1996)
  • Little Skull  - 06 (from the lp 'Untitled', Horn of Plenty, 2011/2022)
  • Castanets  - Refuge 1 (from the cd/lp 'City of Refuge', Ashtmatic Kitty, 2008)
  • Maxine Funke  - Rolling Boil (from the lp 'Lace', Digital Regress, 2008/2019)
  • Cucina Povera  - Rushmoren Sipulihöyryt (Saniaiset) (from the lp 'Seesteyttää', Offen Music, 2021)
  • Aaron Martin  - That feeling that nothing was ever going to change (from the download 'The end of medicine (original score)', Lost tribe sound, 2022)
  • Dawn Smithson  - Keep Breathing (from the cd 'Earth Machine', Mind Expansion, 2008)
  • Moonlove  - Cast your troubles and dreams away (from the lp 'May Never happen', Concentric Circles, 2021)
  • Huon  - Merri Creek (from the cd 'Songs for lord Tortoise', Animal World Recordings, 2001)
  • The Stroppies  - Up to my elbows (from the cd/lp 'Levity', Tough Love Records, 2022)
  • Alison Cotton  - The last sense to leave us (from the cassette/lp 'All is quiet at the friendly theatre', Friendly Records, 2018/2021)
  • Mike Landucci  - Unfortunately undone (from the cdr 'Touching cloth and other British slang', Tapemountain, 2002)
  • Frank Peck  - From nowhere (from the tape 'Norway Doorway', Morc records, 2002)
  • Lillie Greene Richmond  - Little old log cabin in the lane (from the 5xcd/book 'Folksongs Of Another America - Field Recordings Upper Midwest  1937-1946', Dust to Digital, 2015)
  • Castanets  - Lucky (Live) (from the stream 'Violitionist session', none, 2011)

Morc FM episode 13 - thursday july 28th 2022

Looking back, this kind of is the 'classic rock' episode of morc fm. not just because we're playing a few gems by The Cure and The Cramps (of course not the classic hits, but what did you expect?). but mostly inhouse favorites like Flying Saucer Attack, Arab Strap and Windy & Carl fit in. and we even have a 1956 (not quite rock-)track by Burl Ives. we also see the return of no less than four artists we've played before. Goldscammer, because Tim just self-released a new tape which reminds us of… Drekka. and there's a show announcement for Annelies Monseré + an exclusive collaboration of circle bros and Wio. + more!
  • City Illusion  - Illusion Blue (dub) (from the tape 'Two years of spring', Are you before, 2022)
  • Goldscammer  - A6 (from the tape 'Untitled', self-released, 2022)
  • Drekka   - Acoustic 1 (from the tape 'Grieve', Bluesanct, 1996/2021)
  • Flying Saucer Attack  - Soaring High (from the cd/lp 'Distance', VHF/Domino, 1994)
  • The Cramps  - The way i walk (from the vhs 'Live At Napa State Mental Hospital', Target Video, 1984)
  • Dum Dum Girls  - I will be (from the cd/lp 'I will be', Sub Pop, 2010)
  • Wio & Circle Bros  - Spiraling Hair Case (unreleased, 2022)
  • The Cure  - Pirate Ships (rough mix) (from the 3cd 'Disintegration Rarities', Fiction, 1988/2010)
  • Annelies Monseré  - Your Bones, your skin (from the lp 'Happiness is within sight', Stroom, 2019)
  • Arab Strap  - Copersion Pt.1 (from the cd/lp 'As days get darker', Chemikal Underground, 2021)
  • Burl Ives  - Turtle Dove (from the lp 'Burl Ives Sings...In The Quiet Of The Night', Decca, 1956)
  • Windy & Carl  - Calliope (from the 7" 'Calliope / Carnivale', Great Pop Supplement, 2013)
  • Jeffrey Alexander  - Hazy Heads (from the tape 'Reyes', Garden Portal, 2021)

Morc FM episode 12 - thursday june 30th 2022

shorter songs, less talking: we managed to get 15 tracks in one hour. and still: a varied selection of what we've been listening to lately. including a couple of all time favorites (shirley collins, TJO, HTRK, Pan American), some new discoveries (Warm Currency, Father you see queen, Cindy) and some things that were on our 'to be played' list for a while. a fairly melodic episode. because that's what people listen to in the summer, no?
  • Shirley & Dolly Collins  - Are you going to leave me (from the lp/cd 'Love, Death and the lady', Harvest, 1970/2019)
  • Delphine Dora  - Ritournelle scolastique #1 (from the cd 'Hymnes Aphophatiques', Morc records, 2022)
  • Tara Jane O'neil  - Pump (from the cdr 'Companion to Where Shine New Lights', self-released, 2013)
  • HTRK  - No big thing (from the tape 'Death is a dream', N&J Blueberries, 2022)
  • Minimal Compact  - The conference of Snakes (from the Split 12" with Dark Arts, Stroom, 2021)
  • Father you see queen  - Edmund (from the cd '47', Flingco Sound System, 2012)
  • Nein Rodere  - C O D (from the lp 'Catch up with what party?', Horn of Plenty, 2022)
  • Bronze Float  - Spirit of days events missed (from the cd 'Notice', RC Legacy, 2008)
  • Volleybal Bungalow  - Fun economy (unreleased, 200?)
  • Cindy  - Deer in Japan (from the lp '1:2', Tough Love Records, 2021)
  • Pan•American  - The North Line (from the cd/lp 'The patience fader', Kranky, 2021)
  • Astrid Øster Mortensen  - Det Endnu Usagte (from the lp 'Skærsgårdslyd', Discreet Music, 2022)
  • I am Oak  - Vares Varas (from the cd/lp 'Nowhere Or Tammensaari', Snowstar Records, 2012)
  • Treasury of Puppies  - Koka en vit orm (from the lp 'Mitt Stora Nu', Discreet Music, 2022)
  • Warm Currency  - Winter Advertisement (from the 10" 'Returns', Horn of Plenty, 2022)

Morc FM episode 11 - thursday june 2nd 2022

ah, a special about Luster! the debut album of Luster is coming up later this month, so we thought it'd be a good idea give an insight in the world of this band. a short spotlight on each member and their musical projects, plus a few related acts too. a particulary fun episode to make, and hopefully to listen to as well (also: check out their debut lp!)
  • Luster - Are you going to leave me (from the 10" 'split with Hellvete', Morc records, 2016)
  • Breezr - (unknown title) (from the none 'live at no-fi-fest, lauwe', unreleased, 2000)
  • Joe Speedboat  - Supreme (from the 2xcd '5 jaar gekerm', kerm, 2016)
  • Ignatz  - Slaapliedje (from the 7" 'Guust', Studio Muscle, 2010)
  • Annelies Monseré - Sun (from the lp 'Debris', Morc records, 2017)
  • Luster   - Out of time (from the lp 'Luster', Morc records, 2022)
  • Simon Marius  - Alefan Inside (from the tape 'split with Niels Latomme', Beyt-Al-Tapes, 2014)
  • John Merrick Band  - Rimbaud (from the 10" 'About those days i picked dandelions and started crying', Morc records, 2005)
  • Best Parts  - Where you're coming from (from the lp 'Best Parts', Gazer tapes/Fons, 2022)
  • Mollenhauer  - Impro (unreleased, 2007)
  • Hellvete  - Droomoog (from the cd 'split with Urpf Lanze and Edgar Wappenhalter', Morc records, 2011)
  • Fean  - Ketlik V (from the cd 'Fean', Moving Furniture records, 2018)

Morc FM episode 10 - thursday may 5th 2022

listening back, this is a pretty downtempo episode. quite a bit of drone, but the folk, electronic and more rockoriented tracks are all pretty slow too. however: still a pretty varied episode! focus on newer releases, but quite a few of those are re-issues. 
  •  Karina ESP  - All the years have fallen away (from the cd 'Detachment', morc records, 2012)
  • Kitchen Cynics  - Whose Fool are you (from the lp 'Songs from room 9', Almost Halloween Time, 2022)
  • Sasha Vinogradova & Alino Anufrienko  - I Love (from the lp 'Oko', Hidden Harmony, 2021)
  • Delphine Dora  - The Sphere (from the lp 'Eudaimon', Three:four, 2018)
  • Cranes  - Feathers (from the cd 'Cranes', Dadaphonic, 2008)
  • Dark Day  - Don't Bother (from the lp 'Window', Dark Entries, 1982/2010)
  • The ex  - Blueprints for a blackout (from the cd/lp 'Blueprints for a blackout', Ex Records, 1984/2022)
  • Eloïse Decazes & Eric Chenaux  - Au jardin des amours (from the cd/lp 'La Bride', Three:four, 2017)
  • Bingo Trappers  - Radio Silence (early version) (from the cdr 'Seven more Furlongs', self-released, 2013)
  •  Teahouse Radio  - Death would find my halls and flood them (from the 2lp 'Her quiet garden', Vrystaete, 2018/2022)
  • Iyv  - Paukščių aiduose (from the lp 'Upés', Vrystaete, 2017/2022)
  • Jimmy Smack  - Anguish (from the lp 'Death is certain', knekelhuis, 2022)

Morc FM episode 9 - thursday april 7th 2022

ah, a new upcoming release and a labelnight: plenty of morc-material in this episode. we'll start and close with a song from the upcoming cd 'hymnes apophatiques' by Delphine Dora, out on may 4th. and you'll hear Roxane Métayer and soccer Committee, who both will be performing at the morc labelnight at AB on april 19th. and also: recent material by freunliche kreisel, lucy duncombe, meadowsilver (feat Gayle of Pefkin!), Peter Jefferies and Wio and Jessica Moss. to top it off: all time favorites by Dead Moon and For Carnation. 
  • Delphine Dora  - L'immuable sous-jacent (from the upcoming cd 'Hymnes Aphophatiques', Morc records, 2022)
  • Freundliche Kreisel  - Einbildung (from the lp 'Freundliche Kreisel', Stroom, 2022)
  • Lucy Duncombe  - Brace (from the 10" 'Brace/mend', 12th Isle, 2021)
  • Roxane Métayer  - Opalescentes épopées (from the lp 'Éclipse des ocelles', Morc records, 2021)
  • soccer Committee  - Moi & mon coeur (from the cd 'soccer Committee', Moving Furniture records, 2005/2021)
  • Meadowsilver  - The breath of the icequeen (from the upcoming cd 'II', self-released, 2022)
  • The For Carnation  - Moonbeams (from the cd/lp 'The for carnation', Domino, 2000)
  • Peter Jefferies and Wio  - Red Clover (from the 7" 'Red clover', Almost Halloween time, 2022)
  • Dead Moon  - Crystal is falling (from the lp 'Defiance', Mississippi records, 1990/2011)
  • Jessica Moss  - Contemplation II (from the cd/lp 'Phosphenes', Constellation, 2021)
  • Delphine Dora  - Saisir L'éternité dans le temps (from the cd 'Hymnes Aphophatiques', morc records, 2022)

Morc FM episode 8 - thursday february 10th 2022

so, this weekend there's the annual kraak-festival here in belgium. traditionally, you'll see at least a few of the concert highlights of the year here. and: early in the afternoon, you'll get to see Luster, who are about to put out their debut lp 'soon' on morc. so: a track premiere from that album. and some other highlights from the kraak festivals we attended the past 20+ years (Village of Savoonga, Bridget Hayden, Young Marble Giants) mixed with some new releases (Ekin fil, mess esque, ann eysermans), stuff that we only got to know recently (ela orleans, vive la void) and some old favorites.
  • Luster   - Espace, Ether (from the lp 'Luster', Morc, 2022)
  • Ekin Fil  - A Veil (from the lp 'Feelings', A sunken mall, 2021)
  • Bridget Hayden  - Aye Fond Kiss (from the 2 x 7" 'God damn, i hate the blues', Kraak, 2011)
  • Julian Cope  - Vivien (from the 2 x cd 'Jehovahkill (Deluxe edition)', Island, 1992/2006)
  • Led byrd  - The Dragon #1 (from the 2 x 7" 'Extra Walt', Walt records, 1996)
  • Ela Orleans  - Light at dawn (from the lp 'Movies for Ears', Night school, 2019)
  • Young marble giants  - Brand - New - Life (from the 2xcd 'Colossal Youth & collected works', Domino, 1980/2007)
  • Mess esque  - Take it outside (from the cd/lp 'Mess esque', Drag City, 2021)
  • Triumph of lethargy skinned alive to death  - How Long Did I Wear The Sweater That Held Your Smell Before I Realized That Love Is A Heartless Fiend? (from the lp 'Bird songs', Teenage teardrops, 2008)
  • Ann Eysermans  - Little One (from the lp 'For trainspotters only', Cortizona, 2022)
  • Vive la void  - Devil (from the cd/dp 'Vive la void', Sacred Bones, 2018)
  • Village of savoonga  - Philipp Schatz (from the cd/lp 'Philipp Schatz', Hausmusik/Kollaps, 1996)

Morc FM episode 7 - thursday january 10th 2022

you know we made a new issue of the morc-zine? in this radioshow, you'll only hear songs from artists featured in the magazine. so: stonecold classics by cheater slicks, iditarod, movietone, linda smith and john davis/folk implosion, newer stuff by fords fuzz inferno and dana hatch, and less known recordings by 1000 dawns and tia blake. to top it off: a song by will and dave from their legendary 1997 'k' tape, of which you really cant find a trace elsewhere online. not unreleased, but kind of an exclusive anyway. the full list:
  • movietone - summer  (from the lp/cd Peel Sessions, Textile records, 2022)
  • movietone - near marconi's hut (from the lp/cd The sand and the stars, Domino, 2003)
  • 1000 dawns - the river winds its way  (from the online compilation Tracks from bristol UFOs, The Wire, 2015)
  • iditarod - mariner (from the cd The river nektar, Hub City/Bluesanct, 1998/2003)
  • iditarod - 1000 years (from the tape/cd Kleine, Morc, 2002/2007)
  • stone breath - sweet flowers and damp grave (from the cd The night birds psalm, Hand/Eye, 2012)
  • tia blake - white bird (from the 10" Paris & Montreal demos, Yep roc music, 2020)
  • linda smith - there's a  (from the lp till another time, captured tracks, 2021)
  • dana hatch - fast freddie (from the digital ep do it yourself, self-released, 2021)
  • cheater slicks - if heaven is your home (from the lp destination lonely, desperate records, 1991/2014)
  • will and dave - clean up (from the tape k, Lovely recs, 1997)
  • ford's fuzz inferno - maggots & flies (from the 7" flog yourself with fuzz, subunderground counter attacks, 2021)
  • the folk implosion - winter's day (from the lp/cd Take a look inside, Communion, 1994)
  • john davis - 6 shooters & canyons (from the split 7" with sandra bell, road cone, 1995)
  • John davis - masoch (from the lp/cd Spare parts, Shrimper, 2013)


Morc FM episode 6 - thursday january 13th 2022

ah, an episode that really shows what we've been listening to the past couple of weeks. new songs by Madou, Frankie Traandruppel, Filip Gheysen and Lise Barkas&Lisa Käuffert, old favorites like American Analog set or REM, some morc-related, some not. plenty of songs in the beginning, and more experimental stuff toward the end. Good to know: the exclusive is an annelies monseré song that was covered by In Gowan Ring. it was intended for a compilation with artists from the bluesanctlabel covering eachother. unfortunately, that release never saw light of day. still one of my very favorite labels. the full list:
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  • Delphine Dora - L'Ombre de nos silences (From the lp L'inattingible, Three:four/Meakusma, 2020)
  • Madou - Ronquières (From the cd/lp Is er iets, Belvedere Records, 2021)
  • The American Analog Set - Come home, baby Julie come home (From the cd/lp Promise of love, Tiger Style, 2003)
  • REM - These days (from the cd/lp Life's rich pageant, IRS, 1986)
  • Frankie Traandruppel - Tug'o'war (from the 7" Asbestos eye candy, Ronny Rex, 2021)
  • The Frogs - I don't care if you disrespect me (from the lp It's only right and natural, reissue End of All Music, 2019)
  • Alfred Vandertie - C'est l'café (From the 5cd set Folksongs Of Another America - Field Recordings from The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946, Dust to Digital, 2015)
  • In Gowan Ring - Shine (unreleased, Annelies Monseré cover, 2006)
  • Hala Strana - Svatovac/Becarac (from the 2lp Fieldings, reissue on Desastre/worstward, 2020)
  • 41 Degrees - White Flowers (from the lp Passed Beyond, Stroom, 2021)
  • Filip Gheysen - The Antagonist Ant (from the lp The Passenger Disembarked, Silken Tofu, 2021)
  • Secret Pyramid - Hexes (from the lp Embers, Geographic North, 2020)
  • Lise Barkas & Lisa Käuffert + Kristallroll - Trilles (from the cdr Trilles, Soleils Bleus, 2021)


Morc FM episode 5 - thursday december 16th 2021

Episode 5, the perfect moment for a sort of mini-anniversary, no? so, we're celebrating by only playing other projects by morc-artists: collaborations, sideprojects, old bands... pretty eclectic! so if you thought the people from eg boduf songs, karina esp, drekka or bingo trappers only had one project: think again. and listen. also: exclusive recordings by joe speedboat and the valentines!

  • Streetlightunit - Light from the window (from the cdr merry xmas, Evelyn Records, 2003)
  • Zelienople - Don't stop until you die (from the lp Show us the fire, Immune, 2015)
  • Burd Ellen - Cutty Wren (from the cd/lp Says the never beyond, self-released, 2020)
  • Clear Horizon - For days (From the cd/lp Clear Horizon, Kranky, 2003)
  • Distels - Let no man steal your thyme (from the lp Distels, Almost Halloween time/Feeding Tube, 2021)
  • Black Forest/Black Sea - These things (from the cd Forcefields & constellations, Bluesanct, 2004)
  • Extra Smurbs - Rain on (from the tape Die Elbum, Carcassettes, 200? )
  • Joe Speedboat - House of the dying moon (unreleased, recorded live at Kinky Star, Gentse Feesten 2014)
  • Minute Manifesto - War on Children (From the split 7" with Shank, Enslaved, 1998)
  • Turn Pale - Films we like 5From the 7" Films we like, Ruffian Records 2004)
  • Toss - Ford Dynamics (From the lp Toss, Kraak, 2000)
  • The Valentines – Countless (Unreleased, Wio-cover)
  • Tau Emerald – Henbane (From the cd Travellers two, Important, 2008)
  • Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Interzone Bureau Desk (from the lp Two orb reel, More Than human, 2017)

Morc FM episode 4 - thursday november 18th 2021

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you know you can still get to know great music via the library, no? in this episode, you'll hear tracks from long out of print releases, by Lal Waterson and Mary Tillema Smedema (picture left), that are fortunately still to be found here at 'De Krook' in gent. but really: the Lal Waterson album needs a repress, and Smedesma can still be heard via the the archive of the university of wisconsin. go and explore!
also: newer releases by Facit, Heta Bilaletdin and Lori Goldston, and recent represses of releases by Brannten Schnüre or Sosena Gebre Eyesus. the 'exclusive' of the month is a loud and gritty recording by the beautiful band, a shortlived 'supergroup' feat ao members of ROT, Ignatz, Sunburned hand of the man and Opéra Mort. 
  • Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight - Dazed (from the cd Once in a blue moon, Topic, 1996)
  • Facit - My love for you is a whale (from the lp Beach Songs, Discreet Music, 2021) 
  • Brannten Schnüre - Die Milchlinse (from the lp Muschelsammlung, Vrysttaete, 2017)
  • Mary Tillema Smedema - Epitaph (From the 5cd set Folksongs Of Another America - Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946, Dust to Digital, 2015)
  • Heta Bilaletdin - Piloka (from the lp Nauhoi, Kraak/Fonal, 2021)
  • Sex Tourists - Save Face (from the lp Sex Tourists, paradise daily/drunken sailor, 2017)
  • Kneeling in piss - feeling very serious (from the lp Tour De Force, Anyway Records, 2020)
  • The beautiful band - ? (unreleased, recorded live at slowfest, april 2010)
  • This kind of punishment - Horrible Tango (from the lp A Beard of bees, reissue on Superior Viaduct, 1984/2018)
  • Wio - Places yet to explore (from the lp Brummagem Brilliance, Almost Halloween Time, 2020)
  • Jordan O'Jordan and Lori Goldston - Two Ravens (from the lp Very Old Songs, Woodland Fauna, 2021)
  • Sosena Gebre Eyesus - Segelew Eyalu (They Shouted "Crucify Him") (from the lp Sosena Gebre Eyesus, Little Axe Records, 2018)
  • Pan American - Memphis Helena (from the cd/lp A Son, Kranky, 2019)

Outhouse Mix: morctapes (nov 2021)

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the kind people at Outhouse invited us to make a mix for them, - which was a perfect occasion to do something a bit more eclectic than what we normally play in our radioshows, i noticed: next to tracks from morc-releases by Pefkin , The Iditarod, Soccer Committee and Wouter Van Veldhoven , you'll also hear probably less expected favorites from here at morc hq, ranging from Country Teasers to Dark Day. this is a mix, not a radioshow, so: no banter here. and also: it was kind of an introduction to morc as well, so more morc-releases than usual. you don't mind, do you? it's all good!

Also: i've been on a Townes van zandt-trip lately, being particulary obsessed with different versions of the song 'Rake'. so here, you'll hear an early version from 1969, blending into a very late version from 1991. and i still can't tell what's best.

  • Pefkin - Tulungusaq (from the lp Celestial Navigations, Morc Records 2020)
  • Bebe Fang - Work (from the lp Bebe Fang, Vrystaete, 2018)
  • Country Teasers - Golden Apples (from the lp/cd Destroy All Human Life, Fat Possum, 1999)
  • Nots - Half Painted house (from the lp/cd 3, Goner records, 2019)
  • Flying saucer attack - Night Falls (from the lp/cd New Lands, Domino/Drag City, 1997)
  • De Ambassade - Geen Genade (from the lp Duistre Kamers, Knekelhuis 2016)
  • Dark Day - Hands in the dark (from the 12" Hands in the Dark, Dark Entries, 2013)
  • Cynthia Dall - Extreme cold (from the lp/cd Sound Restores Young Men, Drag City, 2002)
  • Cindy Lee - One second to toe the line (from the lp What's Tonight to Eternity, W.25th, 2020)
  • Wouter van Veldhoven - Daily Routines (from the 10" Faroe Islands, Morc Records, 2013)
  • Af Ursin - Oogsprong (from the lp De Overkant, La Scie Dorée, 2014)
  • Mattias Gustafsson - 3rd movement (from the lp Frånvarande, BAADM, 2019)
  • Townes Van Zandt - Rake 1969/1991 (mixed from two liverecordings: New York 1969 and Amsterdam 1991)
  • The Iditarod - 1000 years (from the tape/cd Kleine, Morc Records 2002/2007)
  • Ela Stiles - Untitled Man (from the lp/cd Ela Stiles, Bedroom Suck Records, 2014)
  • Soccer Committee - Interstellar (from the 10" Tell from the Grass, Morc Records, 2020)
  • Eau Claire - For Times (from the cdep Eau Claire, Clairecords, 2005)
  • Danny Oxenberg + Bear Galvin + friends (Pillow Mt. Conspiracy) - Under Dark Poplars (from the lp Early Abstractions. Vol. 1, Three:four Records/Feeding Tube Records 2019)

Morc FM episode 3 - ​thursday oct 21st 2021

mostly songoriented material this time - most of it warm and analogue, like Crescent, electroscope, Gnac and Accident de Travail. there's an uptempo 'rock'-part too, with favorites like Black Abba and The Brigands (1966, oldest song from this episode). the morc exclusive is a banger: a liverehearsal recording by soccer Committee.
  • ​Crescent - Fountains (from the lp/cd By the Roads and the Fields, Fatcat, 2003)
  • Electroscope - Chalumeau (from the lp/cd Journey to the Centre of Electroscope, Boa records 1999)
  • soccer Committee - Hazy (live in the rehearsal room, unreleased)
  • Dana Valser - Oh olvido (from the cd Antiguo, Three:Four records, 2016)
  • Thomas Smetryns - Voor Luce (From the lp Newborns, self-released, 2020)
  • Accident du travail - La boule (from the lp Live at café Oto, Vlek records, 2019)
  • Black Abba - betting on death (From the 7" Betting on death/Civilied on Goner Records 2015)
  • All in the golden afternoon - Pacific Gulf Highway (from the lp Magic Lighthouse On The Infinite Sea, Magic Lighthouse Records 2011)
  • The Dandelion - In the shadow of Light (from the lp Seeds Flowers And Magical Powers Of The Dandelion, Blackspin Records, 2017, reissue from 2015)
  • The Brigands - Would i still be her big man (from the lp Back from the grave vol 2, Crypt records 1983, reissue from 1966)
  • Fabulous Diamonds - Flowers and Fade (from the lp Plain Songs, Alter, 2019)
  • Burning Axis - Gates of Ether, Gates of Air (from the lp Burning Axis, Hominid Sounds, 2019)
  • Gnac - Can't Get Through To You (from the cd An evening in the company of Vespertine, Vespertine records 1997)

Morc FM episode 2 - ​thursday sept 23rd 2021

mostly slow 'songs' with minimal arrangements this time. more than half of the songs are instrumental, it seems. the oldest recording goes back to the 1920's (Alexis Zoumbas!) and the most recent ones are Alasdair Roberts' collab with Volvur and Bendik Giske reworking a Catherina Barbieri composition. most other tracks are from the past few years, but we often are a bit behind doing new discoveries.
the exclusive track is by Drekka - a very rare live rendition of We who are not lonely, performed in Namur, Belgium in 2009, on the occasion of the release of the 2CD collected works vol 1. The very oldest of those collected works just turned 25. happy birthday Drekka!

  • John Davis - Windy (From the lp Pure Night, Shrimper, 1994 - re-issued as 2CD in 2020)
  • Alasdair Roberts og Volvur - Nu Solen Gar Ned (From the lp The old fabled river, Drag City, 2021)
  • Alexis Zoumbas - Epirotiko Moiroloi (From the lp Alexis Zoumbas, Olvido, 2019, orig 1928)
  • Tim Newman - Our Vanishing night (From the cdr Gamelan, Reverb Worship, 2011)
  • Maria Somerville - Undoing (From the lp All my people, Selfreleased, 2019)
  • Lovely Midget - Fading (From the cd North Head, Family Vineyard, 2003)
  • Kiss Hello - out in the sun (From the lp Songs for Shell Beach, Almost Halloween Time, 2020)
  • Saskia - My lips get hot (From the 7" Eeuwig op reis, Stroom, 2020, orig 1983)
  • Larry O'Keefe - Love's dream (From the compilation Fire of love vol 1, Bell sharp records 2020, orig 1959)
  • People Skills - Three Smiling Dogs in a Dream (From the 7" Magnet Hill, I Dischi di Barone, 2019)
  • Drekka - we who are not lonely  (live at n(h)s - 21 november 2009, unreleased)
  • Bendik Giske - fantas for saxophone and voice (from the 2LP Fantas Variations, Editions Mego, 2020)

Morc FM episode 1 - thursday august 26th 2021

first edition of the radioshow, and we chose a rather wide spectrum of sounds we've recently been listening to at morc hq: from folk to minimal songwriting, subtle electronics and loud drones. it's all there. you'll hear a few morc artists (soccer Committee, The iditarod) new projects by longtime favorites (Distels, Goldscammer, Optic sink), new discoveries (Troth, Lisa Lerkenfeldt) and some overlooked gems (Kant, Bebe Fang)
also: we're trying to let you hear some rare tracks or live recordings on the show. in this episode, you'll hear The iditarod perform 'The unfortunate lass' live at VPRO studio in 2002. as far as i'm aware, this version hasen't been released and remained mostly unheared for approximately two decades. it's a treat. fun fact: Distels, the duo of Annelies Monseré and Edgar Wappenhalter that you'll hear elsewhere in the program also play the same traditional while performing live.
  • Soccer Committee: Hazy (from the 10" Tell from the grass, Morc, 2021)
  • Troth: Calm of the shadow (from the lp And felt like..., Knekelhuis, 2021)
  • Distels: Oak & ash & thorn (from the lp Distels, Almost halloween time/Feeding tube, 2021)
  • The Iditarod: The unfortunate lass (live at VPRO, 2002, unreleased)
  • Lisa Lerkenfeldt: Champagne smoke (From the lp Collagen, Shelter press, 2020)
  • Bebe Fang: Walk (from the lp Bebe Fang , Vrystaete, 2018)
  • Htrk: More to enjoy (from the digital EP Drama, self-released, 2018)
  • Optic Sink: Girls dressed in grey (from the lp Optic Sink, Goner, 2020)
  • Goldscammer: Drag me to the club (from the digital ep GG, Krut, 2020)
  • Kant: Non plus ultra (from the 7" Non plus ultra, Mykedroner, 1997)
  • Filipe Felizardo & Yann Gourdon: La langue de l'Ophiolite (excerpt, from the lp La langue de l'Ophiolite, Trás-Os-Montes, 2021)
  • The Telescopes: Songs of love and revolution (from the cd Songs of love and revolution, Tapete, 2021)