His bands Too Much Hair For The BBC, Butterflies In The Machine, Clowns Smiling Backwards and Winduptoys helped shape the city’s underground psychedelic, industrial and electro-loop sounds.
Born in Germany and coming to Australia at a young age, an early interest in cricket gave way to music. “He was very passionate about the whole independent music scene,” recalls Jeremy Smith who formed Winduptoys with Boehm and worked with him at PBS on one of its 60 shows.
Speaking of Boehm’s interest in tapes, loops and samples, Smith recalls, “He could watch a TV show and take in every music sound on it. He was very interested in sounds.”
Boehm was also involved in live and studio production for acts as Pray TV, Groove Invaders and The Mavis’s. He ran Giggle Records which issued 30 releases in the 1980s and 1990s (including the Screaming At Mirrors compilations of Melbourne bands) and Phantom Tollbooth Studios, and was involved in the Clan Analogue electronics and digital culture collective’s events and its record label through Creative Vibes.
