Utility Fog

All sorts of experimental electronic song tonight, and bits of postrock, dub, jungle, techno, sound-art... LISTEN AGAIN and do some good. Stream on demand at FBi, podcast here. Maryam Saleh - Nouh Al Hamam [Al Gharib] The Allegorist - Trees of Peace [Al Gharib] The Allegorist - Dreams at Dawn (Midori Hirano Rework) [Awaken Chronicles] […]

The world's gone mad but what's new. Another week, means another Utility Fog to sooth the savage breast. Charm or curse, LISTEN AGAIN and feel the magick courtesy of FBi's stream on demand, or podcast here. Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - I'm Getting Out While I Can [Perpetual Flame Ministries/Bandcamp] Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - […]

Listen in for pianos used in classical, post-classical, postrock, IDM and breakcore contexts... Arabic vocal samples and raps, breakbeats and programmed beats. Music for music, music for politics, music for poetry, music for life and music for peace. LISTEN AGAIN to tomorrow's sounds today. Stream on demand @ FBi, podcast here. Fennesz & Taylor Deupree […]

It's been a hell week for many of us. This isn't the place to talk about it really, but let's just acknowledge the pain that so many are feeling, and get on with doing good where we can. LISTEN AGAIN if you have the mental wherewithall - it's good for your soul. Stream on demand […]

Heartrending songs from around the world, glitchy processed traditional instruments, breakcore, and more tonight! LISTEN AGAIN, even if you missed it the first time around. Stream on demand via FBi, or podcast from here. Sufjan Stevens - Goodbye Evergreen [Asthmatic Kitty/Bandcamp] It was possible, when one first heard Sufjan Stevens's new album Javelin, to think […]

On the hottest 1st of October ever recorded here in Eora/Sydney, a whole gamut of stuff for you tonight on Utility Fog. LISTEN AGAIN and feel the gamut. Stream on demand as offered by FBi Radio, or podcast here. Lord of the Isles & Ellen Renton - A Discovery [AD93/Bandcamp] Lord of the Isles & […]

Music both popular and unpopular tonight. There's not enough unpopular music on the radio, but this is an imbalance that Utility Fog has always attempted to correct. LISTEN AGAIN and experience transcendence (again). Podcast right here, stream on demand on the FBi website. Popular Music - Sad Songs [Popular Music Bandcamp] Back in August, I […]

There's more pop (arguably) than usual in tonight's Utility Fog, and more ambient (loosely) tonight as well. There's 4/4 dub of various sorts, processed field recordings and a surprising number of cellists doing unusual things. LISTEN AGAIN and be inspired. Stream on demand via FBi, podcast from here. Lucidvox - Don't Look Away [Glitterbeat/Bandcamp] Starting […]

It's the first Utility Fog episode in my 21st year of broadcast, and in my 3rd decade too. But it's also a momentous occasion because Lee Tran Lam, who's hosted Local Fidelity for some 17 years of that time, is calling quits tonight. She's been an amazing in bringing contemporary Australian music - and some […]

Incomprehensibly, Utility Fog has been on-air for 20 years as of this week! That means, of course, that FBi Radio has survived 20 years - something to celebrate. The station has had an undeniably massive impact on Sydney's music scene, brought fourth musical careers, provided a focal point for music obsessives all over Sydney & […]

Sometimes it's really hard to work out the right flow for the tracks I have on hand. There's a stackload of great stuff tonight, but it has to flit back and forth between all sorts of genres because that's just how it is. Still, as always a celebration of amazing music! LISTEN AGAIN and just […]

In putting together tonight's playlist I was pulled from two directions - bass-heavy beats and micro ambient. In between we find the synthesis of noise and bass, indie rock and beats, and more. LISTEN AGAIN when you have the time. Make the time. Streaming on-demand @ FBi, podcast here Sheila Chandra - Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean […]

Some of the most dancefloor-oriented sounds and some of the most ambient sounds on Utility Fog tonight, as well as nods to jazz, indie rock, shoegaze, and post-classical. LISTEN AGAIN to this week's trip - stream on demand on FBi's website or podcast here. Mark Van Hoen - You & I [Mark Van Hoen Bandcamp] […]

Huge thanks to Mara Schwerdtfeger for her excellent selections last week while I was on tour in QLD. This week we're featuring a number of singles from forthcoming albums I'm excited about, as well as various new releases from artist ranging from here in Eora/Sydney to Canada, USA, Iran, Egypt, China, the Netherlands, and more! […]

A random-not-random aesthetic runs across a lot of the music tonight, which is one of my favourite vibes in the music I've encountered and spread through this show's many years. Whether it's sounds from indie rock, krautrock, sample-based electronica, musique concrète or hip-hop, you can hear cacophanies of sound that reveal themselves to be sensitively […]

Classical instruments getting themselves into strange situations, noise shaped into hip-hop, field recordings shaped into techno, IDM, dub... and lots of experimental electronics in general tonight. LISTEN AGAIN and you may find the secret meaning of life. Try streaming on demand on the FBi website, or podcasting here. Sun Ra - Nuclear War (Joel Tarman […]

A quite international Utility Fog tonight also covers ground from purely acoustic folk to purely electronic, generative music, managing to shift into jazz, doom, and jungle from surprising quarters, with sound-art and a dash of contemporary composition rounding things out. LISTEN AGAIN to the widest sounds around. Podcast here, stream on demand from FBi. Mike […]

This week saw the release of some beautiful guitar-led, experimental singer-songwriter stuff - leftfield indie folk, perhaps, and we also have de/reconstructed English folk, de/reconstructed Brazilian samba stylings, trailblazing '80s experimental cello-pop, trip-hop and other beats, post-industrial, instrumental shoegaze and post-classical piano & guitar. This has been your genres of the week. LISTEN AGAIN, when […]

A bit of everything tonight: postpunk dub, minimal techno, IDM, breakbeat and minimal d'n'b, ambient, post-classical and post-jazz, drone, indie, folk, glitch, modular synth. What's a few genres between friends? Thanks once again to Holly Conner for holding the fort while I was away last week! LISTEN AGAIN for your sanity's sake. Stream on demand […]

A little less emphasis on the beats tonight, or it's beats within other genres or in service of something other than moving bodies on dancefloors... There's riveting spoken word, futuristic raps and weird adaptations, and later, post-jazz and spooky sound-art. Thanks to Holly Conner aka ilex for her excellent selections last week! She'll be looking […]