Utility Fog

Vocals tonight used in myriad ways from glistening pop to visceral assaults... LISTEN AGAIN, I know, there's a lot to take in! FBi's website offers stream on demand, or you can podcast here. 9T Antiope - Ready Player One [American Dreams/Bandcamp] 9T Antiope - Canvas Blank [American Dreams/Bandcamp] Listeners of this show know I've been […]

It's been four weeks since I was last here! Three Sundays in Japan (amazing of course), in which the excellent Mara Schwerdtfeger kept you company - huge thanks to Mara! LISTEN AGAIN to all the things! Stream on demand at FBi or podcast here. Meril Wubslin - Pas là [Bongo Joe Records/Bandcamp] Starting with a […]

Powerful transformative voices, powerful voices transformed, transformative instrumentals, beats of power. This is my last UFog until April 7th, as I'll be in Japan for three Sundays! LISTEN AGAIN if you dare! Podcast here, stream on demand @ FBi. Kim Gordon - The Believers [Matador/Bandcamp] Kim Gordon - I Don't Miss My Mind [Matador/Bandcamp] The […]

Music of great beauty and mystery, rhythms of great propulsion. LISTEN AGAIN to the sign o' the times. Stream on demand at FBi, podcast here. Armand Hammer - Doves feat. Benjamin Booker [Backwoodz Studioz/Bandcamp] Following a flurry of collaborations, many of which I've played here, Armand Hammer have released a new song - except it's […]

Oddly tonight we have a bit more weird-ass rock stuff than usual, and garage jazz, and... post-jazz? But also breakcore and lots of jungle/drum'n'bass influences in some more experimental settings, as well as some mesmerising pump organ and voice. LISTEN AGAIN, don't be scared! Stream on demand on FBi's website, podcast here. Kim Myhr & […]

We have wonderful Indigeonous/classical/experimental crossover, weird electronic pop & hip-hop, noise, sound-art, Middle Eastern beats, jungle/bass/dubstep, hyper-shoegaze, contemporary cello, ambient and more. Listen and enjoy. LISTEN AGAIN to the re-listenable. Podcast here, stream on demand there @ FBi. Yirinda - Guyu (Fish) [Chapter Music/Bandcamp] Yirinda - Yunma (Sleep) [Chapter Music/Bandcamp] Well, the self-titled album from […]

Sad news came today of the death of Damo Suzuki, the most recognizable vocalist of Can, and globetrotting vocal improvisor. Following some Can, we've got post- & contemporary jazz, gothic & industrial electronics, post-junglisms, idm, folktronica, drone and more. LISTEN AGAIN to all the jewels within! Stream on demand on FBi's website, podcast here. Can […]

There's some great string-based music out this week, including indie-rock strings, stringdietronica (I made that up. It's awful, sorry), and some gorgeous double-bass/percussion-ambient stuff from three Aussie women. Also noise and glitch, dubstep/industrial dub, and shoegaze... LISTEN AGAIN to check that thing you missed the first time. Stream on demand brought to you by our […]

Tonight we have catch-ups from 2023 and wonderful new stuff, including previews and early singles, ranging from post-jazz and experimental indie to breakcore and chiptune drill'n'bass. LISTEN AGAIN for the details you missed the first time. Podcast right here, stream on demand via FBi. Yirinda - Nyun (Brother) [Chapter Music/Bandcamp] I was very pleased to […]

Tonight is - finally - the first "new music" show of the year! I missed the 31st of Dec, and the 7th was the best of 2023 DJ set, and then on the 14th I was off again. So... here we are, catching up. It's absurd that we're catching upon new music released since mid-December […]

The 3rd and last part of Utility Fog's Best of 2023 is a DJ mix of dance/beats music from the year. I decided not to speak over any of the music, so I've top-and-tailed it only. See below for much discussion of the music in there! LISTEN AGAIN and again, dance, nod your head, smile […]

Wait, it's still 2023... but... why? (PSA: It will still be 2023 next Sunday too, just. I will be away though, so somebody else will keep you company until Sunday the 7th of Jan, when we'll have the final Part 3 of Best of 2023, with the year finally out of the way!) Tonight is […]

Well, it's been a year. A year divided into two, I daresay. Nonetheless, it's been another year of incredible music, and this first "Best of 2023" show is attempting to focus on vocal music. "Songs", if you will. I have had to cut so many darlings, you have no idea of the pain. But what's […]

Strange echoes tonight as we hear some (quite avant-garde) freak-folk, prog-folk(?), alt.hip-hop and plenty of proper drum'n'bass - but also very modern sound-design jungle, acoustic experimentalism edging on classicalm, free jazz and postrock, and... more? This is our last "new music" show of the year. The next two shows will be "Best of 2023" Parts […]

Many crunchy, glitchy sounds tonight, voices submerged in beds of audio soup, folktronica, post-classicism and uneasy ambient. LISTEN AGAIN and experience the glory. Stream on demand via FBi, podcast here. Richie Culver - Swollen ft. billy woods [Participant/Bandcamp] Richie Culver - Say 4 sure [Participant/Bandcamp] Conceptual artist & poet Richie Culver collaborated with Blackhaine in […]

Future beats, folktronic hybrids, post-everything improv and more... LISTEN AGAIN because you know it's good. Stream on demand on the FBi site, podcast here. Many Seg - wash ur mind [zzaapp records] Many Seg - i guess [zzaapp records] Non-binary Melburnian-via-Darwin Serge Balaam releases their debut EP as Many Seg on Kris Keogh's ZZAAPP Records, […]

Underground hip-hop royalty; remixed noise-rock and jungle-grime; a breakcore legend making rhythmic proto-techno on modular synths; dubstep-jungle and industrial-jungle hybrids; percussion-electronics mind-melds; bass-heavy noise-beats; deconstructed cello, deconstructed piano, deconstructed indie, deconstructed industrial acoustic cabaret, very deconstructed American Primitive guitar; and indie-postrock-dub-techno. All of this, for you. Tonight. Also, HUGE thanks to Mara Schwerdtfeger for her […]

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 […]