Utility Fog

Thursday, 15th of January, 2004

This show began with a bit of overblown cacophany of the best kind, from the classic first Mr. Bungle album, one of the greatest rock albums ever made. It was produced by John Zorn, and I followed the Bungle track with a fucked-up dub version of a Hebrew song on Zorn's Tzadik label. (Another ridiculous connection for UFog trainspotters: Mr. Bungle's singer is of course Mr Mike Patton, whose label Ipecac released the recent Kid 606 album...)
We had a couple of little specials on today's show. A few tracks from the beautiful new Savath & Savalas album Apropa't, out in a couple of weeks from Warp, and a few tracks taking up the South American theme that Apropa't explores so beautifully.
And following that we took a little historical trip through some of the music of Adam Pierce aka Mice Parade, head honcho of Bubblecore Records and all-round cool guy. Couldn't possibly fit in something from all his releases, but we got quite a bit in!
There's also a new album from Eight Frozen Modules, from which we took a couple of tracks, and there's no doubt we'll here more of all this new music in the next few shows. And finally, the last two tracks were from belated entries into the "very best albums of 2003" category: Leafcutter John's The Housebound Spirit, on Planet µ is a wondrous thing to behold; and Belgian band Bed's album Spacebox, on French indie label Ici D'Ailleurs is a beautiful and sensitive essay in post-late-Talk Talkism. And if that ain't a fab new genre I don't know what is.

Mr. Bungle - Carousel [Warner Bros]
David Gould vs Jamie Saft - Hinei Ma Tov Dub [Tzadik]
King Tubby & Soul Syndicate feat. Prince Alla - Great Stone (Zion Train) [Select Cuts]
Enduser - Babylon Dub [Was a download from his site; you can probably find it somewhere still, but check other mp3s also from c8]
Rude Ass Tinker - Silk Ties [Deathchant]
Hrvatski - Apostle [RKK]
Amon Tobin - Fast Eddie [Ninja Tune]
Savath & Savalas - Introduccion [Warp Records]
Savath & Savalas - Te quiero pero por otro lado [Warp Records]
Getz/Gilberto - Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) [Verve]
Savath & Savalas - Radio llos especials [Warp Records]
Hefty - Savath & Savalas "replay slicker" [Hefty]
Hefty - Mice Parade "confidence in scoober mix" [Hefty]
Mice Parade - Organic Reproduction Attempt [Fat Cat]
Mice Parade - Galileo [Bubblecore]
Mice Parade - One Road Led To Columbia [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Mice Parade - Focus On The Roller Coaster [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Greg Davis - nicholas [Carpark]
Pimmon - The Sacred Dance of Mimi Lush (links to my review) [Tigerbeat 6]
Fennesz - Perlen Für Euch [Warp Records, exclusive track on Warpmart1 comp]
Eight Frozen Modules - Adversely Affected [Orthlorng Musork]
Eight Frozen Modules - Organ For God [Orthlorng Musork]
Funckarma - Soccermummy (original track: Slemper) [On Records {note: if front page doesn't work, try http://www.onrecords.com/flash/onrecords.htm}]
Jello - Lungbone [Peacefrog] {PS Jello is Bola under another name... Geddit? Bola Jello?}
65daysofstatic - play.nice.kids [Dustpunk Records]
Beam Up - tk 4 from recent CDR promo, no track titles included...
Vim! - 1994 Gold Via Ratners [Monotonik]
Opiate - Perdot [Morr Music]
Leafcutter John - If You Have An Enemy [Planet µ]
Bed - Plainfield [Ici D'Ailleurs]

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