Utility Fog

Sunday, 29th of February, 2004

The show started somewhat late tonight (about 10:45) because Sunday Night At The Movies had a leap year special, doing an extraordinary live improvised soundtrack to a movie being broadcast on TV...
Started with some folk, because a bit of contextualising is never a bad thing; then a Peel Session from a wonderful Sydney indie band, and then a Plunderphonic version of the first folk singer, and on into the usual madness!

Tim Buckley - Pleasant Street/You Keep Me Hanging On (live in London, 1968) [Manifesto Records]
Even As We Speak - This Is My Dream (Peel Session, 1993) [unreleased, copy direct from Mary Wyer of EAWS; to be released later this year!]
John Oswald - anon (by "Timely Buck") [pfony, originally Elektra]
Greg Davis - My Neighborhood [Contact Records]
b. fleischmann - a letter from home [Morr Music/Charizma]
Orchester 33 1/3 - Demonstration [rhiz]
Jaga Jazzist - Two Things [Smalltown Supersound/Ninja Tune]
Jaga Jazzist - Digital Carrot [Smalltown Supersound]
Third Eye Foundation remix of Faultline - Mute [Domino]
Puzzleweasel - Hi3Si2RO mix [Violent Turd]
DJ C - Billy Jungle (version) [Mashit]
Soundmurderer - Stick Up (Quick Mix) [Omeko]
Craig Connor/Rockstar North - Manhunt (Remix #1 by Aleksi Perälä) [Rephlex]
Nettle vs Hrvatski - Uncivilibertarian [theAgriculture]
Slag Boom Van Loon - brocolli (Leafcutter John remix) [Planet µ]
Nettle remixed by Leafcutter John - The Ballad of Jimmy Hollin is More Awkward Than That [theAgriculture]
Thavius Beck - To Make Manifest [Mush]
cLOUDDEAD - Son Of A Gun [Mush/Big Dada]
Funkstörung - Fat Camp Feva w/ Tes (promo version with annoying overdubbed interview) [Studio !K7]
Shadow Huntaz - Trenches [Skam]
Clue To Kalo - we'll live free (in nyc) [Mush/Leaf Records]
Figurine - way too good (2 good mix) [Blue Bell Records]
Dwayne Sodahberk - The Agreeing Song [Tigerbeat 6]
Tuk - German Holidays [(K-RAK-K)³ by way of Wire Magazine]

Sunday, 22nd of February, 2004

Second week of putting playlists up as we go! Started the show with two Coil-related tracks, because Lars from Ollo did a killer Coil special on Sunday Night At The Movies preceding UFog: Coil's amazing remix of Slag Boom Van Loon, the collaboration between Mike Paradinas (µ-ziq) and Jochen Paap (Speedy J), and then Matmos' cover of Coil's "Disco Hospital".
Then we made our way through amazing new releases from Dwayne Sodahberk (on Tigerbeat 6), a compilation on Blue Bell Records, and much more...

Slag Boom Van Loon - Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium (Coil remix) [Planet µ]
Matmos - Disco Hospital [Matador]
Björk - Pagan Poetry (Matthew Herbert Handshake mix) [One Little Indian]
Matmos - California Rhinoplasty (Doctor Rockit's Surgery With Compilations) [Matador]
Jaga Jazzist - Day (Herbert's Garden mix) [Smalltown Supersound/Ninja Tune]
Sluta Leta - Flash [Mego]
Snawklor - Doublivores Back [Synaesthesia]
Sluta Leta - Trög Men Fästa [Mego]
Matmos - Cymbals and Aspirin (A Breakthrough in Pain Relief) [Matador]
Dwayne Sodahberk - The Agreeing Song [Tigerbeat 6]
Aarktica vs Aaron Spectre - Alceria [Blue Bell Records]
Dwayne Sodahberk - Christa [Tigerbeat 6]
Sybarite - Chewing Gum & Polaroids [Blue Bell Records]
Manitoba - Silver Splinters [Leaf]
Technicolor - et jam [Blue Bell Records]
Cane - Fall [Arcola]
Bola - Vespers [Skam]
Shadow Huntaz - Figure of Speech [Skam]
Delarosa and Asora - Smaze Words [Schematic]
Savath & Savalas - Um girassol da cor de seu cabelo [Warp Records]
Delarosa and Asora - Vs. Boah [Pearineel via Hefty]
Don Meers - Only the Pain Will Set You Free (Ens remix) [Groovescooter]
DJ Shadow - War Is Hell [label? DJ Shadow?]
Ens - Mr Esoterica [Groovescooter]
Dwayne Sodahberk - Bird [Tigerbeat 6]
DJ C - Billy Jungle [Mashit]
Truman Chewstick {can't find any better link than this!} - No Love In The Heart of the City (Aaron Spectre remix) [download from Aaron Spectre's download page]

Sunday, 15th of February, 2004

There's a new computer in the studio with an internet connection on it! I managed, as you can now see, to put the entire playlist up in realtime. I'll let it speak for itself, except to say that I dedicated "This Is Not A Love Song" to Johnny Howard, George Bush and the Free Trade Agreement that's going to make us all vassals of the American Empire, starting now.
Also played a bunch more tracks from the wonderful Funckarma, under their moniker Quench. They produced the new Shadow Huntaz LP, taking electonirca & hip-hop to a new level... A bit of breakcore mayhem before we finished with some Aussie plunderphonic lunacy.

Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song [Virgin]
My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When [Creation Records]
My Jazzy Child - Morfler [Clapping Music]
Mice Parade - Focus on a Roller Coaster [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Ms. John Soda - Technicolor [Morr Music]
b. fleischmann - a letter from home [Morr Music/Charizma]
Schlammpeitziger - Prä-Digitaler Volksstuhlhänger [Sonig]
Utabi - Cassia Angustifolia [ADAADAT/19-t]
65daysofstatic - face of the earth (clinging on to) {remix of Dismemberment Plan} [Dust Punk Records]
Doves - M62 Song (Four Tet remix) [Heavenly]
Mojave 3 - Bluebird of Happiness (Ulrich Schnauss remix) [4AD]
Sutekh - Privacy [Orthlorng Musork]
The Herbaliser - Mrs Chombee Takes The Plunge (DJ Food re-bake) [Ninja Tune]
Quench - Polar [u-cover]
Quench Unalaska Version 1.02 (a Llips meets Quench mix) [u-cover]
Shadow Huntaz - American dreams [Skam]
Quench - Zane [Musik Aus Strom]
Shadow Huntaz - cdc [Skam]
Quench - Whale (feat. vocal samples of Capleton) [u-cover]
DJ C feat. Capleton - Conscience A Heng Dem (Aaron Spectre remix) [Mashit]
Soundmurderer - Stick Up (Quick Mix) [Omeko]
Soundmurderer & SK-1 - Soundboy [Rewind]
Craig Connor/Rockstar North - Manhunt (Remix by Soundmurderer) [Rephlex]
Wake Up And Listen - ray of light [Alias Frequencies]
Wake Up And Listen - it's not that easy [Alias Frequencies]
Bradbury - Big Man On Campus [Dual Plover]
Toecutter - Music Sounds Better With Me [Death$ucker Records]

Monday, 9th of February, 2004

This week we had a few mini-specials: Started with a classical/folk/electronic crossover interpretation of The The, from an excellent 4-track EP of The The versions, and then a band with whom they shared a record label at the time, Nine Inch Nails, with two remixes courtesy of Telefon Tel Aviv, whose new album is finally out this week, and should be available in Oz any minute...
Iconoclastic UK label Ninja Tune is finally releasing some retrospective compilations, including a double-CD set of remixes released on the label. Tonight I decided to play a few of my fave Ninja remixes that didn't make it onto the (very cool!) compilation, including the only Amon Tobin remix I can think of that was actually released on Ninja Tune. I also played the slightly-longer original version of Four Tet's Bonobo remix...
Also just out is the long-awaited Shadow Huntaz album on Skam, which is a collaboration between three US MCs and the amazing Dutch brothers Funckarma. We heard some electronica-meets-hip-hop from Boards of Canada and cLOUDDEAD, and then a whole heap of Funckarma's extraordinary back-catalogue, as well as a couple of Shadow Huntaz tracks. More to come next week!

The The - ShrunkenMan (performed by Daau) [Nothing]
Nine Inch Nails - Where Is Everybody? (manipulated by Danny Lohner featuring Telefon Tel Aviv) [Nothing]
Nine Inch Nails - The Frail (manipulated by Benelli) [Nothing] {I know Benelli is actually Joshua Eustis with Turk Dietrich, but they've hardly done anything outside of this remix, and Dietrich is credited on a couple of trax on the new Telefon album as well...}
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Effortless [Hefty Records]
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Grief (Amon Tobin remix) [Ninja Tune]
Can - Oh Yeah (Sunroof mix by Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller) [Mute]
DJ Vadim - Who The Hell Am I? (Animals on Wheels remix) [Ninja Tune]
Beam Up - tk 1 from recent CDR promo, no track titles included...
Bradbury - Never the Less [Dual Plover]
Pimmon - Give Me Your Cylinder [Staalplaat]
Montano - Shimmer [self-released promo CDR]
Bonobo - Pick Up (Four Tet mix) [Ninja Tune]
RJD2 - True Confessions [Chocolate Industries (Discogs page here if link now working)]
cLOUDDEAD - The Teen Keen Skip [Mush/Big Dada]
Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling [Warp Records]
cLOUDDEAD - Dead Dogs Two (remix by Boards of Canada) [Mush/Big Dada]
Boards of Canada - june 9th [Skam]
Funckarma - Spatial Convolution [dub]
Shadow Huntaz - Trenches [Skam]
Funckarma - Here and Now (original song by Céline) [On Records (main page here)] {No link for "Céline" - I have the terrifying thought that this is the grotesque Ms Dion, granulated to all buggery...}
Gridlock - Estrella (Funckarma remix) [Hymen]
Math - Forces Combined (Funckarma remix) [Musik Aus Strom]
Shadow Huntaz - Figure of Speech [Skam]
Funckarma - Lignite [dub]
Cex - Eleven Million Dollars Worth of Bearer Bonds [Tigerbeat 6]
Cex - Drive off a Mountain [Jade Tree Records]
Hairy Butter & Cursor Miner - Fuck Da Strokes [White-label 7" with funny packaging, uncredited label but probably Lo Recordings]
Enduser - Broke As Fuck [Omeko
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor [Warp Records]

Monday, 2nd of February, 2004

Tonight we started with (and scattered through the whole show) a whole lot of what could loosely be termed "pop". Neil Gaiman, in his journal, mentioned a song by comics author/genius Alan Moore and his Sinister Ducks called "The March of the Sinister Ducks", which appeared on a flexi-disc with Fantagraphics' Critters #23 anothology, although it dates from even earlier than that. It was a collaboration with David J of Bauhaus, so we had to hear a brilliant classic by Bauhaus after that. Can made an appearance because Damo Suzuki is in town, and a bunch of new stuff got featured: A new CD from Trinkets, instrumental folky post-rock, featuring beautiful violin and occasional cello, from Brisbane - yay!
A new album by Dublin-based Herv, released on his Compactrisc label, showcasing an innovative electronic scene that seems to be springing up in the capital of Eyre what with Skkatter as well - and the Maersk track on the same label is really nice postfolkrock(tronica?) too!
And finally on the new tip, there's a new album by Fantômas, mastered as one 74-minute (or something) track. The press release says "Needless to say, this won't be played on the radio", so I had to take the bait, and played a 5(ish)-minute chunk that was pretty UFog-friendly!

Sinister Ducks - March of the Sinister Ducks [once released by Fantagraphics Books, and can be downloaded at this location]
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's dead [Small Wonder Records, which you can Google for if you like...]
Can - Mushroom [Spoon/Mute]
cLOUDDEAD - Dead Dogs Two (Boards of Canada remix) [Mush/Big Dada]
The Beta Band - Broke [Regal Recordings]
Cex - Stop Eating [Jade Tree Records]
El-P - Deadlight [Chocolate Industries (Discogs page here if link now working)]
Eight Frozen Modules - Lemon Chiffon [Tigerbeat 6]
65daysofstatic - everything we talked about yesterday [Dust Punk Records]
My Jazzy Child - Morfler [Clapping Music]
Schlammpeitziger - Beh�bige Alarmschwarmlage [Sonig]
LFO - Millionaire Dogs [Warp]
Brothomstates - Rktic [Arcola]
Craig Connor/Rockstar North - Manhunt (Remix #3 by Aleksi Perälä) [Rephlex]
Herv - Corrective Action [Compactrisc]
Craig Connor/Rockstar North - Manhunt (Remix by The Bug) [Rephlex]
0=0 - Plastic Zero [dross:tik]
? (Jacobean?) - tk 1 fm MASK500 12" [SKAM]
Finkelstein - tk 8 (Hebrew title) fm The Art of Escapism [AK Duck]
Coppe' - Ala Moana [Mango + Sweet Rice]
Trinkets - The Unbearable Lightness of Fleeing [Trinkets Music]
Mice Parade - Milton Road [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Maersk - Pirouette Unravel [Compactrisc]
Herv - Pianowire [Compactrisc]
Ninetynine vs qwertykeith - The Cleaner [from Keith's unreleased remixes of the entire Ninetynine album The Process, entitled The Processed, and downloadable from the link]
Telefon Tel Aviv feat Lindsay Anderson - Bubble and Spike [Hefty Records]
Fantômas - excerpt fm Delìrium Còrdia [Ipecac]
Telefon Tel Aviv - What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It [Hefty Records]
Opiate - Reyk [System F3]
désormais - to sing before going to sleep [intr_version]
Utabi - Yorange Peel [ADAADAT/19-t]
Mochipet - Yes vs. NoMeansNo [Violent Turd]
Aaron Spectre - she knows [Opiate; download]