The wonderful Cornel Qua played Frigid tonight, so maybe I saw you there! (Note for the eagle-eyed: I changed the tense of this after the fact, yup!) And afterwards, 3 hours of quality Utility Fogness for ya brain and ears…

John Cale – Hedda Gabler [Rhino]
Decoder Ring – Higher Higher [Manasoundtracks]
Tracker – (We Were) The Trees [Top Shelf Comics]
Paso Bionic – Rusty Dawn Reprise (a remix of “A Quiet Life” by The Rectifiers) [Sensory Projects]
Headset – Previously Smooth Sophistication [~scape]
Slicker with vocals from Lindsay Anderson & others – A Strong Donkey [Hefty]
Sia – Breathe Me (Ulrich Schnauss remix) [Go! Beat]
QuasiMojo – Radio Alphabet India [Mira]
Styrofoam – to simply lie here and breathe [Morr Music]
The Go Find – Sky Window [Morr Music]
Qua – luckybuster [Surgery]
Icarus – Three False Starts [Leaf]
Amon Tobin – Four Ton Mantis [Ninja Tune]
Squarepusher – Tundra 4 [Warp]
Bentley Rhythm Ace – Ragtopskodacarchase [Skint]
0=0 – Running [Mashedup]
Icarus – Return 2 [Recordings of Substance]
EOSS (Electro Organic Sound System) – Wacko Macko Is Backo (DJ C‘s Babylon a Fall mix) [Mashit]
Donna Summer and Sickboy – Soft Moon [Abracadabra]
Rashamon – Where Do You Get Off? [High Point Lowlife/Spirit Of Gravity]
edIT – Situps Pullups [Planet µ]
Kim Hiorthøy – Track 1 from Live Shet [Smalltown Supersound]
Tunng – Tale From Black [Static Caravan]
Milosh – Your Voice [Plug Research]
Twine – Gliding In On [Ghostly International]
Halogen – Collide (collaboration with Heuristic vs DJ Stolen Reeboks) [Karmic Hit]

Welcome to August, 2004. We’re inexorably being drawn into the future, and by some estimates we’ve already arrived. Perhaps one of the most convincing signs is the content of a radio program called Utility Fog on FBi Radio, Sydney. Sceptical? Well, listen up.

Hunters and Collectors – Towtruck [Mushroom/White]
Tunng – Tale From Black [Static Caravan]
Icarus – Skate Slug [Not Applicable/Temporary Residence]
Headset – Grasping Claw (The Beginning) [~scape]
Daedelus – Femme Fatale [Laboratory Instinct]
August Engkilde presents the Electronic Panorama Orchestra – Continental Travelling [popScape]
International Peoples Gang – AC Harmonics [em:t]
Halogen – You Get To Me (collaboration with Fee’koh) [Karmic Hit]
Pita – tk 3 from Get Out [Mego]
Junior Boys – Last Exit (Fennesz remix) [Kin]
65daysofstatic – I’m Dreaming of a White Noise Christmas (Christina) [available for download here]
Cane – Orchid [Colony]
Shadow Huntaz – fasho [SKAM]
Headset – Back Before [~scape]
Icarus – Moon Palace [Recordings of Substance]
0=0 – Running [Mashedup]
Drop The Lime – Rad Girl Killy [Tigerbeat 6]
OVe-NaXx – Whacking Away the Kichigai Dub [Mirex]
Daedelus – Turncoats in Tourniquets [Laboratory Instinct]
Squarepusher – Venus No. 17 Acid Mix [Warp]
Hrvatski – vatstep dsp [Planet µ]
Decomposure – piano/toy electronic drumsticks [Unschooled Records]
Halogen – Innocent (collaboration with Manuel Bonrod) [Karmic Hit]
vitaminsforyou – Luxury and Hope [intr_version]
The Gradient – The Missing… [Generic Tadpole]
Terminal Sound System – What You Can’t See Will Hurt You (a remix of “Last Days of the Sunseeker” by The Rectifiers) [Sensory Projects]
Manitoba – Olé [Leaf]
Julian Fane – Stasis [Planet μ]