Well! Tonight is Utility Fog’s end-of-year wrap – as many of the top songs of 2004 as I can fit into one show. You may be interested to peek over at my blog, where I’ve posted an extremely long list of my favourite releases of 2004… There’s no way in the world I could get through everything I wanted, and there’ll be a bit of an overflow into next week…
Oh, and speaking of next week, tune in for a once-in-about-7-years Utility Fog – it happens to fall on my 31st birthday. So I’ll be slightly loosening the genre constraints in order to bring you more gypsy, klezmer, indie-pop, punk, folk, dub, drum’n’bass, and anything else I feel like as well as your usual postfolkrocktronica and breakcore…
Starting tonight with a song on a boxing theme (well, it is “Boxing” Day) from 1984, followed by a track from 1994, and then we’re into 2004!

Midnight Oil – Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers [CBS/Sony]
Autechre – Flutter [Warp]
Funckarma – Spunge [dub]
Bola – Effaninor [Skam]
Shadow Huntaz – Figure of Speech [Skam]
Nitrada – I Fear: Good. [2.nd rec]
Styrofoam – Beequeen [Morr Music]
Styrofoam – Between The Bars [Morr Music] {Elliott Smith cover}
Comatone – Not For Years [Feral Media]
Daedelus – 28:06:42:12 (his mix from the split 7″ with Boom Bip), inspired by the movie Donnie Darko [Mush]
cLOUDDEAD – The Keen Teen Skip [Mush/Big Dada]
Subtle – I (heart) L.A. [Lex Records]
Hood – You Shins Break My Heart [Rocket Racer]
Aarktica vs Aaron Spectre – Alceria [Blue Bell Records]
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans [Sounds Familyre/Spunk]
Mara Carlyle – Baby Bloodheart [Accidental Records]
Animal Collective – Winters Love [Fat Cat]
Epic 45 – (Re)Sculpted By Winter [Make Mine Music]
Honey & Colleen – Lala Musica [Audio Dregs]
Four Tet – Both when I am alone and we both are [Ache Records]
Inch-time – root drinking in the dark [beautiful self-released one-track business card CD, with amazing watercolour print cover]
Sia – Breathe Me (Four Tet remix) [Go! Beat]
Tin Hat Trio – The Clandestine Adventures of Ms. Merz [Ropeadope]
Qua – luckybuster [Surgery]
Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) – Sky High [Brøklyn Beats]
Shitmat – Dis Dancehall Ting is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony [Planet µ]
DJ C – Billy Jungle [Mashit]
Enduser – Not So Distant Drums [Ad Noiseam]
Venetian Snares – Twelve [Coredump]
65daysofstatic – this cat is a landmine [Monotreme]
Dwayne Sodahberk – The Agreeing Song [Tigerbeat 6] (came out in 2003 but I only found it in 2004 – d’oh!)
Mouse on Mars – Wipe That Sound [Sonig/Rogue Records]
Tunng – Suprize Me 44 [Static Caravan]
Icarus – Gnog [Leaf]
Triosk – Two; Twelve [Leaf]

Another week, another show… Crazy weather has rendered this weather-allergic presenter a little, well, “under the weather”. Should nevertheless be able to bring you another fun-filled show. It’s that time of the year where nothing much new is coming out, so we’ve just got all the goodies that were new in the last few weeks, plus digging up a couple of great old things like Future Sound of London‘s first record for Virgin (as Amorphous Androgynous)… Starting with my Channukah special, to get in the spirit of things (that is, the atheist Jewish anti-Christmas spirit of things, of course!)

They Might Be Giants – Feast of Lights [Six Degrees]
Cex – Stop Eating [Jade Tree Records]
Subtle – the long vein of the law [Lex Records]
Hood – over the land over the sea. [Domino]
Amorphous Androgynous – in mind [Virgin]
Bola – Eluus [Skam]
Amorphous Androgynous – swab [Virgin]
Kattoo – Place1 [Hymen]
Comatone – Stillpoint Coma [Feral Media]
Venetian Snares – This Bitter Earth [Addict]
Keef Baker – Castrovalva [n5md]
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Weiter [Kranky]
vitaminsforyou – Écologie + Histoire Pt 3 [intr_version]
John Chantler – Bedframe Lullaby (Warm Milk) [::ROOM40::]
Andrew Coleman – way to go [Tripel]
Hinterlandt – Making Plans For Nigel [Alias Frequencies]
The Bad Plus – Flim [Columbia]
Squarepusher – Tundra 4 [Warp]
“Player” – Angel of Theft [it’s an awesome Slayer jungle bootleg on “Jef Am Records” (one-sided translucent red vinyl, 5-pointed star etched in the flipside) – actually put out by Ninja Tune, it’s Amon Tobin in disguise…]
Jimmy Edgar – Latin Sunrise (remix of Kero‘s Bent) [Detroit Underground]
65daysofstatic – install a beak in the heart that clucks time in arabic [Monotreme]
Hood – any hopeful thoughts arrive [Domino]
Tunng – Tale From Black [Static Caravan]
Inch-time – Patient As A Tree [from his self-released mini-album any colour you like]
The Necks – Mosquito (Excerpt) [courtesy of Wire Magazine]
Icarus – Return 2 [Recordings of Substance]
Enduser – def¿ (pussy version) [self-released CDR]
Eight Frozen Modules – Elephantitis of the Man [Planet µ]
The Bug vs The Rootsman ft. He-man – Killer (Soundmurderer & SK-1 “Badman Rewind” Remix) [Razor (mi)X]
DJ /Rupture – little more oil (feat. Sister Nancy) [Tigerbeat6]
They Might Be Giants – Larger Than Life (Joshua Fried‘s remix of She’s Actual Size) [Elektra – sadly no longer available, but you can get all available TMBG via their Yahoo store. This has been out of print for ages though…]

Can’t practically think of anything to say tonight, just a bunch of music really. Yeah. Some awesome new stuff, some old, so it goes :)

Even As We Speak – 30 Miles (Peel Session, 1993) [unreleased, copy direct from Mary Wyer of EAWS]
Holly Throsby – We’re good people but why don’t we show it? [Spunk]
Sufjan Stevens – A Good Man Is Hard To Find [Sounds Familyre/Spunk]
The Boats – And There Are Stars That Fell [Moteer]
Plumbline – 501 W23 [Hydrogen Dukebox]
The Dylan Group – Towers of Dub [Bubblecore]
Gescom – Sciew Spoc [Skam]
Bola – Effanajor [Skam]
Deru – Tapah [Merck]
Comatone – Stillpoint Coma [Feral Media]
Minimum Chips – Niccone [Feral Media]
Epic 45 – These Dead Years [Where Are My Records]
Hood – Winter 72 [Domino]
Sufjan Stevens – Niagara Falls [Misplaced Music]
Tunng – Surprise Me 44 [Static Caravan]
Inch-time – root drinking in the dark [beautiful self-released one-track business card CD, with amazing watercolour print cover]
Ra – ev.panic [Coredump]
Eight Frozen Modules – Echo Youth [Planet µ]
Jimmy Edgar – Latin Sunrise (remix of Kero‘s Bent) [Detroit Underground]
Venetian Snares – Twelve [Coredump]
Rusuden – Ana Appears Normal [Sonicterror]
Keef Baker – Armed Snobbery [n5md]
cyrusrex – Jiggle Wisket [Negative 3]
Junior Boys – Last Exit (Fennesz remix) [Kin]
Her Space Holiday – The Young Machines (The Album Leaf remix) [Mush]
vitaminsforyou – It’s Only Snow – It’s Only Sunshine [intr_version]
Richard Pinhas – Dextro [Cuneiform]
Clear Horizon – for days [Kranky]
Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides – 3 Lobed 1 [Unsounds via Wire mag]
Aesop Rock – Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives [Def Jux via The Wire]

Peter’s Playlist for Paul’s Playlunch
Paul Gough aka Pimmon managed to hit his head on Sunday morning and needed stitches – ouch! He rang me while I was at Frigid to ask if I could leave a note @ FBi saying he couldn’t make it, and, er, could I possibly do the show for him?
Paul’s show is my favourite on FBi – I listen religiously. So it was an honour and a pleasure to do it, even though I went a bit crazy, with not a lot of time to prepare. My theme was mothers and fathers.

The Books – motherless bastard [Tomlab]
Tall Dwarfs – Daddy [Flying Nun]
Pink Floyd – Mother [EMI]
Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy [Warp]
Kate Bush – Mother Stands For Comfort [EMI]
Tori Amos – Father Lucifer [Atlantic]
Weddings, Parties, Anything – Father’s Day [Mushroom]
The Police – Mother [A&M]
Violent Femmes – Gimme The Car [Slash, recently re-released on Rhino]
Pop Will Eat Itself – Mother [RCA]
The Clouds – Motherson [Red Eye]
Sugarcubes – Mama [One Little Indian]
Tunng – Mother’s Daughter [Static Caravan]