Utility Fog

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]