Utility Fog

Starting with a true oddity tonight, from Sufjan Stevens‘ very strange and cool Enjoy Your Rabbit album from a few years back… And because it’s FBi’s second birthday sometime right about now, I thought I’d delve into the back-catalogue and play a couple of tracks from the very first Utility Fog ever…

Sufjan Stevens – Year of the Rat [Asthmatic Kitty]
Sufjan Stevens – Jacksonville [Asthmatic Kitty/Spunk]
Four Tet – Unspoken (promo version with intact Tori Amos sample, from Winter) [Domino Records]
Enduser – Basement [Mirex]
part timer – morepiano [unreleased wonderfulness from John of Clickits, based in Melbourne]
Aronas – Happy Song [Strange Records/Vitamin]
Matthew Herbert – An Empire of Coffee [Accidental Records]
4 Layers of 9 – Hodogaya [Sound Malfunction]
Frog Pocket – Eye Beby Y Ben II [Planet µ]
Clue to Kalo – ignore the forest floor [Mush/Spunk]
Giardini di Mirò – The Swimming Season (Hood remix) [2.nd rec]
Plonn – Many Hours Passed [F Communications]
Melodium – la fin de tout [Autres Directions in Music]
Steffen Basho-Junghans – Nothing, but Nice [Preservation]
Qua – devil eyes [Surgery]
Khonnor – An Ape Is Loose [Type/Speak & Spell]
Signer – Machines at Low Tide [Carpark]
Bloc Party – So Here We Are (Four Tet Remix) [Wichita]
Kayip – Gryningsfabriken [Sonic360]
Scissors for Sparrow – Moping, Coping, Hoping [self-released CDR Oh… hello!]
Pivot – La Mer [Sensory Projects]
Vorpal – Gymnopedie v1.01 [Cockrockdisco]
Mr. Mezzy – s.m.b.#1, w-1,1-1 [dross:tik]
0=0 – Soda411 [Tigerbeat 6]
Exile – Silicon Chop [Planet µ]
Arcon 2 – Liquid Earth Part 1 [Reinforced]
Source Direct – Black Domina [Science]
Foley – willow [From an awesome self-released CD of solo stuff from Alon Ilsar, drummer in Sydney quintet Gauche. This track features his partner Jane Sheldon, also from Gauche, on vocals]
QWERTY – soundtrack 1 mix [self-released, excellent stuff from Marrickville, Sydney!]
Downliners Sekt – The Pledge [F Communications]
The Random Numbers – Fluffy Space Rocket [demo mp3, created entirely on a Palm Tungsten T on various trips on the Tube in London, by an Aussie expatriate from Melbourne]