Utility Fog

Sunday, 28th of January, 2007

Good evening. Starting tonight just in time for Fernando Gonzalez to probably lose the Aussie Open to Federer. He put a good fight though, and here's a musical tribute to the guy... kinda...
Some previews from MRK1's forthcoming album Copyright Laws (great to see the dubstep scene is producing plenty of great single-artist albums!), and the long-awaited new Pedro CD. And plenty of other new stuff too.

Gonzales - Chilly In Bb Minor [Kitty-Yo]
Gonzales - Salieri Serenade (feat. Feist) [Kitty-Yo]
Gonzales - Manifesto [No Format]
José González - Hearbeats [Peacefrog]
Maserati - 12.16 [Sugarrush]
Battles - B + T [Warp]
Manyfingers - For Measured Shores [Acuarela]
Gareth S Brown - Worms [Misplaced Music]
Serafina Steer - Peach Heart [Static Caravan]
Pedro - You, Me & Everyone [Mush]
Hi God People - Thunder on the way to Funan [Nervous Jerk]
Shoeb Ahmad - track 3 from Vinyl Sketches 3" CD [Sound & Fury]
Text of Light - Live in Rotterdam January 28 2005 [Room40]
Tin Hat - The Secret Fluid of Dusk [Hannibal]
Beirut - Elephant Gun [Ba Da Bing/4AD]
Serafina Steer - Mano e Mano [Static Caravan]
John Chantler - For Marcus Cope (Two) [Room40]
Scone - D90 [Moamoo]
MRK1 - Devils & Angels [Planet µ]
Ebola - Nintendo Dubstep [Noize:Tek]
MRK1 - I Got Too (feat. Sizzla) [Planet µ]
Hatcha & Benga - 10 Tons Heavy [Planet µ]
Benga - World War 7 [Benga Beats]
Various Production - Home (edit) [Various]
Filastine - Splinter Faction Delight (feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney vs L3arbee & L Na) [Soot]
Or Burstein - Shinui 2021 ("Change 2021") [via AK-Duck] {title is transliterated and then translated from the Hebrew}
howard - epiphany [self-released]
Bradbury - Rhode Island Slut* [Dual Plover] *a type of chicken
Toecutter - Ode to Brendan Phelan [from new album, no label, pressed by Dual Plover]

Sunday, 21st of January, 2007

Tonight I gave over a fair bit of the start of the show to the wonderful band Tin Hat aka Tin Hat Trio, whose latest album is either just out now or coming out in the next few weeks. We had related madness also, followed by my favourite punk band NOmeansno, then later some stuff from the latest album by everyone's favourite offensive git Dave Toecutter (we love the boy), and excellent math-prog from Maserati.

Momus - Moop Bears [American Patchwork]
Encre - Dogma, Africana & Math Folk Part One [intr_version]
Tin Hat - Dead Season [Hannibal]
Tin Hat - Daisy Bell [Hannibal]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - A Hymn To The Morning Star [Web of Mimicry]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens The Discussion [Web of Mimicry]
Tin Hat Trio - Foreign Legion [Angel]
Julian Curwin's Tango Saloon - Still I Cannot Do The Tango [Ipecac]
Gypsophile - Entretien des grisailles [Lenka Lente]
Tin Hat Trio - Beverly's March [Angel Records]
Carla Kihlstedt - Peel [Tzadik]
Tin Hat Trio - Nickel Mountain [Ropeadope]
Tin Hat Trio - Helium Reprise (feat. Tom Waits) [Angel Records]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Sleep Is Wrong [Seeland]
NOmeansno - Victory [Alternative Tentacles]
NOmeansno - (hidden track from All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt) [Southern]
Toecutter - I milk myself [from new album, no label, pressed by Dual Plover]
Terminal 11 - 44 edit [Mutant Sniper]
Enduser - Kreep Step [Peace Off]
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (12" original) [Jumpin' & Pumpin']
Spring Heel Jack - Lee Perry Part One [Rough Trade]
Toecutter - Lap.top.hot shot. (Kid606) [from new album, no label, pressed by Dual Plover]
satanicpornocultshop - see mee m paz [disco_r.dance]
Maserati - Inventions [Sugarrush]
Jakob - oran mor [Midium]
Because of Ghosts - No Stars In Tokyo [Feral Media]
Colleen - what is a componium? part 2 [Leaf]
oblong - indicator [expanding records]
howard - amazing [self-released]

Sunday, 14th of January, 2007

Tonight, UK-based cellist Bela Emerson, in town with Stomp for the Sydney Festival, drops in to talk about her music and play a couple of her tracks. We've got a few stray 2006 releases squeezing over into 2007 (well, things I missed, anyway! Hello Momus!), we've got pastoral shoegazey postrock from northern UK, and we mourn the death of Alice Coltrane with a beautiful track of hers.

Momus - I Refuse To Die [American Patchwork]
Momus - Ex-Erotomane [American Patchwork]
Momus - Frilly Military [American Patchwork]
Ensemble - track 10 from sketch proposals [Rephlex]
Ensemble feat. Mileece - Summerstorm [Fat Cat]
Ensemble - track 7 from sketch proposals [Rephlex]
Erik Friedlander & Teho Teardo - to the red flag [Bip-Hop]
Bela Emerson - Subaqua [Gruenrekorder]
...interview with Bela Emerson...
Bela Emerson - I jumped but I didn't scream (excerpt) [Drama Queen]
Leafcutter John - Maria in the Forest [Planet µ]
the boats - i'm talking facts, not shit [Moteer]
Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow [Acuarela]
Fiona Beverage - Roadside Baby [Patsy Records] {no-longer-existent label of Laura from Ninentynine}
Ninentynine - Receiving the Sounds of Science Fiction [Dark Beloved Cloud Music Club]
Wolf & Cub - Kingdom [Dot Dash]
Jakob - malachite [Midium]
July Skies - Waiting to Land [Make Mine Music]
Epic 45 - England Fallen Over [Make Mine Music]
Reigns - The Lost Black Mass Footage [Jonson Family]
Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile [Impulse!]
Four Tet - And they all look broken hearted [Domino Records]
Burial - Gutted [Hyperdub]
Skream - I (Loefah remix) [Tempa]
Various Production - 13 [Various] {an alternate version of the title track from The World Is Gone, with characteristic female vocals added}
Timeblind - Ontological Ground of Being [Soot]
Bracken - Heathens (Downpour remix) [available only as a bonus CD with the 12" from Norman Records]
Burial - Versus [Planet µ]

Sunday, 7th of January, 2007

First Utility Fog of 2007! Welcome. Still playing a whole lot of the best tracks from 2006, but starting to draw the net a bit wider too. I saw Saul Williams at the Falls Festival last week in Tasmania (as well as a year ago in Sydney) and he's awesome. We've got some new vinyl from Various Production, with a couple of brilliant alternate versions of tracks from previous releases, and on the new release front we have some Israeli idm from Or Burstein, a surprise return to the Plug moniker for some drill'n'bass from Luke Vibert, and lovely folktronica courtesy of oblong.

Filastine - Autology (feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney) [Soot]
Bass Clef - How I Desire [Blank Tapes]
Saul Williams - Black Stacey (Deadbeat remix) [Fader]
Saul Williams - Black Stacey [Fader]
Rastawookie - Rise [promo from their forthcoming album]
Various Production - 13 [Various] {an alternate version of the title track from The World Is Gone, with characteristic female vocals added}
Various Production - Home (edit) [Various]
Bracken - Heathens (Downpour remix) [available only as a bonus CD with the 12" from Norman Records]
Heligoland - down to zero [IRL]
Gypsophile - Ceux qui traînent [Lenka Lente]
Sierpinski - lines to load [Jonathon Whiskey]
Gypsophile - Tolède -> Far, Geneva [Lenka Lente]
Underlapper - Little Tapioca [Feral Media]
Fennesz - Endless Summer [Editions Mego]
howard - bronte by storm [self-released]
part timer - theme from part timer [unreleased]
oblong - rain over the deverils [expanding records]
the boats - go to sleep (or i'll put you to sleep) [Moteer]
Or Burstein - Ani Levad. Ata Levad. Hava Nefazem Venidfok Bayad (I'm alone, you're alone, let's sing and jerk off) [via AK-Duck]
Scone - D90 [Moamoo] {Funckarma & Kettel team up for Dutch electronica bliss!}
Quench - Caipruss [n5md]
Saroos - One [Alien Transistor]
Squarepusher - Planetarium [Warp]
Plug - Here It Comes [Rewind]
Herv - Konnektquartet [Go Away Recordings]
sunnO))) & Boris feat Jesse Sykes - The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) [Southern Lord]
Belly - Low Red Moon [4AD]
sunnO))) - Bp/simple [Staubgold]
Robert Henke - Layer 004 [Imbalance Computer Music]