Utility Fog

Sunday, 30th of March, 2008

Action-packed show tonight including Oxford's brilliant Youthmovies and a whole lot of stuff from the great Canberra-based label hellosQuare.

Youthmovies - After the Kicking K [Drowned In Sound]
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies - ...Spooks the Horse (65daysofstatic remix) [Fierce Panda]
Adam Gnade & Youthmovies - We Were Born From Floodwaters [Try Harder]
Why? - These Few Presidents [Anticon/Tomlab]
Xiu Xiu - Yo Yo Bye Bye (cover of Why?) [Anticon/Tomlab]
Why? - Yo Yo Bye Bye [Anticon]
The Rational Academy - Two Books [Someone Good]
The Rational Academy - David Version [hellosQuare]
Part Timer - Asthmatic Throat Clutching [hellosQuare]
Tom Hall - from years [hellosQuare]
Mike Cooper - Keoni [hellosQuare]
Chris Abrahams and Mike Cooper - Oceanic Feeling-Like Part One [Room40]
Klumpes Ahmad - My Bedside And Her Paper Flowers [unreleased promo!]
Spartak - Ostpolitik (draft 1) [hellosQuare]
Spartak - Sunstrokes [hellosQuare]
Part Timer - Between Decisions [hellosQuare]
Lauren Horton - postcard guy [Heavy? promo]
d_rradio - paper soul [Distraction]
Fredo Viola - Sad Song [Because]
Benga - Loose Synths [Tempa]
Bitstream - Trumbull [Touchin' Bass]
Zomby - Spliff Dub (Rustie Remix) [Hyperdub]
Cardopusher - Fighters Unite [Peace Off]
DJ C & Zulu - Ransom The Senator (Version) [Mashit!]
Scuba - Inmost [Hotflush]
Underlapper - Haunted Cornice [Feral Media]
Underlapper - Little Tapioca (Part Timer remix) [Feral Media]
Autechre - chenc9-x [Warp]
Fluorescent Grey - Ayhuascaro Empyreal [Record Label Records]

Sunday, 23rd of March, 2008

Tonight, a bit of a retrospective on Dean Roberts, whose wonderful band Autistic Daughters have just released their second album... Also a bunch of other stuff. No kidding! Oh alright, couple of compilations: Little Things on the delightful flaü from Japan, and Wire Magazine's latest Wire Tapper (#19).

Barry Lynn - New Orleans [Planet µ]
Quench - Ration Creed [Love The Chaos]
Kelpe - Half Broken Harp [DC Recordings]
Barry Lynn - Loving Dub [Planet µ]
Autechre - The PlclCpC [Warp]
Suckafish P Jones - Straight Outta The Garage [self-released dubstep from Brisneyland]
Westernsynthetics - Swing Dub [mp3 demo]
fliPPo - Techno Ghosts [mp3 demo]
Chris Perren - The Nothingness I Sing [self-released]
Mr Maps - Life Like Little Soldiers [unreleased, listen at last.fm]
aheadphonehome - sugar shards [lofly]
Dean Roberts and the Black Moths - the fake and detached [Ritornell]
Dean Roberts - disappearance on the grandest of streets [Kranky]
Autistic Daughters - Spend it on the Enemy (while it was raining) [Kranky]
Autistic Daughters - rehana's theme [Kranky]
Fennesz - A Shadow Passes By [Touch]
Autistici - Attaching Softness to a Shell [C] [12k]
Jasper Leyland - Worth Ash [flaü]
The Accidental - Knock Knock (Tunng remix) [Static Caravan]
Part Timer - Only Natural [flaü]
Nico Muhly - Mothertongue - Section 2 [Bedroom Community] {courtesy Wire Mag}
Marla Hansen - Shuffle Your Feet [Standard Recording] but this time via [flaü]
Daniel Figgis via Somadrone - 40 Shades of Figgis {courtesy Wire Mag}
Radicalfashion - Happy End [flaü]
Pikelet - Renzo [Sabbatical]
The Rational Academy - 2004 [Someone Good]
Pikelet - A Bunch [Chapter Music]

Sunday, 16th of March, 2008

Evening. Lots of new stuff this week!
Fredo Viola gives us wonderful layered vocals to start with. We have Mamadou Diabate's incredibly dextrous kora playing; something from Pikelet's Pre-Flight Jitters that preceded last year's beautiful album; Brisbane's Chris Perren, both solo and with his fabulous postrock band Mr Maps; and also from Brisbane, the amazing indie-postrock of The Rational Academy with their long-awaited debut album.
Later, Brisbane also brings us some dubstep via Suckafish P Jones, while dubstep producer Barry Lynn (aka Boxcutter) brings us some mashed breaks under his own name, and The Doubtful Guest (aka Libby Floyd) harkens back to the days of acid rave...

And Autechre's highly limited (like, 1000 copies worldwide) Special Edition 2CD version of their new album arrived in the mail this week. Registered Post, so I went and picked up the delightfully heavy little parcel from the post office, and tore it open to reveal the amazing embossed metal slipcase, with two CD cardboard gatefold case inside. Tasty! The alternate versions on CD2 really are worth it, and I played one of 'em tonight.

Fredo Viola - The Sad Song (Tunng remix) [Because Music]
Fredo Viola - The Turn [Because Music]
Brian Campeau - ce baiser [self-released/Vitamin]
The Accidental - Brave New World (Benge remix) [Static Caravan]
Mamadou Diabate - Diyabarana [Instrumental Recordings]
Pikelet - Bryson [Sabbatical]
Chris Perren - See You Soon [self-released]
Mr Maps - I See Them, They're Like Mountains [unreleased, listen at last.fm]
The Rational Academy - Squid & Whale [Someone Good]
Atlas Sound - Quarantined [Kranky]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Night of the Lotus Eaters [Mute]
The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher [4AD]
Grinderman - Electric Alice [Mute]
Benga - Emotions [Tempa]
Elemental - Raw Material [Hotflush]
Suckafish P Jones - Straight Outta The Garage [self-released dubstep from Brisneyland]
Benga & Coki - Night (Digital Soundboy remix) [Tempa] {Digital Soundboy is Breakage & Shy FX}
The Doubtful Guest - Mind Detergent (µ-Ziq's Demestos Mix) [Planet µ]
The Doubtful Guest - Tubby [Planet µ]
Barry Lynn - London [Planet µ]
The Flashbulb - Forbidden Tracks [Alphabasic]
Quench - Flad former [Love The Chaos]
Autechre - Perlence range3 [Warp]
Gescom - Key Nell 3 [Skam]
Kelpe - Cut It Upwards [DC Recordings]
Mia Doi Todd - Night of a Thousand Kisses [City Zen/Kindred Spirits]
The Rational Academy - 2004 [Someone Good]

Sunday, 9th of March, 2008

Presented tonight by Angela Stengel!

Richard in Your Mind - For When The Gizmo's on the Fritz
Bjork - Declare Independence
Autechre - The PLC [Warp]
Battles - Race: In
Saul Williams - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Saul Williams - DNA
Saul Williams - Grippo
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - We Call Upon The Author
Blonde Redhead - 23 [4AD]
Githead - Lifeloops [Swim~]
Mia Doi Todd - River of Life/The Yes Song [City Zen/Kindred Spirits]
Inlets - Pictures of Trees [Luv Sound] {free download!!! Do it now!}
Beirut - Nantes [Ba Da Bing/4AD]
Pikelet - A Bunch [Chapter Music]
ii - oho [Feral Media]
PJ Harvey - Grow Grow Grow
Clogs - 2:3:5
Nico Muhly - It Goes Without Saying [Bedroom Community]
Valgeir Sigurdsson - Baby Architect (featuring J Walker) [Bedroom Community]
Machine Translations - Holiday in Spain
Saddleback - Train South
Derwent River Star - Lydia [Heavy]
Chris Abrahams and Mike Cooper - Board/Wax [Room40]
Gail Priest - Dreamwinch [Metal Bitch Recordings]
ollo - Trouble Is
ollo - Shaky Flaky
Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left (live) [Righteous Babe Records]
Pikelet - Beyond The Sky [Chapter Music]
Iron & Wine - House By The Sea [Sub Pop]
Thom Yorke - And It Rained All Night (Burial Remix) [XL Recordings] {download release from Boomkat}
Radiohead - 15 Steps [self-released]
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Girl At The Bottom of My Glass
Richard in Your Mind - Skeleton
Derwent River Star - Wanderlust