Utility Fog

Sunday, 31st of October, 2004

Well, the Melbourne breakcore lunatics didn’t make it to the show tonight (see previous post) but the estimable John Chantler came down after his Frigid set and played live on the show, processing the live cello of yours truly - a Utility Fog first!
Lots of other new music on the show tonight, as well as a little tribute to the beloved John Peel, who tragically died earlier this week. The playlist should speak for itself…

Even As We Speak - This Is My Dream (Peel Session, 1993) [unreleased, copy direct from Mary Wyer of EAWS]
Hood - I’ve Forgotten How To Live [unreleased Peel session]
Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling (Peel session) [Warp]
Autechre - Milk DX [Warp]
Underlapper - He’s Fine, He’s With Them Now [Feral Media]
Hrvatski - Une Drôle de Journée [Ache Records]
Frankie Sparo - See My Film [Constellation]
Tunng - Out The Window With The Window [Static Caravan] {from the amazing forthcoming album, courtesy of Geoff from Static Caravan}
Inch-time - Red in Green [from Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Get Off the Couch comp]
Her Space Holiday - Tech Romance (Matmos remix) [Mush]
Gabriel Prokofiev - String Quartet No. 1, performed by the Elysian Quartet (Gabriel Prokofiev “Hip-Hop mix” of First Movement) [Nonclassical]
Subtle - Red, White & Blonde [Lex Records]
Curse ov Dialect - Wolf Moon [Mush Records]
Enduser - Not So Distant Drums [Ad Noiseam]
Juana Molina - ¡Uh! [Domino]
Andrew Coleman - demons [Tripel]
Qua - The Air Is Thin In Here [Surgery Records]
Savath & Savalas - Demà Vindra [Warp Records]
Empress - By The Lamproom [Misplaced Music]
Saddleback - Nearly New [Preservation]
…then an improv from John Chantler, processing live the cello playing of the infamous Peter Hollo (of FourPlay - and lo! your humble presenter)…
…and some choices from John:
Majikick - track 2 [unreleased collaboration with John Chantler]
John Chantler - For Pascale’s Birthday [unreleased]
Sayasource - Arigato [Minamoto - you can probably buy here]
Adam Butler - Twiftopedie [Whatness]
Keith Fullerton Whitman - El Seny i La Rauxa [Kranky]
Greg Davis - mirages (version two) [Kranky]
Spark - Hardcore Robo [n5MD]
Spark - Zone In Effect [n5MD]

Saturday, 30th of October, 2004

OK kiddies, just a quick plug: tomorrow night the inestimable Dave Toecutter will be hauling in a few crazy Melbournians performing (tonight!) at the famous SysCo Halloween night - check the news page for some info.

Here’s what the ’cutter has to say about them. Some or all of the following will be down, probably sometime during the second hour (11-12pm Sunday night):
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Xian - Coming from hardcore (filthy maggotty cunt) metal into PC carnage-noise, with a dash of Phil Collins and Timberlake.

Cambion - breakcore soundscapes deep and well programmed noise structures

MisconceptIAN - a Breakcore DJ with skills to kill the pills.

Overfiend Rek / AnGUTS - spastic noises, de-structure, stabbing woke up covered in bloody next to your mate’s girlfriend, emotional meltdown whiteheat.
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Probably mostly playing new music, rather than chatting, because:
It’s also altogether possible that John Chantler will head down after Frigid, which may be around the same time. How I’ll fit that all in, I dunno - considering I plan to start with a bunch of Peel Sessions in memory of the passing of the great man… Tune in, and tell ya friends!

And by the way, the following Sunday (6th of Nov), the Toecutter man himself will be coming in to play some new tunes of his - mega-hard breakcore, insane appropriation of other people’s recordings - and maybe talk about whether “breakcore” sucks and whether radio sucks ;)

Sunday, 24th of October, 2004

Lots of new promos and stuff tonight! As well as more from the new Gauche and Triosk albums, we had a sample from a compilation put out by the Melbourne Fringe Festival (a beauty of a track from Inch-time), and various other Australian gems. A bit of a focus also on the more post-rock end of things, although it’s hard to get away from a bit of an electronic focus. A new album by The Boats, featuring the two members of The Remote Viewer (both of whom used to be in Hood) on their own Moteer label. More gems from Static Caravan including the incredible English folk-meets-the hard-disc of Tunng, and disquieting almost-ambience from d_rradio, while Do Make Say Think remix themselves for the excellent new Constellation compilation Song of the Silent Land.
Also, something forthcoming and awesome from Hrvatski in Ache Records‘ Divorce series of split 7″s, and indeed much more!

Gauche - The Road [self-released promo of forthcoming album Paints Lane]
Inga Liljestrom - Glow [Groovescooter]
Inch-time - Red in Green [from Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Get Off the Couch comp]
Triosk - Two; Twelve [Leaf]
Oneironaut - Icon [Low Transit Industries]
Plankton - 7am start [Feral Media]
Tracker - The House of Jarius [Top Shelf Comics]
Nice Nice - Deep #8 [Audio Dregs]
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Weiter [Kranky]
The Boats - I Ignore All My Friends [Moteer]
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Winter Hymn Winter Hymn [Constellation Records]
Tunng - Pool Beneath The Pond [Static Caravan]
Sufjan Stevens - A Good Man Is Hard To Find [Sounds Familyre/Spunk]
Mara Carlyle - Baby Bloodheart [Accidental Records]
vitaminsforyou - Luxury and Hope [intr_version]
Styrofoam - Your Eyes Only [Morr Music]
Icarus - Borichean Pintak [Output/Temporary Residence]
Hrvatski - Une Drôle de Journée [Ache Records]
Enduser - Not Here [Ad Noiseam]
Reload - Event Horizon [Infonet/Creation]
Plug - 7:10 [Blue Angel Records via Nothing]
Shitmat - 4 Soundclashes & A Funeral [Planet µ]
Venetian Snares - Whiskydrunk [Planet µ]
Venetian Snares - This Bitter Earth [Addict] {With the nice sample in there from Arvo Pärt’s Fratres…}
d_rradio - Just Because [Static Caravan]
The Boats - Kind Regards [Moteer]
Gauche - CCTV [self-released promo of forthcoming album Paints Lane]
Ruck Rover - Wealth, Fame & Happiness (Owen Bolwell remix) [Candle Records]

Sunday, 17th of October, 2004

A flurry of new stuff came in this week, including a bunch of breakcore - from the melodic yet hard Bollywood Breaks EP by Enduser to yet more insanity courtesy of the man Henry Collins aka Shitmat - and some Grime-meets-drill’n'bass from Milanese on Warp. Also, new stuff from bands featuring two of Sydney’s best drummers - that’s Gauche and Triosk. Checkit.

Slint - Rhoda (10″ version) [Slint/Touch & Go]
Josh Armistead - Month of Sundays [awesome self-released EP]
Tunng - Tale From Black [Static Caravan]
Triosk - Chronosynclastic Infundibula [Leaf]
Savath & Savalas - Demà Vindra [Warp Records]
Dragon Ash - Byakuya (Hood remix) [Mob Squad]
Four Tet - Castles Made of Sand [Azuli] {Kieran covers Jimi Hendrix!}
Pedro - fear & resilience [Melodic Records]
Honey & Colleen - Lala Musica [Audio Dregs]
Mouse on Mars - Subsequence [Sonig/Thrill Jockey]
Daedelus - 28:06:42:12 (his mix from the split 7″ with Boom Bip), inspired by the movie Donnie Darko [Mush]
Daedelus - the Now Silent Streets [Laboratory Instinct]
Gauche - Take my Hand [from mastered promo of new album]
Shitmat - Dis Dancehall Ting is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony [Planet µ]
65daysofstatic - the fall of math [Monotreme]
Greg Davis - Regional Potato Chips [Audio Dregs]
Al Duvall - Admiral of the Narrow Seas [Misplaced Music]
Frankie Sparo - See My Film [Constellation]
Milanese - Cowboy [Warp]
Styrofoam - Between The Bars [Morr Music] {that Elliott Smith cover, yum}
Erast - Argentina [Laboratory Instinct]
Qua - luckybuster [Surgery]
Chevron - Swimmin’ Lessons (Deep End) [Planet µ]
Milanese - Flex [Warp]
Enduser - Not So Distant Drums [Ad Noiseam]
The Bug vs The Rootsman ft. He-man - Killer (Soundmurderer & SK-1 “Badman Rewind” Remix) [Razor (mi)X]
Enduser - Line 47 remix: Vishnu’s Eastern Block [Ad Noiseam]
Drop The Lime - Glassy Eyes (Cufflings Mix) [Change Agent]
FRX - XXX [Accelmuzhik]
DJ Hidden - Afterglow [Killing Sheep]
Version - Spice [Bassbin]
Shitmat - That Goats Skull Is No Good For Thirsty Psy-Trance Workers [Death$ucker Records]

Wednesday, 13th of October, 2004

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