Utility Fog

Sunday, 28th of November, 2004

Tonight, an interview with Melbourne dream-sailors Oneironaut plus a special (for the fun of it) on strings in Utility Fog music :)

Snawklor – Assemble The Shade [Synaesthesia]
Comatone – Stillpoint Coma [Feral Media]
Inch-time – root drinking in the dark [beautiful self-released one-track business card CD, with amazing watercolour print cover]
End – Go [Tigerbeat6]
Pedro – fear & resilience (remix and additional production by Prefuse 73) [Melodic Records]
The Boats – Lessley [Moteer]
Oneironaut – Ex-Patriot [Low Transit Industries]
…then the first part of the interview with Nick from Oneironaut …
Oneironaut – Walk On [Low Transit Industries]
…then the second part of the interview with Nick from Oneironaut …
Oneironaut – Icon [Low Transit Industries]
City City City – Prat [Sensory Projects]
Comatone – Not For Years [Feral Media]
{and now… a bit of a special on strings in Utility Fog music. A few of the tracks above have strings too (hello Inch-time, hello Oneironaut's Icon), but all the next ones till I say "stop!" have strings as a bit of a feature one way or other…}
Daedelus – the Now Silent Streets [Laboratory Instinct]
Ninetynine vs qwertykeith – Kinetic Factory [from Keith's unreleased remixes of the entire Ninetynine album The Process, entitled The Processed, and downloadable from the link]
Subtle – Red, White & Blonde [Lex Records]
Tunng – Kinky Vans [Static Caravan] {seems like sampled/synth strings here, but awesome all the same}
Her Space Holiday – Tech Romance (Matmos remix) [Mush]
Tin Hat Trio – The Clandestine Adventures of Ms. Merz [Ropeadope]
Frankie Sparo – See My Film [Constellation]
Hood – By island lake (excerpt) [Domino]
Trinkets – The Unbearable Lightness of Fleeing [Trinkets Music]
Inch-time – red in green [this time played from his self-released album any colour you like]
Gabriel Prokofiev – String Quartet No. 1, performed by the Elysian Quartet (Gabriel Prokofiev "Hip-Hop mix" of First Movement) [Nonclassical]
Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe [EMI International]
Kettel – Twijfel Doubt Hésitation [dub]
Juana Molina – Sólo su voz [Domino]
Savath & Savalas – Equipatage De Flores Seques [Warp Records]
edIT – Ants [Planet µ]
{ok, well too much strings is hardly enough, but that'll do for tonight!}
Kattoo – Place2 [Hymen]
Venetian Snares – Whiskydrunk [Planet µ]
Shitmat – Dubplatter [Planet µ]
Wayne And Wax vs DJ C – (A) It Dat [Mashit] {My special edit, both Wayne & Wax's and DJ C's versions spliced together}

Sunday, 21st of November, 2004

Adrian and Ben from Triosk came in tonight, to talk about their album launch next Saturday @ the Side-in Café. Also, new Hood EP, new Pedro remixes, etc etc.

Hood – The Lost You [Domino]
Tunng – People Folk [Static Caravan]
Epic 45 – Inland Lakes [Make Mine Music]
o9 – terminal red [Schematic]
Triosk meets Jan Jelinek – theme from triosk [~scape]
Triosk – The Streets Are Empty [Leaf]
Triosk – I Am A Beautiful And Unique Snowflake [Leaf]
Icarus – Gnog [Leaf]
Andrew Coleman – way to go [Tripel]
The Notwist – Solo Swim / Solo Swim Dub [Alien Transistor]
The Boats – And There Are Stars That Fell [Moteer]
Empress – By The Lamproom [Misplaced Music]
Hood – Over the land over the sea. [Domino]
65daysofstatic – Massive Star At The End Of Its Burning Cycle [from cover CD (#12) with Comes With A Smile magazine #16]
Oneironaut – Flown Away [Low Transit Industries]
The Tigers – I Am Complaining [Feral Media]
Underlapper – He's Fine, He's With Them Now [Feral Media]
Comatone – Stillpoint Coma [Feral Media]
Pedro – fear & resilience (remix and additional production by Prefuse 73) [Melodic Records]
Beefcake – gv-003-2003 [Delikatessen] {dig that Rachmaninov sample!}
Kattoo – Place7 [Hymen]
Ill Cosby – Burn Out [Sonicterror]
Enduser – Not So Distant Drums [Ad Noiseam]
Shitmat – Dis Dancehall Ting is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony [Planet µ]
Eight Frozen Modules feat. Wayne Lonesome – Dem Nuh Know Me (8fm mix) [Shockout]
DJ /Rupture – little more oil (feat. Sister Nancy) [Tigerbeat6]
Juana Molina – ¡Uh! [Domino]

Sunday, 14th of November, 2004

Lots of lovely music for y'all this week. Starting with my album of the year – next year, that is, as it's not out till January 15th 2005 in the UK. We'll just have to start agitating for someone to license it here.
Bit of guitar-led post-rock stuff as well, and then we were helped through the middle of the show by Beefcake, a small sampling of their material plus some new tracks from Volker Kahl, one half of Beefcake recording as Kattoo. We didn't even explore all the sides of Beefcake – we'll have to wait for another time to check out the occasional perfect Aphex Twin impersonations, dark ambience, and almost-pop tunes.

Tunng – Mother's Daughter [Static Caravan]
Oneironaut – Icon [Low Transit Industries]
Epic 45 – I'm Getting Too Young For This [Where Are My Records]
Because of Ghosts – Prun Sunk (Live) [Art School Dropout]
Bloc Party – Tulips (Minotaur Shock Remix) [Wichita]
Hot Chip – The Ass Attack (Four Tet Remix) [Moshi Moshi Records]
Styrofoam – Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) [Morr Music] {The Sebadoh cover}
Styrofoam – Beequeen [Morr Music]
Depeche Mode – Halo (Goldfrapp remix) [Mute]
Björk – who is it (bell choir mix by Mark Bell) [One Little Indian]
LFO – Shove Piggy Shove [Warp]
Milanese – head Bocs [Warp]
Comatone – An Absorbing Colour [Feral Media]
Underlapper – He's Fine, He's With Them Now [Feral Media]
Epic 45 – (Re)Sculpted By Winter [Make Mine Music]
Beefcake – 5.09 [Hymen]
Kattoo – Place2 [Hymen]
Beefcake – tks 14 & 15 from Drei [thrillbeatconstruction]
Beefcake – gabor's p.s.y.c.-hosen [Hymen]
Kattoo – Place4 [Hymen]
Eight Frozen Modules feat. Wayne Lonesome – Dem Nuh Know Me (8fm mix) [Shockout]
Shitmat – 4 Soundclashes & A Funeral [Planet µ]
Shitmat – Dis Dancehall Ting is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony [Planet µ]
Enduser – Line 47 remix: Vishnu's Eastern Block [Ad Noiseam]
Misanthrope – Berserker [//apathy c/o Sys:Co]
Raven vs Pet Shop Boys – Domino Dancehall (Babylon Boys Breakcore) [yeah this is me; this was to be on the probably never-to-be-released Ministry of Shit Vol 2 comp, so I thought I'd give it a spin - shares a vocal sample with the previous track...]
Patric Catani – We Like Panzer [System Corrupt]
Her Space Holiday – Meet The Pressure (Blockhead remix) [Mush]
Aeroc – Mahy [Ghostly International]
Inch-time – Patient As A Tree [from Melbourne Fringe Festival's Get Off the Couch comp]
Greg Davis – deterior [Lux Nigra]
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans [Sounds Familyre/Spunk]

Sunday, 7th of November, 2004

OK tonight the Toecutter man dropped in to talk breakcore and damnation, and gave us an awesome DJ set as well… Of course by no means is the show ever just about "breakcore" or whateveryoucallit.
New stuff galore, whether dancehall/ragga jungle, electronica, ambient, folktronica… New Björk remixes, new remix of indie band Bloc Party by Minotaur Shock…

Xiu Xiu – Rose of Sharon [Kill Rock Stars via popfrenzy]
Clear Horizon – for days [Kranky]
Minimum Chips – Niccone [Feral Media]
Björk – who is it (c2n datacassette mix by Lesser) [One Little Indian]
Kattoo – Place5 [Hymen]
Spark – Bombing For Peace [n5MD]
Comatone – Not For Years [Feral Media]
The Tigers – I Am Complaining [Feral Media]
Toecutter – Ode to Brendan Phelan [System Corrupt]
…then some selections from Dave Toecutter:
Shizuo – Sweat [DHR]
Princo – Mormon [Killbot Records]
Null Object – I Have No Hands [Null 02]
ElectroMecca – Platinum Bollox [cassetete]
D-Flame – Paranoia (a capella) [Outerlude(?)]
Thunder and Lightning – Deliver Me (version) [Transparent]
Istari Lasterfahrer – Proud of What? [Socialisticher-Plattenbau]
Shitmat – Vengeance of the Whitehawk Townies [Death$ucker Records]
Sickboy – Worst Trade Central [Robo/Audiobot Records]
Nihil Fist – Think & Destroy [Praxis]
Passenger of Shit feat Bloo Pony – Love [System Corrupt]
Goodiepal – Carlsberg [self-released I do believe]
Maladroit – "Everybody in the House of Love"? [System Corrupt]
Fraughman – I Don't Belong [System Corrupt]
Shizuo – 16 licks [Wasp Soul Records]
DJ Balli – Niggaz Never Go Jail [Sonic Belligeranza]
Criterion – Honky Tonk Hits [Brøklyn Beats]
Sonic Dragolgo – Sweet Pain (played at 45rpm) [Mirex]
ElectroMecca – Bass DisorDer [Peace Off]
Deacon Boombastardizer – Tdot Party Fuel [Irritant Records]
Misanthrope – Visions of Thulsa Doom [//apathy c/o Sys:Co]
Lightning Bolt – Hello Morning [Load]
Lightning Bolt – Assassins [Load]
Cobra Killer – Show Me Your Ruler [Monika]
…and that finishes Toecutter's awesome and enthusiastic mix!
FRX – XXX [Accelmuzhik]
65daysofstatic – this cat is a landmine [Monotreme]
Bloc Party – Tulips (Minotaur Shock Remix) [Wichita]
Subtle – F.K.O. [Lex Records]
Styrofoam – Misguided (feat. Valerie Trebeljahr & Alias) [Morr Music]
Tunng – Code Breaker [Static Caravan] {from the amazing forthcoming album, courtesy of Geoff from Static Caravan}
Sufjan Stevens – A Good Man Is Hard To Find [Sounds Familyre/Spunk]
Her Space Holiday – The Young Machines (The Album Leaf remix) [Mush]
Ambulance – Snakes [Planet µ]
Chronomad – Sama'i [Alien Transistor]
Ghislain Poirier feat. Wayne Lonesome – Tribute To Tiger (Mourial Mix) [Shockout]