Utility Fog

Sunday, 30th of January, 2005

Starting tonight with one of the 3″ CDs from ROOM40 that I mentioned last week - some nice slightly bent indie-folk stuff. More of that, glitched-up subterranean guitar dirges from Keith Mason. Later, a bunch of awesome new(ish) breakcore, including a great new double vinyl comp from a local label. Later on, some gorgeous solo piano from Gonzales, Sage Francis teams up with Will Oldham, something rare I was able to snap up with one of the first copies of the new Hood album, not to mention some classic Miles Davis from In A Silent Way, ambient jazz precursor to everything from the Necks and Talk Talk to Squarepusher and more…

Ben Thompson - untitled track 1 from very limited 3″ CD [ROOM40]
Keith Mason - Non Song 1 [Lo-fi Killers]
Autistic Daughters - the glasshouse and the gift-horse [Kranky]
Sage Francis - Sea Lion (extended mix feat. Will Oldham, Alias & Saul Williams) [Epitaph]
Hood - The Lost You (alternate version from extremely limited 4-track CD included with first 100 copies of the new album) [Domino]
Epic 45 - (Re)Sculpted By Winter [Make Mine Music]
State River Widening - Knifegrinder’s Song [Vertical Form]
Gonzales - Gogol [No Format]
Gonzales - Oregano [No Format]
Sybarite - The Fourth Day [4AD]
Max de Wardener - Automata [Accidental]
Inch-time - root drinking in the dark [beautiful self-released one-track business card CD, with amazing watercolour print cover]
Miles Davis - SHHH/Peaceful [CBS/Sony]
Squarepusher - Papalon [Warp]
Piano Overlord - recuerdas? [money studies]
Bill Laswell - Oscillations (Atom Heart’s Digital Cut-Up) [Sub Rosa]
0=0 - 88 [dross:tik]
Enduser - Kick Dem Down [Mirex]
Belladonnakillz - Damn Domestik Dispute [dross:tik]
Curtis Chip - Eating Paste (Larvae’s Overeating mix) [Ad Noiseam]
Maladroit - Bust A Digital [Painfree Found Sound]
Enduser - 17 Flat Lines [Painfree Found Sound]
cyrusrex - Uncle Bobs Foreskin (Venetian Snares & auntie aaron’s beefcurtain casserole Mix) [Negative 3]
Amon Tobin - Ruthless [Ninja Tune]
Rashamon - (Forgotten) Sherpa Folk Song [High Point Lowlife]
Tigrics - Why Release Records? [Neon Music]
Kattoo - Place2 [Hymen]
65daysofstatic - default this [Monotreme]

Sunday, 23rd of January, 2005

Tonight a bit of stuff which is new to Utility Fog, if not to the world. Hungarian artist Tigrics has a few albums out which I’m ashamed not to have discovered earlier, and I’ll be playing a few tracks of his tonight. Also received some excellent new 3″s on Brisbane’s ROOM40 label, whose head honcho Lawrence English played @ Frigid tonight - unfortunately didn’t manage to play ‘em, so next week we’ll have lots from those releases…

Community service announcement: that perennial Kid, Miguel Depedro aka Kid 606, is playing @ the Beck’s Festival Bar this coming Friday, the 28th. This little kid has a FourPlay gig on, but I do recommend heading down there to catch him if you can - last time he played he blew everyone’s heads right off with a set that surpassed everything he’s released, so it’s fair to say that even if you’re not the biggest fan of his albums, you’ll likely enjoy the show! Oh, and the price has gone down from $35 to $25…
Tonight, his best mashup track plus the best Kid 606 track the Kid never wrote.

Blastcorp - dropp (cover of Autechre track from EP7!) [self-released]
Autechre - dropp [Warp]
Tigrics - Few Parameters 2 [Neon Music]
Dntel - If I Don’t Return [Dublab via Emperor Norton]
Efterklang - Step Aside [Leaf]
Lunz - Lunz (Ulrich Schnauss remix) [Gronland]
Depeche Mode - Zenstation (Atom’s Stereonerd Remix) [Mute]
Comatone - Stillpoint Coma [Feral Media]
Bola - Sirasancerre [SKAM]
Deru - Tapah [Merck]
Her Space Holiday - Tech Romance (Matmos remix) [Mush]
The Boats - I Ignore All My Friends [Moteer]
Autechre - 902 Quarter [Warp]
Blastcorp - cut it up chris [self-released]
Hood - Over the land over the sea. [Domino]
Holly Throsby - Waiting all night for you to come home [Spunk]
Juana Molina - Isabel [Domino]
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans [Sounds Familyre/Spunk]
Qua - On Clouds [Surgery]
Kid 606 - (untitled, from Chihuahuas and Chinese Noodles comp) [555 Records]
Kid 606 - never underestimate the value of a holler (vipee-pee mix) [Violent Turd]
Hrvatski - vatstep dsp [Planet µ] {originally released as a Kid 606 remix on kid606 and friends vol. 1, as “catstep/my kitten/catnap-vatstep dsp remix by hrvatski”}
Hrvatski - Une Drôle de Journée [Ache Records]
Tunng - Beautiful and Light [Static Caravan]
Ruck Rover - Wealth, Fame & Happiness (Owen Bolwell remix) [Candle Records]
Inch-time - red in green [from his self-released album any colour you like]
Amon Tobin - The Lighthouse [Ninja Tune]
Luzon - Daylight Hours [Feral Media]
Triosk - Two; Twelve [Leaf]

Sunday, 16th of January, 2005

Tonight, tonight… In all honesty, there’s not a lot to say, hey. There are a few new tidbits to thrill and chill, and a few select older things I’ve pulled out, and a bunch of stuff in the middle. How descriptive! And a few longer tracks make the playlist seem short…
A couple of not-yet-released things too, including possibly a new track from Amon Tobin’s soundtrack to Tom Clancy’s (yeah Tom Clancy, go figure) Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory. Very cool soundtrack out on March on Ninja Tune, hurrah!
And I discovered one of those things that crops up now and then: an artist who, due to this’n'that, has never appeared on Utility Fog despite being highly deserving. In this case: Nobukazu Takemura. His output of late has been less than inspiring, but there’s so much awesome older stuff that I needed to shove a few tracks in your face tonight… Remixes tonight, maybe an album track or something next time.
Starting tonight with a few tracks inspired by having seen the very sweet movie Garden State yesterday. First track from original vinyl, with my Mum’s name on and all :)

Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy In New York [CBS]
The Shins - New Slang (live, featuring Iron & Wine) [Sub Pop]
The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes (performed by The Shins) [Sub Pop]
Her Space Holiday - Japanese Gum (Dntel remix) [Mush]
Juana Molina - Tres Cosas [Domino]
State River Widening - Cottonwood [Vertical Form]
Steve Reich - Proverb (Nobukazu Takemura remix) [Nonesuch]
Roni Size - Brown Paper Bag (Nobukazu Takemura remix) [Mercury]
Nobukazu Takemura - Crescent (Coldcut remix) [Idyllic Records (Nobukazu’s own label, now replaced with Childisc]
World’s End Girlfriend - Daydream Loveletter [Third Ear Recordings]
Pluramon - tel.bell (remix by Atom™) [Mille Plateaux]
Lunz - Murmering Murmaids (Icarus remix) [Gronland]
Icarus - OOTT [Output]
Northstation - Your Words Fill My Heart [Compactrisc]
Herv - Fast Food, Slow Women [Compactrisc]
Hood - any hopeful thoughts arrive [Domino]
Tunng - Beautiful and Light [Static Caravan]
Epic 45 - Secret Maps of England [Where Are My Records]
Inch-time - red in green [from his self-released album any colour you like]
Amon Tobin - Displaced [Ninja Tune]
Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) - Sky High [Brøklyn Beats]
Sky - Fifo (not the whole LP side, just the first track, also called “Fifo”) [Ariola]
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Schnee [Kranky]
Bola - Effanajor [Skam]
Gauche - Against The Wall [self-released EP]
Enduser - Westside Breaks [Mirex]
Wayne And Wax vs DJ C - (A) It Dat [Mashit] {My special edit, both Wayne & Wax’s and DJ C’s versions spliced together}
Drop The Lime feat. Wayne Lonesome - Tribute to Tiger (Quickie mix) [Shockout]

Sunday, 9th of January, 2005

Bit of Grime to start tonight, and later on a look into the relationship between Grime and drum’n'bass… Bit more new stuff tonight, and some , er older stuff too. Nothing too crazy and experimental tonight, more of a lazy summer show. Well, ok there were a few fairly odd sounds (how about that Himawari shit!) mixed in there ;)

Dizzee Rascal - Dream [XL Recordings]
Lady Stush - Dollar Sign [Social Circles]
Himawari - Flexiadeconstruction (Kero Remix) [Detroit Underground]
Plumbline - 555 W24 [Hydrogen Dukebox]
Blastcorp - dropp (cover of Autechre track from EP7!) [self-released]
Inch-time - Kyoto (autumn leaves) [from his self-released mini-album any colour you like]
Mouse on Mars - The End [Sonig/Rogue Records]
Bola - Vespers [Skam]
QuasiMojo - Radio Alphabet India [Mira]
Her Space Holiday - The Young Machines (The Album Leaf remix) [Mush]
duo 505 - nochwas [Morr Music]
b. fleischmann - grunt [Morr Music/Charizma]
Ulrich Schnauss - Suddenly The Trees Are Giving Way [Sutemos]
gel sol - jiva [em:t]
Wireless - “?” [from self-titled 4-track demo. That’s the track’s title! Wireless is a side-project for Brendan Jones, who plays guitar in Sydney rock band GangAwry. Excellent!]
Wagon Christ - I’m Singing [Ninja Tune]
The Bad Plus - Flim [Columbia]
Adam Butler - Sprung [Whatness]
Bola - Pae Paoe [SKAM]
Jello - Lungbone [Peacefrog] {PS Jello is Bola under another name… Geddit? Bola Jello?}
Bola - Sirasancerre [SKAM]
High Pass Filter - No Lines (Sheriff Lindo Dub) [High Pass Filter]
Slicker with vocals from Lindsay Anderson & Dan Boadi and James Cromwell - A Strong Donkey [Hefty]
Nitrada - Fading Away (Telefon Tel Aviv remix) [2.nd rec]
Telefon Tel Aviv - What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It [Hefty Records]
Dizzee Rascal - Fickle [XL Recordings]
D Double E - 10-minute mix Grime rhymin’ over jungle beats on Rinse FM
0=0 - soul hunter testifies [Planet µ]
Enduser - Line 47 remix: Vishnu’s Eastern Block [Ad Noiseam]

Sunday, 2nd of January, 2005

Wow! It’s 2005! And I’m 31! It’s my birthday today, so I’ve decided to… well, effectively to give myself a much bigger job by going all-out with a genre-defying show of “stuff wot I like”. We had gypsy-klezmer, folk-jazz, indie-punk, you name it, with a bit over half-hour drum’n'bass mix at the end, just to add some regional colour to the proceedings. Back to normal next week, I promise!

Can - Oh Yeah [Spoon Records/Mute]
Amon Tobin - Tabukula Beach Resort [Ninja Tune]
Kroke - Tsigoyner Tants [Oriente]
David Krakauer - alt(dot)klezmer [Tzadik]
Carla Kihlstedt - 50 Miles [Tzadik]
The Books - There Is No There [Tomlab]
This Mortal Coil - You And Your Sister [4AD]
Cocteau Twins - ella megalast burls forever [4AD]
The Clouds - Ghost of Love Returned [Red Eye]
The Bad Plus - Velouria [Columbia]
The Pixies - Caribou [4AD]
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow [Creation Records]
Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up! Sucker [BMG]
The Paradise Motel - J. Star [Infectious Records Australia - long gone, sad to say]
The Triffids - Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity) [White Records, now re-released by Mushroom]
David McComb & Adam Peters - Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On [Les Inrockuptibles/Columbia]
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat [Columbia]
John Cale - Hallelujah [Hannibal]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - All Tomorrow’s Parties [Mute]
The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher [originally released on 4AD]
Heligoland - Bluebird [Calcium Chloride] {Note: this is Tim Friese-Greene’s solo project, not the Melbourne band!}
Machine Translations - Out To Sea [Way Over There]
Tom Waits - Strange Weather [Island Records]
Serge Gainsbourg - L’Hotel Particulier [Polygram International, now part of the gigantic Vivendi-Universal]
Hood - i.fading hills [Domino]
Icarus - agua para mis abuelos [Recordings of Substance]
Alex Reece - Feel The Sunshine (DJ Pulse Remix) [4th & Broadway]
Björk - I Miss You (Photek remix) [One Little Indian]
Kosheen - Hide U (Decoder mix) [Moksha]
N.W.A. - Gangsta Gangsta (Aphrodite club mix) [Priority Records]
Klute - Phone Call (Matrix remix) [Certificate 18]