Utility Fog

Sunday, 26th of June, 2005

More of the same, just like you love it. We hope.

Nico – The Fairest of Seasons [Verve Records]
Margareth Kammerer – Somewhere I Have Never Travelled [Charizma]
Carla Kihlstedt – Trampolina [Tzadik]
Jessica Bailiff – Come And Close My Eyes [Brainwashed]
Lali Puna – Fast Forward (Flowchart remix) [Morr Music]
Odd Nosdam feat Jessica Bailiff – Untitled Three [Anticon]
Animal Collective feat. Vashti Bunyan – Prospect Hummer [Fat Cat]
Populous – Drop City [Morr Music]
Mice Parade – Drawn [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
The Books – an owl with knees [Tomlab]
Inch-time – squeezebox [from his self-released album any colour you like, now re-released in a tiny batch of 100 by Static Caravan]
Pasobionic – Empty Beat 1 [Elefant Traks]
Tim Koch – Haarlem Posture [Cyclic Defrost]
Comatone – Pick Up Those Discs [Feral Media]
Ill Bravados – Hall of Annexed Records [Feral Media]
Odd Nosdam feat Mike Patton – 11th Ave Freakout Pt 2 [Anticon]
Cyne – Automaton (Four Tet remix instrumental) [City Centre Offices]
Populous – The Dixie Saga [Morr Music]
Colleen – Summer Water [Leaf]
The Flashbulb – (title unreproduceable – track 23 from kirlian selections) [Sublight]
Unit – Phyllis Braineater 052 [Caipirinha]
Tube – Room Number 23 [Liquid Sky]
Foley – ilex [From Gauche drummer Alon Ilsar's new solo project, this track featuring his partner Jane Sheldon, also from Gauche, on vocals]
Pivot – Incidental Backcloth [forthcoming on Sensory, courtesy Cyclic Defrost]
The Flashbulb – creep [Sublight]
Pedro vs Kathryn Williams – Part 2 [originally on Moshi Moshi, re-released on Melodic]
Minotaur Shock – Muesli [4ad]
Why? – Mutant John [Anticon]
Fog – 10th Avenue Freakout [Lex Records]
Vytear – Friends of Jelly [g25productions]
Enduser – Backup [Soothsayer Recordings]
Noize Creator – i believe my dreams [Thorntree]
Male Nurse – Night and Day [unreleased]

Sunday, 19th of June, 2005

Wehey! Lots of new goodness tonight! New mini-album/EP thing from Anticon stalwart Why?, collaborator in Hymie’s Basement with Fog… New Minotaur Shock from his debut album for 4ad, new Lali Puna rarities and newness in various forms, and a stunning new album from drill’n'bass-revivalist The Flashbulb, who moves effortlessly from breakcore to acoustic quasi-classical and all sorts of hybrids in between in his kirlian selections – highly recommended, as is all the other new stuff this week…

Hymie’s Basement – 21st Century Pop Song [Lex Records]
Why? – Mutant John [Anticon]
Fog – The Rabbit [Lex Records]
Why? – Sick 2 Think [Anticon]
The Flashbulb – California Dreaming [Sublight]
Martin L Gore – Loverman (Bola Remix) [Mute]
John Yoko – The Morning Paper [Morr Music]
Scissors for Sparrow – Bed Day! [Feral Media]
Mice Parade – Warm Hand in Farmland [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Plankton – Nubius Insomniomniomnia Remix [Feral Media]
Deadbeat – Texas Tea [~scape]
Lali Puna – Left Handed Dub [Morr Music]
Unkle Ho – A Scottish Tale [Elefant Traks]
Pasobionic – Hollow Bones [Elefant Traks]
The Flashbulb – kirlian isles III [Sublight]
The Flashbulb – kirlian shores [Sublight]
Foley – willow [From an awesome promo of solo stuff from Alon Ilsar, drummer in Sydney's wonderful quintet Gauche, this track featuring his partner Jane Sheldon, also from Gauche, on vocals]
Ambulance – Cad Quad Qui [Planet µ]
Nonplace Urban Field – Vinyl 1:1 [Incoming!]
Nonplace Urban Field – Plane Spotting [Incoming!]
The Flashbulb – Lucid Bass I [Sublight]
The Flashbulb – Air Nad Adrian [Accelmuzhik]
Minotaur Shock – Somebody told me it existed but they never found it [4ad]
Lali Puna – Faking the Books (Dntel remix) [Morr Music]
Minotaur Shock – Bus Bus Bus Bus [Melodic]
Pivot – Incidental Backcloth [forthcoming on Sensory, courtesy Cyclic Defrost]
Ra – Adx Rebirth [Hip Notik Records]
Gram – The Shadow Knows [Available at Gram's downloads page]
Noize Creator – In Memory Of [Thorntree]
Vytear – Verd [g25productions]
The Flashbulb – binedump [Sublight]
Venetian Snares – Szerencsétetlen [Planet µ]
Enduser – Dubplate #12 [Ad Noiseam]
howard – my mating call [from the unreleased album Electronic Music of a Programmatic Nature]

Sunday, 12th of June, 2005

Tonight, I bring you some UFog exclusives, including new solo material from Gauche drummer Alon Ilsar under the name Foley. A few new bits on vinyl, and starting the show with a new Mara Carlyle track, “covering” the beautiful “Dido’s Lament” from Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which has the distinction of being the oldest English opera (first performed 1689, folks!) Our little nostalgia-trip for tonight will be courtesy of the incomparable Uwe Schmidt, best known as Atom Heart or Atom™ – couple of remixes and a cover…

Mara Carlyle – Dido’s Lament (Remember Me) [Accidental Records]
Foley – ilex [From an awesome promo of solo stuff from Alon Ilsar, drummer in Sydney's wonderful quintet Gauche, this track featuring his partner Jane Sheldon, also from Gauche, on vocals]
HMS Ginafore – comfort in rum [Fence Records]
Odd Nosdam feat Jessica Bailiff – Untitled Three (edit) [Anticon]
Juana Molina – Salvese Quien Pueda (Juana’s Epic Re-version) [Domino]
Jessica Bailiff – Shadow [Brainwashed] {Note to labels/manufacturers: please don’t make vinyl that fucking thin and flimsy! How hard was it to stop it slipping on the platter?!]
Deadbeat feat Athésia – n’importe quoi [~scape]
Ambulance – It’s Curtains For You [Planet µ]
Cyne – Automaton (Four Tet remix) [City Centre Offices]
Daedelus – Fallen Love [Ninja Tune]
Pasobionic – Black Ink Concerto [Elefant Traks]
Ill Bravados – Hall of Annexed Records [Feral Media]
Bombay 1 – More Than Everything [Grönland, courtesy Wire Magazine]
Martin L Gore – Stardust (Atomic Vocal) [Mute]
lb – Ashes to Ashes (digital spacepop replicant) [Form & Function]
Depeche Mode – Zenstation (Atom‘s Stereonerd Remix) [Mute]
Gram – Keep Your Head Above Water [Underscan]
Comatone – Stillpoint Coma [Feral Media]
Autechre – Pro Radii [Warp]
Pivot – Incidental Backcloth [forthcoming on Sensory, courtesy Cyclic Defrost]
Mice Parade – Satchelaise [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Prester feat. Amnésie – Far In To Me [Hip Notik Records]
13 & God – L’Atlas Flexible / Von Gradleute (rmx by Hrvatski) [Alien Transistor/Anticon]
Vytear – Friends of Jelly [g25productions]
Foley – willow [Another track from his great new promo, see above]
Kid 606 – Phoenix Riddim [Wichita courtesy The Wire]
Murderbot – Twilight Zone [Mashit!]
Rotator – Ruptch “A_ttak (a remix of Descarridada by DJ /Rupture) [Brøklyn Beats]
Enduser – Dissin Monks [Ad Noiseam]

Sunday, 5th of June, 2005

Last night of supporter drive tonight! I’ve got a whole lot of new stuff to scatter through the show, but we all know that’s not all that Utility Fog’s about… Newness from A Silver Mt Zion tonight, among other things, plus the new Wire Tapper CD for subscribers to The Wire…

Kid 606 – Phoenix Riddim [Wichita courtesy The Wire]
A Silver Mt Zion – God Bless Our Dead Marines [Constellation]
Fog – We’re Winning [Lex Records]
Juana Molina – Salvese Quien Pueda (Four Tet‘s Ugly Remix) [Domino]
Deviationists – Sweetest Charms [unreleased, courtesy The Wire]
Same Actor – Squash [forthcoming on Bip-Hop]
Hot Roddy – Pessimism [unreleased]
Scissors for Sparrow – Magnetic Potato [self-released dizzy donor CDR]
Pivot – Incidental Backcloth [forthcoming on Sensory, courtesy Cyclic Defrost]
Catnip – Blue [Feral Media]
Gauche – When Clouds Collide [Invada]
Pedro vs Kathryn Williams – Part 2 [originally on Moshi Moshi, re-released on Melodic]
Male Nurse – Floating Memoria [unreleased]
Nick Castro – Sun Song [Strange Attractors Audio House]
Keith Fullerton Whitman – (Stereo Music for) Hi Hat, Serge Modular Prototype, Yamaha Disklavier Prototype… [Kranky]
Hood – Squint in the First Light of Day [Domino]
Shadow Huntaz – Rulez of Engagement [Skam]
randomNumber – charge [Vacuous Pop]
Funckarma – Brim [Underscan Records]
Mönky – track 5 [maybe unreleased on Bitchface] {I’m assuming this is right… playing at Frigid next week}
chadhuhng – fleaing [another undiscovered Sydney talent, Jonathan is based in Erskineville, making great experimental electronic music]
Animal Collective feat. Vashti Bunyan – It’s You [Fat Cat]
Hanne Hukkelberg – Ease [Leaf]
Aronas – Aronas [Strange Records/Vitamin]
Minotaur Shock – Vigo Bay [4ad]
Rashamon – Hikkiko Mori (90′s friendly mix) [Passive-Aggressive]
Four Tet – Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions [Domino]
Enduser feat Rachel Kann – Familiar Taste of Blood [Very Friendly]
Belladonnakillz – Kill Bella Donna [dross:tik]