Utility Fog

Sunday, 27th of May, 2007

Amazing new album from Sage Francis out this week, and Mark E Smith collaborates with Mouse on Mars in Von Sudenfed.
We had an interview with Robert Curgenven & Sumu Sivanesan in there… A new collaboration from the Funckarma brothers called Legiac, and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson’s post-Coil project The Threshold Houseboys Choir. And we started with some awesome new music from…

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Formica [The End Records]
Sage Francis - Got Up This Morning [Epitaph]
Von Sudenfed - The Rhinohead [Domino]
The Threshold Houseboys Choir - So Young It Knows No Maturing [Threshold House]
Robert Curgenven & Derek Holzer - 1 & 4 from recent improvisations in Germany [Umatic]
…interview with Robert Curgenven & Sumu Sivanesan…
Sumu Sivanesan - Mono is the New Black [mprov]
Scissor Lock - Right Now? Or Forever… [forthcoming]
Shoeb Ahmad - Schwarzer (Jasmine Loop Control’s band version) [HellosQuare]
Taylor Deupree - Landing track 1 [Room40]
Part Timer - hide all you like (feat. Nicola from Empress and string samples from FourPlay) [demo/unreleased]
Saddleback - Rain In Sea [Preservation]
Legiac - Vega Orbid [Sending Orbs]
Scone - D90 [Moamoo]
Appleblim - Vansan [Skull Disco]
Clouds - Shallow [from MySpace - Finnish dubstep tune featuring that amazing sample of Joanna Newsom’s “The Book of Right-On”]
Sage Francis - Clickety Clack [Epitaph]
Githead - Darkest Star [Swim~]
Mice Parade - Tales of Las Negras [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Brunatex - Becks [Kinderbox/Surgery]
Sunwrae - Underneath [self-released]
Tanakh - Gently Johnny [Alien8]

Sunday, 20th of May, 2007

Tonight, a raggle-taggle of older material that I picked up while overseas, including a benefit CD for Dax Pierson and a tribute to Jhonn Balance of Coil, plus newish goods on Sublight and lovely new Vladislav Delay.

Robert Wyatt - Old Europe [Hannibal]
The Besnard Lakes - For Agent 13 [Jagjaguwar]
Aleks & the Ramps - brain [Cavalier]
Daedelus - Unadventurer (featuring Subtitle) [Alphapup]
Victor Bermon - Prospect Park [Hefty]
Matmos - handkerchief, heartbeat, accordian (for Dax) [Pink Bandana Records]
irr. app. (ext.) - knit, semble, straighten and mend [Pink Bandana Records]
Gail Priest - estranged angels [Metal Bitch Recordings]
Vladislav Delay - He Lived Deeply [Huume]
Saddleback - For Crying Out Loud [Preservation]
65daysofstatic - The Conspiracy of Seeds [Monotreme]
Ben Frost - We Love You Michael Gira / …Coda [Bedroom Community]
Alec Empire - Tribute to Coil (Short Version) [Fulldozer]
Funckarma - Plice [Sublight]
Scanner - The Meet The Moon [Fulldozer]
Githead - Darkest Star [Swim~]
Slowdive - Catch the Breeze [Creation Records]
The Longest Day - Slumber [self-released]
Blonde Redhead - 23 [4AD]
Björk - Wanderlust [One Little Indian]
The Flashbulb - Chik Habit [Sublight]
The Flashbulb - Stretch Industry [Sublight]
Gareth Clarke - Butterworth Lane Write-Offs [Sublight]
Shoeb Ahmad - Bec (Prettyboy Crossover’s RoomShare mix) [HellosQuare]
Kharkov - folkal [brothersister records]
Part Timer - Gentlemen Please (feat. string samples from FourPlay) [forthcoming on flaü]
Mice Parade - Sneaky Red [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]

Sunday, 13th of May, 2007

Tonight, new noisy pop from The Besnard Lakes, reworkings of slowcore kings Earth, the long-awaited new Saddleback album, and much more.

NOmeansno - Rags and Bones [Alternative Tentacles]
The Besnard Lakes - Because Tonight [Jagjaguwar]
The Besnard Lakes - This Thing [Earworm]
Thee More Shallows - Night at the Knight School / Int 1 [Anticon]
Feu Thérèse - Tu N’Avais Qu’Une Oreille [Constellation]
Earth - Thrones and Domnions (Jim O’Rourke remix) [No Quarter Records]
Earth - Coda Maestoso In F (Flat) Minor [Southern Lord]
Shoeb Ahmad - Blossoms Falling [HellosQuare]
Shoeb Ahmad - Falling Fast (Part Timer remix) [HellosQuare]
Part Timer - Fink [demo/unreleased]
Fisk Industries - Earth Algorithm [Mush]
Matthew Dear - Deserter (Four Tet Remix) [Ghostly International]
Keiran Hebden and Steve Reid - Brain [Domino]
Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities - Fake Tits [Ghostly International]
Dirty Projectors - Police Story [live bootleg of their amazing Black Flag cover]
Battles - Race:Out [Warp]
Saddleback - Hanging at Picnic Rock [Preservation]
Empress - for trains [Pehr]
Part Timer - a familiar site (feat. Nicola from Empress and string samples from FourPlay) [demo/unreleased]
Ryan Teague - Accidia [Type]
Takeshi Nishimoto - Interweave [Büro]
Aarktica - A shadow knife (draws the bleeding light) (with Aaron Spectre) [Darla]
Underlapper - Terrace [Feral Media]
Victor Bermon - Theatre of Signs [Hefty]
Tara Simmons - The Recycling Bin Song [self-released]
Shackleton - I Want to Eat You [Skull Disco]

Sunday, 6th of May, 2007

First Utility Fog of May, and my first since getting back from overseas! Much of what I played was picked up in North America, but there’s some great new local stuff that came in as well. Next week will feature more o/s loot!

Deerhunter - Basement / Young Layer / Death Drag [Stickfigure]
Thee More Shallows - Int 1 / Proud Turkeys [Anticon]
Blonde Redhead - The Dress [4AD]
b.calandra & howard - Shelter in the Shade [self-released]
howard - amazing [self-released]
Tara Simmons - The Recycling Bin Song [self-released]
Dntel - Dreams (feat. Valerie Trebeljahr & Markus Acher of Lali Puna) [Sub Pop]
Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You [free(!) download from Stereogum]
Aranos - Broken Fights [brothersister records]
Underlapper - Little Tapioca (Part Timer remix) [Feral Media]
Nurse With Wound - Rock ‘n Roll Station [Beta-lactam Ring Records]
Gail Priest - duet for gertrude & glass [Metal Bitch Recordings]
Ryan Teague - Nephesch [Type]
Secret Mommy - String Lake [Ache]
tstewart - i owe you not [Merck]
Silver Bone Tone - Clensing [demo]
DJ /rupture vs Filastine - 1.936 Riddim [Shockout]
Appleblim - Vansan [Skull Disco]
The Bug feat. Flowdan - Jah War (Loefah remix) [Ninja Tune]
Björk - Innocence [One Little Indian]
Regina Spektor - Edit [Sire]
Momus - My Pervert Doppelganger [Le Grand Magistery]
Emperors of Blefuscu - Savage Customs [brothersister records]
The Cure - The Top [Fiction/Rhino]
Kind Winds - Sat Jam 12:55 [Consumer Productions]