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]