Utility Fog

Sunday, 16th of March, 2008

Evening. Lots of new stuff this week!
Fredo Viola gives us wonderful layered vocals to start with. We have Mamadou Diabate's incredibly dextrous kora playing; something from Pikelet's Pre-Flight Jitters that preceded last year's beautiful album; Brisbane's Chris Perren, both solo and with his fabulous postrock band Mr Maps; and also from Brisbane, the amazing indie-postrock of The Rational Academy with their long-awaited debut album.
Later, Brisbane also brings us some dubstep via Suckafish P Jones, while dubstep producer Barry Lynn (aka Boxcutter) brings us some mashed breaks under his own name, and The Doubtful Guest (aka Libby Floyd) harkens back to the days of acid rave...

And Autechre's highly limited (like, 1000 copies worldwide) Special Edition 2CD version of their new album arrived in the mail this week. Registered Post, so I went and picked up the delightfully heavy little parcel from the post office, and tore it open to reveal the amazing embossed metal slipcase, with two CD cardboard gatefold case inside. Tasty! The alternate versions on CD2 really are worth it, and I played one of 'em tonight.

Fredo Viola - The Sad Song (Tunng remix) [Because Music]
Fredo Viola - The Turn [Because Music]
Brian Campeau - ce baiser [self-released/Vitamin]
The Accidental - Brave New World (Benge remix) [Static Caravan]
Mamadou Diabate - Diyabarana [Instrumental Recordings]
Pikelet - Bryson [Sabbatical]
Chris Perren - See You Soon [self-released]
Mr Maps - I See Them, They're Like Mountains [unreleased, listen at last.fm]
The Rational Academy - Squid & Whale [Someone Good]
Atlas Sound - Quarantined [Kranky]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Night of the Lotus Eaters [Mute]
The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher [4AD]
Grinderman - Electric Alice [Mute]
Benga - Emotions [Tempa]
Elemental - Raw Material [Hotflush]
Suckafish P Jones - Straight Outta The Garage [self-released dubstep from Brisneyland]
Benga & Coki - Night (Digital Soundboy remix) [Tempa] {Digital Soundboy is Breakage & Shy FX}
The Doubtful Guest - Mind Detergent (µ-Ziq's Demestos Mix) [Planet µ]
The Doubtful Guest - Tubby [Planet µ]
Barry Lynn - London [Planet µ]
The Flashbulb - Forbidden Tracks [Alphabasic]
Quench - Flad former [Love The Chaos]
Autechre - Perlence range3 [Warp]
Gescom - Key Nell 3 [Skam]
Kelpe - Cut It Upwards [DC Recordings]
Mia Doi Todd - Night of a Thousand Kisses [City Zen/Kindred Spirits]
The Rational Academy - 2004 [Someone Good]

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