Utility Fog

A random-not-random aesthetic runs across a lot of the music tonight, which is one of my favourite vibes in the music I've encountered and spread through this show's many years. Whether it's sounds from indie rock, krautrock, sample-based electronica, musique concrète or hip-hop, you can hear cacophanies of sound that reveal themselves to be sensitively […]

Classical instruments getting themselves into strange situations, noise shaped into hip-hop, field recordings shaped into techno, IDM, dub... and lots of experimental electronics in general tonight. LISTEN AGAIN and you may find the secret meaning of life. Try streaming on demand on the FBi website, or podcasting here. Sun Ra - Nuclear War (Joel Tarman […]

A quite international Utility Fog tonight also covers ground from purely acoustic folk to purely electronic, generative music, managing to shift into jazz, doom, and jungle from surprising quarters, with sound-art and a dash of contemporary composition rounding things out. LISTEN AGAIN to the widest sounds around. Podcast here, stream on demand from FBi. Mike […]

This week saw the release of some beautiful guitar-led, experimental singer-songwriter stuff - leftfield indie folk, perhaps, and we also have de/reconstructed English folk, de/reconstructed Brazilian samba stylings, trailblazing '80s experimental cello-pop, trip-hop and other beats, post-industrial, instrumental shoegaze and post-classical piano & guitar. This has been your genres of the week. LISTEN AGAIN, when […]

A bit of everything tonight: postpunk dub, minimal techno, IDM, breakbeat and minimal d'n'b, ambient, post-classical and post-jazz, drone, indie, folk, glitch, modular synth. What's a few genres between friends? Thanks once again to Holly Conner for holding the fort while I was away last week! LISTEN AGAIN for your sanity's sake. Stream on demand […]

A little less emphasis on the beats tonight, or it's beats within other genres or in service of something other than moving bodies on dancefloors... There's riveting spoken word, futuristic raps and weird adaptations, and later, post-jazz and spooky sound-art. Thanks to Holly Conner aka ilex for her excellent selections last week! She'll be looking […]

Experimental sounds from the orbits of noise, free improv and spectral classical rub up against song-based experiments, beat-based floor-fillers and more... LISTEN AGAIN and stand proud. Stream on demand from FBi, podcast here. ugne&maria - healing [Futura Resistenza] ugne&maria - zinc [Futura Resistenza] A couple of months ago we heard Brussels-based Lithuanian musician Marija Rasa […]

From the most "pop" Utility Fog music to the most experimental & abstract, new rave dancefloors to African diaspora percussion, industrial new-wave pop to dulcimer-driven post-black-metal. LISTEN AGAIN on demand at FBi, or by podcast here. Repeated listens may induce transcendence. Michael Ackroyd - Delicate Puncture [Michael Ackroyd Bandcamp] About two and a half years […]

So a lot of tonight's material has some claim to "classical" music provenance for some reason, although there's nothing you could claim to be classical music. Some is more-or-less ambient, some is anything but. LISTEN AGAIN. There will be a test. Stream on demand via FBi, podcast here. Nicholas Thayer - on growing [Oscillations/Bandcamp] Nicholas […]

We continue our investigation/celebration of amen breaks & jungle tropes in other musics - this week, it's metal! Also jazz-meets-West-African, some lovely IDM throwbacks as well as a contemporary evolution of IDM, and some more minimalist electronics. LISTEN AGAIN to these two hours of this little corner of human history. Stream on demand from FBi, […]

We have interesting cases of genre-bleed tonight: you'll never quite be sure if you're listening to sound-design or contemporary classical or improv; songwriterly work or experimental folktronica or grime or dubstep; r'n'b or drum'n'bass? Is this hip-hop or processed live percussion? Of course the answer is always "por que no los dos?" LISTENing AGAIN will […]

Experimental pop, noise artists not being noisy, ambient artists being noisy... Cut out the noise by LISTENING AGAIN on stream on demand @ FBi Radio, or podcasting here. The God In Hackney - In This Room [Junior Aspirin/Bandcamp] The God In Hackney - Bardo! [Junior Aspirin/Bandcamp] You may remember nigh on 3 years ago, I […]