Utility Fog

If you’re looking for avant-pop, avant-Egyptian, sound-art, beat tapes, Iranian electronic, industrial bass, dubstep, idm, jungle, hit em, breakcore, drone, contemporary classical, electro-acoustic or just good ol’-fashioned postfolkrocktronica, you’ve come to the right place! LISTEN AGAIN and get your bearings. …Read more »

As we wake up to a world that’s just a little (lot) more fascist that it was last week, there’s some righteous anger, some despondency, and beauty for you tonight. Don’t forget, everything is political: dancing is political, crying is …Read more »

Crazy mix of stuff tonight, music that somehow has beats when you wouldn’t expect it, that has no beats when you might expect it, that’s entirely acoustic when you’d think it was processed & edited… LISTEN AGAIN via the FBi …Read more »

Experimental sounds abound, wrong-song to maltreated beats, un-classical to dis-cordian. LISTEN AGAIN and nourish your soul. Stream on demand via FBi, podcast here. YATTA – MTV [PTP/Bandcamp] YATTA – Circle [PTP/Bandcamp] Last year, Sierra Leonean-American musician YATTA, who I’ve been …Read more »

Your weekly mix of experimental electronics, weird fusions, twisted acoustics and more. LISTEN AGAIN and rise from the murk. Stream on demand at fbi.radio, podcast here. Third Eye – Terminal 283 [Regular Records] This week brought the sad news that …Read more »

Some beautiful experimental song, and hyper beats, but lots of sound-art tonight. LISTEN AGAIN – you won’t regret it. Stream on demand at the new fbi.radio, podcast here. Snakeskin – Homecoming [Mais Um/Bandcamp/Ruptured/Bandcamp] Julia Sabra and Fadi Tabbal (Snakeskin) – …Read more »

Covering ground from Iranian-American beats to English shoegaze-loop-pop, IDM, nu-skool-jungle, bass-heavy noise and noisy bass music, Middle Eastern-influenced electronic psych rock, the ever-cheeky Aphex Twin's ambient masterpiece orchestrated, postrock and sound-art. And that's just a taster! LISTEN AGAIN for the full flavour profile. Stream on demand @ FBi, podcast here. Maral - retrofit (feat. YATTA) […]

A mixed bag tonight, from experimental indie-jazz to krautrock, post-industrial to electroacoustic, percussive beats to ambient beatscapes, doom dub to d'n'b to noise metal to electroacoustic sound-art to jazz-folk and back to experimental indie. LISTEN AGAIN, second time's a charm! Stream on demand on FBi's new website, or podcast here. Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder [American […]

Indie/folk/rock takes us into some beautiful crunchy indietronica, shoegazetronica and contemporary out-rock, before we move into dub & bass-oriented beats, some first class contemporary drum'n'bass, glitchy ambient/idm and decentred ambient of various ilks. There's also some industrial post-club spoken word weirdness, and later some newer & older approaches to post-classical, as they probably don't call […]

A few important albums came out this week, so we're doing that Utility Fog thing of multiple tracks from the same artist/release. And it's allll great. Of course. LISTEN AGAIN for your soul's sake. Stream on demand at fbi.radio's new home, podcast here. Kim Gordon x Model Home - razzamatazz [Matador/Bandcamp] Less than six months […]

There's quite a lean towards ambient sounds tonight - not all peaceful, mind. There's some shattering noise and many glitchy loops and sound-beds. But there's also hip-hop, skittering IDM, stripped-down grime, and re-imagined acoustic folk. LISTENING AGAIN is medically proven to promote mental acuity. Stream on demand from FBi, podcast right here. Dealers of God […]

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A lot of moody music tonight, some different types of "jazz", music from Norway, Japan, the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Canada and of course Australia. LISTEN AGAIN, it's a mood. Stream on demand from FBi, podcast here. ØKSE - Amager feat. billy woods [Backwoodz Studioz/Bandcamp] ØKSE - Amar Økse [Backwoodz Studioz/Bandcamp] Starting tonight with a record […]

Thanks to Giulio for filling in last week while I was away - excellent selections, and even some text about everything that was played

Tonight, from experimental electronic pop to free improv, live beats and programmed beats, modern classical and avant-garde, from all over the world. LISTEN AGAIN and open up to a world of music. Stream on demand from FBi, podcast here. ROMÆO - Worlds [ROMÆO Bandcamp] Starting with art-pop from here in Eora/Sydney, from young artist ROMÆO, […]

Layers of abstraction, mutations of punk, warpings of beats, rebuilings of improv, détournements of ambient... LISTEN AGAIN and mutate... Stream on demand via FBi Radio, podcast here. Chris Corsano - I Don't Have Missions [Drag City/Bandcamp] Since the early '00s, American drummer Chris Corsano has been a key member of the free improv world, bleeding […]

Dark acoustic and electronic sonics, big beats and no beats, glitched folk... LISTEN AGAIN and win at life! Stream on demand via FBi, podcast here. Coppé - Ajisai (Nikakoi Remix) [Mango + Sweetrice Records/Bit-Phalanx Music] Japanese singer Coppé's been around longer than many. And since the 1990s she's been collaborating with creative electronic artists, from […]

There's an undercurrent of noise through a lot of tonight's show. There are fast beats and sub bass and melodies too though! LISTEN AGAIN and transcend to a higher sphere. Stream on demand on the FBi website, podcast here. Party Dozen - The Big Man Upstairs [Temporary Residence Ltd/Grupo/Bandcamp] Eora/Sydney duo Party Dozen are a […]

Tonight we journey from underground hip-hop through hyper- and infra-pop, folk-reggae, jungle, breakbeat, jazz-classical-electronic hybrids, post-rock and post-classical. Come with us! LISTEN AGAIN if you know what's good for you. Stream on demand from FBi Radio, podcast here. John Glacier - Cows Come Home [Young/Bandcamp] John Glacier - Satellites (with Kwes Darko) [Young/Bandcamp] I'm a […]

Experimental pop, experimental beats, ambient weirdness, Burroughsian cut-ups, remixed classical... LISTEN AGAIN and keep Sydney weird!(?) Podcast here or stream on demand @ FBi. Martha Skye Murphy - Need (ft. Roy Montgomery) [AD93/Bandcamp] Martha Skye Murphy - Kind [AD93/Bandcamp] I first heard English experimental singer/songwriter Martha Skye Murphy on a duo release with double bassist […]