Utility Fog

A lot going on in the world at the moment, dizzying amounts of WTF and it can be pretty anxiety-causing. But humanity continues to create great art, so let me share with you some of the boundary-pushing music of note …Read more »

One month into 2025… watching a country being dismantled is quite a horror story, so let’s stay away from the news if we can, and listen to experimental music! LISTEN AGAIN via fbi.radio or our podcast here – it might …Read more »

Today is the day when so-called Australia is meant to celebrate its founding as a British colony. It’s a day of sadness and contemplation for indigenous Australians, and should be for all of us. This always was, always will be …Read more »

Annnnnd we’re back! Thanks heaps to Giulio for the last two Sunday nights’ selections – fantastic stuff. I have complained before about how music doesn’t stop being released, right through December and into the very beginning of the new year. …Read more »

It’s the last Utility Fog of the year, but it’s a doozy! A 2hr live DJ mix of as many of my favourite beats (and some other oddities) as I could fit. It’s like a Utility Fog but with less …Read more »

Here we are at the end of the year. As is traditional, I’m doing THREE Best of 2024 shows, starting with “songs” tonight, instrumentals & sound-art next week, and a DJ mix of stuff with beats on December 29th. Of …Read more »

Last new music of the year! I mean, not the last new music to come out this year, but for me it is, as the next 3 shows will be my best-of round-up of 2024! There are a few mega …Read more »

Look, the year’s coming to a close. What a fucking relief. Let it go, let it go. I mean, obviously 2025’s gonna be a lot worse, but maybe it can also be better in some ways? Let’s make it so. …Read more »

We’re getting towards the end of the year and the new releases are refusing to let up. I take this as a personal affront. LISTEN AGAIN and get angry along with me at how much great music there is! Stream …Read more »

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 […]