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There’s a lot of really interesting & strange pop, r’n’b, grime or even folk music tonight, proving perhaps that this is an era where flouting norms is the standard, and the paradox within that is celebrated. LISTEN AGAIN and flout …Read more »

Neo-classical electronic pop, contemporary jazz both electronic and acoustic, experimental metal, experimental beats. LISTEN AGAIN, experimentally. Stream on demand vai fbi.radio, podcast here. Darian Donovan Thomas – Microcosm Friend [New Amsterdam Records/Bandcamp] Last year, American violinist, composer and multimedia artist …Read more »

Another wet day in Sydney, a day on which an estimated 100,000+ of us walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge to protest Israel’s starvation and genocide of Gaza, the occupation, the killing of children, and Australia’s complicity. It was clearly more …Read more »

Uncanny simulacra abound through the music tonight. What is real? LISTEN AGAIN and just add to the confusion. Stream on demand via fbi.radio, podcast here. Mal Devisa – Next stop [Top Shelf Records/Bandcamp] Show Me The Body – Halogen (feat. …Read more »

As I was putting this show together, it felt like it was leaning heavily into bass & beats – and it is, to an extent, but it also has highly ethereal sounds, acoustic doom and acoustic prettiness, post-jazz forms and …Read more »

We have lots of miscellaneous experimental beats tonight, and different experimental versions of song, plus sound-art and noise, and kinds of ambient. I’m catching up on some stuff from when I was overseas, but also looking ahead to things not …Read more »

Experimental maneuvres in pop, hip-hop, jazz, rock and electronics, percussive approaches to musique concrète as well as jazz-rock-tronica, vinyl manipulations with dark electronics, spoken word, field recordings, ambient installation work and post-classical piano. LISTEN AGAIN to the percussion, the glitches, …Read more »

Beautiful songs and churning glitchscapes, accelerated hyperpercussion and sparse bass drops… A night of contrasts. LISTEN AGAIN to the song of life. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here. Herbert & Momoko – Calm Water [Strut/Herbert Bandcamp/Momoko Gill Bandcamp] Herbert …Read more »

Following Israel’s unprovoked (according to all trustworthy intelligence) attack on Iran mostly as a distraction from the genocide they’re still undertaking, Donald Trump unilaterally decided to bomb Iran today, bringing the world to the brink of… something, nothing good. Nobody …Read more »

He’s baaaack! OMG. That was 6 weeks. A very full 6 weeks. So much to play you, so much to talk about. But I wanna extend HUUUUGE thanks to the seven beautiful people who filled in while I was away, …Read more »

Well! Tonight is my last show for 6 weeks. I’ll be travelling in the UK & Europe, mostly touring with Black Aleph but with a bit of holiday time too. While I’m away, each Sunday will be covered by excellent …Read more »

Singles & tracks from forthcoming albums and new releases from hip-hop to doom, postrock to experimental electronic, breakbeat to techno, post-classical to post-jazz. LISTEN AGAIN, stick it in your pipe and smoke it. You can stream it on demand on …Read more »

Strange conglomerations of fluttery acoustic sounds, skittery electronic beats, seemingly-clashing cultural milieus… LISTEN AGAIN if you dare! Stream on demand from FBi, podcast here. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals – A City Drowning. God’s Black Tears. ft. The Lil Black …Read more »

Everything’s off-kilter this week. It’s not just the deranged tarrif-spewing orange menace… it’s also the music? But… in a good way? Yeah. LISTEN AGAIN if you’re off-kilter too. Stream on demand from FBi, podcast here. Infinity Broke – Snowdome of …Read more »

Lots of speedy beats tonight, whether underpinning grime vocals, post-classical synths, postpunk agitprop or… you name it. Plus contemplative guitars & strings, shoegaze and indie-jazz-pop. LISTEN AGAIN to capture all the details. Stream on demand from FBi, podcast here. Postcards …Read more »

Experimental song, guitar-triggered sample-mashing, electro-dub, industrial dub-metal, intricate percussion, ambient jazz… Just some of the well-known genres heard tonight. LISTEN AGAIN and invent some new genres. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here. Yasmine Hamdan – Shmaali شمالي [Crammed Discs/Bandcamp] …Read more »

Thanks so much to Amy Li for her fascinating selections last week while I was in Naarm with Zoe Jungist of FBi’s own Variable Depth Audit DJing at the incredible Absorbed IV! That means I’ve got two weeks of new …Read more »

Your experimental fix for tonight has vocals sung and spoken and screamed, in a few different languages and in no language at all. Also jungle beats mushed into other genres, slapback echoes, manic electric guitars and soft piano. And that’s …Read more »

Lots of vocals tonight, as spoken word, as songs, as cut-up textures… As usual we’re already at a point where there’s waaaay too much music out there. But hey, that means that everything here is rolled gold. LISTEN AGAIN, at …Read more »

Let me take you on a trip1… from lo-fi hip-hop to mutant jungle, dub techno to generative IDM, mushed free jazz to mutant harps and other acoustic instruments… It’s just another week in the Utility Fog office. (there is no …Read more »