Utility Fog

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 »

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 »