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  • Playlist 18.01.26

    Playlist 18.01.26
    Jan 18 2026

    Mid-January, we’re very much on the way with 2026’s new music, but I’ve got a few 2025 catch-ups in here too.
    I’ll be away in Japan the next two weeks, and Holly Conner on the 25th and Lachlan Stevens on the 1st of Feb will be your excellent hosts.

    Puma Blue – Hush
    Pebble Seven – Strangers
    Alev Lenz – Domestisizer (on F)
    Alev Lenz – Mother Tongue (on B)
    Kee Avil – itch
    Mi3raj معراج – Medley ميدلى
    Dééfait – Molokh ∞
    Zu – Pleroma
    Zone Null – There will be poems (condensed)
    Richard Francis – Phase effect on wet road
    Damian Valles – Pt.4
    Pita – 4
    Luís Fernandes + Pierce Warnecke – Culatra II (excerpt)
    Travis Cook – 9am
    Atte Elias Kantonen – EEEE
    Atte Elias Kantonen – Aluhart
    Leif – Yes No
    Joanna – Gardeners World – ddwy Remix
    DJ Punx – Gas
    ugne&maria – a tidal pull
    ugne&maria – slip
    False Aralia – Borgesian Term 04
    Erdfisch – Honig
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  • Playlist 11.01.26

    Playlist 11.01.26
    Jan 11 2026

    Welcome to the first new music show of 2026 – and thanks to Giulio aka Parcae for his great selections last week!
    We have a certain amount of catchup from last year, but we also have a surprisingly large amount of new music already, either released this week or last, or forthcoming.

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    Silvia Tarozzi – Lucciole
    Silvia Tarozzi – Le ossessioni

    Winged Wheel – I See Poseurs Every Day
    Winged Wheel – Speed Table

    Èlg & la Chimie – La ville cachée

    JJJJJerome Ellis – Evensong, part 3 (for and after Jessica Valoris)

    Toni Geitani – Ya Sah
    Toni Geitani – Wasla

    Obelisk – Salty Lemon Air

    Kloke – Silk

    Aftawerks & Earl Grey – Swingfunc Jungle

    Homemade Weapons – Leviathan (HW Remix)

    BMA – Middle Age REFLEKT
    Moa Pillar – Fight Them Back

    Travis Cook – fight_clown

    John Wall – Iconvt

    Low Flung – Niksen

    SAWT – Phase Collapse
    T. Gowdy – 00L00

    Filippo Ansaldi & Simone Sims Longo – +1
    Filippo Ansaldi & Simone Sims Longo – Illusione

    Dual Dialect – Conglomerate III – Meme-leak Mosaic

    Aroma – After The Rain
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  • Playlist 28.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 3!

    Playlist 28.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 3!
    Dec 28 2025
    Heya, so here we are, the end of 2025. Good riddance I say. As is traditional, this is a DJ mix – almost 2 hrs, with a bit of speaking at the front. It’s pretty strange, this one, although there’s a lot of dance music. There’s also a lot of detours and oddities, but that’s what UFog is about, so I hope you enjoy! You can stream on demand from fbi.radio, or you can listen right here: Perera Elsewhere, Andy S – Fuck Le System [Friends of Friends/Bandcamp] I loved Sasha Perera aka Perera Elsewhere‘s 2022 album Home, an album of “doom-folk”, but actually experimental electronic pop songs. The following year she put out an album of remixes with some excellent contributors, and now there’s finally another album, Just Wanna Live Some. Her musical net is cast wide, mixing UK soundsystem culture in with music from different parts of Africa, Indonesia and Europe (she’s based in Berlin). The first double single features two tracks with Ivorian MC Andy S, rapping (mostly) in French over infectious beats. Harry The Nightgown – Bell Boy [Leaving Records/Bandcamp] A band that call themselves Harry The Nightgown are just gonna be an art pop kind of affair, right? For their debut album the LA band were engineer/producer Spencer Hartling aka tp Dutchkiss and sound engineer/singer/guitarist/etc Sami Perez, but they are now joined by Luke Macdonald, who tours with one of Perez’ bands, Cherry Glazerr. There’s no way of telling who played or programmed what, but the first single from Ugh (an album with a title for the times if ever there was one) is complex & melodic, skippy junglist beats with a sped-up funk bassline and lopsided maybe-sample, skittering into groovy synth chords that could come from an early James Blake track. It’s glitchy, catchy and super-cool. N-Type & Kromestar – Don’t Be Afraid ft. Sgt Pokes & Breezy Lee [Wheel & Deal Records/Bandcamp] I don’t play a lot of dubstep on the show these days, simply because it doesn’t always fit in, and the same goes for grime “as such”, although I love those genres. So unfortunately this lovely song that melds trip-hoppy r’n’b vocals, grime and dubstep, wasn’t played during the year – but here it fits nicely in this space between electronic pop and dub. Both N-Type & Kromestar go back to the early days of dubstep, and the voice of Sgt Pokes has been heard at many a dubstep night. Breezy Lee also has been associated with the UK bass scene for a while, as well as jazz & cabaret, and she brings just the right amount of soulfulness to this tune. Modeselektor featuring Paul St. Hilaire – Movement [!K7 Records/Bandcamp] We’ll get back to Paul St. Hilaire in a minute, but I have to confess I’ve always had a soft spot for Modeselektor. They are essentially a Berlin take on bass music and techno, and through their long career have often found great collaborators to join them on their albums and mixes. It’s nice to see them doing what’s surprisingly their first DJ-Kicks mix, inserting a good quantity of experimental stuff, and of course there are some exclusive tracks. “Movement” is a thudding, bouncy piece of bass techno, and the echoing voice of Paul St. Hilaire (fka Tikiman) provides great atmosphere to what’s really a skeletal track (which is all it needs to be). Kvedarkvintetten – Brest [Heilo Records/Bandcamp] Tagal is the latest album from Norwegian vocal quintet Kvedarkvintetten, featuring music composed by Jorun Marie Rypdal Kvernberg. The title translates as “to keep silent” or “mute” or “wordless”, so these songs feature almost no text. The quintet’s previous work was primarily based around their interpretations of the traditional vocal music of the Hallingdal region of Norway, so even though Kvernberg provided musically notated scores, the group brought their own interpretation. This is highly melodic music, performed with dedication and emotion. Simon Henocq – CONCOURSE A [Carton Records/Bandcamp] French record label Carton Records gregariously supports artists across just about all genres, and many of their releases have the genre-free je ne sais quoi of Simon Henocq‘s We Use Cookies. Henocq is a sound-artist, producer and self-taught musician who also convenes French collective COAX, a gathering-together of musicians of all genres along with dancers, visual artists and more. I would loosely define Henocq’s album as noise, but it coalesces into a kind of industrial techno often. At other times you’ll get a fizzling, crackling tone that slowly grows into a snarling miasma. Paul St. Hilaire & Gavsborg – Confidential [Kynant Records/Bandcamp] Until about 2003, the Jamaican vocalist Paul St. Hilaire was known as Tikiman, under which name he collaborated with many experimental electronic musicians including The Bug and Tarwater, but most famously Berlin techno heads Mark Ernestus & Moritz Von Oswald of dub-techno labels/projects Basic Channel, Chain Reaction and Burial Mix, ...
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  • Playlist 21.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 2!

    Playlist 21.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 2!
    Dec 21 2025
    Tonight it’s Part 2 of Utility Fog’s best of 2025, which encompasses all the music that’s not vocal-driven or beats-driven. So there’s contemporary jazz, abstract sound-art, glitch electronics, glitchy postrock, field recording, tape manipulation and more. There’s even voice at times. LISTEN AGAIN and sound your art – stream on demand at fbi.radio, or podcast here. Laura Jurd – Praying Mantis [New Soil/Bandcamp] There has, I think, been more “jazz” on Utility Fog this year than in previous years – but there’s always been some, often in a faux genre of “post-jazz” that I’ve used to lump together glitchy hybrid-jazz with electronics. But in general jazz is a living genre that can’t help but draw from everything from punk & metal to electronica and folk. One of the jazz highlights this year was the new solo album from UK trumpeter Laura Jurd, who had stepped away from music to tend to her family, but returns here in astonishing form. Jurd’s Mercury-nominated band Dinosaur embodied the “fusion” aspect of whatever post-jazz wants to be, using synths along with a spiky rhythm section that funks out where necessary. On Jurd’s Rites & Revelations, the folk aspects (also present in Dinosaur) are often to the fore, and that’s all kinds of folk including Scottish and English, but also Eastern European and Western Asian to my ears. And as well as Jurd’s usual drummer Corrie Dick and contemporary UK jazz mainstay Ruth Goller on bass, the band features accordianist Martin Green and violinist/violist Ultan O’Brien. It’s an album unlike any other, drawing deeply on the past while pointing in new directions. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin – Panj [Drag City/Bandcamp] Ghosted III is the third album from the trio of iconoclastic Australian experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi with the Swedish rhythm section of the incredible Fire! – bassist Johan Berthling & drummer Andreas Werliin. It’s still driven by the wonderful cyclic basslines and rhythms of Berthling & Werliin, but on this album it opens up its scope from those patient cycles. It’s still deeply embedded in these artists’ oeuvres: the krautrockain period of Ambarchi’s that started with “Knots”, the centrepiece of 2012’s Audience of One, and similarly the hypnotic sound of Berthling & Werliin’s groundbreaking earlier band Tape (one album on Bandcamp) as well as the freer Fire! and Fire! Orchestra. Opener “Yek” (the titles are the numbers 1-6 in Persian) has chiming post-postpunk guitars over a skipping bassline and drums, and it’s followed by the starker “Do”, which could be a long-lost Tape track. But there’s still minimalist blues like “Panj”, on which Ambarchi’s guitar sounds like a droning organ. These musicians’ careers have intersected multiple times in their swerving trajectories. Long may they reign in this trio formation! TL;DR – Cumulus (edit) [Earshift Music/Bandcamp] Following his tenure as leader of the Australian Art Orchestra, Naarm trumpeter/composer/producer Peter Knight hasn’t stopped to rest. The wonderful Hand To Earth was formed as a project of the AAO but continues as its own thing. TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) is a new quartet with three younger musicians in the Naarm jazz scene. Brilliant bassist Helen Svoboda is here playing basslines but also showcasing her melodic bowed harmonics and her voice; guitarist Theo Carbo, like Peter Knight, contributes electronics as well as his instrument; and Peter’s son Quinn Knight brings 15 years of experience improvising with his dad to the fore. This is dreamy music, ambient-dub-jazz – and the internet-jokey name aside, the cloud titles are perfect for these floating, soulful pieces. Alister Spence Trio – The Gathering [Alister Spence Bandcamp] Alister Spence – Interior Signal [Room40/Bandcamp] Sydney pianist Alister Spence is a key part of this city’s jazz and improv scene, and his trio with Lloyd Swanton of The Necks and drummer Toby Hall is a unique, evocative partnership (all three were also part of Sandy Evans & Tony Gorman’s legendary Clarion Fracture Zone). In Februrary this year, the trio released their latest album of melodic, energetic jazz, Gather. But Alister’s creativity takes him in all directions, and his Within Without album is perfectly conceived for the Room40 label. Here, his creative impulse swoops away from the piano, and often away from the keys altogether, diving inside the beloved, chiming, throbbing heart of the Fender Rhodes (an instrument Spence has very much made his own too, over decades of playing). Prepared piano is now a well-established way to draw new sounds from the piano, and highlight its inner workings; so here’s Alister Spence’s prepared Rhodes. His suite of effects is never far away, but mostly we’re hearing the insides of the instrument, tapping and buzzing and yes, chiming. It’s hard to make the Rhodes not beautiful, and its inherent ...
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  • Playlist 14.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 1!

    Playlist 14.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 1!
    Dec 14 2025
    It’s December, with 3 Sundays left of the year, so that’s Best of 2025 Parts 1, 2, and 3! Tonight it’s “songs” – well, that includes raps. I’ve had to leave SO much out, y’all! As usual, the amount of music being released only goes up, and it’s not like the years are getting longer… As always, you can LISTEN AGAIN on stream-on-demand at fbi.radio, or podcast right here. clipping. – Night of Heaven (feat. Counterfeit Madison & Kid Koala) [Sub Pop/Bandcamp] So yeah, back in March, clipping. released one of the albums of the year… or did they? If so, then what’s this? Why does my CD now seem to be missing tracks? It’s because Dead Channel Sky Plus is in town, baybee! I love clipping., but I hate these insta-deluxe reissues that the digital age has brought us. I mean fine, the additional tracks are rad, but you just released the album 6 months ago in various physical formats… Annnyway, an album more fitting for the digital age could not exist – this is clipping. doing cyberpunk, employing Daveed Diggs’ incredible wordsmithery and Jonathan Snipes & William Hutson’s backgrounds in noise, breakcore, soundtracking and more to bring to life the genre that’s both decades out of style and horrifically descriptive of our current-day dystopia. So, finally we have the “pt. 1” to the original release’s “Mirrorshades pt. 2” (the deadly Molly Millions in William Gibson’s cyberpunk ur-text Neuromancer “wears” mirrored sunglasses – except they’re permanently sealed into her skin; a couple of years later Bruce Sterling edited a definitive anthology of early cyberpunk titled Mirrorshades). Needless to say, following their previous concept albums on afrofuturist space opera and horror & blaxploitation, clipping. nail the cyberpunk genre here, both in terms of “style” and intertextuality. But anyway, not only is “Mirrorshades pt. 1” a certifiable banger, but on “Night of Heaven” clipping. collaborate again with the astonishingly-voiced Sharon Udoh aka Counterfeit Madison, with cuts provided by Kid Koala. My CD player aches with jealousy. Note: clipping. did a brilliant Tiny Desk Concert late in the year, with electro-mechanical percussion, harmonium and the aforementioned Sharon Udoh on piano and vocals, and while every rendition is a highlight, this song is the second-last, and Kid Koala hops up on the turntable! Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Dogeared (feat. Kapwani) [Backwoodz Studioz/Bandcamp] It’s been a huge year for Backwoodz Studioz, and a few others of their releases appear tonight, but here’s the second full-length album from Studioz boss billy woods and E L U C I D‘s Armand Hammer working exclusively with The Alchemist. Like Haram, their first collaboration, Mercy benefits from The Alchemist’s commercial experience, but the producer perfectly mindmelds with Backwoodz’ aesthetic, with bizzaro samples that are by turns wonky and sinister – but whatever the loop is that “Dogeared” is built around, it’s the most earwormy sample of the year, and Kapwani brings beautifully melodic vocal layers along with it. In his verse, a woman asks woods, “What’s the role of a poet in times like these?”, and while he’s still grappling with it by the end of the song, it’s not unfair to say that it’s this very grappling that’s their added value – as well, I’d like to suggest, as their pure artistic worth. billy woods – Waterproof Mascara [Backwoodz Studioz/Bandcamp] The most notable hip-hop release of the year – albeit with much competition – must be Golliwog, the intense new album from billy woods. The sinister imagery of the deeply racist ragdoll character that gives the album its name is a pointer to what’s inside. It’s a kind of take on horrorcore from a Black perspective, and as usual it’s got brilliantly murky production with weird interludes and great guests on beats, instruments and verses, sparsely but smartly used. The murky production from Preservation on “Waterproof Mascara” underlines a truly disturbing autobiographical story from Woods. SUMAC & Moor Mother – Scene 1 [Thrill Jockey/Bandcamp] Last year, alongside their remarkable, heavy-as-fuck album The Healer was released, sludgey hardcore supergroup SUMAC released an EP called The Keeper’s Tongue with two remixes: recent Wire Magazine cover star, Pulitzer Prize-winner Raven Chacon, and the brilliant avant-garde hip-hop/free jazz genius Moor Mother. And what a combo the latter was! SUMAC leader Aaron Turner was singer & guitarist with two of my favourite post-metal bands, ISIS and Old Man Gloom (the latter not in past tense), but SUMAC feels like his purest vision, engineered with precision along with the rhythm section of Baptists drummer Nick Yacyshyn and bassist Brian Cook of hardcore legends Botch and post-metal legends Russian Circles. Turner also ran the greatest metal/experimental label in the world, Hydra Head, and now has a ...
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  • Playlist 07.12.25

    Playlist 07.12.25
    Dec 7 2025

    So this Friday was the last Bandcamp Friday of the year, and even with that aside, it was a big release day for new music. It’s insane, but because of this I’m not doing best-of-2025 till next week. Here’s a whole slew of excellent new music across every genre imaginable.

    READER’S NOTE: as I’m so far behind with my write-ups, I’m concentrating on the Best of 2025 posts, and will try to return to these for full text as soon as I’m able!

    Water From Your Eyes – Born 4

    Alev Lenz – Ivory Tower (on D)

    HAYWARDxDÄLEK – Antiphony
    HAYWARDxDÄLEK – Breathe Slow

    Bomb A Lil Joy – Everything U R Doing
    Bomb A Lil Joy – Saigon Too

    Blarke Bayer – The Prophet’s Paradise

    SUMAC and Moor Mother – SCENE 1 (Shapednoise Remix)

    Obelisk – Sanctuary

    Hitori Tori – Eurofling

    Indicator – Malopropist

    Heavyweight – Straight Outta London VIP
    Ruffkutt – Your Time

    Abstract Drumz – Alone (2025 Remaster)

    Noémi Büchi – I was almost there

    Luz González – Drawing Dinosaurs (Where can I hide my anger?)

    Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – The Celesta Incident

    NEUE DEUTSCHE KUNST – Der Sputz der Tagropronisten
    NEUE DEUTSCHE KUNST – Keine Nichtmusik Drei

    Géraldine Eguiluz & Michel F Côté – Territoires perdus #2
    Géraldine Eguiluz & Michel F Côté – Territoires perdus #3

    hidden_attachment (ky) – Cartoon Land (Memory/161 to Wilderton remix)

    Freda D’Souza – I’ve missed the rain

    Emily Wittbrodt – Lied

    Otto Lindholm – Lessizty

    Connor D’Netto – interlude/nails

    Laura Altman – A Call to Water

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  • Playlist 30.11.25

    Playlist 30.11.25
    Nov 30 2025

    As we swiftly approach December, tonight is the second-last “new music” show of the year. There’s a lot of music coming out on December 5th! But then that’s it, the next 3 will be Best of 2025.
    Keen listeners will be surprised that I’m mixing up the structure tonight. Really, it usually goes the way it goes due to thematic and tonal segues, and this time round, the jazz & ambient(ish) stuff just fitted best after our early songs, and the beats are the bulk of the second half.

    READER’S NOTE: as I’m so far behind with my write-ups, I’m concentrating on the Best of 2025 posts, and will try to return to these for full text as soon as I’m able!

    The Notwist – X-Ray
    The Notwist – Magnificent Fall

    Muyassar Kurdi – Child of the Sun (feat. Chris Williams)

    Peter Knight – The Coiling of the Tide

    Laura Jurd – Praying Mantis

    Má Estrela – Top Suki Girl

    BLACK HAUGE – Papiret (Radio Edit)

    Dina Maccabee – Outbreak

    Joni Void – Walker
    Joni Void – Lighters

    Samuele Strufaldi – Musica Invisibile

    Mac Seldom – ILUVU

    Om Unit – Lost Stories (Bok Bok Remix)
    Om Unit – The Chase (Alter Echo & E3 Remix)

    Ghost Dubs – Hope

    Fatwires x Atsushi Izumi – Ga

    UNTECHCIRCLE – Dying Light
    UNTECHCIRCLE – not just chaos

    Mattr – Tayl

    CHEAHDX – Earthbound

    dreadmaul – No Shade

    Low End Activist – Hope III (Demdike Stare Stressed Version)

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  • Playlist 23.11.25

    Playlist 23.11.25
    Nov 23 2025

    Tonight, one of the underground hip-hop albums of the year, some very unusual collaborations, two releases in the Frisian language of north Holland, solo drum kit, post-jazz, bass & breaks, human/AI collaboration and electro-acoustic sound-art verging into folktronica.

    READER’S NOTE: as I’m so far behind with my write-ups, I’m concentrating on the Best of 2025 posts, and will try to return to these for full text as soon as I’m able!

    Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Dogeared (feat. Kapwani)
    Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Crisis Phone (feat. Pink Siifu)
    Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Longjohns (feat. Quelle Chris & Cleo Reed)

    HAYWARDxDÄLEK – Asymmetric

    YHWH Nailgun – Weaving (original by LEYA)

    Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum – in lichem fol beloften
    Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum – de Dea

    Joana Guerra, Maria Do Mar, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra – Al Dy Kleuren
    Joana Guerra, Maria Do Mar, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra – Kâlde Mage

    Chloe Kim – Ratsnake

    SML – Old Mytth

    Snorkel – Flash Flood
    Snorkel – Sirene

    Endless Mow – wattle and daub

    An Avrin – 4LYFE
    noRecall – The Machine and its Master

    Lakker – Hood

    Kassian – Ghost Dub

    Bad Ambulance – Zero

    Olivier Alary – Imagined Presence (preview clip 4)

    Rutger Zuydervelt – House of Strength
    Rutger Zuydervelt and Lucija Gregov – (Not) Not Three High
    Rutger Zuydervelt and Lucija Gregov – Euphoria (outtake)

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