Utility Fog

Quite a journey today, through genres, countries & continents, emotions and BPMs. This is how we do it in the house of Utility Fog. Snakeskin – Lost Today The Bunny Tylers – Let There Be Light Akram Hajj – Day 2 SANAM – Aykathani Malakon (SAFA remix) dälek – By the Time We Arrive in El Salvador james K – N’Balmed (JASSS Purple Remix) Antoine Ferris – shame’s coming ft. natacha kanga ŽIVA – Hesitation Esther – Critical Ruby My Dear – Iterations ZULI – Half Empty ZULI – 44 Marco Simioni – Dot With Illumination (Delta Division Remix) Dro Carey & Pinz – Hellish Plasma Korsain – +55 Paperclip Minimiser – II A1 Commodo – Deep Harbour ft. Alfa Mist Nicolas Remondino – boku ga (feat. Adele Altro) Nicolas Remondino – hìeratico KINACT – Cercle de Tambour Kinact KINACT – Cercle de Tambour Kinact avec Manza et Ikembe FRANTX – BARBIECUE Andrea Giordano, Kalle Moberg, Jo

World is fukt. Music, not surprisingly, reflects that. But there’s joy and dancing and energy to be found here as well as anger and only a bit of sorrow. Dance a new world into being! LISTEN AGAIN and enjoy something whyoncha. Stream on demand from fbi.radio or podcast here. Oh and by the way, I DJed on Friday night at White Bay Power Station for Art After Dark / Sydney Bienalle, curated by Liquid Architecture. Mara Schwerdtfeger did a beautiful set, and we were graced by a set from Tujiko Noriko as headliner. I recorded my first set, which opened the evening, a pretty wide-ranging mix that I’m sure you’ll like if you’re a follower of this show! Stream it here: https://soundcloud.com/frogworth/omphalo-centric-mixture-live Youniss – TakeThat ft. Pink Siifu Youniss – Gits Worse ft. Petite Noir Kim Gordon – No Hands BAYANG (tha Bushranger) & Kuya Neil – Copy + Paste BAYANG (tha Bushranger) & Kuya Neil – Luzon Bleeding Heart (ft. Sevy) Grasps_ –

Electro-acoustic sound-manipulation rubs shoulders with extended techniques on acoustic instruments, while influences from ’80s industrial, ’70s krautrock, ’00s folktronica and ’90s dub techno can be found alongside indie rock, breakbeat, and good ol’ classic freeform noise. It’s Sunday. It’s Utility Fog. Bibi Club – A Different Light Bibi Club – Le Styx The Notwist – The Turning Daniel Jumpertz – I Would Never Do That To You Praed – Assarab السراب Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy – Living Emojis Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy – Easing The Hearts Damos Room – Molars New Age Doom featuring H.R. – We’re All the Same DJ Sprinter – Floaterr (unreleased) Rotate – Hot Glue Teerath Majumder – Dust MATA – Adolf Hippy MATA – Compro Oro Et Laboro Noémi Büchi – dislocated bodies Roman Rofalski – Monday Autistici & Datewithdeath – Grusch’s Biologics Bruce Russell &

Experimental songs, experimental strings in almost-psych rock, acoustic & electronic settings, contemporary composition, avant-jazz, experimental electronics heading into footwork and jungle hybrids, weird bass music, experimental techno and noise… and hey, probably more! LISTEN AGAIN & fuck war. Stream on demand @ fbi.radio, podcast here. Tanya Tagaq – Razorblades Tanya Tagaq – Ikualajut Fabels – Akron TOUT BLEU – Technosapiens tangent mek – immutable traveler Bushra El-Turk, Dudok Quartet – Three Tributes: Portrait II Nima Aghiani – Live excerpt from eavesdrop festival, 2024 Taupe – Interlude (Stride) Taupe – allcapsallbold tigran hamasyan – Prelude for all seekers Flying Lotus – Brobobasher Flying Lotus – Big Mama Annebel – Yavegard Rivs & Matt Scratch feat. Mandidextrous – Friday Night Jensen Interceptor – Four4 Diva Loop Duffy x Tecta – False Teachings Rainforest – Boycott Only Now x

An experimental focus tonight, with a lot of contemporary jazz that slides into electronic experimentalism, contemporary classical and almost-pop songwriting. There are a few beats of the very leftfield sort, and some abstractly beautiful sound-art. I’m premiering two tracks from saxophonist & sound-artist Caroline Davis from her incredible album Fallows, which is out on Ropeadope on March 27th. LISTEN AGAIN & you might blow your mind. Stream on demand @ fbi.radio, podcast here. Kee Avil – un Marianna Sangita Angeletaki Røe & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra – Trouble Karoline Wallace – Klokkestein David/David – sedem Taroug – Najet Azimuth Compass – Anti-social Climbers vic bang – Curva POD & Edward Richards – Temporal Loop Transcendance GLOK/Timothy Clerkin – Nothing Ever Reprise (Xylitol Remix) Nondi_ – Rejection Lily Nondi_ – Leaded Pipe Nondi_ – Leather Guitar Ben Vince – Sentient Kinetics Caroline Davis ̵

Tension between live performance and studio editing, acoustic music & electronic, folk styles and modern tonight – all very Utility Fog, just how we love it. LISTEN AGAIN to soak in the vibes. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast right here. Momoko Gill – When Palestine Is Free Momoko Gill – Test A Small Area Tanya Tagaq – Fuck War Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy – Pixelated Dro Carey – Tawny Track Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das – prjct16 [140.61 D#m] FUCK!LACRÈME – Welcome To My Crib Pugilist – waveform 19 Red Sky – Today’s Lament Geode – Heron yunis – Kutla Fox & Chimpo – Mash Work Gooooose – Relay Placid Angles – We Cry With You Arthur Clees – IDA_23 Arthur Clees – Oh, What a Mess We’ve Done Puscha – (In)a(de)quatic Puscha – Sycophantasm Charles Amirkhanian – II – In Praise Of The Venerable Piano Roll Charles Amirkhanian – V – Hopper Popper Rosenau & Sa

How’s it garn? Here’s some music for yas. elsas – FINALISE U elsas – NIÑO Noni-Mouse ft. Hemanti Devi – Aa Bhave Nikolaus Graf × Laiz × Krantinaari ft. Taiji – Huduka Ho James Massiah & DJ GAWAD – All Out Buttress O’Kneel – Fascists Whisker Floater – Undercoat4 Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland – Squeal Of Swine – خنخنة خنازير Praed – Al Hathayan الهذيان Arketek – Rotten Soldier Allis – 無 – 〇 Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das – prjct14 [87.50 Am] flywheel – Troppo enduser – Waiting (Decay Mix) enduser – Where I Found You (Album Mix) Morwell – Into Pieces (Jan 2026, unreleased) Morwell – Willie Williams – Come Make We Rally (Morwell remix) Ambu Bambu – Laugh It Off J.Sparrow – Lust Parajekt – Parajekt Parajekt – Mani e Pane Elizabeth Davis – Wo Sind Sie Geblieben Elizabeth Davis – Long Time Passes Joachim Nordwall + Aar

I’ve been away for two weeks in Japan (it was amazing, needless to say). Huge thanks to Holly Conner (ilex) and Lachlan Stevens (Heyes) for brilliant shows on those two Sundays. Tonight I’m excited about the selections available – intense experimental electronic rock, protest rap, free jazz-tronic poetry, glitch-folk, sound-art, jungle & idm, post-techno post-bass(?), and acoustic instruments distorted, processed, and played live. Mandy, Indiana – Sevastopol Mandy, Indiana – I’ll Ask Her B Dolan – How I(CE) Could Just Kill A Man The Odes – You Owned It Bara & Isa – 2×2 (Verschrin Tulip Mix) Concrete Husband – As the Sun Falls Concrete Husband – Procession of the New Sun Toni Geitani – Ruwaydan Ruwaydan Toni Geitani – Wasla Glasser and Melati ESP – Vine (Melati ESP Remix) Xylitol – Falling Suburban Architecture – Rising (Kloke Remix) dgoHn – 4.37445 Yards Bruce – It Ain’t Over Till&#

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

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. hidden_attachment – sorry this was just something i had to do hidden_attachment – in moncton i spent all my money on pinball and beer 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 – Ic

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! Perera Elsewhere – Fuck Le System (feat. Andy S) Harry The Nightgown – Bell Boy N-Type & Kromestar – Don’t Be Afraid ft. Sgt Pokes & Breezy Lee Modeselektor featuring Paul St. Hilaire – Movement Kvedarkvintetten – Brest Simon Henocq – CONCOURSE A Paul St. Hilaire & Gavsborg – Confidential gyrofield – Vegetation Grows Thick Sebaas – No Plastic Mac Seldom – ILUVU Kalabash – Major ft. Jelani Blackman (Radio Edit) Muskila – JAH NAM (INTRO) Vier – VAI PULANDO Pushlock – Scarecrow Sacred Lodge – Wa Wa Ke Wa Wa Yi (Feat. Sara Persico) Shugorei – Water Music Matmo

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. Laura Jurd – Praying Mantis Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin – Panj TL;DR – Cumulus (edit) Alister Spence Trio – The Gathering Alister Spence – Interior Signal Alexandra Spence – The Spring Kate Carr – spring back and creak Ipek Gorgun – Edgelord dogs versus shadows – Ghost Artery Part 1 (radio edit) António Feiteira – Ghost Hiss, Resonant Hip She’s Analog – danse macabre BirdWorld – Opposite Hinges (feat. Sara Övinge) Dorothy Carlos – My Buddy (Miss You In Ear World) Erik Friedlander – The Tree of Knowledge The Cloud Maker – Selkie Shimmer Lia Kohl – Train, Antwerp to Amsterdam Whitn

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… clipping. – Night of Heaven (feat. Counterfeit Madison & Kid Koala) Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Dogeared (feat. Kapwani) billy woods – Waterproof Mascara Sumac & Moor Mother – Scene 1 doseone & Steel Tipped Dove – Restaurant Not Haykal, Julmud, Acamol | هيكل، جلمود، أكامول – A‘saab Nadah El Shazly = ندى الشاذلي – Dafaa Robaai SANAM – Sayl Damei – سيل دمعي Yasmine Hamdan – Vows سبع صنايع Aesop Rock – The Red Phone Gabe ‘Nandez & Preservation – Nom De Guerre (feat. Ze Nkoma Mpaga Ni Ngoko) aya – the names of Faggot Chav boys Rainy Miller – Chrome, Hallowed

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. 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

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. 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

HI PODCAST LISTENER! (I'm putting this note on the "missing" podcasts that I'm catching up - from Nov 30th onwards it won't be included) You may have noticed how late I've been getting with these posts. It takes ages to write everything up, but I think it's valuable. However, it's been pointed out to me that people might want the podcast itself to be regular! So I'm now going to separate out the posts for the podcast feed from the main posts. You won't get all the detailed review text, but you'll get to listen sooner, and you'll get the tracklisting itself still! Please let me know if this is good/bad/average. You can find a hint for my email on the website's sidebar. 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. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Dogeared (feat. Kapwani) Armand Hammer &

HI PODCAST LISTENER! (I'm putting this note on the "missing" podcasts that I'm catching up - from Nov 30th onwards it won't be included) You may have noticed how late I've been getting with these posts. It takes ages to write everything up, but I think it's valuable. However, it's been pointed out to me that people might want the podcast itself to be regular! So I'm now going to separate out the posts for the podcast feed from the main posts. You won't get all the detailed review text, but you'll get to listen sooner, and you'll get the tracklisting itself still! Please let me know if this is good/bad/average. You can find a hint for my email on the website's sidebar. What a relentless year of new music... It's getting that way every year mind you. The releases will run right through December and into January, mark my words... Anyway, tonight we have the surprisingest song of the week (year?) from two very different pop icons, plus experimental song and electronics of all sorts, blending with classical, ja

Huge thanks to Holly Conner for her great curation last week while I was playing at Essence Festival in Canberra. Tonight we’ve got mutant pop and folk, mutant bass, mutant classical and ambient… and beautiful slippages between genres. LISTEN AGAIN …Read more »

HI PODCAST LISTENER! (I'm putting this note on the "missing" podcasts that I'm catching up - from Nov 30th onwards it won't be included) You may have noticed how late I've been getting with these posts. It takes ages to write everything up, but I think it's valuable. However, it's been pointed out to me that people might want the podcast itself to be regular! So I'm now going to separate out the posts for the podcast feed from the main posts. You won't get all the detailed review text, but you'll get to listen sooner, and you'll get the tracklisting itself still! Please let me know if this is good/bad/average. You can find a hint for my email on the website's sidebar. Music from North Africa, West Africa, South Asia, East Asia, South America, North America, Europe and Oceania tonight... which covers most continents. Antarctica needs to pick up their game. Noura Mint Seymali - Bidayett Lehjibb Noura Mint Seymali - Lehjibb Noura Mint Seymali - Moughadim Karr Perera Elsewhere - Time Will Tell (feat. Andy S)

HI PODCAST LISTENER! You may have noticed how late I've been getting with these posts. It takes ages to write everything up, but I think it's valuable. However, it's been pointed out to me that people might want the podcast itself to be regular! So I'm now going to separate out the posts for the podcast feed from the main posts. You won't get all the detailed review text, but you'll get to listen sooner, and you'll get the tracklisting itself still! Please let me know if this is good/bad/average. You can find a hint for my email on the website's sidebar. Somehow it's the second-last month of the year? And yet, this year has lasted about 3 years so far, so it's not too surprising? We do have a surprise new album from Aesop Rock, new weirdpop of various sorts, trip-hop vibes, Halloween spookiness, sadcore/hardcore crossover, industrial sad-hop, experimental electronics both beat-wise and not, some jungle and some blissful ambient pop to take us out. It's Sunday. Aesop Rock - Sherbert Aesop Rock - Crystals an