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Utility Fog

De : Peter Hollo
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Utility Fog teeters on the cusp between acoustic and electronic, organic and digital. Constantly changing and rearranging, this aural cloud of nanotech consumes genres and spits them out in new forms. Peter Hollo curates each episode around a narrative of genre-plasticity, deep-diving into artist histories, side projects and influences. Challenging sounds are contextualised within musical movements, surprising connections are uncovered, unfairly overlooked works are revisited. Come on a journey through music in all its ugly beauty. Musique
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  • Playlist 28.06.26

    Playlist 28.06.26
    Jun 28 2026

    We have experimental songs tonight, underground hip-hop & grime, and quite a lot of jungle & drum’n’bass mixed up with more experimental electronics & noise, sound-art meets contemporary classical, music for Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan and Congo, and more!

    LISTEN AGAIN to find the hope in the world; stream on demand at fbi.radio, podcast here.

    Aphir – Photokeratitis
    Brian Ennals & Blockhead – Let it Burn (like Usher)
    Basic Rhythm & NyNy – Vibez
    Basic Rhythm – No Future
    Sourdure – Le Pebre (feat. Lisà Langlois)
    Jesse Draxler – Traap Number 9 ft. Lord Spikeheart & Hybrid Intuition
    Artilect – Flames (Featuring Miss Ria)
    dgoHn – Waiting For
    Mantra, Decibella & Tim Reaper – Force 32
    Shhau – Bedrock
    Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das – Iron Age Fantasies
    Bios Contrast, Nilotpal Das, Seraphim, Susu Laroche, BROOD – Escape
    KK NULL – Quantum Pulsation X_000005
    Architectural – Psychedelic Dancefloor Visions
    Kirk Barley – Ecstatic
    dprk – Blutsuppe
    dprk – Aksak-Turm
    Lord Tusk – Opposites Attract
    Dawuna – Anything
    Helen Svoboda – If
    Helen Svoboda – Evening Hepuli (feat. Selma Savolainen)
    Kalia Vandever – Tough Play
    Mara – Air Leak feat. Benjamin Woods
    Seabuckthorn – Mumbo Jumbo
    Ben Shemie – I See You Too
    Bint Mbareh – one’s own third harmonic on a rusted sewage pipe
    Félicia Atkinson – Les Yeux IV
    Félicia Atkinson – Sans Visage V

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  • Playlist 21.06.26

    Playlist 21.06.26
    Jun 21 2026
    Hip-hop, glitch, dub, bass, jungle, hardcore… rhythmic acoustic & electro-acoustic, drone-folk, experimental folk, sound-art, ambient techno… Here we are, let’s go. LISTEN AGAIN, you deserve it! Stream on demand @ fbi.radio, podcast here. doseone & Height Keech – Human Satan [doseone Bandcamp] Following his brilliant album All Portrait, No Chorus with Steel Tipped Dove earlier this 2025, veteran alt.hip-hop mouth doseone swung right back into the swing of things with an EP produced entirely by Baltimore beatmaker Height Keech. Wood Teeth was laser-focused on the current moment, and from the sound of the first single, its sequel (Wood Teeth II, natch) is too – once more it’s about the descent of the USA into fascism, and it’s as “scathing” as the copy says. Saul Williams – Conspiracy (feat. Moor Mother) [Big Dada/Bandcamp] The king of conscious rap, of experimental collaboration, the poetic philosopher of politics, Saul Williams is back with a new album this year, Leap Life. Out on August 28th on Big Dada no less, the Ninja Tune subsidiary that in 1998 released his mind-blowing debut EP Elohim (1972) (“Like kyah kyah kyah, sha klak-klak, get me the FUCK off this track!“). With that history, who could be more appropriate to guest on the new album’s first single than Moor Mother? “Death is a conspiracy”, folks. Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer – Speedrun – umru & username flip [10k/Bandcamp] Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer – Picture This – Black Noi$e flip [10k/Bandcamp] Not long after her lush little collaborative EP Clandestine with Loraine James last year, New York-based experimental hip-hop/r’n’b artist Anysia Kym released her Purity album with Tony Seltzer, whose recent production credits include underground luminaries like Princess Nokia, Eartheater, Pink Siifu and Dua Saleh. This week they’ve dropped Purity (Flips), which prepends the original album with 12 reworkings from well-known names like Loraine James (of course), Traxman and AceMo, and newer names too. I mean, who am I to say who’s well-known? Anyway, umru & username are super-online folks from what I can tell, presenting some nicely glitched-up sheets of synth, and who’s this bringing the jungle bumps a la PinkPantheress or Nia Archives? It’s only Black Noi$e, who we heard at the beginning of the year doing some insane “inversions” of Earth‘s sludgy debut Extra-Capsular Extraction (original collected here). The music has disappeared from Bandcamp, but you can find it at Boomkat, or streaming wherever. In any case, there’s a fair share of jungle and experimental sounds among the “flips” here. AVA RABIAT – Znak Zapytania [FUU/Bandcamp] Due on July 10th is the second album from Polish sound-artist, singer & composer AVA RABIAT. It’s also her second on Berlin-based label/platform/collective FUU, home also to artists like Ah! Kosmos aka Başak Günak, Büşra Kayıkçı and Hara Alonso, and it continues her interest in emotive, but highly technologically degraded songs, songs which mess with text in both Polish and English. The album’s titled Szał Wirtualnych Ciał, which translates as “Frenzy of Virtual Bodies”, a phrase that smears the physical and organic into the digital and artificial, and the music does so too. House of Skin – U Turn [Jeopardize/Bandcamp] Vienna-based musician Clemens Posch makes music as House of Skin, which is also the title of his new album released by Viennese label Jeopardize. I love that it’s got something of the heft and character of contemporary bass music and experimental electronic production, but also somehow references the postpunk era and 1980s electronic pop experimentation. Posch is fairly anonymous – his Instagram is private, even. Props to him really! Spitbender – Nothing Here But the Recordings [Perf/Bandcamp] Francisco Antão’s Spitbender is a confounding proposition. On Spin, the Porto-native released on Porto label Perf jumps right in with a skittery piece of ’90s slow-fast jungle, but the modulated drones in the background give a small indication of what’s to come: by the second track, we’ve got distorted riffs and looped rock drums, doom-dub style, while the third track is a kind of chaotic funk-metal. The jungle never quite returns, but the dub feel is a constant, channeled through trip-hop, hip-hop & live sampling. A fantastic oddity. WAAASS – Tight Joe [WAAASS Bandcamp] WAAASS – Dial 808 [WAAASS Bandcamp] WAAASSUP! I’m not sure, as I don’t speak French (very well), but Parisian (I think) duo WAAASS make bass, breakbeat & dancefloor-ready IDM using heaps of hardware, and it’s tweaked, highly rhythmic stuff that touches many genres without quite settling in any – jungle, dubstep, techno, trap… Some of the most creative, out-there bass music is coming out of France lately! Sebaas – too much of that [not on Sebaas Bandcamp] Much like when he didn’t drop his massive tune “No Plastic” last year, I’ve ...
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  • Playlist 14.06.26

    Playlist 14.06.26
    Jun 14 2026
    Songs heavy & dark, glitchy & light, raps in English & Turkish, beats bassy & percussive, jazz upbeat & minimal… It’s Utility Fog! LISTEN AGAIN, you might have missed something the first time? Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here. YHWH Nailgun – Burns [AD93/Bandcamp] YHWH Nailgun – Innocent Sigh [AD93/Bandcamp] The super-intense sound of YHWH Nailgun is hard to pin down – they get described as a band where each member is playing a different genre. There’s something of hardcore punk, some kind of prog tendencies, drumming that’s like live jungle, but hints of 80s new romantic somehow? So what do you do if you’ve got so many ideas? Distill them down into an 11-minute album apparently! Magazine presents 10 songs in 11 minutes, and while none is quite Napalm Death’s “You Suffer” (but why?), the title track is only 35 second long. And while one in particular sounds like it cuts off just as it’s beginning, others manage to make a complete statement in only 1:20. I’m not sure this release will change people’s minds in either direction, but for my money YHWH Nailgun are doing something genuinely interesting & new. Big|Brave – verdure [Thrill Jockey/Bandcamp] Big|Brave – holding tongue [Thrill Jockey/Bandcamp] Montréal’s Big|Brave haven’t ever really sat still in terms of musical genre, once being lumped in with metal, clearly owing much to the postrock of their hometown, and last year making an abstract, vocal-less album called OST (that preceded the movie that it may be a sountrack to). On the metal side, mind you, they made an incredible album with the body that somehow sounded most like… folk-rock? In any case, for the stunning in grief or hope, the vocals & instruments of Robin Wattie and Matt Ball, combined with the bass of MY DISCO‘s Liam Andrews and electronics of Machines With Magnets‘ Seth Manchester, have resulted in the heaviest work yet from the band, leaning deeply into controlled distortion. Wattie’s voice holds the grief as expressively as ever, while some of the hope may be expressed in the pulsating instrumental “holding tongue”. Proving once again that Big|Brave are one of the most vital bands currently in existence. Tujiko Noriko – Only on Love [Editions Mego/Bandcamp] Back in March I was fortunate to be invited to DJ at White Bay Power Station for a Liquid Architecture event headlined by the brilliant Japanese glitch/ambient-pop pioneer, Tujiko Noriko. Since 2001, Noriko has made fragile, experimental pop songs and ambient compositions that sit comfortably in the glitch world that was to a large extent originated by the Viennese label Mego who picked up her debut album. In the intervening 2½ decades, Noriko has made music with acoustic improvisers, beatmakers, sound-artists, and of course put out lots more of her own stuff, including more song-based music, soundtracks, more ambient-leaning works. While her latest full album for (Editions) Mego, 2013’s Crépuscule I & II was very much on the ambient soundtrackerly vibe, Noriko also released last year an incredible debut of a trio with Adrian Corker and George Barton that they’ve named CxBxT, whose album .After is songs & beats, if no less experimental for it. So PON, Noriko’s latest album and a long time coming, sits somewhere between those poles – ambient pop, I guess. Quite romantic, Japanesely twinkly, with strange mood-shifts & disembodied voices ensuring you don’t get too complacent. Mariam Wallentin & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble – Blanket Dance [Hubro/Bandcamp] Mariam Wallentin is one of the most extraordinary singers of our age – known for her postrock/pop/experimental duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums with her husband, drummer Andreas Werliin, and for her immense, emotive vocals with Fire! Orchestra, the Nordic free jazz big band centred around the Swedish trio Fire! formed by Werliin along with bassist Johan Berthling and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. Wallentin also has a solo project as Mariam The Believer which is perhaps more pop but still involves many experimental/jazz musicians. Here she is working with the Vestnorsk Jazzensemble, a jazz ensemble based in Bergen in the west of Norway, who commissioned an earlier collaboration with Wallentin reworking her older material. But new album Spring Flood, now released on key Norwegian label Hubro, is all new material, and it’s a bit of a wonder – of course it is, considering the calbire of the musicians and Wallentin’s genius at beautiful songwriting that sites well with contemporary & free jazz. With ideas originating from Wallentin’s stay on Basel, on the banks of the Rhine, which were then developed collaboratively with the ensemble, the arrangements go from abstract sound-environments to intimate jazz to rhythmic big band to heavy rock. Quite something! Laura Misch – Kairos [One Little Independent/Bandcamp] Annoyingly, London saxophonist, singer & sound-artist Laura Misch is often described as “Tom Misch‘s...
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