Utility Fog
Utility Fog is a music podcast curated by Peter Hollo that explores the boundaries between acoustic and electronic, organic and digital sounds. Each episode follows a narrative of genre-blending, diving into artist histories, side projects, and influences. The show contextualizes challenging music within broader movements, uncovers surprising connections, and revisits overlooked works. It invites listeners on a journey through music in all its forms.
Episodes
Playlist 01.11.26
The trip-hop revival continues apace, with influences from postpunk to Arabic pop, and dub, jungle and more are in the orbit as well. We’ve also got folky instrumentals, postrock-jazz, glitch and microtonal composition.
LISTEN AGAIN and hop on the trip. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Siba and Monkyman – Dounana
Yasmine Hamdan – Thirteen Kilometres
Ida Duelund R
Playlist 25.10.26
Songs of anguish, songs of love, songs of joy, songs of sorrow… Industrial instruments, digital edits, tape degradation, electro-acoustic improvisation, processed field recordings, acoustic simplicity. Here we are.
LISTEN AGAIN and sing your song. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Dis Fig – Arrival
Dis Fig – The Snake You Built
Blackhaine – Northside Needs Me
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Playlist 18.10.26
Electronic pop, string songs, bass music of all sorts, shoegaze-jungle and shoegaze-grime? Footwork, more jungle, jungle-jazz, jazz-rap, postrock, minimalist electro-acoustic jazz, mysterious ambient…
Murex – Puddle
Murex – Mothers Bells
Marina Herlop – Bliss
Marina Herlop – Average Evil
Borguefül – Rocher multiple
Modeselektor – IWUDLYK feat. KABEAUSHÉ
To
Playlist 11.10.26
We’ve got experimental electronic pop, folk & jazz songs tonight, global variants on dub techniques, breakbeats, and some wonderful indietronic-postrock harkening back to halcyon days of the early ’00s or even ’90s.
Aphir – Can’t Be Killed
Aphir – Dear as Salt (feat. Zsa La Fine)
Sandy Chamoun – INI
iiisa – en voz alta
Stefano Calderano & G
Playlist 04.10.26
We’ve got some pretty noisy rock music tonight, pretty glitchy pop, many heavy beats, many granular drones & sounscapes, and one gorgeous acoustic song if you stay with it!
Amiture Music – Idela (feat. Eliana Glass)
Emma Ruth Rundle – Enough
Gilla Band – At The Gallop
Fontaines D.C. – Tongue
Vanishing Twin – Hazama
Andy Stott – Songbird feat. Elaine H
Playlist 27.09.26
It’s a pretty strange one tonight. So much music came out on the 25th of September that I’ve had to take the scalpel to the shortlist quite ruthlessly – hopefully next week will bring along some of the rest!
KiKu feat. Black Cracker – Leaping Bull (Chicago)
KiKu feat. Blixa Bargeld – Suzhou [XX XY YX YY]
Roger Clark Miller – Recipe for a Dream
Roger Clark Miller
Playlist 20.09.26
Tonight we have a weird array of approaches to song, approaches to folk music and jazz; we have dub techno and glitch-influenced beats, some post-dubstep bass music, and some sound-artiness and modular synthesis.
LISTEN AGAIN to secure your spot. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Bulie Jordeaux – Melodrama
Imogen Plunkett-Hamer – Want To Be Close
Trusselina – The Clu
Playlist 13.09.26
https://utilityfog.radio/mp3/UFog+20260913.mp3Voices in the ether tonight, manipulated, scuffed, scattered, and sometimes also strong and resolute. Weird-beat tumbling out of weird-hop and into sound-art, and some songs of true beauty along the way.
LISTEN AGAIN and just be weird. Stream on demand via fbi.radio, podcast here.
Telafonica – See
Marina Herlop – Bliss
Marla Kether –
Playlist 06.09.26
Tonight on Utility Fog we have strange & less strange songs, pretty darn strange beats, strange sound-art and improv, and odd, fractured field recordings.
LISTEN AGAIN if you’re strange enough! Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Saint Abdullah & Eomac – Cyphers Become Sifr (ft. Abbas Zahedi)
Dos Santos – Bajos Recursos
Ned Collette – Nothing Rare
Chat
Playlist 30.08.26
Tonight’s sounds travel about as far as they ever have on Utility Fog, from the borderlands of Sudan & Kenya in the 1970s to the underground jazz clubs of Sydney, with experimental soul, hip-hop meeting industrial metal, folk-grime instrumentals, and blissful indie-folk-post-rock stuff. And a beloved Sydney indietronic collective resurfaces after 10 years’ gap.
LISTEN AGAIN &
Playlist 09.08.26
Pop, hip-hop & folk music turned inside-out this week, jungle & bass music mixed with live percussion, doomy dub, dubby jazz, glitchy everything. It’s Utility Fog.
LISTEN AGAIN and turn inside-out with me. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Aphir – Ctrl (feat. Max Lawrence) [Bird’s Robe Records/Bandcamp]
Naarm’s Becki Whitton is a busy mixing & ma
Playlist 02.08.26
Some lovely dark electronics tonight in various contexts – pop/grime/hip-hop, jazz-funk-metal, folk influences, electro-acoustic techno, bass music galore, and also some live instruments somewhere in there.
LISTEN AGAIN in the dark! Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Dis Fig – The Account ft. the wind between [Thrill Jockey/Bandcamp]
Felicia Chen aka Dis Fig‘s debut a
Playlist 26.07.26
Experimental song, weird beats getting into everything, glitchy sound-art from unexpected quarters, a processed field recording journey & more tonight!
LISTEN AGAIN to a sonic journey. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here!
Neptune – Enter H— [Sleeping Giant Glossolalia/Bandcamp/Bandcamp]
It’s been a while since the last album from Boston experimental band Neptune –
Playlist 19.07.26
Tonight we’ve got weird song and spoken stuff, mutant variants of jungle and bass music, glitched samples, barely-there singer-songwriterliness and more! It’s Utility Fog!
Thanks to Bindi Mutiara for filling in last weekend!
LISTEN AGAIN and save yourself. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Teether – GHOSTS SURROUND THE CASTLE [CONTENT.NET.AU/Bandcamp]
What happens wh
Playlist 05.07.26
Tonight it’s time for weird hip-hop, dark d’n’b trance-pop, mutant dancehall, Indonesian experimental folk, experimental Yolŋu, experimental indie, post-classical pop, krautrock-pop, mashups, junglism of all sorts, minimal drum’n’bass, minimal dub, sound-art, sound-art, sound-art… You know… It’s Utility Fog..
LISTEN AGAIN, to the art of sound…
Playlist 28.06.26
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 – Photokera
Playlist 21.06.26
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
Playlist 14.06.26
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 YH
Playlist 07.06.26
From experimental dub to spoken word with electronics, processed percussion, dub techno mutations and more…
LISTEN AGAIN for a good time. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Lee “Scratch” Perry & Mouse on Mars – Spatialee [Domino/Bandcamp]
Lee “Scratch” Perry & Mouse on Mars – Yayaya [Domino/Bandcamp]
Any collaboration with dub origina
Playlist 17.05.26
It’s a strange old world we live in, so let’s have some strange new music shall we?
As I have been incapable of catching up these old playlists, I’m at least publishing them as-is.
LISTEN AGAIN. Strangely avaialble to stream on demand from fbi.radio, or podcast here.
Foetus – The World Is Broken [Ectopic Ents/Bandcamp]
Murex – Massacre [Young/Bandcamp]
memotone –
Playlist 10.05.26
OK so, like, there’s this thing called music, right? I’m not sure what it is, so I’m spending 2hrs per week on the radio trying to work it out. Help me, please.
As I have been incapable of catching up these old playlists, I’m at least publishing them as-is.
LISTEN AGAIN, if you dare. Stream on demand @ fbi.radio, podcast here.
1000 Rabbits – White Horse [Young/Bandcam
Playlist 03.05.26
Lovely songs and weiiird songs, vocal manipulation, lots of variants of jungle/drum’n’bass/IDM, processed guitars, prepared piano, avant-garde flute.
As I have been incapable of catching up these old playlists, I’m at least publishing them as-is.
LISTEN AGAIN to the avant-garde of the avant-garde. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Jesca Hoop – Playground
Jesca
Playlist 26.04.26
Jungle turning up in the darndest places tonight, as is… saxophone? Jazz stretched to its limits, and electronica during wartime…
LISTEN AGAIN in the darndest places – stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Butthole Surfers – Imbuya [Sunset Blvd]
Never thought I’d be playing Butthole Surfers on Utility Fog. Not that they weren’t an impeccably experimenta
Playlist 19.04.26
We got songs of all sorts tonight and non-songs for most sorts too. Take your pick!
LISTEN AGAIN – you can stream on demand @ fbi.radio or podcast here.
Abigail Snail – Good Grief [Romac Puncture Repairs]
Abigail Snail – Attach Bayonets [Romac Puncture Repairs]
You can get an idea of the experimental roots background of London guitarist Stef Ketteringham, usually known as Stef Ke
Playlist 12.04.26
While the new world struggles to be born, people all round this dying old world cannot help but keep making music. Too many, frankly. Please stop.
Anyway, I cannot help but keep playing you all this incredible music, postpunkindustrialdubjunglegamelanglitchjazzfolkclassical, as those in the know call it *taps nose*
LISTEN AGAIN to the music of the spheres. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast
Playlist 05.04.26
Songforms of conventional and highly unconventional sorts tonight, taking in folk traditions from around the world, jazz, the outer limits of metal and more, plus strange twistings of clubforms, impressionist composition of the early 20th century, field recordings and more…
LISTEN AGAIN, unconventionally. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast right here.
Wendy Eisenberg – Take A Num
Playlist 29.03.26
Quite a journey today, through genres, countries & continents, emotions and BPMs. This is how we do it in the house of Utility Fog.
LISTEN AGAIN & travel with me. Stream on demand at fbi.radio, podcast here.
Snakeskin – Lost Today [Tunefork Studios/Bandcamp]
The Bunny Tylers – Let There Be Light [Tunefork Studios/Bandcamp]
Akram Hajj – Day 2 [Tunefork Studios/Bandcamp]
Playlist 22.03.26
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 (March 20th) at White Bay Power Station for Art After Dark / Sydney Bienalle
Playlist 15.03.26
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.
LISTEN AGAIN to good ol’ classic freeform 
Playlist 08.03.26
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!
As I have been incapable of catching up these old playlists, I’m at least publishing them as-is.
LISTEN AGAIN
Playlist 22.02.26
Tension between live performance and studio editing, acoustic music & electronic, folk styles and modern tonight – all very Utility Fog, just how we love it.
As I have been incapable of catching up these old playlists, I’m at least publishing them as-is.
LISTEN AGAIN to soak in the vibes. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast right here.
Momoko Gill – When Palestine Is Fr
Playlist 15.02.26
How’s it garn? Here’s some music for yas.
As I have been incapable of catching up these old playlists, I’m at least publishing them as-is.
You can LISTEN AGAIN by streaming on demand @ fbi.radio or podcast here.
elsas – FINALISE U
elsas – NIÑO
Noni-Mouse ft. Hemanti Devi – Aa Bhave
Nikolaus Graf × Laiz × Krantinaari ft. Taiji – Huduka Ho
James Massiah �
Playlist 08.02.26
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 ac
Playlist 18.01.26
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.
LISTEN AGAIN & feel the feels. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Puma Blue – Hush [Play It Again Sam/Ba
Playlist 11.01.26
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.
LISTEN AGAIN in a new year. Stream on demand from fbi.radio or podcast here.
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Playlist 28.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 3!
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 lis
Playlist 21.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 2!
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 he
Playlist 14.12.25 – Best of 2025, Part 1!
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 f
Playlist 07.12.25
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 202
Playlist 30.11.25
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 ja
Playlist 23.11.25
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 wil
Playlist 16.11.25
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, jazz, field recordings and more.
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Playlist 09.11.25
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.
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!
Noura Mint Sey
Playlist 02.11.25
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
Playlist 26.10.25
All over the place tonight, whether folktronica, percussive experimentalism, minimal dub techno, various drum’n’bass & jungle mutations, proto-postrock, or eerie sound-art…
LISTEN AGAIN on fbi.radio’s stream on demand, or podcast right here.
tunng – Anoraks [Full Time Hobby/Bandcamp]
Look, do you need to hear the story again? OK, gather round little ones.
In 2004
Playlist 19.10.25
Experimental songforms, percussion, breakbeats, prepared piano, sound-art…
LISTEN AGAIN to the art of sound… stream on demand at fbi.radio or podcast here.
Not Drowning, Waving – Amaravot [Not Drowning, Waving Bandcamp]
We’re starting with an Australian band who were really decades ahead of the ball with ambient pop, melding field recordings and live tapes with creative stu
Playlist 12.10.25
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 & mutate with me. Stream on demand from FBi, podcast here.
Cerys Hafana – Angel [Glitterbeat/Bandcamp]
There’s not much ne
Playlist 28.09.25
Arabic trip-hop? Nordic jazz-inflected indie pop? Minimal drum’n’bass? Bees?
Whatever you’re looking for, we’ve got it.
LISTEN AGAIN, with a vengeance! Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here!
Yasmine Hamdan – Vows سبع صنايع [Crammed Discs/Bandcamp]
Yasmine Hamdan – Daya3 ضياع [Crammed Discs/Bandcamp]
While I’ve featured quite a bit of Lebanese music
Playlist 21.09.25
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BAYANG (tha Bushranger) & Nerdie – Bankistan [CONTENT.NET.AU/Bandcamp]
Korean Australian producer/sound-artist Angus Alec Min
Playlist 14.09.25
It’s the time of experimental pop at the moment – for very stretched interpretations of pop, perhaps. So we have many weird-ass songs tonight. Also some storming beats and some messed-up beats, some gorgeous acoustic sounds and some pretty messed-up acoustic sounds. It’s Utility Fog. It’s another week. It’s Sunday.
LISTEN AGAIN – stream on demand @ fbi.radio or
Playlist 07.09.25
Experimental song reaching out from all quarters tonight, in extremely different ways. A surprising South & Central American focus. We also have some experimental beats, some classical and jazz hybrids, and some sound-art.
LISTEN AGAIN and sing yourself awake… Stream on demand @ fbi.radio, podcast here.
SANAM – Habibon – حبيبٌ [Constellation/Bandcamp]
I was instantly hooked
Playlist 31.08.25
Tonight we’re showcasing quite a lot of genre-bending songcraft, with metal, hardcore punk, electro-pop, hyperpop, Afro-Caribbean, post-folk and other tendencies melting together. We’ve also got percussive workouts, minimal techno, maximal jungle, unclassifiable rhythmic noise and glitched ambient piano in there somewhere.
LISTEN AGAIN a bend your own genres. Stream on demand over at f
