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 09.08.26
Pop, hop-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)
Sijya – Turbine
Hana Stretton – Right Whale
Hana Stretton – Salt
Betty Ha
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.
Dis Fig – The Account ft. the wind between
Kwes Darko – War in these sTreets
Nueen – Turbocap Is Sure To Disintegrate
Nueen – Impls (feat. RenzNiro)
Nu Jazz –
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—
Saul Williams – Mazahua
iiisa – aún siento la sombra
Trusselina – Gastro
Tom Foden – {…i…w i s h…
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?
Foetus – The World Is Broken
Murex – Massacre
memotone – Laimèti Pavyksta (feat. Ugnė Uma and Typesun)
memotone – Round The Bend (feat. guest)
whait – Communion
Lesley Mok – berserk
Gloorp – Jeggings
Gareth Psaltis – Closer On Water Droplets
Spitbender 
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.
LISTEN AGAIN, if you dare. Stream on demand @ fbi.radio, podcast here.
1000 Rabbits – White Horse
1000 Rabbits – Rubik’s Cube
Marcus Whale – Extra Life
Travis Cook – Fingertips like fairydust
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.
LISTEN AGAIN to the avant-garde of the avant-garde. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Jesca Hoop – Playground
Jesca Hoop – Signal To Noise
Helen Svoboda – Void Of Space
Buffalo Daughter – Harm No More
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!
LISTEN AGAIN & fuck war. Stream on demand @ fbi.radio, podcast here.
Tanya Tagaq – Razorblades
Tanya Taga
Playlist 01.03.26
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 Ma
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.
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
Playlist 15.02.26
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
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
Playlist 24.08.25
Experimental pop hybrids, underground hip-hop, hip-hop-jazz hybrids, free jazz, free rock, dub, dub techno and industrial techno, experimental electronics of all sorts, North African electronic mutations, grinding drone, ambient-jazz Yolŋu, Norwegian folk-jazz…
LISTEN AGAIN to some really good shit. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Water From Your Eyes – Spaceship [Matado
Playlist 17.08.25
There’s a lot of really interesting & strange pop, r’n’b, grime or even folk music tonight, proving perhaps that this is an era where flouting norms is the standard, and the paradox within that is celebrated.
LISTEN AGAIN and flout some norms. Stream on demand via fbi.radio’s state-of-the-art technology, podcast here.
helen island – stalker guardian angel (2nd mi
Playlist 10.08.25
Neo-classical electronic pop, contemporary jazz both electronic and acoustic, experimental metal, experimental beats.
LISTEN AGAIN, experimentally. Stream on demand vai fbi.radio, podcast here.
Darian Donovan Thomas – Microcosm Friend [New Amsterdam Records/Bandcamp]
Last year, American violinist, composer and multimedia artist Darian Donovan Thomas released his debut album A Room With Many
Playlist 03.08.25
Another wet day in Sydney, a day on which an estimated 100,000+ of us walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge to protest Israel’s starvation and genocide of Gaza, the occupation, the killing of children, and Australia’s complicity. It was clearly more than the police had expected, because as the front of the march was pouring into Milson’s Point and North Sydney, the tail end was sti
Playlist 27.07.25
Uncanny simulacra abound through the music tonight. What is real?
LISTEN AGAIN and just add to the confusion. Stream on demand via fbi.radio, podcast here.
Mal Devisa – Next stop [Top Shelf Records/Bandcamp]
Show Me The Body – Halogen (feat. Mal Devisa) [self-released]
Mal Devisa – Crowd Pleaser [Top Shelf Records/Bandcamp]
This Wednesday, US label Top Shelf Records is re-introdu
Playlist 20.07.25
As I was putting this show together, it felt like it was leaning heavily into bass & beats – and it is, to an extent, but it also has highly ethereal sounds, acoustic doom and acoustic prettiness, post-jazz forms and post-classical hyperpop(?) And lots of music from albums that are yet to be released.
LISTEN AGAIN and identify the genres. Stream on demand from FBi, podcast here.
Darian
Playlist 13.07.25
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 released yet. I’m also exploring the eternal present – all of now.
LISTEN AGAIN, now and now. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast her
Playlist 06.07.25
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, the samples. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast here.
Marcus Whale – Eye [Bl
Playlist 29.06.25
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 & Momoko – More And More [Strut/Herbert Bandcamp/Momoko Gill Bandcamp]
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