raven – postfolkrocktronica by Peter Hollo

As is traditional, I've done a Best of 2025 DJ mix for Utility Fog. It's probably the strangest one I've done yet – there's heaps of dance music, including jungle & drum'n'bass, bass music of all stripes, dub techno, dubstep, grime, breakcore and more; but there's also detours into Norwegian folk choirs, queasy sub-bass ambient, microtonal piano loops and more. Listen here:

You can also download the mix from here.

00:00:57 Perera Elsewhere – Fuck Le System (feat. Andy S)
00:01:55 Harry The Nightgown – Bell Boy
00:02:54 N-Type & Kromestar – Don't Be Afraid ft. Sgt Pokes & Breezy Lee
00:04:12 Modeselektor featuring Paul St. Hilaire – Movement
00:05:04 Kvedarkvintetten – Brest
00:06:54 Simon Henocq – CONCOURSE A
00:07:19 Paul St. Hilaire & Gavsborg – Confidential
00:08:19 gyrofield – Vegetation Grows Thick
00:10:17 Sebaas – No Plastic
00:11:13 Mac Seldom – ILUVU
00:12:36 Kalabash – Major ft. Jelani Blackman (Radio Edit)
00:13:32 Muskila – JAH NAM (INTRO)
00:14:13 Vier – VAI PULANDO
00:15:23 Pushlock – Scarecrow
00:16:04 Sacred Lodge – Wa Wa Ke Wa Wa Yi (Feat. Sara Persico)
00:16:37 Shugorei – Water Music
00:19:14 Matmos – Changing States
00:20:09 Sicaria – Rhassoul
00:21:17 The Bug – Bury Dem (ft Logan)
00:22:09 The Bug – Buried Dub
00:23:06 clipping. – Change the Channel
00:23:36 A.Fruit – What Is This
00:24:50 ltfll – Nested Skins
00:25:36 Lila Tirando a Violeta, Sideproject – Ostrich/Ñandú
00:26:16 Mantra – Ruffhouse
00:26:56 Ancestral Voices – Annwn
00:28:01 Pol100 – Pastel Clouds
00:28:52 Kendu Bari – Main
00:30:34 Igorrr – ADHD
00:32:15 Overcast – Wolfe
00:32:56 Sun People – Herbie's Delay
00:34:04 Will Glaser – Bees
00:35:46 Carrier – The Fan Dance (feat Gavsborg)
00:37:00 Mark Van Hoen – I've Got To See The Light (Featuring George 'Tony' Subratie)
00:39:12 Julien Mier – Ciel
00:40:25 Joaquín Cornejo – Garúa
00:42:18 Earl Grey – Doss House
00:44:55 bonnie cooth – out of my mind
00:47:09 Max Cooper – My Choices Are Not My Own feat. Tawiah
00:50:33 EYDN – Gold (feat. Rainy Miller)
00:51:29 Chewlie – Wallflower
00:53:43 enduser – Movement
00:55:41 Abstract Drumz – Alone (2025 Remaster)
00:58:16 Wrecked Lightship – Delinquent Spirits
01:01:21 Sheba Q – Asterix (Dub-One Remix)
01:04:43 Hello Psychaleppo – Al Wa6an | الوطن
01:07:10 Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das – ap0calypse 42
01:09:27 Bleakcore / Ester – Sermon
01:12:53 The Young Gods – Tu en ami de temps
01:13:49 Hence Therefore – Elite Panic
01:17:44 Tutu Ta – Papillon Riddim (Ft. Feral Is Kinky)
01:19:08 Giulio Aldinucci & Matteo Uggeri – I Felt I Deserved More than That
01:22:13 Stefan Schultze, boxn – CV RMX
01:24:47 Ship Sket – Vendetta's Theme (ft. Charlie Osborne)
01:25:13 Hyperfocus – Sentinel
01:27:44 Chris Inperspective feat. Charlotte Koolhaas – Pictures (OK Well)
01:30:07 Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals – A City Drowning. God's Black Tears. ft. The Lil Black Oxen Émile Joseph Weeks, Nicolas Ratany
01:35:29 Insignio – Everytime (A.Fruit remix)
01:37:10 Ruby My Dear – Grosse Hyène
01:38:29 Kuntari – Kerak Terusi
01:40:30 Rutger Zuydervelt – House of Strength
01:43:03 Los Pulpitos – Cubozoa
01:44:53 Pod & Tamen – Dolphin
01:46:39 Noneless – Apocalypse
01:48:05 Djrum – Three Foxes Chasing Each Other
01:48:57 r hunter – Intra
01:50:19 Blawan – Creature Brigade
01:50:59 Eli Keszler – Speak For Me (Eli Keszler Version)
01:53:43 Phillip Golub – Loop 7
01:56:36 T3AL – Weightless (Om Unit's Sunrise Dub)

I've done a new DJ mix for Lilly Grainger aka Killian's excellent FBi Radio show M5.
Her show started as an ode to trips down the M5 motorway listening to her Dad's music selections, so she played trip-hop, shoegaze etc.
My mix is mostly '90s-'00s music & a couple of older pieces. It was mixed live with love'n'care.

Tracklist, FYI:
sonna | sybarite – make shift
Aphex Twin – Milk Man
Boymerang – Soul Beat Runna
Icarus – Moon Palace
Fennesz – traxdata
Autechre – eutow
Boards of Canada – Hi Scores
Coil – The Hills Are Alive
Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso – Warda's Whorehouse
Mira Calix with Oliver Coates – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (original by Boards of Canada)
Colleen – blue sands
soccer Committee & Machinefabriek – high jacked drone 1 (version by Andrea Belfi)
Low – Down (Porter Ricks Remix)
Low – Belarus
Talk Talk – It's Getting Late In The Evening
soccer Committee & Machinefabriek – for i have none
Supersilent – 6.2
Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari – Poem 2
Linda Perhacs – Hey, Who Really Cares?
Avey Tare – I'm Your Eagle Kisser
Father – Now I've Changed My Minder (remixed by Hood)
Downpour – Hey Charles Hayward
Hood – Over the land, over the sea.
Four Tet – Both When I Am Alone And When We Both Are
Four Tet – Unspoken
Tori Amos – Precious Things
Nine Inch Nails – the downward spiral (the bottom) (coil with danny hyde)
The Future Sound of London – Dirty Shadows
Cocteau Twins – spooning good singing gum
Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari – Poem 1 (excerpt)

I'm backdating this post so I have this mix listed here. My traditional end-of-year DJ mix, which I was pretty chuffed about.
The Utility Fog site (which has a suspiciously familiar design) has the full write-up of all the tracks.
The mix can be streamed below, or you can download it as a WAV or a more sensible mp3.

Tracklist:
David August – Workout I
Nick Wales, Rrawun Maymuru – Yolngu (Deepchild Vocal Reconstruction)
Use Knife – Coupe d’état (Muqata’a مقاطعة remix)
Low End Activist – They Only Come Out At Night
BZDB – Stockwell
hoyah – Dubblebubble
Yetsuby – Poly Juice
GILA – Fruitful Angst
Riddla – Be Like
Innode – Air Liquide
Or:la – Chant (Midland‘s ‘Arpeggiate Me’ Remix)
Bodhi – Tri-Fold
Gremlinz & Jesta – Big White
Mazza Vision – Sun Riser
Mick Harris – We can now
Kassie Krut – Hooh Beat
Alan Johnson – Portal
Delta – Doorstop
Ben Pest X Kursa – Totally Kippered
James Massiah meets Lord Tusk – Open Up
Maral – big hands reggaeton
Slolek – Object Desire
The God In Hackney – Bardo! (Al Wootton Mix)
Nubya Garcia – The Seer
T5UMUT5UMU – 武者 Musha
Atrice – Multiplex
Skee Mask – Reminiscrmx
Clark – Donk Jewel
Batu – Other Means
Panoptique Electrical – For Bells
Sasha Elina / Eva-Maria Houben – My Sweet Love
Yally – Payday
When 2 – Away
Cocktail Party Effect – Reset
gi – feedback
Stefan Goldmann – Struma
Fanu – Green Fields Forever
T-Mirage – Existence
Sam Link – Sheepish
Azu Tiwaline – Brain Rattled
Klahrk – &3&4
Aroma Nice – 12 Hours
Reeko – Tomorrow Doesn’t Exist
Sote – ADTVESSPXLUT
Leon Mar – Acellular
Andy Odysee – Waterblade Warrior
Ruby My Dear – Monksy
Cleo AD – Charge Init (feat. Pharu)
Madobe Rika – Opening party
BEANS – ZWAARD 1
SUMAC – “World of Light” Moor Mother remix
Match Fixer – Rats
rkgk – train2catch
3Phaz – YKK
Buffalo Daughter – ET (Densha) – AMBIENT KYOTO Mix
Demdike Stare x Dolo Percussion – DOLO DS 1
DJ Die & Addison Groove – Gunsmok£
Godwin. – Massive Attack – Teardrop (Durag Bootleg)
Sully – Nights feat. Salo (Not Just A Dub Mix)
Tim Reaper – Scorched Earth A1
John Rolodex – Seeing Around Corners
Benny L & NV33 – Forever
Chimpo – Charge it 2 Da Game
Olivia Block – Violet-Green

My usual end-of-year wrap for Utility Fog is to do two or three shows. It's settled on three lately: one show for "vocal" music ("songs", so to speak), one for sound-art and experimental stuff, and one for "beats" ("dance music", if you will).
And I've put the third one together as a DJ mix the last couple of years.

I'm pretty happy with this year's! All beatmixed, harmonically mixed, layered… tempos from house/techno through dubstep/140 to 160 to jungle, d'n'b & even a bit of breakcore.
You'll dig it!

You can read all about it on the Utility Fog website, and you can listen to the mix via this link.

Not raven news, but me news.
I started my radio show Utility Fog on Sydney's new community radio station FBi in August 2003. The station turned 20 last week, which makes Utility Fog 20 years old too.

The earliest solo electronic works of mine date way back to 1997, but raven as cello & electronics has not existed as long as UFog has. All the music I've consumed and proselytized on UFog, and all the musical connections I've made, have fed directly into the music I create, whether on cello or laptop, solo or with Tangents, FourPlay, Black Aleph, Haunts etc.

On Sunday just gone I tried to cram those 20 years into 2hrs of radio. I wrote an essay on the playlist too, which can be found here (the standalone Utility Fog blog) and here at FBi's website, and you can listen back at both links too.

Hey, here's a DJ mix I did for Kavil @ Absorb, a Naarm-based internet radio show, label, event and more – check the show out on Skylab Radio, check the brilliant first compilation out on Bandcamp. Huge thanks to Kavil for inviting me!

The mix is called state of my head right now. It's a a "heady" mix of head-nodding beats, sound-art, varieties of experimental song, jungle, noise and more.

If you want to listen to this on your preferred device, hit me up for a high-quality download.
Credits:

Made on a Pioneer DDJ-1000 with rekordbox on 30/01/2023
Track times are when the track first drops – tracks are heavily overlaid, and some are only heard mixed through another track.

[00:00] amorphous androgynous – swab
[02:05] An Avrin – Clodhopper
[04:06] Blawan – Blika
[05:34] Tristan Arp – Oddkin
[07:13] Lila Tirando a Violeta & Nicola Cruz – Cuerpo que Flota
[09:45] Atrice – Invertebrate
[10:59] مريم صالح, تامر أبو غزالة, موريس لوقا = maryam saleh, tamer abu ghazaleh, maurice louca – الشهوة والصور = el shahwa wel soarr
[13:14] Lia Kohl – Moon Bean
[14:57] luigi archetti / bo wiget – stück 17
[19:11] Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden – Other side
[19:32] Lea Bertucci – Brass (II)
[23:10] Neinzer – Cause Pan Tact Insoluble
[26:22] Sijya – Another Thing
[28:36] Putrika – Monologue
[32:24] dgoHn – Ninnyhammer (Djrum Remix)
[35:32] dgoHn – Invisible Sandwich
[36:00] Wordcolour – Babble
[38:00] Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti – I Can't Even See Myself
[40:56] Fatak, Romance Relic, Tettix Hexer – To The Beauty Of Being
[45:25] Burning Star Core – Beauty Hunter
[46:40] Sightless Pit – Calcified Glass (feat YoshimiO & Gangsta Boo)
[48:32] Beatrice Dillon – Workaround Two
[52:47] YATTA – Fully Lost, Fully Found
[56:04] raven – Tivoli cottage, night-time

Cover image is a painting by Max Ernst. It's called "Young Man, Troubled by the Flight of a Non-Euclidean Fly" which I think is as awesome as the artwork itself.