Album: Fog

Fog, Ninja Tune

Fog is Andrew Broder, a young man who's defected from the hip-hop and the punk scenes he was part of in Minnesota in order to create this strange and fuzzy lo-fi, post-rock/hip-hop hybrid with not much more than turntables, a guitar and a 4-track. There's some scratching, but mainly he uses his turntables like an instrument – manually timestretching tones on a record to create new tunes and beats rather than just playing with other people's. He's not the first person to try it, but surprisingly few have managed, and the end result is like a cross between Kid Koala and Badly Drawn Boy, but a bit more pretentious.