Whitman, Keith Fullerton – “Playthroughs ” – [Kranky]

Max Level   12/1/2006   A Library, CD

Under his alternate moniker, Hrvatski, Whitman is a well-known supplier of rambunctious glitchbeat. On this, his second release under his own name, it’s all about guitar-based drones; not that you’d recognize most of these heavily-processed tones as coming from guitars, but we are assured that it is so. Tracks 2 and 5 have an actual pulse, with Track 2 also having a long white noise section. Track 3, with its static and scratchy sounds, is the most messed-up.