Hrvatski (DJ)

Keith Fullerton Whitman (born May 29, 1973) is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the best-known is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for ''Croatian''). His works under the Hrvatski moniker mainly fell under the 'drill and bass' subgenre of IDM, and were his main musical outlet in the mid-to-late 1990s. Other solo aliases include ''ASCIII'' and ''Anonymous''. Keith was in many bands in the 1990s, including ''El-Ron'', ''The Liver Sadness'', ''Sheket/Trabant'', ''The Finger Lakes'' and ''Gai/Jin''.

Fullerton Whitman started recording using his own name in 2001, and most of his work recorded today is under that name. His brother, former MIT scientist Brian Alexander Whitman and co-founder of The Echo Nest, is also an electronic musician and sound artist performing under name ''Blitter''.

Electronic music career

Whitman studied computer music at Berklee College of Music, where he was exposed to modern electronic music composition and synthesis. Whitman says that before this he was initially drawn to making music by listening to the radio in the New York city suburbs in the 1980s. His moniker ''ASCIII'' has released music distributed with an academic journal. His studio and live setup usually consists of a PowerBook running Max/MSP or Logic Pro, and other analogue instruments, such as guitars, ouds and synthesizers.

Whitman has released albums on labels such as Editions Mego, PAN, Planet Mu, Kranky, Carpark Records as well on his own Entschuldigen and (now defunct) Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge labels.

In 2013, Whitman released ''Greatest Hits'' on SoundCloud: a 12-hour-long audio project developed from samples of pop songs from Whitman's youth. Sample are snipped out, slowed to half speed and then run through Whitman's signature array of boxes and generators to create an "automatic enhancement" of the original tune.

Other activities

Whitman has run Mimaroglu Music Sales which offered distribution of an extensive collection of avant-garde music. Mimaroglu Music Sales has been rechristened Alpha State NYC in 2019. Whitman also operates Creel Pole, a bootleg record label that "re-issues" early electroacoustic & experimental recordings in CD-R format in small editions.

Influences

As influences on his work, Whitman has mentioned the composers Bernard Bonnier, Luis de Pablo, Pietro Grossi, Costin Miereanu, Basil Kirchin, Dub Taylor, François Bayle, Steve Birchall, Michael Czajkowski, Douglas Leedy, Jacques Lejeune, and Richard Pinhas.

Discography

As Hrvatski

* ''Okapi Tracks'' (mp3.com, 1999)
* ''Oiseaux 96-98'' (Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge, 1999)
* ''Swarm & Dither'' (Planet Mu, 2002)
* ''Untitled 7"'' (Planet Mu, 2002)
* ''Irrevocably Overdriven Break Freakout Megamix'' (Entschuldigen, 2005)

As Keith Fullerton Whitman

*''21:30 for Acoustic Guitar...'' CD (Apartment B, 2001)
*'' Playthroughs'' CD (Kranky, 2002)
*''Dartmouth Street Underpass'' CD (Locust Music, 2003)
*''Antithesis'' LP (Kranky, 2004)
*''Schöner Flußengel'' LP (Kranky, 2004)
*'' Multiples'' CD (Kranky, 2005)
*''Twenty Two Minutes for Electric Guitar'' CD (Entschuldigen, 2005)
*''Yearlong'' CD (with Greg Davis) (Carpark, 2005)
*''Lisbon'' CD (Live Oct. 4 2005 in Lisbon) (Kranky 2006)
*''Taking Away'' Cass. (Digitalis Ltd. 2009)
*''Dream House Variations'' 4xCass. (Arbor 2009)
*''Disingenuity B/W Disingenuousness'' LP, (Pan 2010)
*''Generator'' Cass. (Root Strata 2011)
*''Generators'' LP (Editions Mego 2012)
*''Occlusions'' LP (Editions Mego 2012)
*''Live Occlusions (1)'' Cass, (Protracted View 2013)
*''Live Occlusions (2)'' Cass, (Protracted View 2013)

Compilation appearances

*"20041203.Wfmu" on '' Brainwaves'' (2006)

References

External links

*
Allmusic entry for Keith Fullerton WhitmanAllmusic entry for Hrvatski

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1973 births
Living people
American electronic musicians
Berklee College of Music alumni
Carpark Records artists
Planet Mu artists
Locust Music artists
Kranky (record label) artists
Breakcore musicians