Percolator Glitch

SBM003 - Digital and Cassette release October 2011, limited & hand #'d /75.
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Side A
1) I remember listening to I'm Your Man
2) It had some nice pop hooks, but bad instrumentation.
Side B
3) I just feel that was him getting old and thinking, I gotta seem young and hip!
4) "Synthesizers! That's the answer!"


Guitar/MSP improvisations recorded first-take by df on August 17th & 23rd 2011 in the Library living room. Jazzmaster, harmonic percolator, and a Max/MSP patch designed for a university course taught by Craig Fahner, a real cool dude.

"[...] Percolator Glitch is a series of electric guitar improvisations processed through Max/MSP. While some people, when thinking about “Max/MSP + guitar” association might come up with the polished soundscapes of Christian Fennesz, Bitter Fictions’ sound is much more raw, often unsettling, interrupted by sometimes brutal glitches and repetitions and well… more improvised. It’s much closer to noise rock than ambient, but never fully entering any of those areas. Instead it stays somewhere in the middle, sudden guitar blasts punctured by constant clicks’n’cuts. - Jakub Adamek, Weedtemple