after spending most of the mid 80's to mid 90's in various post-punk & indie bands (in the wild, final hour, weegee), the decision to not work with musicians anymore was taken and bittersoundfoundation was born.
inspired by the cut-up styles of cabaret voltaire and the electronica of early new order, bittersoundfoundation started to produce sample & loop-based material... this particular style of output culminated in the 1997 track 'brass jam', the track aired first on the cult website cookdandbombd that he co-founded and heavily sampled and featured source of inspiration: chris morris. the track became very popular on the p2p networks of the time.
in 1998 bittersoundfoundation decided to bring more instrumentation into the music and the ambient dance track 'second sight' was released. this track not only veered away from the old style of being mainly sample-based but also heralded the return of david to the vocal mic.
after a few more internet-released tracks and a rather prolonged time 'resting', 2001 came along and the phenomenon that came to be known 'bastard pop' came into being.
along with such mashup classic such as 'get ur 9lb cock on' by jacknife lee, bittersoundfoundation's 'brass jam' track was included in the now notorious bootleg compilation released by the boom selection website, the leading source of bootleg/bastard pop news and gossip.
this exposure naturally triggered a manic creative spurt and in the following 3 years bittersoundfoundation become a contributer to not only 'mtv mash' but more significantly, 'the remix' show on xfm radio, hosted by eddy temple-morris and james hyman. the tracks 'check the sensi' and 'save a cubik prayer' became very popular and counted for most of the downloads on www.bittersoundfoundation.co.uk.
recent live output have seen david turn back towards a more guitar-style sound (without having to resort to working with other musicians of course)... progress on the first official album has been put on hold due to the arrival of tom, his 2nd child.
most recently bittersoundfoundation has surfaced occasionally providing samples and general audio weirdness for the radio shows that comedian iain lee hosted on lbc radio and now absolute radio
i hope you are enjoying the end of Summer. here is a detail from my latest painting. visit my blog to see the full painting and lots of close-ups. S x detail from WAKE, 64" x 72", oil on canvas, 2007.
Hey David
awsome tracks
Hope you're good
If you missed my mix on Radio 1 on Monday - here's the link
available to listen again online for the next week at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/annienightingale
all snogged out I'm afraid. the court case was dropped after they heard "I Feel So Milton Keynes" by The Dirty Pins. check it out.. now there's blatant thievery ! good stuff tho. x
