Keith Fullerton Whitman, electronic-music maven and proprietor of the early-electronica archival label Creel Pone and the brilliant avant-music e-tailer Mimaroglu Music Service, makes everyone’s morning with a new, very personal project uploaded to Soundcloud this morning. Here, in his own words, the explanation of Greatest Hits:

On the eve of my 30th birthday, I began rendering “automatic”
“enhancements” of only the most salient points of the pop music of my
youth; a line, bar, or fragment of a particular song (after being heard
out in “the wild” in the present; akin to running into an old friend on
the street & having that awkward, stilted conversation) was chosen
based on how much my nostalgic recollection of it differed from its
contemporary reality.

Each edit was played back at exactly half-speed, then run through a
series of time- and gain-based processes that slowly and meticulously
chewed through the audio, revealing hidden layers of content, context,
and temporal/spectral production details… shining a flashlight into the
dark corners of each selection, exposing the hidden ghosts lurking
within.