Cross-breeding minimalist droning, abstract electronic channeling, concrete machine-shop sampling and meditative improvisation, Mikroknytes are a brain-rearranging Washington, D.C. duo whose patient radar waves and aggressive sound blitzes are the results of years of sonic architectural research. Firing thought-lasers into the gaps between analog and digital, programming and spontaneity, and computers and instruments, Derek Morton (electronics, effects, mind control) and John Coursey (violin, electronics, idea manufacturing) sift massive mono-tones through a barbed-wire filter of cracked electronics and random codes, without ever breaking apart their eternal drone. Imagine Hrvatski if his dad was Tony Conrad, or Phill Niblock if he was quarterback of a football team made of Microstoria 12-inches.

Mikroknytes, the duošs follow-up to the self-released Spinus99, is a swriling, eye-lifting orb of organically processed sound. High-voltage power lines like "Sonerone" and "Sub_Tanner" reach infinity through gradual string-shifting and digital tone-stirring, while ear-punching hammer-jams like "Spam_and_Cram" toss electronic lightning bolts at resistors that insist on resisting. The albumšs centerpiece might be "Swite," a relapsing meditation that skis over nearly every possible sonic slalom, but the entirety of Mikroknytes is a hypnotic aural obstacle course made of half-chimes, near-beats, vibrating clicks, and super-drones.

Morton was previously a member of D.C.-area sound-teams Ex-Atari Kid, Music Arch de Lux, and Commodore 64. He also ran the Rocker! Supernova label, which included releases by his various groups as well as Luna and Wake Ooloo, and was the organizer of the legendary D.C. festival Tropic of Metallatronic, which featured artists ranging from Bardo Pond to Don Caballero to Ben Neill to the Tower Recordings. He and Coursey, a studied violinist and audio explorer, have been pursuing their common goal of eye-dilation and ear-absorption for nearly five years.

Mikroknytes will be playing various venues along the east coast in the summer of 2001. Further information on the band can be found at www.mikroknytes.com. For more information on this release, please contact: