Mikroknytes

Editorial Reviews
Alternative Press, September 2001
Sonorous drones from violins and analog synths; abstract beat excursions owing as much to Can and Cluster as to IDM.

Aquarius Records, June 2001
This Washington DC duo mix electronics and violin to make some great kraut-friendly electro drones.

Album Description
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

Tracks:

Sonerone
Spanancram
Salvatos
Seilfone
Sawgwarz
Subtanner
Saifswife
Saintsvoya

Album Description

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 duo¹s 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 album¹s 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.

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Mikroknytes
Manufacturer: Crank Automotive
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000CH8A3
Release Date: 2003-09-23