mitek:	news products artists live distribution shop audio press contact	mitek22CD.LP -- mitek21EP -- mitek20CD.LP -- mitek19CD.LP -- mitek18EP -- mitek17CD -- mitek16EP -- mitek15TS -- mitek14TS -- mitek13CD -- mitek12EP -- mitek11CD -- mitek10EP -- mitek09CD -- mitek08EP -- mitek07EP -- mitek06CD -- mitek05CD -- mitek04CD -- mitek03CD -- mitek02CD -- mitek01CD	Andreas Berthling Tiny little white ones (like handfuls of salt) ---------- 2001-11 ---------- ---------- Format: CD digipak Style: minimal-abstract-electronica Length: 43min Sleeve design: Andreas Berthling 01. Life #3 02. Capable of rotating about 03. The shape of the letter V 04. Small Things Colliding - mp3 05. Today nobody knew 06. Silvertone - mp3 07. About the height of a man's chest 08. There's zero of you 09. Science illustrated 10. Philip's bumper-sticker 11. While brent was out in the kitchen Listen to this release in our mp3 shop at Klicktrack. Soundbytes are cracked down until only single bits remain. ---------- The title of Andreas Berthling's Tiny Little White Ones (Like Handfuls of Salt) (Mitek) is a pretty darned accurate description of the sound contained within, a high-pitched flutter and crackle like the underwater sound of sand tumbling across the seafloor. Working at the level of the bit, Sweden's Berthling scrapes together microsecond-long ticks and pings into quietly powerful shapes and rhythms. It's not all music for microscopes; the maddeningly short "Silverlake" threads its flickering pinholes with a gossamer hum, recalling Fennesz' or Pita's tenderer moments. Berthling gets extra points for knowing when to quit: none of the 11 tracks here are over four and a half minutes long, a rare demonstration of restraint. Double extra points for using track titles that don't resemble filenames (e.g. names like "Small Things Colliding" and "Silvertone" instead of, say, ".brxxygg" and "t_kkx"). And super-duper triple extra points for the oddly-but-undoubtedly-meaningfully-titled "Philip's Bumper Sticker." (If only I had a car, I'd know what he was talking about.) A fantastic release that deserves to be heard above the hum of all things micro. Philippe Sherburne, needledops [US] www.neumu.net/needledrops/ ---------- "...Tiny little white ones instead makes the argument that some sound experimentation can and should speak for itself. The tweaking and minimizing of sound into explosions of hisses and clicks takes center stage on Swedish artist Andreas Berthling's latest, whose work with Kim Cascone is apparent, yet certainly stands on its own. Both are definitive releases for the genre, showing there remains room for expansion and restriction" Kathleen Maloney, XLR8R [US], no 57 3/2002 www.xlr8r.com This Release is Supported by The Swedish National Council For Cultural Affairs >> ---------- live dates