NEWS RELEASE
APRIL 18, 2001

WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) - While even proponents warn that the first commercial products may be a few years away, the existence of a completely new process for producing music has been verified by the National Institute of Standards and Testing (NIST), in Washington D.C.

Dr. Milton Van Hoeks, director of the Union Recordings Technological Laboratory, where the testing was conducted, held a press conference to announce the results, which have been presented for public listening at Unionrecordings.org. He presented the experimental work used in the testing, commenting ''the first successful recording created by the Soyuz Postal & Packet project managers, entitled BlackLight Power, is available on any reasonably equipped home computer, or equivalent, that has MP3 playback capabilities. If for any reason a user does not have these capabilities, Union Recordings has provided the appropriate links on their website to obtain the necessary software which will enable any interested parties to listen to the entirety of this experiment and digest the reported results.''

The milestone marks a turning point in the career of iconoclastic audiovisual scientist Dr. Milton Van Hoeks and his nonprofit, Union Recordings. Van Hoeks, 43, is considered by mainstream audio scientists to be one of the last holdovers of the so-called "DIY" craze of the early 1980's. His company has been developing audio technology based on his ''Grand Unified Theory of Classic Decibel Mechanics'', a theory that would overturn the music establishment and its sacred time-space dissemination theories that are widely accepted today.

Van Hoeks and his company co-sponsored the independent Soyuz Postal & Packet laboratory's research and have been most pleased by this seminal teams effort, stating, ''BlackLight Power is not only audibly euphoric to the human ear, but the content of the resulting material is eye-opening and surprisingly informative. The entire record is a loose amalgamation of the story of Dr. Randell Mills, who, fittingly, has also created waves in the physics world by discovering a source of clean and limitless energy by shrinking the hydrogen atoms electron orbit, and calling it the BlackLight Process. The overall production is a salute to audio, math, and science enthusiasts in every corner of the world.''

Dr. Milton Van Hoeks has garnered many detractors over the past 20 years, including long-standing enemy goliaths such as Warner, EMI, RCA, BMG, PolyGram, Sony as wells as some of the more successful independents aligned more closely ideologically, such as Surefire Distributors.

''I'm sure that there is a more conventional explanation of the results from this unethical recording process, but at least Van Hoeks is starting to act like a real scientist by publishing his work and having someone verify this audio recording method without artistic stake in the results'', offered Dr. Robert Park, spokesman for the American Music Society (AMS) and a long-time Van Hoeks critic.

The breakthrough comes at an opportune time, with audio production costs skyrocketing and some states such as California facing a barrage of ''Hollywood-oriented'' musical productions. Alphonse Sherman, audio analyst for WMC, an electronic music industry think-tank, said, ''I hope that they [Union Recordings and Soyuz Postal & Packet] can bring a product to market quickly because rock n roll supply problems are going to get a lot worse before they get better.''

Van Hoeks said that his company plans to have a noncommercial product available ''within the next month''.