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Oberman Knocks
Beatcroff Slabs remix ep

Eight remixes taken from his second album Beatcroff Slabs as a four track 12”, released 30 July 2012, plus a digital release of all eight tracks out now on aperture records.

On hearing Oberman Knocks’ second album Beatcroff Slabs, Parker suggested to Knocks that they should think about an accompanying release of remixes, and so between them they drew up a wish-list of artists which they’d like to ask. This list has resulted in contributions from Plaid (Warp), Quinoline Yellow (Skam), Kero (Detroit Underground), Michna (Ghostly International), former Bitstream members as Uexkull and Adapta, international Irish artist Garrett Phelan and Knocks himself.

Knocks wanted each artist to have the freedom to work with whichever track they wanted from the album – interestingly all of them came back with a different selection – the results are as varied as the tracks selected.

Four of the tracks will be released on 12” vinyl, followed by all eight being available digitally at a later date.

“Oberman Knocks synthetic atoms into energised, unfolding forms, packed full of evocative circuitry”.
— Ed Handley (Plaid)

“Oberman Knocks bringing some amazing experimental music to the table, something that has been missing for a long time!”
— Kero (Detroit Underground)

“Oberman Knocks has created something that shows you the cracks with his sounds”.
— Uexkull (Dave Bitstream)

For more information please conatct Ken, Liv or Ali at
Hermana PR, 44 Church Street, London SE19 2ET
020 8771 8800

Tracklisting 12” vinyl:
inside Degonnt Type Runners – Plaid remix
Lenkmyte – Uexkull remix
outside Pneuquonsis on Return – Quinoline Yellow remix
Fewton Tension Kords – Adapta remix

Digital tracks:
Mighton Ogan Lode – Kero remix
Cozermas – Michna
Konshun Four – Obermna Knocks remix
Leckren Verso – Garrett Phelan featuring Peter Maybury

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ap004 - beatcroff slabs

Oberman Knocks
releases second album
Beatcroff Slabs
out 6 August 2012 on aperture records

“Sounds like a soundtrack for some brutal tech horror film — so dark.
Makes our stuff sound like a posh garden party”.
— Sean Booth (Autechre)

Beatcroff Slabs follows Knocks’ first release on the Aperture label, the widely acclaimed 2009 debut album 13th Smallest, and is comprised of 16 tracks that take his sounds down yet darker, more twisted corridors and into ever expanding sonic spaces.

Beatcroff Slabs’ evolving sound has essentially been built around the same core elements as 13th Smallest — those of manipulated synthesised studio sounds, fused with field recordings of the everyday and Knocks’ travels. The vocals, both snatched in public and his own, are contorted into instrumentation, and conversely synthetic sounds mutated into those with a vocal resonance — human and beyond. The album is produced with the same rudimentary set-up and continues Knocks’ unabated and unique trajectory in sound.

With Beatcroff Slabs, Oberman Knocks (Nigel Truswell) has produced a visceral album which further explores his trademark themes — densely claustrophobic cinematic pieces, as with the opening track Ak-himp Rise, the use of arhythmic beats such as in Leckren Verso and his love for bottom heavy sonics, found in Konshun Four. The tempo of the album veers from the thundering Scanlon’s Heaping Gore Pull and tripped-up beats of Degonnt Type Runners, through to the metallically spatial and delicate Tek-fir Blades, along with one of the album’s mellower moments Mighton Ogan Lode, where Knocks demonstrates that machine music can indeed be evocative and imbued with human emotion, as well as fully charged with mechanical vigour.

With Beatcroff Slabs, Knocks has delivered an album which adds to the presence of aperture as a label, which has seen previous releases from artists including Mira Calix & Mark Clifford, Andrea Parker & Daz Quayle, Luke Vibert, Majestic 12 and Simon Pyke.

For more information please conatct Ken, Liv or Ali at
Hermana PR, 44 Church Street, London SE19 2ET
020 8771 8800

Tracklisting:

1. Ak-himp Rise
2. Gonn Blass Locker
3. Maightch
4. Konshun Four
5. Leckren Verso
6. Tek-fir Blades
7. Degonnt Type Runners
8. Fewton Tension Kords
9. Cozermas
10. Ketra Ripp
11. Jawbin Breaks
12. Scanlon’s Heaping Gore Pull
13. Jamcole Partition
14. Lenkmyte
15. Mighton Ogan Lode
16. Pneuquonsis on Return

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