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Oberman Knocks

Beatcroff Slabs

Experimental electronica with a variety of found sounds amid synthesised techno noise from producer Nigel Truswell

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5.9

Label
Aperture
UK Release date
30/07/2012
US Release date
14/08/2012
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  1. 7.0 |   Clash

    Oberman Knocks’ intriguing methods of imprisoning, gouging and deprogramming dubstep / techno / sadistic chillout achieve a compellingly ugly writhe through walls of surround sound
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  2. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    For those who enjoy their electronica darker and moodier, Oberman Knocks orbits the same space as the Warp and Ghostly International labels
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  3. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    What the record lacks in diversity or narrative development it compensates for in the clarity of its vision, testifying to the imaginative potency of Truswell's narrow-focus approach
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  4. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Every tone, every beat, is richly textured, even if those textures are uncomfortable to apprehend. The rhythms, inhuman and pseudo-random though they may be, are intriguing
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  5. 5.0 |   NME

    It resembles lots of canonical electronic music – just maliciously rewired and dragged through a hedge backwards
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