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AP 014EP
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The tail end of 2018 saw the release of Oberman Knocks' third album on aperture records, Trilate Shift (AP 012LP). 2019 sees the release of Remhex Coyles EP, a standalone set of tracks with a different collective energy. Knocks steps out from the experimental room and heads towards a different kind of space, one that's less claustrophobic and subterranean -- a place that's more structured and in places more melodic than his usual output, but one where he still brings his own distinctive sound. This five-track EP shows an electronic musician in total control of every last detail.
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AP 013EP
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Aperture introduces Sâd Hu, a new project between Manuel Peraud (FZR Sethi) and Francis Ferguson (Rubbish T.C). Based in Brittany, France, they met via l'Ensemble d'improvisation Paula Berthe, a Rennes based collective that practices improvised music. After making music individually for a couple of decades, Peraud and Ferguson decided to collaborate for the first time, joined together by an instinctive desire to blur the boundaries between improvisation and composition.
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AP 012LP
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Trilate Shift sees Oberman Knocks returning to Aperture Records following on from his last release Dilankex (2014), which featured an outstanding 17-minute remix from Autechre. Working on other projects during this time seems to have charged his creativity and Knocks now propels himself back into the fold for Trilate Shift, his third album with cleaner, more polished production and a change of direction which should certainly see his appeal rise across a wider audience. In 2018, Knocks produced the soundtrack to The Red Tree, an award-winning documentary film from Still Films (New York/Dublin) and in 2016 he was commissioned by The Lowry in Salford to produce a sound installation, 30 Days of The Smiths, forming part of their Week 53 festival, a version of which was also performed live. Trilate Shift sees Knocks serve up fourteen lustrous tracks of proficiency and divergent ingenuity encompassing interjections of disembodied vocals, setting the scene for a distinctive musical trajectory.
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AP 011LP
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Aperture has always been about discovering new artists and bringing them to the forefront and Italy is well-renowned for its electronic music, both past and present. So, from one Italian duo (T.E.S.O.) to another: introducing Diaster. Diaster aka Teo & G grew up in Treviso, listening to the most experimental music they could find in their small rural city near Venice. With Matteo inspired by metal and Musique Concrete and Gianluca a researcher of old electronic/instrumental music, they decided to experiment with their various experiences in house, techno and drum-n-bass, inserting strata of industrial music and noise into their material. After Enchantments (2017), their debut EP on DVNTT which deserves more recognition, and an accomplished follow-up on Subsist records; Final Beginner, Aperture Records brings you their latest contribution, Clustered Non Symmetry. On first acquaintance, this eight-track album appears on the minimal spectrum; monolithic and indivisible. Tension builds slowly and influences, mostly of a similar vintage, come through. Arrhythmic incursions of stark and contorted electronics conjure up a hesitant, stealthily-undermined delineative framework.
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After a period of hibernation, Aperture awakens with a bang and a compelling program in the pipeline. Following their first album released on Aperture at the tail end of 2015 with No.3 Obliate (AP 008LP), the Italian duo T.e.s.o. present their second full-length album Costruzione 04. As the title suggests, the album centers around an underlying theme of construction, inspired by radical architecture, brutalism, and collages from Superstudio. The concept and title evolved from the nature of the album and the process of building up tracks from a number of separate samples, much like the singular elemental materials used to assemble a structure. Alongside their music production, the duo has previously created a multimedia installation that investigated the geometric studies of Le Corbusier in parallel to the musical production of Erik Saite and Matteo Castiglioni continues to create impressive audiovisual installations such as the recent "Freddo Flusso" and "neon(i)", as well as a collaboration with Danilo Randazzo. T.e.s.o. also continue to perform absorbing live sets of their own inimitable range of musical perspective and vision. Intense, visual, and structured, Costruzione 04 again showcases T.e.s.o.'s complex, obscure, and dominant beats and their oblique and sometimes challenging style.
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t.e.s.o. are an electronic music duo based in Milan, formed in 2014 by Matteo Castiglioni and Jacopo Biffi. No.3. Obliate is a towering tour de force of sonic architecture and the pair's second album. If the contemporary Brutalist architecture of Le Corbusier and Alison and Peter Smithson had a soundtrack, this surely would be it. Their sound research is inspired by contemporary music, early 20th-century artistic ideas, jazz, and IDM, but with a deep interest in developing a personal vision about soundscapes, rhythms, and melodies. Born as a live act commissioned by the Milan Conservatory, the duo released their first track on FatCat Records, which was followed by their first self-produced album, Over a Neutral Landscape, and the 2015 Plato EP on Rxstnz Records. Alongside music production, the duo created a multimedia installation called neMachine in 2015 that investigates the geometric studies of Le Corbusier in parallel to the musical production of Erik Satie. Always looking for new sound architectures, the duo manipulate their self-programmed software and hardware machines to produce new sonic landscapes. No.3. Obliate is a no-holds-barred vision of their beguiling Brutalist sound design. A future of twisted concrete and rusted steel shot through with warmth and humanism.
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AP 007EP
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Broken Bone are Yorkshire duo Daz Quayle and Tony "Bone" Snowden. An amalgamation of Tony on noise/vocal improv and Daz on beats, relentless electronics, sounds and tech. Initial productions were industrial soundscapes of dense distortions and sonic terrain with disturbing lyrical content, being mirrored by the torrential pouring frequencies and cone-ripping noise-based onslaught. This probably explains why they ended up supporting Whitehouse with their blood-spattered audio assault! This six-track EP (taken from the 12-track Willowbrook album) focuses on instrumental, stripped-back versions sitting heavy in the mix, drenched with feedback and sinister undertones, raw emotion, and eloquent expressions of pain.
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AP 006R-EP
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Second pressing, full picture sleeve (but no longer a die-cut sleeve), regular price 12" featuring a 17-minute mix by Autechre. Dilankex is a work of opposites -- two versions of the same multiple events -- a black and white release. Oberman Knock's original version (white) is a laid-back affair, echoing with monastic vocals, strings, wind instruments and field recordings, which are offset by synthetic beats, funk bass and entwined sleazy vocals. Autechre's remix (black) is everything that you'd expect from the duo -- frantic, fractured and detailed to within an inch of its life -- unraveling and mutating into what is an unmistakable Autechre crescendo.
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AP 004EP
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Remixes by Plaid (Warp), Quinoline Yellow (Skam), former Bitstream members as Uexkull and Adapta. The results are as varied as the tracks selected.
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Beatcroff Slabs follows Oberman 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, synthesized 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 arrhythmic beats such as in "Leckren Verso" and his love for bottom-heavy sonics, found on "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 vigor.
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AP 002CD
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"Warp artists Mark Clifford and Mira Calix have been good friends for a long time. During the 5 year period between 1999 and 2004, they'd meet up from time to time, hang out, drink a lot of coffee, smoke too many cigarettes, stay up all night and make some noise. The songs on Lost Foundling come from this very loose and irregular working period. Their initial plan was to come back to the tracks at some point, mix them and release them. However, they were both busy with other projects and when Andrea Parker expressed an interest in releasing the material on her newly established Aperture label, the duo discovered it was impossible to go back and meddle in their material. Mira and Mark had recorded their songs on an evolutionary range of formats, whatever was to hand, and when they went to dig out the computer files, dat tapes, floppy and zip drives, they were reminded that most of these had become obsolete, in what felt like a brief decade. There was no going back. The duo selected 13 of their favourite tracks, leaving them untouched. Lost Foundling captures a slice in time, a document of their discovery and experimentation as musicians, the songs have survived, uninhibited, tender and instinctive."
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AP 001CD
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"Andrea Parker is to release the first album on her new label aperture which will be combining all things experimental. Breaking from convention. It will be based around concepts, soundscapes and mystery. 'It is all art after all.' The release in question is the 10 track, out-there debut album from Sheffield born Oberman Knocks (aka Nigel Truswell), who now lives in the badlands of Walworth, South London; and also works in Whitechapel as one half of graphic design studio Pony. After first listening to Nigel's demo Parker says 'I was pleasantly surprised and instantly addicted. It was what I had been waiting for. Haunting sounds that rise and fall with seams of vulnerability. Heavy yet beautiful, underlined by deep rumblings (and I do like my bottom end!) A timeless piece. Setting the scene for the next David Lynch film. (Oh and did I mention it's dark!!??)' The album is produced with three pieces of software, a minidisc recorder and a cheap little microphone. With no interest in the latest plug-ins, tech-talk and very limited technical know-how, the tracks are all about the creation and manipulation of sounds for the pure pleasure of the production itself. Spurning sterile accuracy and clinically happy tunes for sounds that bring back some of the dirt and darkness that has been swept away of late, these are tracks happy to inhabit the dark corridors of the mind through to large expanses of concrete space waiting to be filled. Influenced by funk, motown and hip hop as much as by the likes of WARP and Skam. The Human League's 'Being Boiled' was the first record Nigel ever brought (and what a classic) but it was through Autechre's Sean Booth and fellow WARP recording artist Mira Calix that Nigel was first encouraged to start making his own music. Initially recording under the moniker Alkin Engineering and later WG Machines, he has released tracks on Static Caravan, Unlabel, Nastycandy, Shima and October Man Recordings. 13th Smallest is Nigel's debut outing as Oberman Knocks."
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