Vhoid-tek Rhoutes EP

Schematic Music Company

Igloo Mag

There’s something more evolved—and far noisier—unleashed here. This time, Oberman Knocks (aka UK-based sound mangler Nigel Truswell), typically known for plunging into a “blackened IDM flood of distilled soundscapes,” navigates deeper, wading through arcane torrents of shifting, weighty beats, murky rhythms, and warped sonic time loops that endlessly twist into fresh, unpredictable forms. It’s a head-spinning fusion of raw artistry and controlled chaos, all packed into a colossal five-track EP that fuses scorched vocal fragments with claustrophobic glacial scrapes that refuse to relent.

     On Vhoid-tek Routes, the industrial grinds against the mechanical, while distant melodic echoes drift through the wreckage—most notably on the eerie curvature of Quartyme Postulate, the skewed signal mutations of Florimer Nhaven Whyte, and the thick, hypnotic fog of final track Hyperkhoner. The EP opens with a deceptive calm: the fragile ambient fizz of Skunnyard’s Kollapsyn Vhalves, quickly collapses into a chaotic glitch storm as Ozwheck Tears Gairfonn barrels in. Twisted and askew, yet irresistibly magnetic, Oberman Knocks delves ever deeper into fractured electronic frequencies, drawing us into his richly textured realms of intricate, noise-laden trajectories. Brittle, bumpy, and a blur of the senses.