The Oscillation delves into dystopian electronics on ‘Flight Sequence’

THE OSCILLATION
“FLIGHT SEQUENCE”
London psych-rock polymath shares Voyager-1-inspired visuals for ‘Flight Sequence’
First single to be taken from forthcoming fifth LP ‘U.E.F’; an expansive journey into post-apocalyptic electronics

Photo Credit: Antonio Curcetti

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The Oscillation is one of the many aliases of Demian Castellanos, an almost-mythical force in the London underground. Since 2006, under the guise of The Oscillation, Demian has released four LPs,countless EPs/singles and played with everyone from Silver Apples and Beak to Wooden Shjips and Deerhunter, all the while being emulated by the likes of The Guardian, Mojo, The Quietus, Vice, Q, Pitchfork and 6 Music. Consistently pushing boundaries and dragging the divisive term ‘psych-rock’ to the brink  – incorporating everything from krautrock, drone and industrial through to disco and funk.
Following on from the disillusioned, cosmic psych-punk of 2016’s ‘Monographic’ and the 2017 single ‘Evil In the Tree’, The Oscillation is gearing up for the release of his fifth album, U.E.F, on March 2nd via Fuzz Club Records. The new album sees Demian completely subvert his sound once-again, adding a new evolution to his ever-evolving musical canon. Ditching any inkling of his ‘rock’ beginnings for a lysergic (but equally sinister) journey into post-apocalyptic electronics and sprawling drones – resulting in something that’s more likely to be bouncing around the walls of club nights than the back-room venue of grotty bars.
U.E.F is comprised of two 20-minute slabs of unforgiving, dystopian electronica – complete with ambient electronics, droning synths, monolithic percussion and a hypnotic kraut gusto. This is kosmische musik for the new age; a fitting soundtrack to the forthcoming techno-apocalypse, when artificial intelligence takes over and we’re all subjected to the way of the machine. To announce the new album, Fuzz Club are sharing the video for the colossal, unremitting first track, ‘Flight Sequence’. The video was made by photographer/visual artist Antonio Curcetti and is a montage of distorted, archived footage inspired by Voyager space missions.
Discussing his influences and creative process for the video, director Antonio explains: “When Demian asked me to work on the project I immediately thought of the Voyager 1 and 2 Nasa space project. 2017 was the 40th anniversary of the launch and when I was a kid it was just one of the most daring ideas; the idea that one day a tiny little spacecraft could have reached the far end of the solar system and project itself into interstellar space, with the chance of one day being collected by a different outer-space civilization. Demian wanted to explore visually the idea of expansion into the vastness of the universe and then he told me the title of the track was ‘Flight Sequence’. It was just too perfect. 90% of the material I have manipulated through a video synth is original footage of the Voyager project – I really couldn’t believe how much is available on the Internet.”
Talking about how the new album came about, Demian explains: “U.E.F is a failed attempt at what initially started out as an attempt at making a techno track but ended up becoming an Oscillation album. I’m pretty much completely ignorant about dance music but re-listening to a few Plastikman tracks quite obsessively for a few weeks, combined with long-term exposure to Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze rubbed off after a while.”
The Oscillation has a pretty hefty back-catalogue. Thrown in between a number of demo collections,singles, EPs and split releases are four albums, each a masterpiece in their own right. The debut LP, ‘Out Of Phase’, was released in October 2007 – incorporating an eclectic pool of influences such as dance music, krautrock and psych. Next came ‘Veils’ in early 2011 which channelled the avant-garde sounds of his debut into a more tribal and complex arrangement. The release of 2013s ‘From Tomorrow’ saw a heavier and spacier sound which was taken even further with the blistering motorik psych-punk of his 2016 effort Monographic. ‘U.E.F’ clearly marks a whole new chapter for The Oscillation, it’s danceable electronics opening up a new world of sounds to explore.

PRAISE FOR THE OSCILLATION
“From the very first note, it’s easy to play the comparison game– it sounds like a faster take of Can’s “Mushroom” or a denser version of  Silver Apple’s “A Pox On You”- but the band is so committed to the chugging rhythm and vapor-trail guitar detonations that who they sound like is much less important than how hypnotic they sound.” Pitchfork
“A vast shiny beast of hypnotic, gig-shaking rhythms and riffs” MOJO
“What Gives The Oscillation a true sense of identity is the way they manage to subvert and twist psychedelia into something that’s wholly their own.” The Quietus
“Monographic” contains such a blistering stream of distorted, delayed, krauty, shoegazey,droney psychedelic space-rock, it’s a wonder its sound wouldn’t simply melt all the plastic and wax with which it comes in contact.” Tiny Mixtapes
“A worthy soundtrack for mood elevation, brain scrambling and waiting for the final Big Crunch/Rip/Bounce of the universe” Q Magazine

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