The Oscillation return with new video single 'Bring It On', a taste from the eleventh studio album 'Interference' out October 30th
The Oscillation is back with new album 'Interference'. Demian Castellanos returns to Fuzz Club for his eleventh studio album under the Oscillation moniker and shares the lead single 'Bring It On'. Due out October 30th, you can pre-order the limited vinyl/CD and stream the first track here
For two decades, The Oscillation has occupied its own space within the psychedelic underground, continually reshaping a sound built as much from texture, repetition and atmosphere as it is from conventional songcraft. 'Interference' pushes that approach further than ever, creating what Castellanos describes as "a painting of sound rather than music... I wanted it to be accessible but also quite extreme, a sort of beautiful noise. I did my best to push out the parameters whilst trying not to allow it to disintegrate into something with no meaning or focus.”
The result is a record that feels simultaneously immediate and disorientating: dense layers of drones, feedback and motorik rhythms give way to unexpected moments of warmth, colour and even uplifting euphoria. On the lead single out today, he adds: “I see ‘Bring It On’ as kind of existential, but I wanted to make sure it was a hopeful, uplifting track. It’s partly about accepting that feeling of drifting with no direction toward an uncertain destination, and some kind of reckoning."
Recorded and mixed by Castellanos at his home studio in the Czech Republic, much of ‘Interference’ emerged through instinct rather than intention. Fragments originally conceived as intros, outros or abandoned ideas – some dating back nearly twenty years – gradually eclipsed the songs they belonged to, with tracks revealing themselves organically through a process Castellanos likens to "playing Chinese whispers with musical instruments." ‘Interference’ also benefits from a key collaboration with Lorena Quintanilla of @obsoletelorelle who features on two tracks and provides a transformative presence.
Pre-order 'Interference' now on limited edition 180g purple smoke vinyl (hand-numbered /200), 180g clear red vinyl and CD. The CD edition includes bonus ambient versions of four album tracks.
For two decades, The Oscillation has occupied its own space within the psychedelic underground, continually reshaping a sound built as much from texture, repetition and atmosphere as it is from conventional songcraft. 'Interference' pushes that approach further than ever, creating what Castellanos describes as "a painting of sound rather than music... I wanted it to be accessible but also quite extreme, a sort of beautiful noise. I did my best to push out the parameters whilst trying not to allow it to disintegrate into something with no meaning or focus.”
The result is a record that feels simultaneously immediate and disorientating: dense layers of drones, feedback and motorik rhythms give way to unexpected moments of warmth, colour and even uplifting euphoria. On the lead single out today, he adds: “I see ‘Bring It On’ as kind of existential, but I wanted to make sure it was a hopeful, uplifting track. It’s partly about accepting that feeling of drifting with no direction toward an uncertain destination, and some kind of reckoning."
Recorded and mixed by Castellanos at his home studio in the Czech Republic, much of ‘Interference’ emerged through instinct rather than intention. Fragments originally conceived as intros, outros or abandoned ideas – some dating back nearly twenty years – gradually eclipsed the songs they belonged to, with tracks revealing themselves organically through a process Castellanos likens to "playing Chinese whispers with musical instruments." ‘Interference’ also benefits from a key collaboration with Lorena Quintanilla of @obsoletelorelle who features on two tracks and provides a transformative presence.
Pre-order 'Interference' now on limited edition 180g purple smoke vinyl (hand-numbered /200), 180g clear red vinyl and CD. The CD edition includes bonus ambient versions of four album tracks.
