Oneida - Equinox / Last Hit

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 16 Dec, 2010.

Don't know much about the Xhol records but you gotta give 'em props for blagging Oneida out of these two awesome compositions. Additional respect is due for the beautiful two colour screen printed art as well as the one colour screen on the vinyl themselves. So yeah, two newies from the Onieda lads on one side of wax... mint. Oneida begin with a crafty ode to the working rhythms and melodies of Krautrockers Neu! It's a prepulsive nine minutes of Dinger grooves coupled with arid desert rock psyche solo's and repetitive riffage that eventually crashes out in a heap of sonic dirginess before reaching for the fade button... oh sweet fade out, where you been all my life. 'Last Hit' serves as a nasty wake up call to it's brother 'Equinox'. It begins with a brutal sonic assault which then settles into an unnerving slice of ambience before waving goodbye. This one doesn't outstay it's welcome but works well as companion piece to the bigger slice of the pie. Great 12".

ONEIDA "Equinox/Last hit" ONE SIDED 12" (XHL005)

Oneida doesn't need introduction... it's more than 10 years that they keep on putting out with undeniable constancy great albums of psychedelik dancing blasts. As big fans of their work we were understandably excited when meeting them we found them to be great people so was naturally consequential to ask them for a release. Not so much foregone was their positive reply and the
commitment they put on it... they gave to us two complete blasting tracks, stepping forward from Rated O and empowering the psychedelik, noise and kraut side of their latest tracks. The blasting 9 minutes wild ride of pure psychedelic and kraut riffs of the first track “Equinox” sounds like Terry Riley playing with Neu! on a desert full of churming echoes, dirty guitars, synth solos and neverending drums. The synth drones melts with the guitars in a unstoppable crescendo that refuses to run out of tension for all the track! Then “Last hit” arrives and explodes in a kaleidoscope of dirt, noise and kollapses in a rattling and destroying ending that leaves you back from dreams thru harsh in reality, back from a one side long journey. This album is simply
great and gives a unique glimpse to what Oneida call the "New O" and comes out] in a silkscreened limited edition 12”one sided 45rpm, don't be the one who'll] miss it!

PRESSING INFO: it comes on an edition of 200 copies on black vynil with two color silkscreened cover and a one color silkscreen print on the empty side of the LP. It's been followed by a preorder only edition of 30 tshirts of the album silkscreened in two colors.

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