19 Sept 2011

The Ransom Note: Nothing Is Volume 1 - featuring exclusive Teeth of the Sea remix



For those Rocketeer's with a more open mind, check out The Ransom Note website Nothing Is Volume 1 mix and short interview with co Rocket's Rik Motör DJ, Jamie Paton.

The mix features an exclusive Cage & Aviary remix of Teeth of the Sea's - Sentimental Journey

theransomnote.co.uk/Jamie-Paton-Exclusive-Mix/

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Rocket Recordings - Label Review by Hawkwind Biographer


Does exactly what it says on the tin... Hawkwind biographer Ian Abrahams reviews all things SpaceRock related, from CDs and DVDs to Demos and Myspace Pages. Plus Psych, Stoner, Garage, Krautrock and whatever else strikes a power chord or two!

Read Ian's reviews for the latest Rocket releases:

Annapurna Illusion - Life is an Illusion
Mugstar / Oneida - Collisions 02
Gnod - INGNODWETRUST


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Supernormal Review - The Wire


The Wire magazine have done a write up of this years Supernormal Festival, here is a link to a 2 page PDF of the event:


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17 Sept 2011

Branchage Festival 2011 - Teeth of the Sea



The Guardian newspaper has written a short review of the up & coming Branchage Festival, this one sounds like a perfect Rocket event & of course features our very own Teeth of the Sea, 'an eclectic mix of music-backed movies', read it here:

guardian.co.uk/film/2011

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Branchage Festival 2011
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Teeth of the Sea presents REAPER
[a re-imagining of Neil Marshall’s DOOMSDAY]

Saturday, 24th September
Jersey Arts Centre
20:30 - 21:30

Teeth Of The Sea, London's most intrepid and adventurous psychedelic rock band, have always looked to the extraordinary and outlandish for inspiration, and been as influenced by books and films as by music. With this in mind, some of their biggest influences include the films of Neil Marshall: Dog Soldiers and The Descent have both made their marks on the band's psyche, but by far the closest to the band's collective heart is Doomsday, the hyperreal, volatile and audacious 2008 Frankenstein's monster of a movie that follows a perilous journey to the maws of Armageddon via a killer virus, a retro-futurist medieval society ruled by gangs of marauding punks and/or Malcolm McDowell, and no small amount of blood and gore, putting the viewer in mind of the very best classic 2000AD scripts.

One of the most attractive facets of Doomsday for Teeth Of The Sea has always been its freewheeling approach, not to mention its disregard for conventional notions of narrative structure and a disregard for genre. With this in mind, the band have decided to offer a re-imagining of the movie, taking the most visceral, dramatic and colourful debacles and denouements and turning them into a riot of disorientation that they could then match with a soundtrack that would do its damnedest to challenge it for sheer chutzpah and otherworldly allure. The result, Reaper (named after the movie's killer virus) is a kind of psychedelic reconfiguration that the band will interact with musically to create something truly original and nightmarishly thrilling. Indeed, if there is such a thing as hell on earth, this will hopefully be it.

For full programme line up and further details visit:

13 Sept 2011

Introducing: ONEIDA / MUGSTAR - Collisions II



ONEIDA / MUGSTAR - Collisions II (LAUNCH044)


TRACKLIST:

01
ONEIDA
SHAHIN’S BONG
(15:32)

02
MUGSTAR
EUROPEAN NIHILISM
(16:39)

Release Date: 03 October 2011


For millions of years a signal emitted earthbound. It had circled the heavens, awaiting a moment of destiny that might never come. Now the long wait is ending, an ancient experiment is about to reach it’s climax.... time we left this world today.

This isolated event observes The People of the Upright Stone: New York’s Oneida and Liverpool’s Mugstar, exert overdriven oscillating forces on an interstellar trip of humming ohm amps and shifting clusters where time shuttles flickering back and forth between eons.

Explore the second in the Rocket Recordings odyssean collisions series; mission operations ‘Collisions 02’ and joyride this twin engine release, immersing yourself wide eyed with dilated pupils into this starry firmament.

The proceedings lift off with Oneida’s moiré patterned ‘Shahin’s Bong’. This pulsating kaleidoscopic maelstrom illuminates Oneida at their most free’est, from its beginning which implodes under its own stress, wherein drums scatter, amps buzz, strings are stressed, and modulators hum, the O’s ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ in reverse, twists and turns, drops in drops out, gradually becoming coherent to the point of no return. Then like an explosive bolt bursting your head to a classic Oneida groove, a dubbed out motorik rush cuts its way through a soup of analogue fuzz and drones. Oneida drive you to an outer limit of the visual field, you have been shown infinity, empty of all stars.


INTERMISSION


Mugstar set chase with their own odyssean endeavor ‘European Nihilism’, the Aurora Borealis viewed from within. With the hum and drone of layered synths, drawing the listener in, these psychedelic warlords hit you hard with a supercolossal Hawkwind’esque rockout like a centrifugal force that twists and turns morphing on a continual humming of valves, into the artifice of repetitive noise until at saturation point the asymptotic curve annihilates you in the quest for the perfect ion. The music then clings on the brink of vertigo and hangs immersed in an ethereal gulf like swarms of sentient electric particles, until eventually breaking through to a blissed out finale with echoed vocals ushering in a new light. We must admit, this could be Mugstars masterpiece!

So celebrate O/M’s twin attributes with us and emerge from your chrysalis, the way out is through the unhinged doors!



For more information e-mail:

GNOD Chaudelande Volume I - Pre-order



Rocket would like to introduce 'Tamed Records'
GNOD - Chaudelande Volume 1.
Having been sent the tracks by the band sometime back they have barely left our playlist & therefore we would like to support the band with our
highest approval
, so order your copy via the French label before they disappear.

PRE-ORDER !!! OUT 20TH OCTOBER 2011 !!!

Mancunians GNOD started their last european tour to date by spending a couple of days in the Studio Chaudelande, a small house made of bricks and passion, somewhere in the Normandy countryside (France). They recorded new songs that are now released as a two volumes LP series on Tamed Records. "Chaudelande Volume I" contains three songs which demonstrated the multi-faceted universe of GNOD. From the heaviest spacerock parts they ever recorded to meditative neo-folk influenced moments of calmness and introspection, this new recording marks a new step in GNOD cosmic procession. "Chaudelande Volume I" is the first release on Tamed Records scheduled for october the 20th and we're happy to start the adventure with such a great record!

tamedrecords.com

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9 Sept 2011

BUY - Kandodo - The Heads side project



Due to one of The Heads members becoming a father again the bands online shop will probably been alittle out of action for a short while.

Congratulations on the news, in the meantime frontman Simon Price's HEADS side project KANDODO is now available on CD via Rough Trade shops here:

Further info is available here:


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Mugstar - 'Collisions 02' preview taster



Liverpool's Mugstar have continued their remarkable journey traversing the sonic galaxy by teaming up with long-time influence Oneida.

The two bands are to collaborate on an epic 12" split vinyl Collisions 02 on Rocket released on Monday October 3rd.

Here is a sneak preview excerpt of the outro section of the Mugstar track thanks to 'Getintothis' website. (please note the wrong artwork is used on the site)

GNOD - Up & coming Gigs


TRANSIENT CONSTELLATIONS
17th September
Gnod, Gum takes Tooth, Dethscalator, Drunk in Hell & More
Windmill Brixton, London
transientconstellations

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14th October
UT!, Gnod & Float Riverer
Yorkshire House, Lancaster
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26th October
SILVER APPLES, Gnod & Nolan Watkinson
Night & Day, Manchester

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HUNTERS MOON FESTIVAL
28th - 30th October
TONY CONRAD & more
Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Ireland

8 Sept 2011

Annapurna Illusion - Life is an Illusion - REVIEW



Annapurna Illusion - Life Is An Illusion (Launch043)

Release Date: 19th September 2011

Rocket Mission control has received a second Annapurna Illusion review via The Liminal website, read the full review here:
Read what Julian Cope had to say:
Read the press release:



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