2 Sept 2020

Listen to Gnoomes Remixes playlist


Gnoomes are quite prolific remixers and when we were compiling our own Rocket Remixes playlist we were reminded on how amazing many of Gnoomes remixes were so we thought it made absolute sense to put together a playlist of remixes solely by Gnoomes.

 Listen and enjoy here: Gnoomes Remixes


The band are playing Moscow Music Week tonight, so if you are there, make sure you check them out! Moscow Music Week

 We also have some Gnoomes albums still for sale over at our Bandcamp – you can pick up ltd LP's and CDs of Tschak! and Mu! 

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The Quietus reviews Autotelia's album


They say:

 Speaking to The Guardian in 2016, Martin Fry of ABC said that David Bowie's Blackstar resembled a special kind of double album. There was the first one we experienced on Friday 8 January and were able to enjoy in blissful ignorance over the weekend: a spectacular rejuvenation on which Bowie sounded more fired-up than he had in decades. The prodigal Duke returns! Then there was the album we heard after learning of Bowie's death a couple of days later which, as Fry put it, "was his tombstone".

 Autotelia is the joint project of The Oscillation's Demian Castellanos and Tom Relleen (also of Tomaga). Their debut album, I, was released at the end of July and judging by its title it should have been the first of many. A few days ago it was announced that Relleen had passed away after receiving a cancer diagnosis back in March. Presumably the album was cooked up before then, so perhaps the Blackstar comparison is moot. Even so, the experience of listening to Autotelia's debut has suddenly become a far more upsetting one.
Although the record is a gently unfolding blanket of sound, there is a vibrant effervescence to Autotelia's kosmische sound-shapes. The suite-like instrumentals will wrap themselves around you, inspiring deep-thought relaxation, without boring anybody's pants off. Furthermore, each of the five tracks has its own distinct flavour.

 Read the rest here: The Quietus

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1 Sept 2020

Paisiel announce new album – Ltd LP preorder goes live on Friday


“A rhythmic plane between Africa, techno, krautrock, and minimalism.”

 “A driving force that unites past, present and future.” 

 “To pierce the psychedelic barrier and scar the psyche beyond repair.” 

 These words are perfect descriptions of Paisiel's unique sound so it is with great excitement we can share with you details of their second album called 'Unconscious Death Wishes'.

 The album which consists of one long 38 minute+ track (which has been re-edited into two parts for vinyl) is released on 23 October – you can hear a short excerpt of the track accompanied by a mind bending video made by Portuguese collective Espectro Visível exclusively via The Quietus here:

 The Quietus

 'Unconscious Death Wishes' is available on LTD Red/Black 'colour-in-colour' LP via Rocket Recordings (and Lovers and Lollypops in Portugal) – the LTD LP will be available for presale on Friday 4 September to coincide with Bandcamp's 'no revenue' day from here:

 Bandcamp

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 Porto-based duo Paisiel comprise Portuguese drummer João Pais Filipe and German saxophonist Julius Gabriel. Both full-time musicians across several genres and disciplines, with Rocket Recordings having just released a collaborative album between João and Salford hit squad Gnod titled ‘Faca De Fogo’, the vibe Paisiel achieve across their second album ‘Unconscious Death Wishes’ sounds specific, singular and ultimately unique.

 The pair first met in 2014, began recording as Paisiel in 2017, released their first, self-titled album on cassette through local label Lovers & Lollypops in 2018 and had it pressed onto vinyl in 2019 courtesy of Rocket Recordings, who have maintained the partnership for this follow-up.

 A progression from what was already forward-facing music, ‘Unconscious Death Wishes’ is a single 39-minute piece recorded using improvisation based around composed structures, or what the drummer calls “instant composition”. Beginning quietly and mournfully, an array of percussion, avant-electro synths (think Cabaret Voltaire or Muslimgauze) and expansive sax swiftly takes hold. At times, this could be a late 60s proto-Krautrock cafeteria jam, early 70s New York loft jazz happening or Brazilian street parade from whichever decade takes your fancy.

 Listeners might read all kinds of emotions or states of mind into this music: Paisiel themselves play to transcend such earthly concerns. ‘Unconscious Death Wishes’ is their way of evoking, in Julius’ words, “landscapes, shapes, colours, proportions and movements”.


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Post Trash reviews J. Zunz's Hibiscus


They say:

 Minimal, but far from demure, Hibiscus is a marvel of creeping synths and echoes. J. Zunz – the solo project of Ensenada, Mexico’s Lorena Quintanilla – conjures speculative and hypnotic soundscapes on her sophomore LP, out via Rocket Recordings.
Hibiscus feels more cohesive than J. Zunz’s previous solo record, Silente. In her new work (now three years in the making), trance elements move together more organically; they well up from the same kind of soil. The album plays out beautifully as a whole, as each song feeds into the next, building a strange and disorienting ecosystem. Although a few tracks are separated from each other by abrupt silences, such ruptures occur often enough throughout the album that they too become thematic. No track stands out too much from the rest of the project; each track relies on the others for context.

 The album’s single and opener, “Y,” introduces the hypnotic mood that pervades the rest of the album. Minimalist, looping parts are interrupted by static and noise toward the end of the track, like an overcast sky succumbing to rain...

 Read the rest here: Post Trash

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31 Aug 2020

Rocket Probes – August 2020 playlist




Shit & Shine – Hillbilly Moonshine
(Certified banger)

Deafkids & Petbrick – Swaet-Drenched Wreck
(2nd single of genre destroyed chaos)

Various – Rocket Recordings Remixes
(Bit of a good listen this if we don't say so ourselves) 

Paddy Shine - The Criac in the cosmic egg
(New solo album from GNOD man)
Paddy Shine

Sarine – Raízes Aéreas
(Solo album by Deafkids stickman)
Sarine

Metal Preyers – Metal Preyers
(More magic on Nyege Nyege)

Nico – Into the arena
(80s repetition from Nico's great last album)

Oranssi Pazuzu - Saturaatio
(Psyched Death)

Kevin Ayres – Lady Rachel
(A classic that keeps on giving)

Raikes Parade - Take A Nibble
(New track from he wizard behind GNOD's mighty sound)

PAN SONIC - Fyokki Halko
(The machines are taking over..thanks to Mr Bourne for this)

Shit and Shine – Goat Yelling Like A Man
(Like buses)

Joe McPhee – Live in Zurich (Remixed by Waclaw Zimpel)
(Ever evolving jazz-drone repetitions)

T. Rex – Chariot Choogle
(Great fuzzed solo)

Camberwell Now – Ghost Trade
(This great album continues to have lots of plays, one for you Can fans)

NNMM – Éons
(GOD'like sounds from Belgium)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Say A Little Prayer
(Freak out...thanks to Centrum for sharing this!)

Thee Oh Sees – The Daily Heavy
(Great track from a great album)

Vladislav Delay – 500 Push-up
(Psyched dub weirdness...thanks to Little Dirty for bringing it into our world)
Vladislav Delay

 Liquid Liquid – Scraper
(The drum sound!)
Liquid Liquid

Craven Faults – Slack Sley & Temple (Live Works)
(Synthscapes with a bit of a nod to Och in the beginning)

Tangerine Dream – Ultima Thule Part 1
(Early psych rock single before the synths lead)

Don Cherry – Moving Pictures for the Ear
(Tribal repetitions)

The Heads - Reverberations Volume 2
(Live in '01)

Cha Cha Guitri – Art Negre
(Kraftwer'esque sounds from 81' France)

Victor Brady - Brown Rain
(Steel drum psych...reminded of this classic by Cherrystones)

Fåntratt – Frisk Kuling
(Soundtracked the mood of this last week)

Tomaga – Memory In Vivo Exposure Parts 1&2
(Still incredibly shocked and saddened by the news of Tom's passing...a beautiful and extremely talented human being who has left us way, way to early!!)


Listen to our 'updated monthly' Rocket Probes Spotify playlist here:




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28 Aug 2020

The Quietus puts Shit & Shine's Hillbilly Moonshie in their 'Tracks of the Month'


They say:

 Despite the name, this latest single by Craig Clouse on Rocket isn't a slice of drunken backwoods madness, rather a sleek European machine of cavernous reverb and pinpoint motorik beats. John Doran

 Read the full rundown here: The Quietus

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Repress of Anthroprophh's Toilet Circuit EP announced


Today we released our 200th release – the ltd edition Toilet Circuit EP by Anthroprophh. The EP sold out on presale extremely fast so due to the demands of fans we have decided to do a repress ltd to 300 copies with updated artwork and pressed on yellow vinyl – it will be released on 16th October.

 Preorder now from the Rocket Bandcamp:

 Bandcamp

 And you can still watch the band made video for the track Too Old here:

 Youtube

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Anthroprophh's 'Toilet Circuit EP' – our 200th release is released today


Anthroprophh's ‘Toilet Circuit EP’ which is released today is the band's first release since their mammoth double album 'Omegaville' which was released to high acclaim in 2018. 

 The three tracks that make up this EP follow on perfectly from the dense and psychedelic sounds of Omegaville – a feverish tirade of maximalism. Anthroprophh manage to find equal space for everything-on-11 riffage of The Stooges, krautrock repetitions, Butthole Surfers-esque bedlam, and surreal British humour.

 This 7" is also Rocket's 200th release which is apt as Anthroprophh's Paul Allen and Gareth Turner also played on the labels first release, the split single with The Heads and Lillydamwhite. 

 Unfortunately the 7" sold out pretty quick, but if you were not one of the lucky ones, you can listen to it in full here: Bandcamp

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27 Aug 2020

Chicago Reader reviews J. Zunz album Hibiscus


They say:

 J. Zunz is the solo project of Lorena Quintanilla, best known from Mexican electronic-infused psych duo Lorelle Meets the Obsolete. Her new album, Hibiscus, was born out of a period of personal and political crisis, but while darkness and anxiety permeate its tracks, it also offers hope with a cinematic sense of wonderment that lightens its heaviest moments. Moody opener “Y” pairs crawling keyboard melodies and sinister layers of fuzz, while Quintanilla’s singing builds from a whisper into a resolute declaration about leaving a broken relationship behind. The following track, “Four Women & Darkness,” swirls into a grey, foggy expanse where only shadows are visible on the horizon, capturing the trepidation that can come with moving forward after cutting off the past—even when you know it’s the right move. The album’s pacing adds to its tense feel. “Overtime” shimmers quietly as it bridges into “America is a Continent,” which opens with ominous pulsating beats and gasping vocals that dissolve into a murky sea of percussive chugs and elongated, fun-house-mirror bent notes. Hibiscus has plenty of entrancing experimentation and exploratory atmospheres, but it’s most memorable at its most bold and climactic: “33:33,” written shortly after Quintanilla’s 33rd birthday and Mexico’s 2018 presidential election, opens with a simple electronic melody and dainty processed vocals before it dives into a noisy, intense Krautrock journey; It leaves the impression enough resistance and resolution will help you find your way through the murkiest of unknown waters.

See the post here: Chicago Reader

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26 Aug 2020

Beats Per Minute reviews J. Zunz Hibiscus


They say:

 Perhaps better known as one half of brilliant Mexican dreampop and psych-experimentalists Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, Lorena Quintanilla’s solo work as J. Zunz focuses more on minimalist, brooding and menacing synth sounds rather than the waves of ethereal guitar fuzz that are the signature sound of her band. Hibiscus, the second album from Quintanilla’s solo project, is a master class in reserve, restraint and how to create a sustained claustrophobic atmosphere. 
Album opener “Y” is a tale of patriarchal obstinacy and the restriction of space afforded to women. It spirals in on itself, enveloping the listener with its hypnotic wooziness, descending keyboard line and introspective metronomic beat that pulses like an affronted heart. Hibuscus is a very visual album, the textured layers of sound imploring a mental image for your mind. “Y” conjures up ideas of wet streets, deserted and gloomy subways, and the orange glow from car lights in the crepuscularity of a steadily decaying environment. It’s the aural equivalent of a dark alley near the glittering lights of a pulsating city; it’s the wrong turn in a place of entirely constructed wrong turns. It’s pensive, exquisitely tense and immutably resilient...    

 Read the rest here: BPM

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