Rocket Probes July 2011 Playlist

SAN FRANCISCO from KICK TO KILL on Vimeo.

Teeth of the Sea – Marine Fields Glow (Esben and the Witch remix)
(Amazing remix from TOTS, ethereal synths, metallic rhythms and mournful trumpet...lets hope it see’s the light of day sometime soon!!)

You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons - Prismatic Reflections
(18 minute track that starts with a slow lazy groove of wah riffs and hazy vocals that is cut dead by proto-doom repetition and some serious fuzz wah abuse, that brings The Heads to mind! Great stuff from this Portsmouth band)

Sri Aurobindo - Cave Painting
(Fuzz bass, fuzz wah guitars, echoed vocals and primitive drums all present on this great psych album from this Baltimore band)

Goat - Goatman / The Sun, The Moon
(Two great tracks of fuzzed out afro psych, all the way from...Sweden!! Thanks to our good friends The Hills for turning us onto this)

Charles Albright – I am the Counter Culture (drop out)
(Very Hawkwind’esque sounding track..thanks to Dave from Optical Sound for turning us on to it)

Sunflare - Young Love
(In your face, overloaded fuzz, psych punk from Portugal, a lot like High Rise and that first Purling Hiss record)

Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (Tonite lets all make love in London)
(The ultimate version featured on the Peter Whitehead's film soundtrack)

Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
(Something of a Syd revival around these parts, none come better than this album of great English tinged pop with experimental weirdness)

Beak> - Spinning Top
(New track for the 2nd album - Geoff & Billy are becoming serious contenders to take over the Holger & Jaki crown)

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
(Great SY album, one of the best in years, especially the 7" Helen Lundeberg / Eyeliner which accompanied the album)

Residual Echoes - s/t
(1st album on Big Drum records, with hand re-cycled sleeve - a far-freak-out!)

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Supernormal needs you...You need Supernormal

Supernormal is a non profit festival, it is run by people who are doing it for the love and to get the chance to host an amazing event like they did last year, which Rocket Recordings attended and had the best festival experience of our lives, think Glastonbury '71 but less hippies!!!

Anyway, we at Mission Control have just been informed that due to the loss made last year, Supernormal has just been presented with some serious up-front costs that have to be paid. Ticket sales to date wont cover this cost, but if everyone who said they would buy tickets do ASAP this limit will easily be surpassed and the festival can be assured of happening...and with last year to go by, it will be a real shame it doesn't.

Don’t forget, all these amazing bands are playing, with still a couple real special guests, still to be announced:

Live:
Skullflower
Teeth Of The Sea
Thought Forms
Gnod
Black Abba (Alexander Tucker, Moss, Sunday Mourning collaboration)
Primordial Undermind
Gum Takes Tooth
Mugstar (DJ)
Cindytalk
Fuzzy Lights
Pink Reason
Big Naturals
Black Tempest
Drunk In Hell
Bad Guys
Maria and the Mirrors
The Rent boys
The Nuns
Proxy Music
A Band
David Davant an his Spirit Wife
And many, many more

Plus art by Geraldine Swayne, Juneau Projects, Dirty Electronics, Chicks on Speed, Lucienne Cole, Tai Shani and many more.

So, if you are thinking of coming, please buy a ticket from here before 7th August...

Thanks

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Hawkwind - Do Not Panic

Hawkwind - Do Not Panic

The story of Hawkwind, one of Britain's wildest rock bands, who emerged from the Ladbroke Grove underground at the end of the 60s trailing the radicalism of the counter-culture.

If you've previously missed this BBC documentary, here is another chance to catch it, it will not be available for long so check it out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tmc/Originals_Hawkwind_Do_Not_Panic/

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Teeth of the Sea's Tropic of night frost mix

If you weren't lucky enough to pick up one of the limited CD's given away free when buying a copy of Teeth of the Sea's album Your Mercury at Rough Trade, you are lucky as the band have posted the mix up here:

TROPIC OF NIGHT FROST Teeth Of The Sea Mix November 2011 by JimmyAlucard

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Black Rain Installation

Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

03.00 minutes /HD 16:9 widescreen / 2009
Installation version available: single screen portrait HD / 17 minute loop.
A Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
Data courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission.

Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME's (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth.

To view & read further information:

semiconductorfilms.com

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"Kosmik crate diggin from past, present and future"

Nothing is...

DJs:
Cage and Aviary (Walls have ears / DFA)
Cherrystones (Whatever we want records / Brutal music)
Rik Motör (Rocket Recordings)
Little Dirty (Head Nod Music)

Plus special guest:
Nigel from Bermondsey
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Date:
Friday July 29th
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Venue:
The Alibi (91 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, London E8 2PB)
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Time:
9pm to 3am
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Cost:
Its FREE!!!
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More info:
www.facebook.com/nothingisquitewhatitseems

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MYSPACE no longer...

Due to myspazz being so shit we are stopping any activity from our page, so if you need to get in touch with is, either contact through this blog, facebook, twitter or email:

rocketrecordings@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks

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Fuzz For All - A Fuzz Guide

Fuzz Guide:
The science, history, artists, methods and devices of the greatest effect in history of music, FUZZ.

Fuzz is a wonderful rich form of distortion unlike that of regular distortions and overdrive. It is a sound that reflects the time of its birth. It is the sound of the transistor and a noisier new technology of the post war era. An onomatopoeia it sounds like its name. From a little sizzle to a big noisy immutable wall of sustaining sound. That is fuzz.......

We just had to post this..... read on:

fuzz_guide

Please feel free to express your own views in the comment section.

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Teeth of the Sea to play Supersonic 2011

We are really pleased to announce that Teeth of the Sea have been invited to play this years Supersonic festival (21-23 October), they will joining other Rocket faves White Hills, Eternal Tapestry, Alex Tucker, Circle, Tony Conrad and many more.

Current line up: ALVA NOTO / a.P.A.t.T. / AGATHE MAX / ANTILLES / ASTRO / BARDO POND / BLARKE BAYER / BLACK WIDOW / BYETONE / CIRCLE / CLOAKS / CUT HANDS / ELECTRIC WIZARD / ETERNAL TAPESTRY / FIRE! / KOGUMAZA / LUCKY DRAGONS / MONARCH / NATHAN BELL / PART CHIMP / PHARAOH OVERLORD / PEKKO KAPPI / SCORN / SECRET CHIEFS / SILVER APPLES / SKULL DEFEKTS / SLABDRAGGER / TEETH OF THE SEA / THE BERG SANS NIPPLE / TONY CONRAD / WHITE HILLS / WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM / ZOMBI / ZU93

Tickets for the festival are only £75 for three days of music, film, art and cake.

Follow all developments via:

http://www.capsule.org.uk/blog/

http://www.supersonicfestival.com

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Supernormal pre-festival tour fundraisers

If you live in these areas, please come along to these great shows as a warm up to the Supernormal festival in August...

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Teeth of the Sea photos and nice words about recent Lexington show

Some nice pics and words on their show here

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Drumcunt Remix of GNOD's Vatican

Drumcunt - remix Vatican

The Gnod blog says:

Our good friend Rhys (Drumcunt) is moving to Japan next week, we wish him well. Get down to Corsica Studios, London to see him off on Monday 18th, £5 in. Here’s his set he did in London a few weeks ago (should have posted this earlier - soz!!) which included his brilliantly dark remix of Vatican:

drumcunt-jams-vatican-remix

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Raikes Parade Remix of GNOD's Tony’s

Raikes Parade - remix Tony’s

The GNOD blog says:

Andy Blundell AKA Raikes Parade has done a very nice job of remixing Tony’s First Communion.

The beast has been tamed!

Check it out:

raikes-parade-remix-of-tonys

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Teeth of the Sea play Harrogate international festival fringe

Teeth of the Sea are set to play harrogate International Festival alongside Julian Cope and others on Friday 22nd July.

To read a great little interview with Sam from the band by Rippon Gazette about the their up and coming performance, click here

For more info about the festival click here

Photo by Mina Waring

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Supernormal festival 2011 update

This years Supernormal festival line-up is taking shape.

As previously stated Rocket is co-currating this years festival, and so far, playing live we have the following confirmed:

Live:
Skullflower
Teeth Of The Sea
Thought Forms
Gnod
Black Abba (Alexander Tucker, Moss, Sunday Mourning collaboration)
Primordial Undermind
Gum Takes Tooth
Big Naturals
Black Tempest
Drunk In Hell
Bad Guys

DJ’s:
Mugstar
Cherrystones
Gnod
Little Dirty

Plus are also a couple of very exciting bands still to be announced, so watch this space!!!.

Some other exciting bands on the bill are:
Pink Reason
Maria and the Mirrors
Cindy Talk
The Rent boys
The Nuns
Proxy Music

More info on this great festival and to be tickets visit the website:
http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/

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$&$ Vs Drum Cunt at the Corsica

Definitely not to be missed!!!

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Introducing Rocket Recordings back catalogue ('98 - '07) mix - Volume 01

Well Hi Folks, Everybody's Talking About Psychedelic Experiences and Happenings...

Rocket Recordings 98 - 07 Compilation Mix - Volume 01

We have put together a Soundcloud mix of some of the Rocket 'early years' music. It complies tracks from our first releases in 1998 up to 2007. This is volume 01, and volume 02 which will feature further releases, will appear soon.

As alot of these launches were before the digital age some tracks are captured off the vinyl, hence sound quality will vary throughout the mp3 mix.

So sit back and enjoy the chance to check out rare and in some cases deleted Rocket back catalogue tracks, in full or editted versions, we hope you enjoy.

Everybody's Talking About Psychedelic Experiences and Happenings... by Johnnyorocket

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Intro - Sawdust Caesars

1. The Heads - You Can Lean Back Sometimes
(Launch 001 - 1998)



2. Hippopotamus - Brown Sound
(Launch 012 - 2001)



3. Grey Daturas - The New Neuralgia
(Launch 028 - 2007)



4. Hacker - Ice Cream Man
(Launch 006 - 1999)



5. Oneida - All Arounder
(Launch 017 - 2003)



6. Sawdust Caesars - Death of a Guru
(Launch 002 - 1998)



7. Fuzz Against Junk - Trenchfoot Dugout
(Launch 021 - 2005)



8. Thee Hypnotics - Earth Blues 99
(Launch 004 - 1998)



9. Sawdust Caesars - You Pigs
(Launch 002 - 1998)



10. Mammatus - Dragon of the Deep Part 1
(Launch 025 - 2006)



11. Hacker - Raw Sent of Male
(Launch 007 - 1999)



12. Johnny Hash - Here We Are
(Launch 009 - 2000)



13. The Heads - Long Gone
(Launch 015 - 2001)



14. Residual Echoes - Headache Traverse
(Launch 023 - 2006)



15. Plastic Crimewave Sound - Husk
(Launch 020 - 2004)



16. Hacker - Panty Juice
(Launch 006 - 1999)



17. Suncoil Sect - Freeform Energy Freakout (intro)
(Launch 010 - 2000)



18. The Heads - Spliff Riff (Conga'd Out)
(Launch 008 - 2000)



19. Notorious Hi-Fi Killers - Don't Wanna Know
(Launch 030 - 2007)


For a full discography:

rocket-recordings-discography

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Stewart Lee reviews INGNODWETRUST

Rocket's fave comedien Stewart Lee has written a review of Gnod's – INGNODWETRUST which will feature in this weeks Sunday Times Culture magazine.

Who knows what he will write but their repetitive psych does resemble SL's repetitive routines...

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