30 Dec 2012
Rocket Probes December Playlist
Anthroprophh / The Big Naturals - SRR
(This Heat styled limited CDR of Jams)
Anthroprophh
Death & Vanilla - S/T
(Broadcast type retro-futurism)
Death and Vanilla
Vision Fortune / Meddicine - Split LP
(Nice minimal, repetitive psych from London's Vision Fortune, reminds us quite a bit of Beak)
Meddicine - Vision Fortune
Cherrystones / Gary the Tall - Shattered Throbs Scattered Roars
(Really nice mix CD of long lost psych, proto punk, space-electro and all round greatness)
Cherrystones - Gary The Tall
My Solid Ground - Dirty Yellow Mist
(Spacey floydian psych underpinned by a really filthy fuzz riff)
My Soild Ground
Space Needle - Voyager & The Moray Eels...
(Criminally underrated and forgotten band from the 90's...two great albums of spacey drone pop from these Spacemen 3 obsessives)
Space Needle
Various - Chocolate Soup for Diabetics (Vols 1-3)
(Dug out these totally essential compilations of 60's UK freak beat / fuzz pop nuggets)
Chocolate Soup For Diabetics
Gene Clarke - No Other
(Really great track taken from his album of the same name)
Gene Clarke
Snapper - Snapper
(Four tracks of repetitive rock from New Zealand in 1988...it is where Loop, Suicide and Stereolab meet)
Snapper
Group 1850 - Various tracks
(Amazing psyched out pop from the Netherlands...like a Notorious Byrd Brother visiting the Gates of Dawn with a head full of SF Sorrow while eating Electric Bananas)
Group 1850
Guelewar - Halleli N' Dakarou
(High-Life warped synth driven grooviness)
Guelewar
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
(Last of the Lemmy 'Wind' period, heavy synths & dual drumming)
Hawkwind
Pink Fairies - Do It
(Don't think about, just Do It!)
Pink Fairies
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