Rocket Probes October 2010 Playlist

La Otracina – Reality has got to Die

(New album from this bunch of NY space metallers...great to see Mission Control fave ‘Raze the Sky on vinyl at last!!!)

Six Finger Satelite – Law of Ruins

(Recently had a record session at Kid Millions place and he picked this out saying it was a huge influence on him and Oneida...was pretty blown away by it and and managed to track it down and been listening to it loads since...some great psych moments on this nicely repetitive rock record!!!)

The Telescopes – Taste

(This absolute classic album of fuzz wah infested shoegaze punk has been finding itself on the turntable a lot this month, absolute killer album)

Brian Eno – Babys on Fire (BBC Radio session)

(A really great (slightly faster) version that can be found on this what I presume is an Italian bootleg which comes in a nice silkscreened sleeve)

Fabulous Diamonds – Fabulous Diamonds II

(Ultra repetitive Silver Apples’esque album, that also brings to mind Faust, Pit Er Pat and the amazing Urdog...really good stuff, especially the first and last mantras...once again, thanks Kid!)

Miles Davis – Dark Magus

(70's electric experimentation, dark, dense, space afro funk with Can vibes layered with wah wah)

Gum Takes Tooth - 001 001 001

(Thunderous rampaging noise released on floppy disc packaged CDR - from our favourite circuit board destroying noise band)

Sound Carriers - Celeste

(Vintage psychedelic folk fusion in the same vein as Broadcast)

The Beatles - Pepper / Magical Mystery Tour / Yellow Submarine

(Psychedelic period selected tracks)

John Cale & Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax

(Extended proto raga grooves)

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Oneida - Drowned in Sound - Each One Teach One interview

Drowned in Sound - An Oral History of Oneida's Each One Teach One

There are still artists out there who are causing music to buckle and strain at the seams, who are finding new and inventive ways to turn familiar ideas inside out and bend some fresh life out of the archaic “rock” format. It can take patience and understanding—two qualities currently in perilously scarce supply—but anyone who is in this for the long haul is bound to come around to Oneida eventually. Most people are still trying to get their heads around Rated O, the band’s triple album opus from last year, but here we turn to a similarly ambitious double record they delivered for the Version City label in 2002.

Each One Teach One is a dense, multifaceted work, with two entire songs taking up one side each of the vinyl release, including the notorious ‘Sheets of Easter’, a song based around single-word repeating mantras that acts as a kind of litmus test as to whether you can get on board with Oneida’s gloriously warped take on familiar rock constructs. But you don’t need me to tell you about it. Here, each band member talks individually about the experience of bringing this singular work into the world, along with a few words from just about everybody involved with the project.....

Read the whole article:

drownedinsound

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Quietus review of Gnod at Supersonic

Manchester psych-rock collective Gnod believe in hitting a groove and staying there. Today seven strong, they generate a consuming mantra, a shamanistic melding of Hawkwind, Can, Happy Mondays and numerous more spiritual cultures. Time passes, and as the time for main stage headliners Godflesh approaches much of the audience begins moving reluctantly off. By this time however Gnod are locked into their most primal groove yet, the drummer beating an alternating snare and tom in much the same fashion as a Neanderthal with a pair of rocks, everyone else stupefied in a deepening trance state induced by hitting the same note over and over and over. It's hypnotic and exhilarating, but as the minutes pass the Godflesh reunion looms larger and the Quietus posse reluctantly take their leave. Gnod continue, quite literally lost in their own world – it would come as no surprise to discover that they are still playing now. [RH]

Read the full Supersonic review here

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Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere: A Rare Interview With The Heads

Read a great Heads interview by Teeth of the Sea's Jimmy Martin for the Quietus here

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Thought Forms / Sunday Mourning and Teeth Of The Sea DJ's in London

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Gnod live 23/10/10 @ Supersonic

For those who weren't in attendance at the church of Gnod on the weekend, here is a taster of what was missed.

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Teeth Of The Sea track to feature on surfing DVD

Australias premier surf magazine WAVES is using a Teeth Of The Sea track on a forthcoming DVD that will be given away with an up and coming issue.

The track featured is A.C.R.O.N.Y.M which is taken from their forthcoming LP Your Mercury...for more information check out the magazine's website here

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In Gnod we trust - the Quietus interview

To coincide with this weekends Supersonic appearance the mighty Gnod have been interviewed by The Quietus....read this great interview here

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Teeth Of The Sea headline improv festival at Cafe Oto tonight

Sorry for the late post on this, just realised we hadn't mentioned it!!

But for more information on this see the Cafe Oto in Dalston website here

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Teeth Of The Sea play charity show this saturday

Find out all about it via the Quietus piece here

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