Rocket Probes June 2011 Playlist

Shiji Masuko – Woven Music
(Great droning guitar rhythms from ex Boredoms drummer on Oneida’s Brah records)

Lasers from Atlantis – Demos
(One of our fave London bands at the moment, heavy fuzzy keyboard driven psych/space/doom)

Prince Rama – Shadow Temple
(Tribal drums, fuzzy drones, spacey synths and choral chanting)

Master Musicians of Bukakke – Totem 3
(Third part of this great trilogy, like a John Carpenter film about Vikings traveling around the Middle East in search of UFO’s)

Mueran Humanos – Aujeros Blacos / La langosta
(The influence of Spacemen 3 is rife in Argentina...two great 15min tracks, first is a dark, droning yet very warm synth drones, followed by a track of more warmer keyboard drones with repetitive drum patterns and ethereal vocals)

Ensemble Economique – Psychial
(More synth soundscapes, though this sounds what you would get if John Carpenter lived in Cologne in the mid ‘70s with Teeth of the Sea living next door, on NNF)

Cherrystones – Blacker Forest
(Heavy fuzzy synths, guitar feedback and looping drums..has a bit of an early Main feel)

Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano - Dedicato
(The Italian's answer to Andy Warhol therefore draws parallels with the VU)

Jacky Chalard - Superman Supercool
(Kosmische disco rock from 1977)

Hookworms - S/T
(Leeds' very own Space (men3) Shjips)

György Ligeti - Jupiter and Beyond (2001 Suite)
(Taken out of context from the film, this lysergic magma of evolving sound feels even more frightening)

Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot / The Spotlight Kid
(The voice, the rhythms, hit that long leaning note and let it float......)

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Sunday Mourning added to Radio Black Forest's 'Woodland Gathering'

Just been informed that friends of Rocket 'Sunday Mourning' who's debut album is coming out on Auora Borealis real soon are playing this great little festival joining Skullflower and the ever mighty GNOD....

You can find out more here

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GNOD – INGNODWETRUST makes Quietus top 40 albums of the year so far

See the full list here

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Oneida: June 17, 2011 Secret Project Robot (Rated O Set)

Oneida: June 17, 2011 Secret Project Robot (Rated O Set)

- Flac and MP3 Download + Streaming Song

The second piece of Oneida’s Thank Your Parents trilogy is itself a three-pronged release. Rated O is the most ambitious album of the three and last Friday at Secret Project Robot, the band undertook the huge task of playing the 3-album set straight through. And even then, Oneida took liberties with the music and stretched the two-hour album to nearly two and half. The songs themselves resembled their recorded counterparts but in the live setting, Oneida stretched and mutated the pieces into vehicles for all kinds of improvisation. The very stylistic elements that encompass the varied genres of Oneida music were all featured during the lengthy set — from noise (”End of Time”) to ambient (”O”) to krautrock (”Ghost in the Room” streaming below) to punk (”It Was a Wall”). Rated O has it all, and Oneida did it all.

Check it out here:

nyctaper.com

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Teeth of the Sea Radio interview

Matt Colegate, drummer from from Teeth of the Sea has recently done a radio interview for Doncaster's Sine FM

Well worth a listen, you can stream it from here:

Part 1

Part 2

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Great review of Serpentina Satelite's Mecanica Celeste album

The nice people at Progsphere have written this nice review of the Serpentina Satelite ltd Lp 'Mecanica Celetse', which you can purchase here.

"I have to admit that I’ve had this album in my queue for a long time, not because of laziness or something, but because I was searching and waiting for the right moment to write about it. The wait is over now. Mecanica Celeste is the third album of these psyched Peruvians released on Rocket Recordings. The show an enormous worship of Hawkwind, the real gurus of space/psychedelic rock.

Mecanica Celeste is 43 minutes long opus that follows Hawkwind’s paved path, but still delving into new depths and dimensions. The songs are based on spontenity rather than multilayering and structuring, although rounded as an entity they reflect as pretty complex tunes.

The leading instruments here are of course guitars, but the important role has been assigned to plenty of sound effects which make this record pretty cold and creepy at times. The guitars of Dolmo and Renato Gomez come across differently structured parts ranging from unnatural groans in the opening Fobos to expansive psychedelic guidelines in Sangre de Grado and the title track, to sludgy references in Ai Apaec and some heavy dooming in closing Sendero. Vocals, performed by the bassist Felix Detre serve as an add-on to the whole soundimage and are rather hidden and scattered around.

Serpentina Satélite is a personification of the certified and the contemporary, wrapping up together Hawkwind with White Hills, Amon Düül II, Naam, Ash Ra Tempel and Pharaoh Overlord. Mecanica Celeste has a manipulative note correlated with pure psychedelia, haughty guitars and their spaced out solos, echoing vocals, twisted dronings, religious preachings, et al. In general, it’s a good step forward in a promising career of this Peruvian act. Recommended."

See the review here

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Teeth of the Sea to Play Beacons festival

Not only have Teeth of the Sea been invited to play Standon Calling, and the Rocket co-curated Supernormal they have no been invited to play Beacons Festival on 12-14th August.

To find out more about this festival, visit the Beacons Festival website

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'Swear blind your alsatian is melting'...live at the Lexington

Watch Teeth of the Sea playing 'Swear blind your alsatian is melting' live at their recent amazing show at the Lexington.

Big shout must also go out to Drum Cunt who played before them!!!

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Oneida to play one off show at the London Scala

We are very excited to announce that Oneida are coming over for a one off show on August 13th and are playing the Scala in London. I have also been informed that the support band will be pretty special.

More information and tickets here

Also our Oneida / Mugstar Collisions LP will be out in October, watch this space for more info.

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Lava Thief and Normans review INGNODWETRUST

Here are two nice reviews of Gnod's INGNODWETRUST that came out on Rocket last week on ultra ltd white vinyl, read them here:

Lava Thief

Normans

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