31 Oct 2011

Rocket Probes October 2011 Playlist



Lumerians - Transmalinnia
(Spacemen 3 with hand percussion, fuzzed out organ space disco)

Great Society Mind Destroyers - Spirit Smoke
(Mind-effected fuzz wah from Chicago)

Plastic People of the Universe - Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned
(Czech freaks in a Mothers of Invention, Velvet Underground vein)

Hawkwind - Various
(Tracks from 'Choose Your Masques' (Void City) & 'Church of Hawkwind' - post Calvert, heavy on the keyboards & samples)

Sunroof - Cloudz
(Skullflower's alter Krautrock worship)

Celtic Frost - Into the Mega Therion
(Great album that still hasn't lost its fuzz thrash power)

AKA - Hard Beat
(Grooved out 70's rock from Indonesia on lovely double vinyl)

Velvet Underground - Norman Dolph acetate
(Good to finally hear this long lost version of their great first lp...contains some completely different versions, though a bit crackly its a must listen.)

The Fall - 50 Year Old Man
(12mins of repetitive fuzz confrontation)

Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier / '79-'80 B sides and demos
(If you can forgive the cheese you are rewarded with some great feedback drenched fuzz and repetitive tribal drums that wouldn’t sound too out of place on Not Not Fun, or on a Teeth of the Sea record)

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28 Oct 2011

Supersonic Festival 2011 - Teeth of the Sea - Reviewed



Read The Quietus review of this years 2011 Supersonic Festival featuring our very own Teeth of the Sea:

25 Oct 2011

The Heads - 'Vertigo Swill' Artwork



For all those paying attention last week we posted that The Heads Rock Prof is currently complying a double 1994-2002 retrospective called ‘Vertigo Swill’ it will be limited to 88 copies on this run (numbered to 88 as there were 88 UK Vertigo 'Swirlies' released) and is out in November via The Heads own label Rooster on CD - see the guestbook on their website for confirmation of availability details.

Artwork has reached us & again its another Sam Giles retro classic.





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Teeth of the Sea - Supersonic 2011





After witnessing Teeth of the Sea play a storming set in front of a packed audience in the festival's 'Boxed' venue, here is a little reminder of this years supersonic'd attack in its full visual bathed glory.

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White Hills - Heads on Fire - Ltd Repress!




Rocket have repressed the long out of print White Hills CD 'Heads on Fire' and it is in the shops as of yesterday. This is the press release:

WHITE HILLS - HEADS ON FIRE
LAUNCH029 (Re-issue)

RELEASE DATE
24th OCTOBER 2011


TRACKLIST
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01 RADIATE
02 OCEANS OF SOUND
03 RETURN OF SPEED TOILET
04 VISIONS OF THE PAST,
 PRESENT AND FUTURE
05 DON'T BE AFRAID
06 ETERNITY

Due to the demands we have been getting from their fans, we are pleased to announce this overdue reissue of Heads on Fire, the out of print second album by New Yorks White Hills. Since this release their first for Rocket the band have gone to release several very highly regarded albums for Thrill Jockey.

Ever changing and always striving to push the envelope, White Hills album Heads on Fire finds the band playing a heavier style of spacerock.

Relentless and punishing, the album kicks off with the spacey swirl of the song ‘Radiate’ and ends with the speedladen blast of the track ‘Eternity’. Along the way, a mesmerising blend of growlling fuzz / wah guitar, pounding bass, sprawling synth, and chaotic drumming doses one’s head three sheets to the wind. Whether it be the mere one minute track ‘Return of Speed Toilet’ or the 26 plus minute ‘Don’t Be Afraid’, the listener will be taken on ride through a world that is all encompassing from beginning to end.

The band started in New York as a solo project by Dave W. Since then it has turned into a trio, with Ego Sensation (bass) plus various drummers which has included Kid Millions of Oneida fame. Like Oneida, White Hills also share a love for a hard rock stripped of its bombast, their heavier, dirtier, earthier influences contend with airier atmospheres while combining steadiness with spacious soaring guitars, these heads are always on fire!

For more information e-mail:


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21 Oct 2011

The Heads gear up for another archive CD




The Heads Rock Prof is currently complying a 1994-2002 retrospective called ‘vertigoswill’ (please note no artwork was available when we posted).

It contains some Coogan's mixes, with guitars set to stun in true Heads style, jams with plenty of wah soloing and Prof even doing an over the top bass solo. The CD also features a 'Can' type trip and very keyboard heavy version of KRT.

Having previously heard some of the music, the Coogan's mixes are worth the money alone.

Here is a tracklist.

1. PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
2. TRUCKERS CODE
3. LOOK LIKE ELVIS
4. HOT CATS ZAPPALIN
5. THREE STICKS SMALL STONE
6. FUCKED UP IN HOTELS
7. VERTIGOSWILL
8. ONE TRACK ROCK PT 2
9. SAVING IT ALL UP FOR YOU SUNSHINE
10. ONE TRACK ROCK PT 3
11. KH-KRT (LIVE AT THE THEKLA 00?)

1. GRAND FINALE 94
2. NEVER HAD IT BETTER (INSTRUMENTAL)
3. ONE TRACK ROCK PT 1
4. BRING ME TEA
5. CARLISLE BUZZ
6. WAH BASS EXTRACT
7. SALISBURY 1994/CIRCULAR
8. WAHWAHWAHWAH
9. COOGANS END ( RELAXING WITH PROF MIX 95)
10. LAKE OF GREEN

Keep your eye out on The Heads website forum for news of it's release.

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Pupilar Remix of GNOD's Vatican



Kev Pupilar has done a fantastic remix of GNOD'S Vatican, check out the soundcloud mix:

Vatican [Pupilar Dub] by GNOD

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Aquarius Records review Collisions 02



MUGSTAR / ONEIDA - Collisions 02

The return of aQ beloved UK space rockers Mugstar, who have teamed up with another fave of ours, East Coast noise rockers Oneida, and neither side disappoints. Mugstar offer up another killer chunk of spaced out psychedelia that would have been right at home on Lime or Sun Broken, opening up with a fuzzy organ drone, which quickly gives way to a badass Hawkwindy groove, all motorik mesmer and fuzzed out space rock pound. The organ giving the proceedings a serious prog vibe, the track chugs away until about halfway through when it collapse into a super rad mathy tangle of drum / guitar freakout, all repetitive and almost looped sounding, with FX swirling all over the place, before finally resolving in a blissed out stretch of murky psychedelic shimmer, only to eventually emerge as a stripped down, more krautrocky groove, with soaring dramatic vocals way down in the mix, pounding away all druggy and dreamy and laid back.

Oneida counter with what could be their coolest / weirdest jam yet, what appears to be their twisted take on space rock, exploding immediately into a wildly chaotic freakout guitar/drum squall, the band taking their sweet time to lock into a proper groove, and in fact, they almost manage not to at all, super loose and free, the drums intricate and mathy and almost the star of the show, pounding away beneath some freaked out guitar skree, until about halfway in, when in swoops some chiming guitar, draped over thick bass buzz, even more progged out and wildly trippy, until finally, they reel it all in, and finish off with a very Wooden Shjips sounding outro, but even then, way more tripped out and space-y. Killer stuff from both bands, and some of THEE coolest packaging we've seen, eye popping pink sleeve, with lots of white and brown 'o's and 'm's

Aquarius Records
Aquarius-records

More info:
Oneida-Mugstar-Collisions-02

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Annapurna Illusion - Roadburn album of the day!



Roadburn website has posted the Annapurna Illusion as their album of the day, the article is taken off another great Aquarius Records review, read it here:

Roadburn

More info: Annapurna-Illusion-Life-is-Illusion

Don't forget to catch GNOD playing at the 2012 Roadburn festival aswell.

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14 Oct 2011

Teeth of the Sea support Circle



Corsia Studios presents
Mon 17th October

CIRCLE
+
TEETH OF THE SEA
+
BAD GUYS
+
CHERRYSTONES

Corsia Studios
4/5 Elephant Road
London
SE17 1LB
020 7703 4760

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In association with Birmingham's Supersonic Festival, Corsica Studios are proud to present CIRCLE. Formed in 1991, Circle is the most visible and prolific name in the Finnish avant-rock underground. Having survived innumerable lineup changes, the band and its founder, bassist/vocalist/guitarist Jussi Lehtisalo, have constantly reinvented themselves, weaving hypnotic mantras out of exacting Krautrock beats, heavy riffs, arty noise, dark psychedelia, and soundtrack-like beauty. Hard, chilly repetition has served as the lone unifying theme throughout 15 years of experiments.

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