Rocket Recordings

31 May 2012

Rocket Probes May 2012 Playlist

Hills - Live

(Two track cassette from this great psych band...two long improv jams that recalls fellow swedish sonic travellers International Harvester, Parsons Sound etc)

Gnod - The Choice of a Nubian Generation

(laid back summer future daze vibes)

The Heads - Radio Sessions
("its a pisser and it tastes like wine.")

Various - Head Music
(A compilation of cover versions of Kraut classics, there is some very good stuff on here (not all mind you) but well worth tracking down...thanks to Black Tempest (who covered Shulze) for the copy)

Hype Williams - untitled selection of songs
(33 sketches of music from this duo, dont know much about it, downloaded it from The Quietus and some interesting things on there, not all work but most pretty great and out there)

Horse - Horse
(70s proto metal album that has some nice moments)

Trash - Gritts and Butts
(Fuzzy lo-fi artrock from early 90's New Zealand, has a nice early Sonic Youth feel in places)

Francis Bebey - African Electronic Music 1975-1982
(The title of this album says it all, contains some amazing afro electro funk)

Donna Summer - I Feel Love
(An absolutely amazing track, still sounds like it could of been made tomorrow)

Love Cry Want - S/T

(Electric Miles era Psyche Jazz freakout)

Carter Tutti Void - Traverse

(Pulsating Electronics)

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30 May 2012

Optical Sounds gets louder

Mission Control's favourite magazine Optical Sounds has just announced some exciting news.

First, they are setting up a label to release some great underground psych, first release will be announced shortly.

Plus they have set up a message board for 'heads' alike to talk and discuss about the latest goings on in the underground psych (and further) scene.

You can join here

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24 May 2012

Gnod are confirmed to play this year's Incubate festival in Tilburg

We are pleased to announce that Gnod are playing this years Incubate festival in Tilburg in the Netherlands.

They are playing on Friday 14th September

Other bands playing this amazing week long festival are:

Expo 70
Chris and Cosey
Damno Suzuki
King Midas Sound
MV and EE
Silver Apples
The Telescopes
and many more

For more information and tickets see here

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22 May 2012

Another review of Teeth of the Sea's Reaper performance at SOTOC Festival

And then to the main event: Teeth Of The Sea performing ‘Reaper’, their re-imagining of Neil Marshall’s Doomsday. This was never going to be missed given our love for TOTS here and we weren’t disappointed. The sheer viscerality of the music – comprising stabbing trumpets, military beats, e-bow scythed guitars, rumbling and soaring synths, four-to-the floor technoid rhythms and screaming – in combination with the cut-up and effected visuals – taking in burning corpses, future-medieval gladiator battles, Mad Max-esque car chases, screens soaked in splats and spurts of blood and fluid – was mind-blowing (possibly actually as well as metaphorically). I would recommend ‘enjoying’ this at your earliest convenience, but it’s probably the last time they’re going to do it. I say probably as I have it on good authority that an invite to perform it in Berlin or Hawaii would coach TOTS’ ‘Reaper’ from its gruesome pit.

And to our very much more inviting and perfumed pits we returned in the knowledge that nothing else would surpass this finale.

Read the full review here

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18 May 2012

'Turntable Currents' digging Serpentina Satelite's Mecanica Celeste

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More bands announced for Supernormal 2012

The great Supernormal festival has announced more bands to the line up, highlights for us are:

Seefeel
Sylvester Angfang II
One Unique Signal

and they will be joining the already mentioned:

Hey Colossus

Cosmic dead
Black Tempest

Telescopes

You're smiling now...

And many many more

Tickets can be bought from here

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