Rocket Probes September Playlist

Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
(We were lucky enough to be sent this just after it was finished...and it sounds great, lovelly psyched out songs drenched in some awesome fuzz wah, cant wait to hear it on vinyl!!!)

Swans - The Seer
(Amazing new album from the mighty Swans...one of the albums of the year so far!)

Hills Have Riffs -
(Two great droned out space folk jams, from a forthcoming album)

Teeth of the Sea - Only Fools on Horse (**K remix)
(Great remix by **K of "Only fools on horse", one of the highlight tracks off Teeth of the Sea's debut 'Orphaned by the Ocean', see earlier post to hear this)

Section 25 - Sakura
(Where Gnod and Happy Mondays meet)

Drunk in Hell - live in Leeds
(Love this band!!!...cant wait to see them again at Supersonic)

Toy - Drifting Deeper / Dead and Gone
(Two tracks from their debut, the first is a nice Hawkwind meets Silver Apples instrumental track, the second sounds like Six by Seven covering Stereolab)

Nope - Revision
(Fuzzy and repetitive noise rock with a nice psychy edge from this Leeds band)

Cherrystones - Red Nails
(New album of psyched out breaks from Godsy, comes in a very nice handprinted sleeve)

Fabulous Diamonds - Commercial Music

(Blissed out lunar-rock)

Various ‎– Underground Wave Volume 3

(Gnod introduced us to this Belgium Electronic comp, featuring S, M Nurse)

Fairport Convention - Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
(If Spacemen 3 did folk music)

Various - Beyond the Calico Wall
(Fuzz drenched 60's compliation)

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Goat....The Guardian's 'new band of the day'!!!

The Guardian has chosen Goat to be their 'New band of the day' on their site:

"The background: Goat may not be the G.O.A.T., but they are getting serious praise for their album World Music, acclaimed as one of the best of 2012. It's a heady soup (see what we did there?) of funk and tribal rhythms, kraut and prog-rock repetition/extrapolation, psych freakery and astral/acid folkisms. It's Parliament covering Can's Tago Mago with Bhundu Boys and the Incredible String Band, or a super-jam involving Faust, Funkadelic, Fairport Convention and Fela Kuti. Think Womad curated by Jerry Garcia and Holger Czukay, Edgar Broughton and George Clinton in 1973...."

See the full article here

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Supersonic Festival reveal first footage of Goat appearing live

This video here has just been revealed by Supersonic Festival.

It shows the band playing the track Goatlord live in their Korpilombolo based temple, and gives you a good idea of what their up and coming live shows are going to be like.

See the Supersonic website for more information

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Black Bombaim / Gnod Collaboration

The guys in Black Bombaim are releasing a live collaboration with GNOD called 'Black Gnod', it will be available on the 6th of December via the Cardinal Fuzz label.

Black Bombaim described it: 
The completely-improvised-50min-kraut-worship show with Gnod in Milhões de Festa 2012.

Cardinal Fuzz albums are available to buy here: cardinalfuzz.bigcartel

Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/CardinalFuzz

Optical Sounds: opticalsoundsfanzine

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Shit and Shine live in Stadtwerkstatt / Linz in June

Here is some great footage of a whole Shit and Shine show from their recent European tour in June.

Their Collisions with Gnod is out on October 15th

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Revolt of the apes reviews Shit & Shine / Gnod Collisions 03

Revolt of the Apes have written some very nice words on the next Rocket release, volume 3 of our Collisions series by Gnod and Shit & Shine:


"– beast lies at the heart of the third “Collisions” release from the always fiery Rocket Recordings, a split release from Gnod and $hit and $hine. Rather than the individual, the focus here is on the collective; rather than the irrelevance of time, the focus here would appear to be in the eradication of time – eradication with great prejudice.

The impact of Gnod upon our listening habits over the past couple of years can hardly be over emphasized. At the time of our interview with the shape-shifting UK wizards of sound late last year, we were very close to declaring the band to have released both the best and the second best albums of 2011 – and this was before we had been set deep into a cosmic-coma via “Genocider,” the crushing tomb of sound from “Chaudelande Volume II.”

Both Gnod and $hit and $hine bring to “Collisions 3″ the full weight of massive, world-crushing force that comes from near complete disregard for convention, mysteriously expanding and contracting line-ups, and the willingness to wield the sharpest points of any number of sounds in order to achieve their goals. With both tracks clocking in around the fifteen-minute mark, dub aesthetics merge with combustible Detroit-bred explosions of raw power, synthesized beats antagonize a world of synthesized violence, chanting codas mesh with the hot breath of levitating bass riffs, and all limits are fast eroded.

May the collisions never end."

See the review in full here

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Red vinyl and Green vinyl Goat LP's have landed

We have just heard that the repress of Goat's World Music on Red (800 copies) and Green (200 copies) have landed at our UK distributors Cargo.

These copies should be hitting shops in the UK by the weekend and in the US and Europe next week.

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Teeth of the Sea 'Get in to this'

Here is a great piece by Peter Guy for 'Get into this' on website/promoters 'Behind the Wall of Sleep', which is run by the mighty Mugstar.

The piece has a lovely write up and photos of Teeth of the Sea which they claim as 'possibly the best live band on the planet.' Plus mentions of Gnod and former Rocket band White Hills.

Well worth a read, check it here

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The Quietus ask Goat some questions about Supersonic Festival

The Quietus have done a quick Q/A with Goat about their up and coming performance at Supersonic Festival:


"Goat's debut album World Music was one of our favourites of this summer. Here, the band mix together a bewitching stew of "Afrobeat, Latin disco, post punk, kraut drone and rampant acid rock. It's as if Spacemen 3 ate Funkadelic's Maggot Brain and a random Fela Kuti album". We discuss what's in store for lucky punters to this year's Supersonic festival, where they are playing live.

You lived in a commune in Korpilombobo, Sweden. What was commune life like? How did that lifestyle inform the music you make?

Read the answer to this and other questions here

And buy tickets for the festival here

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Gnod to play this years Supersonic Festival

We are very excited indeed to announce that Gnod will be celebrating their release of their split album with Shit & Shine with a performance at this years Supersonic Festival.

Gnod join Goat on Sundays line up to make it a double of Rocket bands!

So buy a ticket before they sell out here

And to wet your appetite, above is some footage of a show from their very recent tour across Europe

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