Rocket Probes June Playlist

The Lay Llamas - Tape Crash (Split tape with Eugenoise)
(Our fave Italian band return with their second tape of grooved kosmiche gnodness, released on Old Bycycle Records...expect some Lay Llamas music out on Rocket later in the year)
Lay Llamas

Various – Thrash Metal Loser
(Mind blowing Thrash comp lovingly compiled by Invada boss and Goat Remixer Redg Weeks...you can get a FREE copy from here: 
Thrash Metal Loser

Hills – Live
(Cardinal Fuzz present two side long tracks from the mighty Hills on lovelly splattered vinyl...some exciting news about some forthcoming Hills releases on Rocket very soon!!)
Hills

Whirling Halls Of Knives – Devisions
(Essential new release from the great Trensmat...sound like a collaboration between Gnod and Moon Unit. Buy it today!!)
Whirling Halls of Knives

Run Dust – Decency Rally
(Talking of Gnod, here are some more great psyched out electronic sounds from their Tesla Tapes label)
Run Dust

The Asteroid No.4  – Dead Blues
(Nice Spacemen 3 meets Birds psych pop from a great little EP on the new Dock Ellis Records)
The Asteroid

Powell - Fizz
(Great 12 of 'Kraut not kraut' beats n' noise)
Fizz

Crazy Elephant - Dark Part of My Mind
(A nice fuzzstepper)
Crazy Elephant

Medusa - First step beyond
(Contains some nice psyched out proto metal, in a similar vein to Dwarr...thanks to Goat for this find!! )
Medusa
Medusa

Satelliti - Transister
(Imagine 70's Miles and Gum takes Tooth locked in the same room together armed with uppers and downers)
Satelliti

Sand - Desert Navigation
(Keyboard driven desert kraut)
Sand

Portishead - Chase the Tear
(Electronic driving kraut pop)
Portishead

Bokaj Retsiem - Psychedelic Underground
(Backwards guitars, need we say more)
Bokaj Retsiem


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Gnod present three new Tesla Tapes

Gnod's great Tesla Tapes label has three new tapes just released that we insist you buy right now!!

Nighthammer – Neu X  
For the uninitiated Nighthammer is the work of Tony Mountford from the label Noisestar, the band COVE and formally of Rocket band The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers. See the video for the first track here: Neu X
Listen and buy here (first track is amazing): Nighthammer

Black Tempest – Arcana
As you know we are big fans of Black Tempest and his kosmiche explorations, though for this release his new age space rock is replaced by some lovely lofi acidic rave
Listen and buy here: Black Tempest

Lightning Glove – Raving Peacocks Tail
Not someone we are familiar with but they are a band Gnod played with in the Czech Republic and left a big impression. And after a first listen we can see why!!
Listen and buy from here: Lightning Glove

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Cherrystones to DJ at Goat / Teeth of the Sea show

Our favourite DJ and fellow 'Nothing is'er  Cherrystones is going to be playing some records tomorrow night at the sold out Goat / Teeth of the Sea show at Camden's Electric Ballroom.

Cherrystones Illustration by Peter Fowler

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Exclusive screenprinted poster for Goat's London show

This is a photo of an amazing screen print made by a Goat fan that will be available to buy at the sold out show at Camden Electric Ballroom on Thursday.

Only 100 of these have been made, so we expect them to go fast!!

For more info on the artist, you can visit his site here: Adam Pobiak

Also, the band will have made some Tshirts (ltd to 100) especially for the London show and Glastonbury. These feature the stunning Luke Insect artwork for the Stonegoat 7". The prints are black only and on grey, white and green tshirts... and they look great!!

The band will also have the last available white vinyl copies of the Stonegoat 7" for sale.

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$hit & $hine play Bristol with Gnod, Big Naturals and Big Joan in support

That is right...what a line up!!!

$hit & $hine
Gnod
Big Naturals
Big Joan

3 August
St John Baptist Crypt
Bristol

Dont know any ticket details, but sure it will be easy to find.

Mission Control will be there down the front!!

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Drowned in Sound get excited by Goat at Glastonbury

Drowned in Sound list their guide to 'must see' bands at this years Glastonbury:


Goat
(West Holts Stage, Friday, 14:30 - 15:30)

Described by some as Sweden's answer to The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Korpilombolo collective Goat are a law unto themselves, fusing twisted psychedelia with krautrock inspired grooves and the occasional Sabbath riff to boot. 2012's World Music was one of last year's finest long players, while their live shows often give a whole new meaning to the words "improvised" and "experimental".


Read the article in full here: Drowned in Sound

For those lucky of you going, Goat are also playing a show on the Hell Stage in Shangri La at 11pm the same day. Annoyingly this was going to be 1am, but now it has been brought forward by two hours (who's stupid idea was that!!!!) and they clash with Portishead, Horrors and Chic....but you know you would rather see!!! :)

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Debut Nighthammer release on Gnod's Tesla Tapes

We are huge fans of the Nighthammer here at Mission Control after his great mixes for both Gnod and Goat.

For the uninitiated Nighthammer is the work of Tony Mountford from the band COVE and formally of Rocket band The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers.

Gnod were so impressed of the Nighthammer mix of Genocider, they invited him to do a full release on their Tesla tapes, and this is the result.

For more information go here: Tesla Tapes

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Diagonal Records presents $hit & $hine at the Lexington

This looks like a bit of a corker of a night...


From the Lexington website:

Diagonal Records presents a mid-week shindig at London’s Lexington to coincide with the release of a remarkable four-tracker from headliners Sh*t and Shine. Famed for creating rollicking barrages of noise, guitar and sinister drum menace from anywhere between two and 20 sticksmen, DIAG004 represents something of a departure for the project’s creative force, Craig Clouse. The disorientating psychedelic effect remains, but the means are very different: this is sample-based rhythm music for dark clubs written by clowns. For this one-off London show, expect ear-splitting volume and a stage full of bunnies. 

Clouse’s men will be joined by Blood Music, who return to The Lexington for the first time since their Quietus show with My Disco in 2011. Fresh from their much-acclaimed EP on Diagonal, BM wield drum machines, guitars, drum kits, contact mics, noise and synthesisers to create pummelling tunnels of propulsive torque. 

Label-owner Powell will deploy turntables and records to smooth proceedings over between acts.


Tickets from here: wegottickets

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The Wire Magazine hosting Boiler Room 'monoriff' special with GNOD and Kogumaza

Taken from the Wire's website:

The Wire hosts a night of live music at the club in the cloud next month. The Wire's edition of Boiler Room, Night Of The Monoriffs, will feature special sets by two of the UK’s heaviest minimal rock units, Gnod and Kogumaza, plus a DJ set of unholy riffage courtesy of Joseph Stannard of Brighton’s Outer Church. The whole night will be streamed live at boilerroom.tv on 16 July between 8-11pm GMT.

Wire Magazine

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Cherry Coloured Funk interviews Goat

GOAT MASK REPLICA – AN INTERVIEW WITH GOAT

Goat are a shadowy collective hailing from darkest Sweden, specializing in fuzzed-up, whacked-out psychedelic rock that takes influence from a plethora of international genres without sounding like any of them. Their 2012 album “World Music” captured their raw, steaming jams in analogue crust, garnering them rave reviews as they churned up venues in a handful of live gigs. Coming off the back of a recent US tour and release of their “Stonegoat/Dreambuilding” 7”, we at Cherry Coloured Funk were lucky enough to be granted an interview with a member of the group, speaking under the alias of Captain Goatheart. The response we received was, in keeping with their public image, oblique, funny, laconic and beguiling.
In other interviews you’ve commented that your day-to-day activity involves a great deal of nudity. Why is it then that you decide to cover up so much on stage?
- Goatheart – Well, I guess at home you walk around nude sometime but when you leave your flat you put on some clothes? The reason you do that is the same reason to why we wear clothes in public too.

Are there initiation rites for members of Goat?
- No.

Your music and live shows display a profound interest with occult lore and voodoo. Was your music borne out of such a fascination or did you decide to incorporate it into an already fleshed-out sound?- Our sound, our history and our beliefs are one. There is nothing more to say about that really.

Sweden has a rich tradition of fuzzy psychedelic bands, from 70’s masters like Baby Grandmothers and Parson Sound to Dungen. Do you identify yourselves with this tradition or take influence from it in any way? What is it about Swedish climes that produce bands such as yours and the ones mentioned above?

Read the answer to this and other great questions here: Cherry Coloured Funk

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