Rocket Probes July Playlist

Nighthammer/BlackTempest – Tesla Tapes
(Two great tapes on Gnod's Tesla label...both Nighthammer and Black Tempest create different soundtracks for dark summer raves in the middle of a west country field)
Nighthammer
Black Tempest

Various – The B.D.O. Sessions
(Another stunning comp compiled by Redg Weeks...this time of classic 80's hardcore, a perfect companion piece to the Thrash comp that was in last months playlist)
B.D.O

Craig Leon -  Nommos
(Delicious kosmiche, Reichian, minimalist disco from early 80's New York)
Craig Leon (Preview)

Heliocentrics - 13 Degrees Of Reality
(New LP of psych jazz and spacey fuzz funk from Malcom Cato's astral travelling band)
Heliocentrics

Causa Sui - Euporie Tide
(Pretty good new album from these Euro psych proggers...imagine Mugstar meets Danava but with added 'space')
Causa Sui (Preview) 

Tomaga – Sleepy Jazz for Tired Cats
(Nice drums and keys drones and grooves from this two piece that features Val from Shit & Shine/Oscilation)
Tomaga

Spectrum – Geracao Bendita
(1971 heavy fuzz n' groove psych pop LP from Brazil)
Spectrum (Preview)

Paul McCartney – Check my Machine
(Great spacey disco dub track from Macca)
McCartney

Rypdal, Andresen, Rud - Min Bul
(Norwegian jazz from 1970)
Min Bul

Ali Ag Amoumine - Takamba
(Hypnotic desert ragas)
Ali Ag Amoumine

Mosh Patrol - Is There Anyone Else Outside?
(Minimal electronica)
Mosh Patrol

Black Joker - Watch Out!
(Repetitive electronica synthscapes)
Black Joker

Gui Boratto - III
(More repetitive electronica synthscapes)
Gui Boratto

Misfits - Static Age
(Early Misfits album & one of our favourites)
Misfits

Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam
(90's psychedelic shoegaze)

Mercury Rev

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Goat track features on Powell Fact mix

We at Rocket are huge fans of Powell and his Diagonal label.

So we were proud to see that he has included the Redg Weeks remix of Goat's Run to your Mama on his mix for fact magazine

Listen to and download the mix here: Powell mix

Read more about the mix, that also includes an exclusive first listen to a Shit & Shine track that is coming out on Diagonal soon here: Fact

Image by: Santtu Mustonen

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Watch and download Gnod in the Boiler Room

Here is the full set of Gnod in the Boiler Room, where you can see the odd Teeth of the Sea, Thought Form, Vision Fortune, Hi-Fi Killer and Rocket members dancing away stupidly in the crowd... :)

You can also stream/download the music here:



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Listen to new Terminal Cheesecake tracks featuring Neil from Gnod

The Wire magazine are streaming new tracks from Terminal Cheescake that features the mighty Neil Fish on vocals.

This is what The Wire say:


Terminal Cheesecake released five albums and disbanded in 1995. Russell Smith, guitarist in the group remembers: "It was a weird time, the late 80s. Everybody was losing the plot and going off raving. No one wanted to see live bands. Festivals were dog-on-a-string things".

Now, after a 20 year hiatus, the London indie psych outfit return to the stage at Oxfordshire's Supernormal festival in August. Listen to Terminal Cheesecake rehearsing for their comeback above.

Listen to the tracks here: Terminal Cheesecake

The band have also announced a show at Corsica Studios in London on 8 August, more info on this show and tickets here: Corsica

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Anthroprophh & Big Naturals FAG Radio Show

Over the last 4-5 months Anthroprophh (Proff from The Heads) and Gareth from the Big Naturals have been involved in a night in Bristol called 'FAG radio'. 

Olmo of Zamzam Records Zamzam streams the whole thing live to the internet and you can watch / listen to the nights events here: FAG radio

The FAG shows present 3 bands playing experiment sets and both Anthroprophh and Gareth (Salope) have previously played minimal sets themselves.

Anthroprophh plays records inbetween the bands and aims to play experimental sounds from the 50s- to now. A mixture of Musique Concret, strange and Electronic Library, odd private press outsider sounds, European No Wave, Punk and Minimal Synth, Acid Folk and Free Jazz, anything that comes from the leftfield side of the spectrum, with the odd psych record sneaked in. Ross Roberts of Bumtapes Bumtapes sometimes DJs.

You can Listen to Anthroprophh's DJ set & some of the live music here: Greasy Trucker

The nights are all thanks to Olmo, Gareth and Heloise and their passion and enthusiasm for bringing interesting sounds to a small but appreciative audience.

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Another 'fan made' video for Goat's 'Run to your mama'

Goat - Run To Your Mama from Wondermuddle on Vimeo.

Here is another fan made video for Run to your Mama.

Someone called Wondermuddle has taken Goat's formula of video making and come up with something that works well.

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Head Medicine interview Goat about their recent Festival performances

Head Medicine have been given the opportunity to ask Goat some more questions, this time about their recent festival performances:

"After a blistering run through Europe's most prestigious summer music festivals, the Swedish tribal psych collective Goat have a growing number of fresh converts following in their wake.  Though only a live touring entity for less than nine months, Goat's performances were among the most talked about from their respective festivals, oftentimes staking their claim amongst some of the biggest and best bands in the world.

HEAD MEDICINE recently checked in with the band to find out more about these stunning shows.  one thing is obvious after sitting down for a third time with the notoriously press-shy group:  Goat lives and breathes inside its own impenetrable bubble, unaffected by the fleeting whims, tastes, or demands from the outside world.  They are anchored by an unshakable self confidence and a genuine love of living in the moment, communing through music with each other and anyone who happens to be in attendance, whether it is 150 people in a small club, or tens of thousands at a major festival.  Their expectations and ambitions are unusually humble.  Goat will be whatever they want to be for as long as they decide.  Any future success will be on their own terms. 

HEAD MEDICINE:  Goat's reputation continues to build after a series of high profile European festival appearances, including Primavera in Spain, England's Glastonbury, and Roskilde in Denmark.  by many accounts your performances were  among the best of those weekends.    are things just getting surreal at this point with all of this growing attention and praise?  any particularly memorable or unreal moments over the last few months that would have been impossible to imagine one year ago?

GOAT:  Well, that we were gonna play any of these festivals never crossed our minds one year ago but we are happy and thankful for the opportunity to do so. It has been amazing for sure. And I also think that the US tour improved our live set and has tightened us together as a live act so that these shows afterwards have been the best we've done live so far. But I'm sure we can still find new ways to develop live also, with new material and so on. But it is not in any ways getting surreal really cause you have to understand one thing, this is not taking over our lives. We keep our minds pure and simple and our feet on the ground. We know what is important in life and we just try to have a good time and enjoy the ride. If it ends tomorrow we will be just as happy. With that said I have to admit that playing that day time show at Glastonbury seing all those people was something out of the ordinary...."


Read the full interview here: Head Medicine

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GNOD live at the Dome 17/07/13

Last night GNOD supported Moon Duo at the Dome in London and some clever person decided to film the whole set.

Sit back and enjoy

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Watch Gnod live in the Boiler Room tonight

That is right Gnod are live in the Boiler Room tonight!

It is a special show put together by the Wire Magazine. They are joined by the great Kogumaza who are also performing live and procedings kick of at 8pm.

You can stream the event live from here: Boiler Room TV

And more info can be found here: Night of the monoriffs

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Teeth of the Sea play 'Responder' at East End Live Festival

Here is footage of Teeth of the Sea playing 'Responder' at last weekends East End Festival at the Bell of Shoreditch.

The track is one of the standout tracks off the bands next album called MASTER that hits the shops in October.

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