Rocket Probes March Playlist

Lay Llamas – Future Desert Days
(Great new track of krauted out Spacemen 3 pop by Lay Llamas that will feature on a ltd tape comp of italian psych bands that are playing the up-and-coming Thalassa Festival)
Thalassa Festival

Holy Wave – Relax
(Goat's US touring partners return with their second album of great Velvets/Byrds/Elevators/Beatles/Spacemen 3 pop!!!)
Holy Wave

Montibus Communitas – Harvest Times
(Nice Far East Family Band sounding commune psych)
Montibus Communitas

Mark Wagner  – Mental Transmutation
(Nice tape on Zam Zam...Sunday Mourning/**K's Mark Wagner creates mediative sounds that are somewhere in between Gnod and 80's John Carpenter)
Mark Wagner

The Diaphanoids – LSME
(Nice track of repetitive beats and fuzzy electronics/guitar drones)
The Diaphanoids

Graham Central Station – Tell Me What It Is
(Great repetitive, machine-funk groove)
Graham Central Station

Suprise Party – Cut Me
(Nice bit of psych pop)
Suprise

Sundaze – Ok/Then
(Fuzzy suicide)
Sundaze

Stanford Clarke – The Fool
(Country Fuzz!!!!)
Stanford Clarke

Inutili – Fry Your Brain
(Lo-fi, repetitive, noise groove)
Inutili

Metzengerstein – Her Golden Juice
(Primitive hypnotic noise)
Metzengerstein

Sleaford Mods – Austerity Dogs
(Fat Paul recommended this to us…imagine The Fall and The Country Teasers meets John Cooper Clark meets Frank Sidebottom…or something like that anyway)
Sleaford Mods

Joakim Skogsberg – Offer Rota
(Repetitive rhythms and fuzzed cello, reminds of fellow Swedes International Harvester)
Joakim Skogsberg

Signal – Robotron
(Minimal hypnotic electronica)
Signal

Crosby Stills and Nash – CS&N
(1960's explorations into three part harmonies)
Crosby Stills and Nash

Jan Dukes De Grey – Mice and Rats in the Loft
(Acid folk fuzz way)
Jan Dukes De Grey

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Shit and Shine / Gnod play Manchester

The Beauty Witch presents

Shit and Shine 
Gnod
Ill

The Roadhouse 
Manchester 
Sunday 3rd August

Tickets £7 adv

More information: The Beauty Witch

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Rocket interview in latest issue of Shindig

John and Chris from Rocket have been interviewed by Shindig magazine about the last 15 years of Rocket.

The interview is presented as a double page feature in the latest issue of the magazine.

The issue also features information about the up and coming psych festivals in Eindhoven and Liverpool which Rocket are involved in. 

Keep your eye out for some very exciting Rocket / Shindig news in the coming months.

For further information visit: Shindig

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Listen to the Thalassa Festival mix featuring exclusive Lay Llamas track

Noisey have put together a mix featuring the bands that are appearing at the forthcoming Thalassa Festival which we first mentioned here: Thalassa Festival

The Festival is a showcase of the cream of Italian psych bands

The mix kicks off with a brand new 'non album' track by Lay Llamas entitled 'Future Desert Days'. The mix also contains exclusive tracks by another Rocket fave, Mamouthones

Listen to this exclusive mix here at Noisey's website: Noisey

Lay Llamas album called Ostro is out on May 25th and for more info on that see this previous post: OSTRO

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Patatap

Been playing around with this for the last hour…thought we had to share it!!!

http://www.patatap.com

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Listen to the track WE ARE YOU by LAY LLAMAS

Here is WE ARE YOU, the first track from the album OSTRO, the debut album by LAY LLAMAS.

For more information about this album, see the previous post

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Introducing OSTRO, the debut album by LAY LLAMAS

Lay Llamas – Ostro
(Launch065)

Ltd LP / CD / DL
Released 26 May 2014

Ostro is the debut album by Italian band Lay Llamas. The band formed in 2011 and since this inception have released two sold out cassettes and contributed a track to Rocket Recordings 15th Anniversary compilation called ‘Crystallized’.

Lay Llamas could well be the perfect archetypal Rocket band, as the combined sounds of fellow label mates Gnod, Goat, Teeth of the Sea and Hills can be heard within their spacious, repetitive grooves. Though what Lay Llamas do with these familiar Rocket sounds is something uniquely their own.

From the spacey afro groove of the opening track ‘Ancient People of the Stars’ to the post punk repetition of ‘Archaic Revival’. The motorik interlude that is ‘Overmind’ and the Spacemen 3’esque drone of ‘Voices Call’. The addictive, looping kraut pop of ‘We are you’ and the dubbed out expanses of 'Something Wrong' and 'In Search of Plants' which both recall the sounds of Peaking Lights, Massive Attack and Yeasayer. All this is what makes Ostro a truly unique album, an album that takes several immersed listens to fully digest all its colours and beauty.

The album was mastered by the genius that is James Plotkin.

Lay Llamas are going to be hitting European stages throughout 2014, starting with a performance on the 'Counterblast Experiment' stage at the Eindhoven Psych Lab in June as well as touring the UK and Europe in September where they will be playing the Liverpool Psych Festival alongside the rest of the Rocket Recordings roster on the ‘Transmissions Fom the Outer Realms’ stage.

Tracklist:
01 Ancient people of the stars
02 We are you
03 The Lay Llamas
04 Desert of lost souls
05 Overmind
06 Archaic revival
07 Something wrong
08 In search of plants
09 Voices call

Listen to an exclusive stream of the track 'We are You' over at The Quietus

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Gnod to play Golden Cabinet show in Shipley

Gnod are playing a Golden Cabinet show in Shiply.
Support comes from the great Henry Blacker and Sunwolf

Gnod
Sunwolf
Henry Blacker
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5 April
Golden Cabinet
Shipley

For more info and tickets, go here: Golden Cabinet

And see what The Quietus says about the night: The Quietus

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More bands added to Liverpool Psych Fest line-up

Liverpool Psych Fest have added more bands to their already strong line up that includes a Rocket Curated stage called Transmissions from the Outer Realms, that features, Goat, Teeth of the Sea, Gnod, Hills, Anthroprophh and Lay Llamas.

With the addition of Rocket friends Thoughts Forms, Theo Verney and Holy Wave plus old Rocket band White Hills it is looking like it is going to be a weekend to remember.

Nothing is… will also be present spinning some psyched out madness on the Rocket stage.

Get your tickets here: Liverpool Psych Fest

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Goat sign to Sub Pop for North America

Goat have signed to Sub Pop as their North American Label after they released Goat's Stonegoat/Dreambuilding 7".

Sub Pop will be releasing the new Goat album exclusively in America and Canada. 

As with World Music, Stranded will be releasing the new album in Scandinavia. And we at Rocket are still responsible for releasing it in UK, Europe and throughout the rest of the world.

Details about Goat's next album will be released within the next few months....but let's just say, we are very excited!!!

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