Rocket Probes June Playlist

Kikagaku Moyo – Mammatus Clouds
(Stunning piece of Japanese psych out on Cardinal Fuzz. Essential)
Kikagaku Moyo

Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – The Feed-Back
(Free Jazz, Can groves and some nice fuzz from Ennio Morricone's (sometimes) backing band. Essential reissue)
Gruppo Di Improv

Mike Weis – Don't Walk Just Run
(Foggy noise and distant beats...lovely stuff!!)
Mike Weis

Annette Peacock – I'm the One
(Experimental pop and soul immersed with outsider jazz and electronics from 1972)
Annette Peacock

Popol Vuh – Nosferatu 
(Haunting soundtrack)
Popol Vuh

The Feelies – Forces at Work / Crazy Rhythms
(First track is like a punkier Velvet Underground meets Talking Heads and Stereolab, second track is the same but backed up with a great Can/Stone Roses groove)
The Feelies

You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons – Contact High 
(Great to have this mammoth slice of fuzz wah driven psych on vinyl finally. Well done Cardinal Fuzz for making it happen!!)
YSNBWATID

Aphex Twin – Caustic Window
(This long lost album finally see's the light of day)
Aphex Twin

39 Clocks – DOM
(Velvet Underground sounding punk from the late 70's)
39 Clocks

Tom Williams Lifetime - Right On
(Filthy fuzzed up monster) 
Tony Williams

Vee Dee –
(Misfits / Black Flag vibes)
Vee Dee

Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players – Just Landed
(Wonderful sparse Dub)
Burnt Friedman

Amanaz - Africa
(History of the Man & many other Rocket fuzz laden favourites)
Amanaz

Soft Machine – Live In Paradiso 1969
(Fuzz keys, need we say anymore)
Soft Machine

Frank Zappa – King Kong
(Another version of one of our favourite Zappa tracks)
Zappa

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GOAT – To be continued...

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Plastic Crimewave presents a Gorilla Sound Explosion

Just check out this line-up Plastic Crimewave has put together for a grand event in London in a couple of weeks!!

Also on the night there will be a 50+ page "graphic novel" drawn by Plastic Crimewave plus a ltd 2xLP featuring Cherrystones edgar broughton, nick garrie, mark fry, makoto of acid mothers, dark fog, energy gown, ono, plastic crimewave and many others!!!

Tickets can be bought from here: Gorilla Sound Explosion

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Watch 'Crystallized comp' stars Blood Sport live in Session

One of our fave British groove n' noise bands Blood Sport who was included on our 10th Anniversary Compilation called Crystallized have recorded this great session in two parts. Part two features that said track 'Dry Water' from the comp.

Well worth a watch.

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Rockerilla reviews Lay Llamas live at Dio Fest

Here is a 'google translation' of a great review of Lay Llamas recent performance at Dio Fest:

The purple flame kundalinica that winds sinuously between the stills of strings, cymbals, keyboards, synthesizers and vocals to an impressive first feature which Ostro, live burning of pulsations and new colors, adrenaline surge is not noticeable in the recordings worked in the studio, at least not in this - while dreaming - epidermal shape and direct, innervated by the frontal stage to the dynamics of their live performances, that 'fateful' molecular shock wave that shatters on the muscles and neurons of the onlookers thrown into the vortex center vibrational . Although subject to tight schedules of the contest headed by the three-day festival of DIO Fest!, 

The performance of the Lay Llamas has not struggled to gain altitude on the launch pad of the host club (space 211), attracting our attention for 40 minutes of exciting performance, framed as a pagan ceremonial offices tribal-psychedelic perfectly consistent indications topics on the agenda of the second day under the sign 60's 00's Psych Vs Occult. In other words, the young band led by Nicola Giunta and Gioele Valenti has centered coordinates and purpose of the event with nothing disperse, maximizing short period of time had bequeathed available in terms of a performance contagious and powerful, designed to be accomplished in a sequence philological of key moments. To open the dances is the mesmeric Overmind, introduced by a wavering plot of telepathic spiral joints and the phonetic records of interplanetary communication soon overwhelmed by the space-time raids Archaic Revival, a sort of proto-pawl cosmic or, if you prefer, locomotive psychic hounded by massive scans of bacteriology slap concentric and full of syncopation drumming set the metronome, perfect to be inoculated riff retractable abysmal electronic sci-fi delusions and singing by the lapels magic-sublimatory. 

What takes shape on the screen of the mind is a kaleidoscope of colors exploded, shock to subtle energies and frequencies onnipervasive intended to give rise to streams of consciousness coming to the transfer of the projection lysergic sound. Impression soon renewed by the harmonics of the magnetic hologram Desert Of Lost Souls, anatomies of spirits dancing on live rock canyon sidereal and ellipses of melodies-legendary comet, traveled by the vibrato of the strings and gravitational arrows keys mercurial. A mold geometries and funk aftertaste Mediterranean Something Wrong eurhythmies are the kinetics of ethno-section and pizzicato bass-drums rhythm of electrified ideal metric theorem ambrosial scents rising from the semantic clearances of Joel singing. 

The grand finale is left to trace the symbol of the circle Lay Llamas, whose title, We Are You, par rise as code propitiatory mantra, which knowingly miraculous formula repeated in the course of work, magnified by the pyramids zenith electric guitars, shamanic drums and bursts of laser-cluster intermittently for the last tantra hypnotic around the fire for a solstice party (remember that we are to 21 June) at the height of his career alchemy, as epiphanies of astral conjunctions and stellar vocals that vibrate with the voices of 'soul. A thrilling concert.

You can read the review properly in Italian here: Rockerilla

Photo by William Cloakture

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Lay Llamas to play Milhões de Festa festival

Excited to announce that Lay Llamas will be joining Teeth of the Sea at the Milhões de Festa festival, in Barcelos (Portugal) next 26 july. 

The band played a stunning set at Eindhoven Psych Lab recently so this is another chance to see this great band in action.

More information here: Milhões de Festa festival

Photo by Willliam Cloakture

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More bands added to the 'Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia'

As you know, Rocket Recordings is having a big part in this years Liverpool Psych Fest, introducing:

'TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE OUTER REALMS'
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Featuring:
GOAT
TEETH OF THE SEA
GNOD
HILLS
ANTHROPROPHH
LAY LLAMAS
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NOTHING IS… DJ's
+
JOHNNY O' LIGHT SHOW

But the people behind the festival have just announced new bands to the bill including Bristols amazing Spectres!!

They join other great acts like Thought Forms, Holy Wave, In Zaire, Theo Verney, Lucid Dream, Satellti, Al Lover, Andrew Weatherall, Black Bombain, One Unique Signal and old Rocket band White Hills.

Tickets can be bought from Liverpool Psych Fest

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Anthroprophh and Gnod live at Eindhoven Psych Lab

Here is footage of Anthroprophhs mind bending set at this years Eindhoven Psych Lab. We were totally floored by their set and honestly think it was the best we have ever seen them, maybe even surpassing some of the best Heads shows, Sacrilege we know but no joke, Anthroprophh are on fire at the moment.

New album out later in the year.

Also we have most of Gnod's incredible set that saw them dust off the instruments and doing a classic Gnod set that included a monster version of Rocket fave 'TONY'S!!

Gnod also have a new album out of Rocket later this year

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Goat East Coast tour – reviews and photo's

Goat have just finished another successful tour of the East Coast of America and Canada.

Here are a selection of reviews and photos of their jaunt:

New York Times

Brooklyn Vegan

Rolling Stone

Chart Attack

The Music Mag

Ship in the words

Nashville Scene

Fuse TV

No Country for New Nashville

The Bowery Presents


Photo is by the great P-Squared Photography

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Gnod and Anthroprophh live in Rotterdam

Here's some footage of Gnod's and Anthroprophh's recent show in Worm, Rotterdam, The Netherlands on 08-06-2014. 

Both bands have new albums out on Rocket later this year.

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