Rocket probes – December playlist

Happy New Year from Chris and John...here's to an amazing 2016:

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The Fall - Various
(The Fall back catalogue has been getting heavy spins this month. So much amazing music to immerse yourself into...once you start, you can't stop!)
The Fall

Ordre Eatern – Revolució Soterrada
(Fantastic pounding and sometimes bleak post punk industrial psych from Barcelona via Salford...check out the track Metropolis)
Ordre Eatern

High Wolf – Growing Wild
(Grooved out 'highlife' psych from the genius that is High Wolf)
High Wolf

Wipers - Youth of America
​(​Early 80's Punk Rock, with great 10 minute fuzzed out title track)
Wipers 

Fumaca Preta – La Trampa 7"
(New 7" from the great Fumaca Preta...eastern psyched out grooves, meets South American Mudhoney'esque fuzz)
Fumaca Preta 

Jesse Harper  – Shade of Midnight Sun
(Great album of grooved out fuzzed psych from 70's New Zealand)
Jesse Harper 

Necro Dethmort – EP3
(Loving the diversity of this band, Track 4 on this new EP is stunning!)
Necro Dethmort 

Muslimgauze - Every Grain Of Palestinian Sand 
(Middle Eastern ​Tribal ​sounds​)​
Muslimgauze

The Underdogs – The Blesssing
(More great grooved out 70's psych rock from New Zealand)
The Underdogs 

Niagara - City Walk
​(Heavy on the Percussion, more tribal grooves) ​
Niagara 

Various – Plastic Dance 1
(Great Finders Keepers compilation)
Plastic Dance

Kaseciarz – Glide
(Psychy 10 min track from this Polish band)
Kaseciarz 

Laraaji – Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
(Beautiful repetitive meditation – produced by Eno
Laraaji 

John Coltrane - Love Supreme  
​(Rocket always been heavy on the Miles Davis​, but Coltrane is making a wonderful comeback on our decks these days)
John Coltrane 

Various – LSD Lullabies
(Collection of Swedish/Danish 'nuggets')
LSD Lullabies

Love - Love Is More Than Words
​(Later Love line up​, great driving rhythm section and very Hendrix freakout)
Love 

Flaming Lips / Yoko Ono - Do It
​(​Repetitive Yoko Post Punk Groove)
Flaming Lips / Yoko Ono

​Units - History of the Units
(​E​lectro-futurist post-punk​)​
​Units

Charles Rouse - Two Is One
(Funky Jazz from the 70s, with electric guitar, cello, and extra percussion)
Charles Rouse

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Hills and Lay Llamas confirmed for Yellowstock 2016

This has been just announced:

Yellowstock Festival 10th Anniversary Edition

First bands confirmed:

HILLS (Se)

TERMINAL CHEESECAKE (Uk)

LAY LLAMAS (It)

THE GRAND ASTORIA (Rus)

+ many more soon! 

13 August 2016 - 14 August 2016

More info about pré-sales / acts etc online very soon!!

Keep up to date with the festival here: Yellowstock

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Rocket Recordings feature in Record Collector

Record Collector have interviewed us and asked us to do our Top 11.

So we did and you can read it in the latest issue of the magazine...

Record Collector did our first ever label feature back in 1998/99 (cant remember the exact date) so nice to be back in there, 16/17 years later!!

Though they have use the OLD Rocket logo....

More info here: Record Collector

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Jimmy from Teeth of the Sea gives his Cosmic Round-up for Echoes and Dust

It reads:

It’s been another great year for long time Echoes & Dust favourites Teeth Of The Sea with Highly Deadly Black Tarantula was released to great acclaim (#10 in our writers’ Record of the Year poll) and a successful UK tour completed. Richard grabbed a few minutes to chat with their intergalactic riff shredder, Jimmy Martin.

CC: Hi Jimmy, how are you?

JM: Very well thanks! 2015’s been a pretty amazing year, but a bit of a blur – I honestly struggle to remember what happened for most of it – we all managed to cram a lot of mayhem and intrigue in somehow or other, and even now it’s winding down there doesn’t seem to be a spare moment. There haven’t really been enough hours in the day to get everything we wanted done, has been the only problem.

CC: Since the Master album you guys have played massive gigs and have been flying. I thought you’d build on this and get a bit more mainstream but you gave us Highly Deadly Black Tarantula, which is your darkest and most experimental album to date. Explain yourself young man…


JM: I’m not sure we’d know how to go mainstream if we tried. There’s very little rationale to what we do really – we just hammer away and whatever sounds pleasing to us goes down – what happened really in retrospect was that MASTER took ages to make – there was a three year gap between Your Mercury – our second album – and that one, and we wanted to do something a lot more stripped down and concise...

Read the rest of the interview here: Echoes and Dust

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Best Bars On makes Teeth of the Sea their album of the year

This is what they say:


1. Teeth of the Sea: Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
They did it in 2013 with Master and they’ve taken our highly prized top spot again. With HDBT, Teeth of the Sea retained something of their former selves but evolved into something more cerebral, yet guttural, sweaty and appealingly disfigured. As all truly great albums do, it just gets better and better with every listen. Brilliant. Really and actually, very brilliant.

Read the full rundown here: Both bars on

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Listen to Gnoomes podcast for Oto Radio

Gnoomes have created a podcast for Oto Radio, and you can listen to it here:

#229. GNOOMES - Journey Home by Oto Radio on Mixcloud

Find out more about their podcast here: Oto Radio

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R(NOT).I.P. Lemmy 1945 – 2015

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Watch full live show of Goat at this years Pukklepop Festival

Here is Goat's full show, professionally recorded at this years Pukklepop Festival Belgium in August 2015.

So sit back and enjoy!!

Happy Christmas from Rocket!!

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Freq reviews Hills – Frid

It reads...

It’s the shortest day of the year and Hills’ Frid album is bringing some summer warmth on a midwinter’s day — blasting, beautiful, fuzzed-out freak beat psychedelia from Gothenburg’s finest.

The kind of music that The Freak Bothers would have had singing from their stereo“Kollektiv” is like a slab of 1969 all rolled up in a glorious joint of mellow psychedelic madness. From its fuzzed out opening to its sitar-laden exit, this is the kind of music that The Freak Bothers would have had singing from their stereo. It so perfectly captures a certain era music that its coloured layers now seem out of time and space. There’s a slice of Blue Cheer mixed with the lightness of Tomorrow from ’67, and it’s time to get the joss sticks going.

Then the majestic lead guitar hits in and you are transported skyward“National Drone” builds like the beginning of “The End” by The Doors, with a mystical, otherworldly edge, like a boat ride down the Ganges as its rhythmic base carries the tune forward over sitar drone and the guitar interplay...

Read the rest here: Freg

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Hey Colossus and Teeth of the Sea in Echoes and Dusts Albums of the year

Chuffed to have both Hey Colossus albums and Teeth of the Sea in Echoes and Dust Top 20 albums of the year:

09. Hey Colossus – In Black and Gold
10. Teeth of the Sea – Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
16. Hey Colossus – Radio Static High

They have also put My Son by Gnoomes and Radio Static High by Hey Colossus in their Tracks of the year

See the full rundowns here: Echoes and Dust

Image taken by the unmanned spacecraft Cassini

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