Rocket probes – June playlist

Dead Kennedy's – Plastic Surgery Disasters
(Very apt listening in fucked up times...the world needs a new DK's right now!)
Dead Kennedy's 

Container – Vegetation
(New Ep from the great Container...his first for Diagonal. Motorik fused industrial techno)
Container

The Myrrors – Entranced Earth
(Great new album from one of our fave US bands around at the moment)
The Myrrors

France – Do Den Haag
(Great repetitive psych, sounds like Outside the Dream Syndicate on 45...essential for Rocket fans)
France

Not Waving – Animals
(Bit slow to pick up on this album...but it is great krauty, electro, new wavey techno – 2nd release on Diagonal in this months playlist)
Not Waving

Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
(Haunting, soulful, repetitive jazz...like the Necks meets Bark Psychosis and Portishead)
Melanie De Biasio

El Michels Affair – Glaciers of Ice
(Goat turned us on to this jazz cover of our fave Wu Tang Family track)
El Michels Affair

My Disco – Severe
(Latest album from the great My Disco...like a stripped down Hair and Skin Trading Company meets Teeth of the Sea and early Shellac)
My Disco

Paris – Devil Made Me Do It
(This classic album has been getting a lot of spins this month...killer!!)
Paris

Lubricated Goat - Play the Devil's Music

(Raw Aussie noise rock from 87)

Lubricated Goat

Tumor Circus - Fireball

(Great grungy track sung by Jello Biafra)

Tumor Circus

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Listen to a Tomaga remix of Necro Deathmort via The Quietus

Necro Deathmort's stunning new album The Capsule was released a few weeks ago and we asked one of our fave London bands Tomaga to remix a track. 

They picked the track 'Mono/Serum' and you can hear the results, exclusively over at The Quietus, listen here: the Quietus

Tomaga said this about the remix: "We re-purposed Necro Deathmort's 'Mono Serum', punctuating the dark ambient of the original with percussive textures and atonal noise that further heighten the atmosphere of brooding menace." 

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Necro Deathmort to play the Scala supporting Yob

Tickets can be bought from here: See Tickets

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The Quietus reviews Goat at Field Day

It reads:

Goat
Shacklewell Arms  Stage

That you get more bang for your buck where Goat are concerned is always pretty much a given but their explosive set at the Shacklewell Arms tent not only raises their own lofty bar but also clears it with a verve, energy and exuberance that borders on the shamanic.

The Afrobeat rhythms that have transplanted themselves to northern Europe is the bedrock on which they base their campaign: these are sounds and pulses that bypass the head, do not stop to collect £200 and aim straight for the hips. This is a band that knows who to satisfy those primal urges, that understand the need of inducing trance-like states through repetitious and vigourous dancing.

Yet be that as it may, it’s when Goat begin to go off-road that things really take off. Witness ‘Run To Your Mama’ which takes flight thanks to a genuinely thrilling, wigged out and adventurous guitar workout that sends the assembled throng into a paroxysms of joy and wild abandon. By the end of their allotted time, wide smiles are the order of the day as spent and satiated fans tumble from the tent as they attempt to make sense of the orgasmic joy they’ve just experienced. — Julian Marszalek

Read the other reviews here: The Quietus

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MusicOMH reviews Necro Deathmort

It reads:

The hugely prolific Necro Deathmort make a return with an album that sees the ball on their genre-straddling roulette wheel land on “Early 80s Horror Sci-Fi Flick”. Whilst the duo of Matthew Rozeik and AJ Cookson tend to occupy the somewhat barren electronic hinterland of metal, The Capsule finds them floating, capsule bound in space, with nothing but synths and electronic atmospherics for company…or so they might think. There are no guitars here – it would seem that in space, no one can hear you strum.

The eerie silences that punctuate Kubrick’s 2001 or segments of Alien might well ratchet up the tension, but there’s no denying the effectiveness of a sinister bass line or relentless drum pattern. The first half of The Capsule has both in spades. The motorik pulse of In Waves is irresistible as it drives the duo out into the infinite. Voices drift in and out of the mix, some are definitely human...

Read the full review here: MusicOMH

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Gnoomes to play free Flashback Records Instore show

Gnoomes are going to be finishing their first ever tour of the UK with a free show at London's Flashback Records at the end of Brick Lane:

Gnoomes
Live at Flashback Records
131 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 7DG
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Friday 30 September
7pm start
Free entry

More information can be found here: FB events page

And more info about Flashback here: Flashback Records

The list of Gnoomes UK shows are:

21 London – Birthdays (w/ Flowers must die) – FREE
22 Bristol – Exchange (w/ Anthroprophh / Flowers must die)
23/24 Liverpool – Liverpool Psych Festival
27 Norwich – Arts Centre (w/ Collider)
30 London – Flashback Records – FREE

More to be announced soon...

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The Quietus reviews H.U.M - Trinity Way

It reads:

Let's begin in suitably cosmopolitan style with a pan-European project which goes by the name of H.U.M. Its members are Gnod associate Mark Wagner, the Italian-born Olmo Uiutna and France's Héloïse Zamzam. 

Trinity Way's opening track is all ominous drones, spacey swirling sounds, random percussive chimes and spoken-word lyrics evoking Michael Moorcock's Hawkwind guest spots. The word "love" is chanted several times which is a pleasant enough sentiment but the creepy music suggests that this hippy fiesta is on the verge of inverting to its Manson-esque flipside of abuse, indoctrination and violence. You can imagine the vocal track was recorded while wearing blood-red robes embroidered with patterns of goats. 

The following number is sung in French which makes the vibe extra suave/ sophisticated/ sexy/ Satrean/ sinister/ shiraz-sozzled (delete according to your own prejudices). It's actually a reworking of Françoise Hardy's 'Comment Te Dire Adieu' that's been rendered completely unrecognisable from the Austin Powers-friendly pop ditty original and twisted into something significantly more unearthly. 'Welcome To The Sea', meanwhile, is part-Stooges, part-Coil and part bad-trip poetry slamdown and elsewhere there's a whole lotta chanted avant-garde occult-ritual drone work, including a climactic composition which sounds like a transistor radio trying to hypnotise some bagpipes into suffocating Current 93's David Tibet as he sleeps soundly on his bed of nails.

See the review in full here: The Quietus

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The Monitors reviews Necro Deathmort's The Capsule

It reads:

You really can’t have enough death-related words in your band name in my morbid opinion. Dead Kennedy’s, Napalm Death, Heaven 17. So obviously if you call your band Necro Deathmort you will pique my craggy interest. With thier new album, The Capsule, Necro Deathmort can consider my interest well and truly piqued.

Yes their playful name may conjure up dour images of stoic Scandinavian black metallers, un-humorously plodding away at horror-obsessed crust metal, or rubber-wearing novelty-goons, but Necro Deathmort are, thankfully, a lot more interesting than the stereotype their name suggests.

Necro Deathmort, comprising of Matthew Rozeik and AJ Cookson, create music that meets at the desolate, lonely crossroad of electronic music and doom metal. As Rozeik has said, Necro Deathmort originally set out “to make electronic music that was as heavy as doom metal”...

Read the rest of the glowing review here: The Monitors

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"Evoking the majesty and terror of exploring outer space." Narc reviews The Capsule

Narc Magazine reviews Necro Deathmort's The Capsule:

After several EPs that have dabbled with dystopian techno, Necro Deathmort plunge further into heady electronics on their latest full-length The Capsule.

With their lumbering guitars and screams of previous releases consigned for now, The Capsule flits between intense arpeggiator workouts and moments of lingering, chilling calm. In Waves and First Rays make for a striking opening duo, evoking the majesty and terror of exploring outer space, but it’s the more thoughtful and slow-moving pieces that both diverge the furthest from Necro Deathmort’s previous work and also impress the most.

Crux taps into the same John Carpenter vibes as the last Boards of Canada album, while the slowly enveloping waves of closer Screens makes for a suitably foreboding end credit roll.

See in full here: Narc

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Terrascope reviews H.U.M album and Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation / Gnoomes split EP

They read

H.U.M – Trinity Way
Featuring members of Zam Zam and Moon Ra, H.U.M’s label debut Trinity Way (well there are three of them after all) is an exercise in experimental electronica overlaid with mostly spoken-word vocals evoking the likes of Coil/PTV, label-mates Gnod and even Faust in the darker recesses...

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation / Gnoomes – Repetitions
Rocket Recordings’ other release from their ever-eclectic international roster this month comes courtesy of a split featuring Sweden’s Josefin Ohrn and The Liberation and Russia’s Gnoomes.

Ohrn was responsible for one of late 2015’s best albums, once which slipped under the radar of many compilers’ “best of” lists due to its 11th hour appearance. The three tracks here comprise a psy-trance radio edit of live staple “Green Blue”, the motorik pop... 

Read the full reviews here: Terrascope

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