Rocket Probes – July playlist

Flowers Must Die – Compilation
(Great comp of rare compilation tracks by the great)
Flowers Must Die

BNNT feat. Mats Gustafsson - The Last Illiterate
(We love this – so much so we very nearly put it out!)
BNNT

Hans Zimmer – Submarine
(Teeth of the Sea sounding track from the rather special Dunkirk soundtrack)
Hans Zimmer

1000 Russos – Distress Distress
(Nice sounding Krauty post punk on Fuzz Club)
1000 Russos

Richard Pinhas – Dronz 5 Hamburg
(Taken from the split EP with Camera – nice track of wah synths, noise drones and jazz rhythms)
Richard Pinhas

Executive Slacks – 30 Years
(Fuzzy post punk/EBM)
Executive Slacks

Embryo –Music of today
Killer groove on this krautjazz track)
Embryo

Kalyanji Anandji - Dharmatma Theme Music (Sad)
(Great bit of groove n' fuzz Indian soundtrack music)
Kalyanji Anandji

MXLX – Kicking Away at the Decrepit Walls til the Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru the Cracks
(Really good sonic journey from Matt Team (brick/Fairhorns/ex Beak etc etc) Loveridge)
MXLX

Niagara – Comboios EP
(New three track 7" from the Portuguese dance act, dubby, repetitive and awkward)
Niagara

The Myrrors – Hasta La Victoria
(Another great release of repetitive psyched grooves with a 70s Swedish vibe)
The Myrrors

Burzum – Rundgang um Rie Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität 
(Bit of a special atmospheric synth track to fall into)
Burzum

Manfred Mann – Travelling Lady
(Stoned n' grooved jazzrock – first track off their great '69 Vertigo album Chapter 3 Vol 1)
Manfred Mann 

The Space Spectrum – The head nodding King
(Nice final track on their new album on Drone Rock records)
The Space Spectrum

Tradition – The Creepy Crawl
(Heady space dub from 1980)
Tradition

Benny Blue – Mr Racket
(Cocaine disco-rock from '78 Germany)
Benny Blue

Metallica – Kill 'em All
("No life 'till leather...")
Metallica

NTS – Various DJs
(NTS is probably the most important station on the radio right now. From friends like Cherrystones, Anthony Chalmers, Music to Ease Your Disease, One Teslam Tom Furse, Shit & Shine etc to great DJs like Elena Colombi, Chuggy, Weatherhall, Votel, Loose Bones, Reign Set and the many, many others....tune in!!)
NTS

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Photos of Goat live at Brixton Academy by Al Overdrive

Here is a quick taster of photos from Saturday's GOAT show at Brixton Academy taken by the great Al Overdrive.

More to come soon.

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GOAT at Brixton Academy is The Guardian's gig of the week

They say:

1 Goat
Fans of the Swedish psyche enigmas not only get the usual abstract maskwork and shamanic weirdness found at a “normal” Goat show, but this week Ouija-pop supergroup the Moonlandingz and songwriter Jane Weaver join in the fusty, transcendent festivities. 
O2 Academy Brixton, SW9, 29 July

See the full piece here: The Guardian

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Drowned in Sound interview GOAT

Ahead of their shows at Womad today and at Brixton Academy tomorrow DIS have interviewed GOAT – it reads:

When my phone gets buzzed by one of GOAT’s members (they’ve never revealed their actual identities, understandably enjoying the privacy of anonymity), I apologise for the lateness of the call. Before I can begin my homogenous line of questioning he coolly dismisses my concerns and asks if I know it’s still sunny at 11pm during a Swedish Summer. I confessed I did not. “The sun is up, I’m right now by the sea, and it’s quite beautiful.” Initially disarming, his digressions about nature and musical niches – at one stage he leaves his phone to scramble through his most recently played artists to tell me about “this cool African band from the 70s and 80s” – become compelling and fascinating. The impression I’d inferred from previous interviews signalled this mysterious, unchatty figure, but the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. GOAT – which I’ll designate my interviewee for the sake of syntactic flow/convenience – was funny, laid back, and infectiously passionate about music.

He reminded me of strangers you become festival friends with, warm-hearted music obsessives you fondly remember losing their shit to an obscure R&B 7” during the silent disco. In the most old-school sense, GOAT care about the music; its joy, its imprints, its purity, and its independence from politics and projected narratives...

Read the rest here: DIS

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Soundi reviews Flowers Must Die's album Kompost

Roughly translated it reads:

"Psychedelia has been going strong in Sweden for quite a while now. One of the most crucial labels in this movement is Rocket, whose roster includes among others Goat, Gnod, Gnoomes, Julie's Haircut and Hills.

Flowers Must Die, founded in 2006 in Linköping, adds a beautiful contribution to an already impressive heap of music.

On top of sixties style psychedelia, the six-piece group has added a hefty diet of Hawkwind and krautrockers such as Can, Amon Düül II and Ash Ra Tempel (the band name actually comes from one of their songs).

The name of the game is feisty improvisation and intense build ups, not that far from Circle, but more in an acid mood. The steadily expanding hypnoticism of the songs reminds one of the cosmic moment when strong psychedelics kick in.

The music, at times soulful and funky, is mostly instrumental, but there is some more traditional singing on the track Don't You Leave Me Now. The guitarists Sven Walan and Johan Höglund are in fine form overall, delivering tasty sounds utilizizing various effects. Especially the distorted riff of Why? is splendidly humoristic. However, the real ace up the band's sleeve is synth player Rickard Daun, who manages to combine trippy soundscapes seamlessly with tighter jams. Flute and a saxophone also appear in the mix, adding colour to the rich whole, that maintains its tension throughout the album."

See the review here: Soundi

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Housewives are headlng out for some shows

Housewives are going to be celebrating the release of their Rocket album 'FF061116' with a string of shows:

18/8 - Bristol - Surrey Vaults
19/8 - London - Cafe Oto (Album launch – playing as a seven piece)
23/8 - Nottingham - JT Soar Space
24/8 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers
25/8 - Glasgow - Broadcast
26/8 - Manchester - The Soup Kitchen
27/8 - Sheffield - Picture House Social
02/9 - Toulouse - Baignade Interdite Festival
13/9 - Paris - La Mécanique Ondulatoire 
14/9 - Jurancon
15/9 - Marseille - L'Embobineuse 
16/9 - Lyon - Le Sonic
17/9 - Strasbourg

You can preorder the LP on Ltd blue vinyl here: Housewives

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Hills to play Reverence Festival in September

Hills have ben confirmed to play a rare live show Reverence Festival in Portugal on weekend 8/9 September – they are joining the great Träd, Gräs & Stenar as well as Esben and the Witch, The Guts etc etc

This is going to be Hills ONLY live show this year.
Not to be missed

More information here: Reverence

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Kuro to support Helen Money

Kuro follow their appearances at Supersonic and Supernormal Festivals with two shows supporting the great Helen Money:

19 September / The Cube / Bristol Tickets
21 September / The Vicroria Dalston / London Tickets

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Liverpool Psych Fest announce day splits

Liverpool have revealed their day splits for this weekends festival.

Gnod and Julie's Haircut are playing Friday.
And Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are playing Saturday.

Info and tickets can be bought from here: Liverpool

Gonna be a blinder weekend as always!

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Housewives reveal new video for track 'Excerpt 2'

London four piece Housewives have revealed a video for the track 'Excerpt 2' taken from their forthcoming album 'FF061116' – their first for Rocket. The Ltd LP will be released on 18 August.

Watch the video above

And read what The Quietus say about it here: The Quietus

‘FF061116’ is split into seven excerpts and built on powerful repetition, it’s a mind-melding travail into abstraction and abjection which draws on post-punk, jazz, drone, electronic and avant-garde tropes to create an unclassifiable assault that feels oddly timeless - innovative, invigorating and bare-boned yet tapping into a uniquely English lineage that extends back to the 1970s and forward, into the unknown. 

You can preorder the album on special blue vinyl – ltd to 200 copies here: Rocket Bandcamp

The band are also playing some shows:

18 Aug UK Bristol Surrey Vaults 
19 Aug UK London Café Oto 
24 Aug UK Leeds Wharf Chambers
26 Aug UK Manchester Soup Kitchen 
27 Aug UK Sheffield Audacious Art Experiment 
02 Sep FR Aiguelèze Baignade Interdite

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