Rocket Probes – October 2021 playlist

GNOD – Regimental
(Second track from GNOD's humongous album Let Mort Du Sens)
GNOD

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Hot Stuff (feat. The Lovely Eggs)
(Pigs take on Donna Summer!)
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Aging / Land Trance – Embassy Nocturnes
(Great new collaboration release featuring the incredible Land Trance
Aging / Land Trance

Kikok – Speedway
(New album of wonky rave grooves from ex Gnoomes drummer)
Kikok

Octopus Ride – II
(New album by this Swedish collective featuring Uni from Flowers Must Die)
Octopus Ride

Tara Clerkin Trio – In Spring
(New sounds from Bristol's TCT)
Tara Clerkin Trio 

Charlemagne Palestine & Grumbling Fur – Omminggg And Schlomminggg
(How did we miss this when it came out – stunning stuff!)
Charlemagne Palestine & Grumbling Fur

Kondaktor – Afrikanochetos
(Thanks to Iggor from Petbrick for turning us on to this sublime slice of tribal techno)
Kondaktor

Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekko
(A nice trip into VT's world)
Vanishing Twin 

Embryo - A Place To Go
(Great to hear Cherrystones playing this out on his NTS show)
Embryo 

Wasted Cathedral – I'm Gonna Love You 'Til The End Of Time
(Psyched drones'n rhythms)
Wasted Cathedral

Mind Maintenance – Mind Maintenance
(New immersions from Joshua Abrams)
Mind Maintenance

The Swallows – La Ngomber
(You really go me...)
The Swallows

Repulsion – Horrified
(Classic fuzzy grindcore from '89)
Repulsion

RP Boo - All My Life
(Electro sounds)
RP Boo

Rokurokubi – Katie Levitating
(Psyched folk heavy'ness)
Rokurokubi

Ennio Morricone - Escalation
(Eclectic but great soundtrack from the master)
Ennio Morricone

The Myrrors – Invocaciones : Singles and Strays (2014 - 2016)
(New 'old' Myrrors immersions)
The Myrrors 

Rapoon – Dahina Ta
(Meditations)
Rapoon

Yoga – Seventh Mind
(Black metal psych)
Yoga

Suicide – The Second Album + First Rehearsal Tapes
(Been a while since delved into their world of avant pop)
Suicide

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – The Message
(Great West African groove)
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

DJ Nigga Fox - Hwwambo
(Portuguese repetitions)
DJ Nigga Fox

Syntoma - No Me Puedo Controlar
(Mexican 'krauty' electro pop)
Syntoma 

Hope – Shame
(Nice Melanie De Biasio meets Portishead sounds on this)
Hope 

Sensations' Fix – Barnhause Effect
(From Garry the Tall's NTS show)
Sensations' Fix

Lice – Wasteland: What ails our people is clear
(Interesting album from this Bristol band that recalls the sounds of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282)
Lice 

Eloy – The Light from Deep Darkness
(A golden oldie)
Eloy

Listen to (and follow) our updated monthly Rocket probes Spotify playlist here:

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Smote's first album 'Bodkin' gets a digital release

Smote's released their first album 'Bodkin' on ltd edition vinyl via the great Weird Beard Records in early 2020. And for the many who were unable to pick-up this now coveted record, you can now listen to the album in full via all the main streaming sites as it has it's official digital release today:

Spotify

Smote's second album 'Drommon' can also be purchased here – we hope the delayed vinyl will be touching down soon!

Bandcamp

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Watch footage of Paisiel performing Unconscious Death Wishes Live

Paisiel, the incredible duo of Julius Gabriel and João Pais Filipe are famed for their powerful live performances, sadly due to all the live restrictions we have out there and the individuals continually busy schedule it is near impossible to see the band live.

So, we are really happy to share with you a great live 'in the studio' video of Paisiel performing an 18 minute version of their latest track 'Unconscious Death Wishes'.

Head over to Backseat Mafia now to immerse yourselves:

Backseat Mafia

Unconscious Death Wishes is available to buy on vinyl here:

Bandcamp

Birthday Cake For Breakfast ask Chris from GNOD some questions

They say:

Remember the days of the old schoolyard? Remember when Myspace was a thing? Remember those time-wasting, laborious quizzes that everyone used to love so much? Birthday Cake For Breakfast is bringing them back! 

Every couple of weeks, an unsuspecting band will be subject to the same old questions about dead bodies, Hitler, crying and crushes.  

This Week: In the run up to the release of their new album ‘La Mort Du Sens‘, Chris Haslam of GNOD answers a series of inane questions!

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Have you ever seen a dead body?
Funnily enough this question came up the other day in a conversation I was having. I can’t remember for sure but I have a vague memory of seeing my step granddad in an open casket when I was very young but that could just be my imagination, creating the memory from family stories I overheard?? If I have it would have been in that situation i.e. in a church at a funeral.

Who is your favourite Simpsons character?
Homer is my favourite main character and the guy who claims to be the real Michael Jackson is my favourite smaller character.

What T-Shirt are you wearing?
GNOD Infinity Machines. Ha! I wear GNOD t shirts a lot cos I get them for free innit.

What did your last text message say?
Sounds ace (thumb up emoji)

What’s the last song you listened to?
Oh god, I suppose that has to be the one I’m listening to now while I’m doing this. I’m gonna be honest with this & I hope you respect my honesty in telling you that it’s Move Closer by Phylis Nelson. In my defence I have got my ipod on shuffle! (Honesty respected – Ed)

How did you meet the people in your band?
I met Paddy through my ex girlfriend Kim, who worked with him at 8th Day Café in Manchester. He was in a band, I was in a band & we went to see each other’s bands. I don’t remember it being an immediate bond, I think we were probably both a bit wary of each other for a while but eventually found out that we both respected each other and each others’ music. I met Alex, Jesse, Jon & Raikes either seeing them at gigs, from hanging around at Islington Mill or through mutual friends. I met the other 40 odd people who’ve passed through GNOD over the years in 40 odd other ways...

Read the rest here: Birthday Cake For Breakfast

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The Holy Family announce London show at the Lexington

Following the earlier announcement from The Holy Family about their up-and-coming appearance at next years Roadburn Festival, the band have now announced their first London show as well – which takes place on 21 April at The Lexington.

Tickets can be bought from here: Baba Yaga's Hut

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The Holy Family to play Roadburn Festival 2022

We are over the moon to announce that The Holy Family have announced their first live date – at the always amazing Roadburn Festival in 2022

Information about the festival and tickets can be bought from here: Roadburn

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Sentire Ascoltare reviews Smote's Drommon

It reads:

For about a year in business through releases mostly self-produced and distributed digitally or in limited edition and hidden behind the pseudonym of Smote , the British multi-instrumentalist Daniel Foggin practices a personal form of instrumental, ritualistic and tribal rock drone. With this Drommon the musician reaches a wider audience supported by the Rocket Recordings brand , for the occasion by re-proposing the title track - until now available in a single version on cassette - divided into two very long and intense jams and which for this occasion are interspersed by Hauberk and Poleyn, two more concise ethno-acoustic digressions. Despite the larger scale of the publication, the sound of this mysterious musician demonstrates how on his part there is no willingness to compromise easily accessible. Its nature as a hallucinatory electric sabbath is only tempered by flashes of folk psychedelia, bucolic and at the same time disturbing. Highly hypnotic and to be taken with extreme caution.

See the review here: Sentire Ascoltare

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God is in the TV review's Nova Express's Twenty One

It reads:

There is a lyric that starts: “It was 20 years ago today”. You probably know it. The song is probably in your head now. Sorry about that. I would like to re-write it, correctly, for you now. I thank you. Ah-hem. “It was 20 years ago today, Henrik Kihlberg taught the band to play. They’ve been going in and out of style, but they’re guaranteed to raise a smile. So may I introduce to you. The act you’ve known for all these years. The Nova Express.” Now, it might not have the same ring to it, but it is now factually correct. Twenty years ago, a Swedish post-prog band called Nova Express released an album. It was, and still is, glorious. It was their debut album and was called One. Sadly, it turned out to be their only album, to date. It disappeared into the annuls of cult, legend and all those other words that mean not a lot of people bought it, but the ones who did were in raptures once they did.

Now, twenty years later, it is being released by the good people at Rocket Recordings. On the surface not as lot has changed. There are no new songs, in fact there are less songs. ‘Nova 7’ and ‘Jens’ have been omitted. Their lack of involvement is disappointing, but it does sound like the remaining songs have been remastered, and re-sequenced, and sounds like something different to the original album. ‘Fredhäll’ now

Read the rest here: God is in the TV

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Noel Gardener reviews Smote's 'Drommon' album for The Quietus

It reads:

Drone-rock that seems to favour the rock over the drone while utilising both keenly, Smote’s second long player of 2021 puts a sound I’ve not heard many great recent examples of back into my ears. Drommon (Rocket) is actually a half-hour tape (on the Base Materialism label, whose steez is normally way noisier than this) pressed to vinyl with ten more minutes of wiggin’ from Daniel Foggin – another Toon resident who, on record at least, does everything Smote.

‘Drommon’ parts one and two, which comprised the tape, lean respectively towards White Hills-ish rifferama and incense-choked doom raga. The jazzish wailings of the second segment elevate it beyond Krauthippy kitsch, if not quite eliminating its presence entirely. ‘Hauberk’, one of the two shorter pieces in the middle, goes for broke with hand drums and flute which eventually coalesce into extremely buoyant psych-folk; ‘Poleyn’, the other, straps up a slow, insistent bass riff and groovy basement-prog organ. 

See the review here: The Quietus

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GNOD 'Just Say No...' classic vinyl reissued with new 'flipped colour' art

Thanks to the demand from GNOD fans we are reissuing the bands classic album 'Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine' album, but this time with new inverted colour scheme artwork which will be on sale from the 3rd of December.

The album will be released on Ltd 'Hole in the Head' Red & Black vinyl and is available for pre-order from Bandcamp here:

Preorder ltd vinyl

Copies will also be available to buy via all good vinyl retail shops on release too.

In conjunction with the flipped album sleeve we've decided to produce some more 'Just Say No' T-shirts with the same colour scheme which can also be purchased exclusively via Bandcamp here:

Buy ltd T-shirt

The band will have vinyl copies to sell on their up & coming UK tour too, so check the list of dates below if you want to see them.

Oct 29-31 / Salford / Fat Out Fest
Nov 11 / Preston / The Ferret
Nov 12 / London / Studio 9294
Nov 13 / Margate / Elsewhere
Nov 14 / Brighton / The Hope and Ruin
Nov 15 / Bristol / The Lanes
Nov 16 / Cardiff / The Moon
Nov 17 / Leicester / The Soundhouse
Nov 18 / Leeds / Mabgate Bleach
Nov 19 / Glasgow / Nice & Sleazy
Nov 20 / Newcastle / Brave Exhibitions Festival
April 29 (2022) / London / Desert Festival 

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