Rocket Recordings

13 Mar 2012

Nothing is... gonna be good this week

Rocket is joining the Nothing is... crew again this week at The Alibi in Dalston, London.

And as Mission Control has just come into possession of the up and coming Goat album, we are going to start the evening by playing the whole album, as we want to hear it nice and loud.

So if you want to hear the album that has got us VERY EXCITED indeed and several months before it is going to hit the shops, make sure you are in by 8:45pm as the playback starts dead on...

Also we got something special playing as visuals in the front bar...

And it is free to get in, what more you want.

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6 Mar 2012

GNOD Chaudelande Volume 2 - Available

Here's a reminder to all you GNOD Heads out-there, Chaudelande Volume 2 is now

available. The album is the second part of the recordings we did at Studio Chaudelande in France last April and features three mindstomping tracks: Man On The Wire, Entrance & Genocider.

Order via the label: tamedrecords.com

Watch this space for more info on the up & coming ROCKET CD and DOWNLOAD versions of Volume 1 & 2.

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1 Mar 2012

Live footage of Gnod in Edinburgh

Here is some recent footage of Gnod with their new live line-up playing at a recent show in Edinburgh

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29 Feb 2012

Rocket Probes February 2012 Playlist

Delired Cameleon Family - Visa de Censure noX
(Pierre Clementi's 1968, 42 minute freakout film)

GNOD - 5th Sun (Dub)

(Mindblowing new track from the mighty Gnod, awsome slice of dubbed out doom sludge with the echo chamber working overtime, coming out on 7" on the ever great Trensmat records)

Beak> - ii
(Splattering of CAN meets the buzzed guitar of Sonic Youth in collaboration with Arthur Russell)

Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness & Charm / PRX-5 / Hawklords
(The Calvert years Hawkwind period with bonus tracks)

Butthole Surfers - Widow Maker

(Texan psychedelic hardcore overlords taking us back to the daze)

Fripp / Eno - Air Structures

(Great live album of synth/guitar drones, a great campanion to the mesmerising Evening Star LP)

Godsy - Apache Drop In

(Primitive drums, poping and buzzing analogue synths and fuzz guitar combine for quite an odd little track from 'Nothing is...' partner Cherrystones)

Daughters of the Sun - Ghost with Chains

(Very nice psyched out 2nd album of ambient drones and tranced out tribal rock)

Kool Aid - LP

(Pretty good in places, 90's sounding psych, loads of samples collide with Loop'ish guitars/rhythms and reminds us a bit of Hair and Skin Trading Company)

The Heads - Live at The Cube

(The audio taken from the forthcoming Heads DVD...two sets, 'rock' set and 'psyche' set, reminds us what such an amazing show that was)

Pete Swanson - Man with Potential

(Great fuzzy psychediic electronica...thanks to Mike from Teeth of the Sea for recommendation)

Man Forever - New album

(Third album by Man Forever, Kid Millions from Oneida's solo drum project)

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28 Feb 2012

Mugstar alive in Liverpool with White Hills

On Friday 23rd March Rocket favourites MUGSTAR play The Kazimer, Liverpool with WHITE HILLS.

Catch the WHITE HILLS throughout the UK, including a Bristol show with THOUGHT FORMS (19/3/2012).

WHITE HILLS EUROPEAN Tour Dates 2012

• 15/3/2012 Cork, IRE - Cyprus Avenue

• 16/3/2012 Dublin, IRE - Crawdaddy

• 17/3/2012 Birmingham, UK - Custard Factory

• 18/3/2012 Leicester, UK - The Musician

• 19/3/2012 Bristol, UK - The Croft

• 20/3/2012 Nottingham, UK - Bodega Social Club

• 21/3/2012 Glasgow, UK - The Arches

• 22/3/2012 Leeds, UK - The Brundenell

• 23/3/2012 Liverpool, UK - The Kazimer

• 24/3/2012 London, UK - The Lexington

• 25/3/2012 Utrecht, NL - Ekko

• 26/3/2012 Haarlem, NL - Patronaat Small Hall

• 27/3/2012 Paris, France - Glaz’ Art

• 28/3/2012 Brussels, Belgium - Rotonde at Botanique

• 29/3/2012 Cologne, Germany - Sonic Ballroom

• 30/3/2012 Leipzig, Germany - UT Connewitz-Doom over Leipzig Fest

• 31/3/2012 Helsinki, FIN - Kuudes Linja

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High Wolf - Podcast Series Mix featuring GOAT

Rocket favourite Annapurna Illusion / High Wolf Rocket has created a 'Made Like a Tree' Podcast mix featuring Rocket's very own GOAT 7" & some other great tracks, check out the mix & a short interview:

madelikeatree.com/High-Wolf

1. Ali Farka Touré - Allah Uya [World Circuit]
2. Goat - Goatman [Rocket Recordings]
3. Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Prophecy of the White Camel [Important Records]
4. Nate Young - Comes Unbidden [NNA Tapes]
5. Blues Control & Laaraji - Awakening Day [RVNG]
6. Pinch And Shackleton - Torn And Submerged [Honest Jon's]
7. Conrad Schnitzler - Untitled (Further Records]
8. Psychic Ills - Transmute [The Social Registry]
9. René Hell - Bending (Voice) [Shelter Press]
10. Alemu Aga - Sele Sene Fretret [Ethiopiques]
11. Matt Carlson - Infinity Canyons [Gift Tapes]
12. Cut Hands - Impassion [Susan Lawley]
13. Colin Stetson - The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man [Constellation]
14. Moon Wheel - Four Formless Absorptions [Not on Label]

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27 Feb 2012

First glimpse of new Teeth of the Sea tour tshirt

Teeth of the Sea and Rocket teamed up to create this new shirt that will be sold exclusively on the up-end-coming Teeth of the Sea 'Chariots of fire' tour.

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