10 Apr 2014
Lay Llamas live at Thalassa Festival
Here's footage of Lay Llamas performing the track Archaic Revival at the Thalassa Festival in Italy last weekend.
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Goat's' Wandering Westward Tour' starts today
Just a reminder that Goat are heading West for a short tour of West Coast America that will take in two performances at Coachella Festival.
The tour kicks off tonight in Pioneer town.
The full dates are:
Thu Apr 10
Pioneertown CA
Pappy & Harriets
Fri Apr 11
Indio, CA
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Sat Apr 12
San Francisco, CA
Slim’s
Mon Apr 14
Seattle, WA
Neumos
Tue Apr 15
Vancouver, BC
Rickshaw Theatre
Wed Apr 16
Portland, OR
Wonder Ballroom
Fri Apr 18
Indio, CA
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
The above poster design is available for sale as ltd screen prints in several colours on Adam's site here: Pobiak
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9 Apr 2014
What makes Goat tick?
To coincide with Goat's up-and-coming performance at Coachella Festival, Red Bull music have put together an interactive info graphic that tries to get under skin of 'What makes Goat tick?'
Have a look for yourself here: Red Bull music
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Teeth of the Sea to play Third Rail Festival
Teeth of the Sea are playing Third Rail Festival on Saturday 5 July in Reading.
The festival is a one day event organised by the people behind Green Man Festival.
For more information about this festival, visit: Third rail
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8 Apr 2014
Goat to play Incubate Festival
Goat have been announced to play the 'always amazing' Incubate Festival in Tilburg in Holland on 20th September.
They follow in the footsteps of other Rocket bands Teeth of the Sea who played last year and Gnod who played the year before that
Se what The Quietus have to say about the festival here: The Quietus
Find out more here: Incubate
Tickets are already on sale from here: Tickets
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7 Apr 2014
Record Shop Day: Teeth of the Sea - A Field In England Re-Imagined Vinyl
Once out of print this will not be repressed so snap them up will stocks last.
For further information: Teeth of the Sea - A Field In England Re-Imagined
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4 Apr 2014
Multiple Exposure Vol: 5 – Kid Millions (Oneida / Man Forever)
Welcome to Volume 5 of our ongoing 'Multiple Exposure' series where we ask musicians that we admire to tell us about their favourite pieces of repetitive music.
This volume we are honoured to have our favourite drummer, the mighty 'Kid Millions' from the legendary Oneida and solo project Man Forever to share his favourite repetitive pieces of music:
Bruce McClure - Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture (Fain Make Glories)
I picked up this record at the April 16, 2009 Brooklyn Throbbing Gristle show. I know that because it says it on the record! It was only available during those shows. There were no announcements about an opener, so when these incredibly minimal synth blorps popped along to an accompanying crossed bar light projection I wondered if THIS was the Throbbing Gristle show. I was really excited that it was. I thought, yes , this is so fucked up and anti-music, and none of them are on stage and it's just this really annoying endless synth hit which sounded like pieces of metal banging together I felt like TG was still relevant and amazing. But it wasn't TG, which is fine really, and I picked up this LP.
Bruce McClure
Steve Reich - So Percussion
Steve Reich's Drumming, there are so many versions of classical compositions out there. You might not know which one to pick, and then whichever one you buy, maybe you fall in love with those quirks and you dismiss all the other recordings. Anyway, I think this is the best version of Drumming on record. The reason is because So approached it like a pop record. They overdubbed each section and used the studio as another instrument. You get a sublimely well-recorded and energised version of this killer piece.
So Percussion
Frankie Knuckles featuring Jamie Principal - Your LoveI was reminded of this jam b/c of Knuckles' recent passing. When I was first introduced to early Chicago House I was definitely unprepared for the actual music. It doesn't have the insistent bumping rhythm that became emblematic of House music (see Move Your Body by Marshall Jefferson), it's really a kind of minimal collision of Kraftwerk and African American dance culture. The music is warm, alienating and trance-inducing at the same time and just. There are also endless versions of this song out there. I have a compilation called "Move Your Body: The Evolution of Chicago House", and the version on that is the best one I've heard. It's the perfect tempo...I have other versions that are a bit too fast or have shitty vocals, bad mixes.
Frankie Knuckles
Lisa M - Rock to the Beat (Short Circuit Mix) Along the same lines as the above is the incredible track Rock to the Beat, produced by Juan Atkins. It's a bit harder edged...this is not a chill track.
Lisa M
Connie - Rock MeAnd while we're at it...'Rock Me' the version that's on Street Jams, Electric Funk Vol 4... these are all the 12" mixes of these classic tracks. This is more of a "freestyle" track. . . but on headphones there are so many deep and trippy delay effects. I realise that these songs perhaps have had their original day, and their revivals...and now their current passe status. No matter, these tracks are heavily repetitive and trance inducing.
Connie
Sleep - DopesmokerI played this track at work once...I used to work in IT and we used to trade off playing music. For about 3 years the music I played actually saved my sanity. That passed...I didn't have to play music anymore and I just pushed through somehow. I quit that job about two years ago, but Dopesmoker is still there!
Sleep
Free - Fire and Water (album) When I bought this cassette at Caldor (a defunct chain of department stores) back in the 80s or early 90s I was kind of initially disappointed...because every song was played at the same sluggish tempo (except their one hit "All Right Now")...what was the deal with this band? They never mixed it up. But I quickly grew to love the perversity and single-mindedness of that. What seemed like a glaring flaw became a virtue. Then I read "Rip It Up and Start Again" by Simon Reynolds and realised that a large number of Post-Punk bands talked about Free, and that golden mean tempo, Gang of Four among them. The album works as a whole, much in the same way of Dopesmoker, but it's blues rock and Paul Rodgers is a genius.
Free
Rhys Chatham - Two Gongs (1971)That's what it is. Two gongs being played for over an hour.
Rhys Chatham
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela - Dream HouseThis isn't an album thank God...can we seriously just FUCK album lists? So sick of doing these (love you Rocket!)...anyway...Dreamhouse is a place in Tribeca NYC. It's a "sound and light environment", there are tons of specific sound waves generated by a synthesizer and everything is in a fuchsia tone. Just go there before it disappears with everything else weird in NYC.
La Monte Young
Metal Machine MusicAs played by Fireworks Ensemble from an orchestration by Ulrich Krieger (of course originally written by Lou Reed RIP), this shit changed my life. This is a video of part IV from a Miller Theatre performance that I attended. So SIIIIICK.
Metal Machine Music
Kid Millions has a new Man Forever album out on the 8th April and hopefully there will be a new Oneida album soon!!
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2 Apr 2014
Extremely ltd edition screen print poster for GOAT's Wonder Ballroom show in Portland
Here is the design for a ltd edition poster for Goat's show at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland on April 16th, part of their first East Coat tour, full dates here
The poster is designed by Weird Beard 72 and comes in two colours but is ltd to only 66 copies. There will only be 24 copies available at the show, with a following 36 for sale from WB72's Big Cartel site the day after the show.
Also WB72's has just found a handful of copies of the poster he did for Goat's sold out Chicago show last year. But be quick as there are only a handful!
WB72 Big Cartel site can be found here: WB72
You can also follow him on Twitter (@weirdbeard_72) or on Facebook.
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1 Apr 2014
Goat announce East Coast tour of America in June
Goat have announced an East Coast US tour in June:
Thu Jun 12
Detroit MI
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Fri Jun 13
Chicago IL
Thalia Hall
Sun Jun 15
Manchester TN
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Tue Jun 17
Philadelphia PA
Union Transfer
Wed Jun 18
New York NY
Webster Hall
Fri Jun 20
Toronto ON
NXNE
And don't forget, Goat are also heading over to the West Coast for their 'Wandering West' tour which starts in Pioneer Town on 10th of April. Full dates and tour poster can be found here: Wandering Westward Tour
Photo by P-Squared
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Lay Llamas - Ostro / Ltd colour vinyl LP – now available for Pre-order
(Launch065)
Ltd LP / CD / DL
Released 26 May 2014
As previous reported Ostro is the debut album by Italian band Lay Llamas and we are extremely delighted to see the amazing purple vinyl release for the 1st time.
Lay Llamas could well be the perfect archetypal Rocket band, as the combined sounds of fellow label mates Gnod, Goat, Teeth of the Sea and Hills can be heard within their spacious, repetitive grooves. Though what Lay Llamas do with these familiar Rocket sounds is something uniquely their own.
From the spacey afro groove of the opening track ‘Ancient People of the Stars’ to the post punk repetition of ‘Archaic Revival’. The motorik interlude that is ‘Overmind’ and the Spacemen 3’esque drone of ‘Voices Call’. The addictive, looping kraut pop of ‘We are you’ and the dubbed out expanses of 'Something Wrong' and 'In Search of Plants' which both recall the sounds of Peaking Lights, Massive Attack and Yeasayer. All this is what makes Ostro a truly unique album, an album that takes several immersed listens to fully digest all its colours and beauty.
We have a few copies of the limited edition purple vinyl & CD mini gatefold on pre-sale here but fear not once they sell out from our shop, all good record shops will have stock available.
Lay Llamas are going to be hitting European stages throughout 2014, starting with a performance on the 'Counterblast Experiment' stage at the Eindhoven Psych Lab in June as well as touring the UK and Europe in September where they will be playing the Liverpool Psych Festival alongside the rest of the Rocket Recordings roster on the ‘Transmissions Fom the Outer Realms’ stage.
Listen to an exclusive stream of the track 'We are You' over at The Quietus
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