The Quietus stream IMPATV's video for GNOD & João Pais Filipe track 'Faca De 'Ar'

As revealed before, IMPATV created videos for three of the tracks taken from GNOD & João Pais Filipe's album 'Faca De Fogo' and you can watch the second video, for the track 'Faca De 'Terra' above.

See what The Quietus say about it here: The Quietus

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Ahead of Friday's album release – J. Zunz reveals fuzz filled new track

"Hypnotic and beautiful." Overblown
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"An absolute delight." Terrascope
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"Intoxicating." 9/10 Backseat Mafia

J. Zunz the solo project from Lorena Quintanilla, who is one half of Mexican duo ‘Lorelle Meets The Obsolete’ releases her new album 'Hibiscus' this Friday. 

Ahead of its release we are excited to reveal a new track from the album, the glorious fuzz infused '33:33' – listen to it exclusively via Everything is Noise here:

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'Hibiscus' is available to preorder on ltd edition 'Exotic Swirl' vinyl via the Rocket shop:

Rocket Shop

Or you can buy on ltd 'Tropical Blue' vinyl via your local record shop. 

This is what Lorena says about '33:33':
"I  wrote this song some months after I turned 33. I wrote it from beginning to end without stopping, vocals included. That same year we had presidential elections in México and for the first time I felt there was some hope. The lyrics talk about that: open doors creating different angles. There’s geometry inside the song. The arpeggio is ticking like a clock and if you are using headphones you can listen to the double drum takes going out of phase at some point, like a rebellion rising against the structure. Time is an important element in the song, a reminder that in México it takes time to build something. This song was the first one I wrote for ‘Hibiscus’ and was the one who led and defined the rest of the album."

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Backseat Mafia gives J. Zunz – Hibiscus 9/10

They say:

J. Zunz, the alias of Lorelle Meets The Obsolete‘s Lorena Quintanilla, released her debut album Silente in 2017, which melded fuzzy-or erstwhile intricate- guitars with textural synths. Since then, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete put out the highly praised De Facto in 2019, with it’s superb collision of swirling electronic manipulation and the duo’s guitar frenzies. As much as Lorelle… has been responsible for some of the most sonically adventurous psych experimentalism of recent times, Quintanilla’s own audiological worlds- new album Hibiscus especially- are just as innovative.

Although J. Zunz’s new album Hibiscus contains characteristics of De Facto’s woozy noise it also leans even further into a trance-y realm, as impressionably Quintanilla’s own sonic imprint as possible. Despite initially aiming to be a ‘stripped down’ scheme for Lorena, and while there is certainly a detectable ‘less is more’ impression, the general sound remains full, emotionally affecting; anything but skeletal. Overtime exemplifies this, with Lorena’s serene vocals and thoughtful words amid a beautifully minimalist arrangement.


The enduring cohesion and enjoyment of Hibiscus can be attributed, at least partly, to it’s hypnotic aural repetition throughout; creating a vibrant delirium for the ears. Over the seamlessly morphing eight tracks, Hibiscus truly encloses the listener in a singular sphere, the album’s central thematic current of intense resilience. There is minimalism mingling with massive walls of maximalism...

Read the rest here: Backseat Mafia

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Watch IMPATV's video for GNOD & João Pais Filipe track 'Faca De 'Terra'

IMPATV created videos for three of the tracks taken from GNOD & João Pais Filipe's album 'Faca De Fogo' and you can watch the one for 'Faca De 'Terra' above.

See what The Quietus say about it here: The Quietus

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ATTN:Magazine interviews J.Zunz

They say:

Fearless four-track improvisations, spiritual jazz recurrence, manipulations of passing time. Lorena Quintanilla discusses three important albums.

Listen here: ATTN:Magazine

Lorena’s picks: 
Los Llamarada – Gone Gone Cold
Phil Cohran & Legacy – African Skies
Éliane Radigue – Trilogie De La Mort

The new J. Zunz record, Hibiscus, is out 21st August via Rocket Recordings.

Lorena also put together a list of choice records from the Mexican underground:

Black Forest – Kentu Brixtu (2001 – 2011)
Penetración Cósmica – Penetración Cósmica Vol. 1
XYX – Sistema de Terminación Sexual
White Ninja – Guácala los modernos y su electro
Mamá Burger – Pastillitas y Licor
Ratas del Vaticano – Tiempos de Austeridad
Selma Oxor – Selma Oxor

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The Prog Aspect reviews J.Zunz album Hibiscus

They say:

Last year’s De Facto was the fifth release by Mexican duo, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, the third of their albums to be released internationally, and the first that I heard. It grabbed me immediately, from its jarring and bruising opener. The intriguing mix of dream pop gone wrong and electronica providing a psychedelic nightmare soundscape, with every beautiful and serene moment being met with something darker and more threatening, had me hooked. The duo released an EP earlier this year, which is just as enthralling. Also this year, Lorena Quintanilla (Lorelle) has released a second solo album as J. Zunz, and it has quite a different feel to the 2017 debut.

Actually, I’ll admit I was unaware that there had been an earlier J. Zunz album, until I visited the Bandcamp page. I listened to that earlier album (Silente) before moving on to this new release, Hibiscus. In every way, Hibiscus is a more impressive album than its predecessor. Although Quintanilla’s idea for J. Zunz to be stripped right back, Silente felt too stripped back for me. Even though you could argue that Hibiscus is still stripped back, compared with Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, is is far more lush and full than Silente. It’s somewhat odd, perhaps, to describe such almost ambient and quite minimalist music as having fullness of sound, but it’s also undeniably true...


Read the rest here: The Prog Aspect

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LISTEN: Rocket Recordings 'Remixes' playlist

Over the years we have had lots of killer remixes made of Rocket tracks.

So we have had a scour through Spotify and collected together a selection of remixes that we found on the platform into a huge 2 hour playlist.

Alongside a whole host of Rocket favourites wearing their 'remixer hats', you will also find an impressive list of remixers that include Giant Swan, Optimo, IDLES, Broken English Club, Django Django, Cherrystones, Cage and Aviary, Nihiloxia, and The Horrors' Tom Furse – all reworking many Rocket classics!

We will continually update the playlist so watch it grow...

Listen in full here: Rocket Recordings Remixes

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Hunky Rabbit interviews J. Zunz

They say:

J. Zunz is an experimental minimalist electronic project by Lorena Quintanilla who is also a member of the psychedelic band Lorelle Meets The Obsolete originally from Guadalajara .

The project began in 2017 releasing their first album " Silente" that same year, which you definitely have to listen to, its sound is very different from anything else that has been perceived, with that unique mix of psychedelia, flashes of shoegaze and electronics. , in addition to very creative and interesting voices, managing to create a somewhat pleasant album for the most demanding ears.

This year she surprised us with a new album called “Hibiscus” and we had the pleasure of her telling us about this new release, which she describes as an ethereal sound, and she also tells us about the process she had to go through. To reach this beautiful result, here we share a short interview with you and we leave you some of her songs so that you can get to know her better...

Lorena, we really appreciate your time and sharing with us and our audience more about you, tell us, how did you manage to make that transition from Silente to Hibiscus? What did you seek to change in the sound, composition or something else of the environment to create this new music?

“The transition from one album to another goes in parallel with my internal processes as I keep my music very close to me. During the four years between the two recordings, many transformations took place. For me it feels a bit almost like both albums came from two different people. " ...

Read the rest here: Hunky Rabbit

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Listen to Rocket mix of new music via Lovers and Lollypops Club

The great Portuguese label Lovers And Lollypops invited us to do a 1 hour mix of Rocket music for their subscribers club...as it was only and hour we decided to focus on mainly new music by new bands.

You can subscribe to their club and then listen to the mix here: Lovers and Lollypops

This is what L&L say about the mix:

From The Heads to Oneida, from Ufomammut to Gnod, from Teeth of the Sea to Goat, there are several layers of identity from the Rocket Recordings catalog. Founded in 1998, the publisher has been assuming itself as a space of discovery and encountering the most varied trends of psychedelic rock, a kind of creator force on a free wheel in a musical world that, each time, is fixed more in the safe value.

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DEAFBRICK reveal video for genre destroying second single 'Sweat-Drenched Wreck'

DEAFBRICK, the new collaboration of Säo Paulo’s sonic warriors Deafkids and London’s pulverising duo Petbrick have just released their second single – a mighty track called 'Sweat-Drenched Wreck'.

Watch the tension-fueled video created by Estúdio Holotrópicovideo for 'Sweat-Drenched Wreck' here exclusively via Revolver Magazine:

Revolver Magazine

Preorder on Red/Black 'splatter vinyl' from the link below or from from your local record shop. The album is also being released in the Americas on Red/Black 'half-and-half' vinyl by the great Neurot Recordings:

Bandcamp

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This is what the bands say about Sweat-Drenched Wreck:

Deafkids

“After a tour night of little to no sleep on an overnight flight, we arrived in London and went straight to Wayne's studio to begin our sessions together, still on that jet-lag-induced, lethargic state, with no pre-thought ideas and a very diminished deadline. As soon as we began recording some ideas, Wayne quickly assembled the skeleton of what would become this track. Watching him creating and editing stuff that fast and with that quality just blew our minds. From that moment we fed on the certainty that something special was being concepted on that unique moment for us. Curious is the fact that Iggor came up with a double stick right there, using a hanger to unite them and record that drum'n'bass hi-hat. This is dancing music, Deafbrick drum'n'bass noise style!”

Petbrick

“This particular tune came from an amalgamation of quite a few strange percussive approaches from Iggor and Marian; Iggor built this excellent pair of drum sticks that was attached together with a coat hanger and a load of gaffer tape, so that he could play a weird 16-beat almost shuffled drum and bass pattern on the hi-hat with one hand. Marian played with his hands on the snare drum as an overdub, so you get a weird percussive element from the snare pattern, Then we dug deep into Douglas’ dub influences also The guitar hook almost has a cool eastern feel to it, so this track really was a mental smashing together of a lot of different, super creative approaches. I love this tune because of this, you can hear each person’s personality coexisting in a beautiful harmony.”

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