Rocket Probes April Playlist

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Deej Dhariwal - Still Connecting
(Deej from Thought Forms debut solo album of fuzz noise and strummed drones)
Deej Dhariwal

The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
(Filmic electronics)
The Haxan Cloak

Various - WFMU Country Fuzz Spectacular
(Simply amazing collection of fuzz infused country songs from early, mid and late 60's - compiled by WFMU)
Part 1: Country Fuzz
Part 2: Country Fuzz

Gnod - Genocider (Nighthammer mix)
(Great remix from this Notorious Hi-Fi Killer)
Gnod

Demlike Stare - Boiler Room / Test Pressing Vol 1&2
(Great live session that goes on a spacey techno journey / and two great 12" of techno noise, nice sleeve concept too)
Demlike Stare

Cosmic Dead - Cosmic Dead
(Really nice vinyl reissue from Cardinal Fuzz)
Cosmic Dead

Lumerians - Horizon Structures
(Not as good as Telos, but still has some fine moments...nice 4D sleeve too)
Lumerians

Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life
(Members of Zun Zun Egui and Accoustic Ladyland create a twisted krautjazz stomp, great video too)
Melt Yourself Down

Master Musicians of Bukake - White Mountain Return
(Love this....an exciting taster for the new album, love the video!!!)
Master Musicians of Bukake

Black Flag - Slip it In
(Just for the title track alone)
Black Flag

Melody's Echo Chamber - Crystallized
(Great Broadcast / Warp Records pop with distorted Electronic's)
Melody's Echo Chamber

Gunter Schickert – Uberfallig LP
(Imagine if the Necks had a Jam with Can sometime between when they made Future Days and Babaluma)

Gunter Schickert

Baby Grandmothers - s/t
(1960's Swedish 3 piece heavy psyche)
Baby Grandmothers

Charlie & Esdor​  - s/t
(More 1960's Swedish psyche)
Charlie & Esdor




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Download the audio from Goat's New York show

The complete audio from Goat's New York show last week is available to download and stream from here: nyctaper

It is a pretty good recording of what sounds like a stunning performance...The encore (not credited) is a mesmerising version of 'The Sun The Moon'.

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First listen of Stonegoat, the new 7" from Goat

The Quietus have just premiered theA side of the new GOAT single, STONEGAOT that will be released on Rocket 3rd June (and Sub Pop in North America on 4th June).

This is what the Quietus say about the track:

"It's a storming affair, drawing on all the salient ingredients that made World Music so great: starting out with some tricksy wah'ed fretwork, it's not long before those familiar shrieking vocals rear up, submerged below lumbering drums and woody Afrobeat percussion. Just when it seemed things couldn't get more joyously kaleidoscopic, there's an abrasively agitated guitar solo, which sounds like it's being amplified through sandpaper. An excellent start to the week."

You can lead the rest of the piece here: The Quietus

You can find out more about this double A side single here: New Goat 7"



Plus you can also listen to the AA side track DREAMBUILDING here via Pitchfork: Pitchfork

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Out Today - Gnod Dropout with White Hills II Re-issue

Rocket Recordings are pleased to announce the re-issue of the now highly sought after double LP Gnod Dropout with White Hills II. The record will be available from all good record shops as of today.

This version of the reissue comes packaged in different coloured artwork from the 1st 2 versions and is available on a limited pink dayglo colour vinyl, this is the 3rd pressing and most people have suggested the best looking so why are we to disagree.

It is also re-released on CD which features an extra unreleased track from the vinyl version.

The Rocket Bandcamp shop will have a small amount up on sale over the coming weeks plus we have a few of the yellow versions on both formats left for sale here

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New Goat video for Run to your mama

The band have posted their home made video for 'Run to your mama' which follows the same style as their previous videos for Goatman, The Sun The Moon, Goathead and Let it Bleed.

Enjoy....

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Goat's show from Philadelphia in full

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Loopflesh at Roadburn

This was the moment when Robert Hampson stepped up to the mic and sang Loop's 'Straight to your Heart' for the first time since they split up. The whole Godflesh set was amazing, but seeing this was mindblowing, and we were proud to of witnessed it!! 

And as you all know, within the week, the Loop reformation was announced, so see you down the front 

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Teeth of the Sea playing 'Reaper' at Roadburn

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Nothing is... comes to Bristol – A special Rocket party

'Nothing is...' is upping roots from it's Dalston home and having a one-off special at Bristol's Cube Cinema on June 8th.

The night is a celebratory gathering for Chris from Rocket's 40th, and apart from 'Nothing is...' in the bar there are some very, very special live acts performing in the cinema itself. 

Nothing is...

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Celebrating Chris from Rocket's 40th

Live:

Teeth of the Sea

Thought Forms

Anthroprophh

Djs:

Cage & Aviary

Cherrystones

Rik Motor

Little Dirty

Bristol Cube Cinema

Saturday June 8th

7.30 - 2am

£5 (to help towards bands/djs expenses)

There will be advance tickets made available, check here for more details: Buy a ticket

Facebook event page

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Rocket at 15 – An Echoes and Dust interview

The great website Echoes and Dust interviewed Chris from Rocket about the labels history and future:


"Rocket Recordings celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year so we decided to get in touch with one of the founding fathers of the label, Chris Reeder, to find out how it all got started...

(C) Well it started on a drunken night at The Louisiana in Bristol sometime in 1997. Myself and close friend Simon Healey were there to see another good friend of ours (Gareth Turner, now in Big Naturals) band called Lillydamwhite. They were supporting other friends of ours The Heads. After Lillydamwhite played a blistering set, Simon turned around to me and set we should put out a 7" by them and I thought, wow, what an idea! Then we both sort of forgot about that due to The Heads cacophony of psych noise that we were bombarded with. In the morning though, once the haze of the previous night’s excess's had cleared the idea of releasing a Lillydamwhite 7" popped back into our heads and we thought, actually that is a good idea. Why not? Let’s give it a crack! We were both huge fans of the US underground scene and wanted to emulate the golden years of Sub Pop, Amphetamine Reptile, Sympathy for the Record Industry etc. So at the beginning that is what we wanted try and do.

The first thing we had to do though was come up with the name...and that took a while! After a lot of stupid ideas I saw an illustration of this Flash Gordon type rocket that looked fantastic, so I showed it to Simon and said, "What do you think? Let’s call the label Rocket and use that style of image?" He agreed and we went for it. Then we contacted underground poster artist Frank Kozik to draw us a logo using the image I found as inspiration and the logo you see today is what he created!..."


Read the full and very revealing interview here: Echoes and Dust

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