Rocket Recordings

#282 – Bo Ningen, Tomaga, Deafkids & Petbrick, Effluvium, Wiley

6th July 2020

Astounding posthumous work on this show, firstly from the tragically recently departed Jake Dunwoody, whose Effluvium project produced an utter masterpiece in Vera earlier this year. This record – a collaboration with Moonworshipper co-founder Blood Tower – is another blinder. We also have Sun Ra Arkestra putting out their first release in 20 years, and their version of Sonny’s Seductive Fantasy is utterly exquisite.

Elsewhere we have bouncy sounds from Turkey’s Serkan Eles, grime legend Wiley, the blinding collaboration between Deafkids and Petbrick and loads more.

Tracklisting
Serkan Eles – Badire (Shango Records, Greece)
Wiley – Double Dragon (self-release, UK)
Effluvium – Suze (feat. Blood Tower) (Moonworshipper Records, USA)
Sun Ra Arkestra – Seductive Fantasy (Strut Records, Germany)
VIVIANKRIST – Fermented (self-release, Norway)
Bo Ningen – Silenced (Alcopop! Records, UK
Hihats In Trees – Sun Salutations (Paxico Records, USA)
Wren – Seek the Unkindred (Gizeh Records, UK)
Tomaga – Ersangerkrieg (self-release, UK)
Deafkids & Petbrick – Força Bruta (Rocket Recordings, UK)

Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#274 – Etuk Ubong, Emanative & Ismail Ilgün, L-Zee Roselli, Human Leather, Lucidvox

10th May 2020

Lots of phenomenal compilations have been released during the current crisis, and some of them are prominent on this week’s podcast. Including the Isolation compilation on Shapes of Rhythm, the Trussel Trust-fundraiser of noisy punk on Human Worth, and the latest on France’s Hard Fist label.

Elsewhere we have Indonesian bossa nova, the debut from Nigerian trumpeter Etuk Ubong, brutal hip hop from L-Zee Roselli, Russian punk from Lucidvox and a lot more.

Tracklisting
Etuk Ubong – African Struggle (Night Dreamer, UK)
Neil Scott Pennycook – Meursault (The Song) (self-release, UK)
L-Zee Roselli – Make Them See the Devil (20/20 LDN Recordings, UK)
Human Leather – Looking Great is Nice and All, But a Little Worrying if it’s Your Only Hobby (Human Worth, UK)
Balam – Kuhatemalha (Hard Fist, France)
Emanative & Ismail Ilgün with Enver Goyken & Tom Central – Rüya Pavyonu (Shapes of Rhythm, UK)
David Chalmin – La Forêt des Ombres Part.2 (Ici d’ailleurs, France)
Lucidvox – Knife (Нож) (Glitterbeat Records, Germany)
Rubina – Brigas, Nunca Mais (Orange Cliff Records, Indonesia)
Autotelia – First Flight (Rocket Recordings, UK)

Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#273 – GNOD & João Pais Filipe, Kuldaboli, Asher Gamedze, DJ Die Soon & MC Yallah, ADRA Hubble

4th May 2020

A wonderful array of sounds this week, we have dystopian industrial electro-funk from Iceland, field recordings from Brazil, a couple of records from lockdown, the latest from Gnod and loads more.

Tracklisting
Group A – Inhuman Ecstasy (Mannequin Records, Germany)
Kuldaboli – Milljón ára (FTP, Germany / Bunker Records, Netherlands)
ADRA Hubble (Alice Hubble and Andy Abbott) – Hierve el Agua (Signal Records, UK)
DJ Die Soon – Kawo Kada (feat. MC Yallah) (Morphine Records, USA)
Samuel Barton – Chime and Pandemonium (self-release, UK)
Kiko Dinucce and Thiago França – Tocar Na Banda (Collection Petites Planètes, Brazil)
Asher Gamedze – Synthesis (On the Corner Records, UK)
TYVYT|IYTYI – Shade Beneath (Pinkman Records, Netherlands)
Amnertia – Stampee O Lonesome
GNOD & João Pais Filipe – Faca De Terra (Rocket Recordings, UK)

Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#271 – Black Devil Disco Club , Sabiwa & Queimada, Charles Hayward Vs. Harmageddon, Ann Margaret Hogan, OHYUNG

20th April 2020

Some extraordinary sounds on this week’s podcast, three of which push the boundaries of the music you can make with a piano. We’ve got an exclusive first play of the new release from Taiwanese producer Sabiwa, alongside an outlandish 8-minute opus from Nebraska’s Moonworshipper Records, the first new material from legendary electronic producer Bernard Fevre’s Black Devil Disco Club moniker, and lots more.

Tracklisting
Charles Hayward Vs. Harmageddon – Helix (God Unknown Records, UK)
OHYUNG – No One Else (ft. Charlie Sheena) (Chinabot, UK)
João Pais Filipe – XV (Lovers & Lollypops / Holuzam, Portugal)
Black Devil Disco Club – Six Six Sex (Lo Recordings, UK)
Kooba Tercu – Fair Game (Rocket Recordings, UK)
Effluvium – Vera (Moonworshipper Records, USA)
Harrga – Échos Obscurs De L’Orient (self-release, UK)
Sabiwa & Queimada – Tomorrow You Said Yesterday
Metal Preyers – Hard Screw (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Uganda)

Ann Margaret Hogan – CODA (Downwards, UK)

Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#262 – The Four Owls, Beatrice Dillon, Davaajargal Tsaschikher, Sex Swing, Brodinski x Low Jack

17th February 2020

Mispronunciation rules this week’s pod. I mean – you try and pronounce ‘Davaajargal Tsaschikher’ the name of the exceptionally talented Mongolian experimentalist. We have unusual and brilliant music from Ukraine, Niger, and Japan alongside London grime, hiphop and jazz. There’s abstract electronic music, industrial dub, and phenomenal psych – it’s going to be a good week…

Tracklisting
Brodinski x Low Jack – Andaman Sea (Editions Gravats, France)
Collocutor – Lost and Found (On the Corner Records, UK)
Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko – Untitled 1 (Night School, UK)
Beatrice Dillon – Workaround One (PAN, Germany)
Hoshina Anniversary – Odoriko (Alien Jams, UK)
Sex Swing – Valentine’s Day at the Gym (Rocket Recordings, UK)
Davaajargal Tsaschikher – Urgeljid Urgeljleh Urgeljlel (Chinabot, UK)
Lloydie Ranks – Street Fighter (Key Changes, UK)
The Four Owls – Honour Codes (High Focus Records, UK)
Mdou Moctar – Ibitlan (Sahel Sounds, USA)

Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#259 – Katie Gately, Ramson Badbonez, YlangYlang, Wasted Shirt, Och

27th January 2020

A wonderful array of new music this week, kicking off with Swedish psych from Goat-affiliated Och, we also have multiple, beautiful sound experiments from Canada, UK hip-hop, avant-garde outsider pop, the new one from The Heliocentrics and a cracking new collaboration between Ty Segall and Lightning Bolt.
 
Tracklisting
Och – NU:64 (Rocket Recordings, UK)
YlangYlang – Limitless (Crash Cymbols, USA)
I Know I’m an Alien – Here Come The Customers pt 1 (Crass Lips Records, USA)
D. Dan – Mutant Future (Lobster Theremin, UK)
Intext – Super Duty Tough Work (self-release, USA)
Ramson Badbonez – Sarcophagus (High Focus Records, UK)
Katie Gately – Waltz (Houndstooth, UK)
Wasted Shirt – Double the Dream (Famous Class Records, USA)
Gareth JS Thomas – Hyphen British (Bezirk, UK)
The Heliocentrics – Burning Wooden Ship (Madlib Invazion, USA)
 
Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#252 – Ecko Bazz, Gnoomes, Squarepusher, Alonya Alonya, Colossal Squid

2nd December 2019 00:56:13

As everyone else retreats into ‘best of’ lists, we’ve got one more hour of tip-top new experimental sounds to fill your ears. There’s Ukrainian rap, Chinese doom, Russian punk, Canadian organ music and pretty much everything in between.

We’ll fall into line with our favourites of 2019 next week…

Tracklisting
Ecko Bazz – Kyusa Embela (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda)
Gnoomes – Irma (Rocket Recordings, UK)
Before the Revival – Irrelevant Filament (WV Sorcerer Productions, France / China)
Colossal Squid – Swungert (Square Leg Records, UK)
And The – Technologie (AB Records, France)
Modern Technology – Queue Jumper (Live) (Exploding Head Sessions, UK)
Moreno Ácido + Diogo – Coisa LEVE (Holuzam, Portugal)
Alonya Alonya – Не перегоріти (HitWonder Records, Ukraine)
Blake Hargreaves – Noël at Lindenkirche, Berlin (Ultra Eczema, Belgium)
Squarepusher – Vortrack (Warp Records, UK)

Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#243 – Bonnacons of Doom, Ben Vince & Jacob Samuel, Satanique Samba Trio, Gut Fauna, Trupa Trupa

30th September 2019 00:59:46

On the show this week we have the new collaboration between podcast favourites Charles Hayward Laura Cannell, Andre Bosman and Ex Easter Island Head. We have abstract madness from Brazil, punk from Ukraine, the latest from Poland’s Trupa Trupa and a lot more.

Tracklisting
Bonnacons of Doom – ESUS (Rocket Recordings, UK)
Satanique Samba Trio – Badtriptronics #09 (Rebel Up! Records, Belgium)
Whistling Arrow – Forking Paths (feat. Charles Hayward, Laura Cannell, Andre Bosman, Ex Easter Island Head) (God Unknown Records, UK)
Gut Fauna – Crisis Actor (Ingrown Records, USA)
Yao Bobby & Simon Grab – Diamonds (Lava Lava Records, UK)
Pletnev – Hope They Won’t Come Back (Lion’s Drums Remix) (Le Temps Perdu, Germany)
Trupa Trupa – Mangle (Glitterbeat Records, Germany)
Chillera – Pro Fun (Muscut, Ukraine)
Ben Vince & Jacob Samuel – Fig 3 (First Terrace Records, UK)
Diarmuid J Kennedy – The Brokenheart (self-release, Ireland)

Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#236 – Petbrick, Moonbow, King Ayisoba, Qujaku, Floating Spectrum

5th August 2019 01:05:12

We return this week with the welcoming noise from the debut Petbrick LP, whose album we’ve been looking forward to since their blinding EP on Closed Casket last year. Elsewhere we have forward-looking Finnish jazz, kologo power from Ghana Turkish disco edits, Somali-Canadian hiphop, Japanese psych and a whole lot more.

Tracklisting
Petbrick – Horse (Rocket Recordings, UK / Closed Casket, USA)
King Ayisoba – Batakari Africa – feat. Atongo Zimba, Wiyaala & Big Gad (Makkum Records, Netherlands)
Petter Eldh / Koma Saxo – Port Koma (We Jazz Records, Finland)
Reece Thomas – Rustling of Reefs on the Sunshine (Alocasia Garden, UK)
Arşivplak – Seker Oglan (self-release, UK)
Igor Wakhévitch – Materia-Prima (Finders Keepers Records, UK)
OBUXUM – Black Girls Flying (URBNET Records, Canada)
Floating Spectrum – The Early Green Outburst (Temporary Residence, USA)
Moonbow – BNND WDTH (West Friends, UK)
Qujaku – In Neutral (So I Buried Records, UK)

Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#232 – FFSYTHO, Collocutor, The Utopia Strong, Mariee Sioux, Solo Banton & Macka B

17th June 2019 01:12:17

Gnarly bible stories and more on the podcast this week. Whether it’s questionable theology, hot off the press grime or something in between that you’re after, this week will deliver for you.

We’ve got the best new jazz from London and Norway, Japanese experimental music, delightful folk, Reading reggae, Greek gabba and a whole heap more.

Tracklisting
FFSYTHO – Bop Through Ya Manor (prod. Filthy Gears) (self-release, UK)
Collocutor – The Angry One (On the Corner Records, UK)
Mountain / Full Edition – ある行為を犯罪と評価するための条件(Conspiracy) (Natural Sciences, UK)
Fire! Orchestra – Blue Crystal Fire (Rune Grammofon, Norway)
Service Animal – Core Of Reality (Death of Rave, UK)
Mariee Sioux – Black Snakes (Night Bloom Records, USA)
Mikado Koko – Fukagawa Bushi (Akuphone, France)
The Austerity Program – Isaiah 63:2-6 (Controlled Burn Records, USA)
Solo Banton & Macka B – Edutainment (Reality Shock Records, UK)
The Utopia Strong – Brainsurgeons 3 (Rocket Recordings, UK)

Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

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