Rugby born Vinita Joshi founded Rocket Girl in 1997. Still run from her Kentish Town home, it’s established itself as one of the premier UK independent labels, the result of a “music lover releasing music for music lovers”. The label has become recognised as a significant talent spotter, with profiles worldwide, and has a busy year ahead with releases from Pieter Nooten, Eat Lights Become Lights, Fuxa and God Is An Astronaut.

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Its hard to think of a 90s label more synonymous with the word “eclecticism” than UK imprint Rocket Girl.  Founded by Vinita Joshi in 1997, the label eventually blossomed into a shrine for all things space/post rock and psychedelia, putting out records by the likes of Windy & Carl, Low, Piano Magic, Azusa Plane, Fuxa and countless others.

As of 2019 the label is still going strong – more recently their released Gate of Grief, first full-length from White Ring (see an interview that our writer Patrik Thomas did with WR). So it is with great pleasure that we introduce a mix that Vinita put together – more than 20 tracks spanning from the label’s earliest days to now!

Tracklist

Loopdrop – Triciclo

Piano Magic – I Am the Sub-Librarian

White Ring – Leprosy

Pieter Nooten – Ode

Bell Gardens – Take Us Away

A Place to Bury Strangers – Missing You

God is an Astronaut – Spiral Code

Eat Lights Become Lights – Bounce Synth

Add N to Fu(x)a – Add N to Fu(x)a

Frausdots – Dead Wrong

Jon DeRosa – True Men

Lilys – The Night Sun Over San Juan

Pluxus – Agent Tangent

Television Personalities – Walk Towards the Light

Sam Kills Two – Electric Shock

Byrne – Sleeping Giant

Peter Daltrey – Tattoo

White Noise Sound – All You Need

Mazarin – Wheats

Disco Inferno – Emigre

Robin Guthrie – Crescent

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