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Pink Skull

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"Crunk's Dead. You're Next."

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Website: http://www.pinkskull.com/

Bio: Free News Projects is proud to announce the release of
Zeppelin 3, the first full-length album from Philadelphia's electro-
psych outfit Pink Skull and the ... (more) follow-up to the group's 2006 debut
EP Blast Yr Akk.

Pink Skull's mastermind Julian Grefe is the wild-eyed,
psychedelic stalwart of Philadelphia's indie dance music scene. An
accomplished musician, producer, and DJ with a slew of bands,
records, and music projects to his credit, Grefe was a turntable
resident of the long-running Making Time and [click.] parties and
has performed and DJ'ed for cool kids around the globe (*see foot-
note).

In 2004, Grefe teamed up with 611 Records alum and co-
conspirator, Justin Geller. Their collaboration and mutual love of
early avant-techno spawned Pink Skull. Grefe and Geller were then
tapped to curate the inaugural mix for renegade dance purveyor
RVNG INTL's series of DJ compilations Rvng Prsnts. The DJ/producer
duo have remixed left-of-center dance tracks for Spank Rock,
Plastic Little, Architecture in Helsinki, Health, Lovely Chords, and
Martin Matiske. In 2006 Grefe and Geller expanded Pink Skull into a
live band, with the addition of players Jeremy Gewertz (drums), Mike
Hammel (bass) and Sam Murphy (guitar).

On Zeppelin 3, Pink Skull updates the four-on-the-floor
sound with quirky tech house, varietal acid, and Faustian
instrumentation just trashy enough to keep it freaky, melding
dance-floor readiness with krautrock psychedelia. The album
features guests Mirah, Daneil Mazone, Billy Dufala of Man Man, and
Boy's Life-r Jon Anderson now of White Whale.

Grefe describes Zeppelin 3 as “a tribute to the birth of the
electronic music dance subculture in the early nineties... when JG
was selling acid and e and we lived in weird rave caves and still
went to punk shows... the first time we heard "Don't Laugh" and the
first time we heard Silver Apples blah blah blah. A time when
electronic music was new and limitless and a house record didn't
have to be between 126 and 130."
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