As far as we can tell, the newly launched 100 Years Of Solid Dudes is yet another project from the Phillytronic dance floor wrecking crew collective of the Making Time associated Pink Skull , Adam Sparkles and the Broadzilla DJ's AKA the Hypercage Record Club . Head over here to download a 44 minute "car-crash sample symphony" that contextualizes Aretha Franklin, the Ides of March, Elvis Costello, Bowie and dozens of more samples into one long funky massive mix, as well as releases from Wooden [...]
Yibn has just posted up the latest in his Amalgam mix series. What can we say, the dude knows how to throw down different tunes. This month's mix has some jams from DiskJokke, Djedjotronic, Surkin, and many more. Hailing from Tampa, this music enthusiast began his delve into electronic music as a very young age. Some even whisper of seeing him running around the UCF campus in body paint promoting Boys Noize. As for now he can be caught DJing here and there throughout Tampa searching for a residency and performing in the style of [...]
Local folks including Ape School, Tadoma and King Britt - as well as outside-Philly names Benoît Pioulard and Lymbyc System - tried their hand at remixing Arc In Round's layered and heavy debut LP in the new ::::remixed:::: collection, available today as a free download. The set contains eight reconstructions of songs like "Spirit" (morphed ... Continue reading
I love Pink Skull with a deep, weird brotherly love. We are kin because (like yours truly) they emerged from the pre-millenial electronic sludge of Philadelphian sub-culture. From the pre-social network flyer days and cultural ooze of Spaceboy & 611 Records , the sleaze of Silk City and the early days of Making Time at Transit. In the early days, they made mix-tapes and mashups that sounded like turning on a dozen boomboxes on different radio stations and their earliest recordings were the loopy equivalent of swimming in [...]
By groove@algarvecentral.net I love Pink Skull with a deep, weird brotherly love. We are kin because (like yours truly) they emerged from Source: Groove 2U
Pink Skull just dropped a new 5-track EP today titled My Definitive Gauze via My Favorite Robot Records. You can stream the record in its entirety below.
Pink Skull has released a new EP, Definitive Gauze, on My Favorite Robot Records. Riding the musical grooves of various flavors of electronica, you can stream the EP below.. Purchase it Continue reading
Martas Asinis - Sniegaviri ( Hamilton Calhoun remix) You’d probably recognize my friend Laris Kreslins ( Mācītājs on Acid/The Phone ) as the only hip young dude ever tending bar at the Latvian Society here in Northern Liberties in Philadelphia. Currently he’s out in his home country chillin’ w family, but before he left, h e teamed up with his mate Justin Geller ( Pink Skull ) to form a this project as “just another excuse for us to hang out with one another and randomly remix things [...]
Special thanks to all of the bands for coming to our studio, and to John Vettese for recording them. We’d also like to thank volunteer production assistants Fred Knittel, Madeleine Lesperance, and Dan Malloy as well as photographers Kate Bracaglia, Corey Cohen, Sarah Fry, Shamus McGroggan, Noah Gabriel Merenda, Sylvia Ramirez, and Heidi Schlenzig for sharing ... Continue reading
The long-awaited remix companion to 2011's " RCMP II " is finally out. RCMP - "RCMP II: The Remixes" presents seven reinterpretations of "RCMP II." Remixers include Pink Skull (RVNG INT'L), Laberge (Solid Bump), Elvis Suarez (Strictly Rhythm), DJ Ayres (Young Robots / T&A), Fifteenth (Fools Gold / Scion AV), Burnso (Young Robots) and Pumpkin Patch (Young Robots). Pretty huge. I'm very proud of the work all these guys did reinterpreting our record. We asked them all to remix it because we love listening to their work! DJs, you need these. Please support Young [...]
CHECK OUT my full Village Voice Pazz and Jop list HERE (First off, let me just unequivocably state that the album, by Tune-Yards, that won the poll this year is a simmering piece of DOGSHIT. Thanks for this ... Continue reading
Photo by John Vettese For this month’s Key Studio Video Session, we profiled Pink Skull , the Philladelphia indie-dance quintet that, last year, released its third album, Psychic Welfare , on RVNG Int'l Records. In our video, band leaders Julian Grefe and J.G. Geller talk about bridging the divide between hooky pop songs and expansive disco epics, the growth of the electronica scene in Philadelphia, and the origins of their "music for record-store nerds." Watch the video below and download their performance from December's Key Studio Sessions Live concert at Johnny Brenda's. [...]
Bleeding Rainbow performs at The Level Room on Dec. 31st FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30th Gandalf Murphy And The Slambovian Circus of Dreams at World Cafe Live (7:30 p.m., $30–$40); Mock Suns + Music Box Dynamo, Phantasm, Man The Fire at Milkboy Philly (9:30 p.m., 21+, $8–$10); Orbit to Leslie + The Circadian Rhythms, Your Children Is Beautiful (9:15 p.m., 21+, $10); Thursday + mewithoutYou, Screaming Females, Make Do And Mend at Theatre Of Living Arts (6 p.m., SOLD OUT) SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31st [...]
Earlier this week, Dinowalrus dropped a track from their upcoming LP, Best Behavior , which is set to be released on March 6th, 2012 via Old Flame Records . Best Behavior was recorded over the past two years with Nadim Issa and Matt Walsh (of The Forms ), and features drumming from The Depreciation Guild ’s Anton Hochheim. On this, their second LP, band has narrowed their focus in order to create synthy jangle rock in the vein of the Madchester sound. This track has a brief cameo [...]
Photo by Tanya Dakin Summer Fiction We've spent the better portion of the the week hyping up tonight's Key Studio Sessions Live concert at Johnny Brenda's, running interviews with performing acts Summer Fiction and Attia Taylor as well as a Pink Skull mixtape the band made just for us. Well, the show is finally here, and we couldn't be more excited. A handful of free tickets are still available, but only if you RSVP here . In the meantime, you can listen to a track from [...]
Photo by Eric Ashleigh The War On Drugs performs Dec. 17th at Union Transfer FRIDAY DECEMBER 16th XPN Welcomes The Key Studio Session Live featuring Summer Fiction, Pink Skull, and Attia Taylor at Johnny Brenda's (9 p.m., 21+, FREE with RSVP ); Atlas Sound + Balkans, Carnivores at First Unitarian Church (8:30 p.m., all ages, $15); Atomic Square + Ages, Panic Years, Strangled By The Stereo Wire at Highland Gallery (9 p.m., 21+, $5–$10); Cuddle Magic + The Milkman's Union, Lady Lamb The Beekeeper at First Unitarian Church (all ages, $8); The Wonder Years + Man Overboard, Fireworks, [...]
Photo by Shane McCauley Earlier this week, we interviewed Summer Fiction and Attia Taylor , two of the three acts performing at this Friday night's Key Studio Sessions Live concert at Johnny Brenda's. For Pink Skull —the DJ-and-producer duo of Julian Grefe and Justin Geller—however, we decided to do something a little different. Grefe and Geller spend a good amount of time in Pink Skull mixing elements of ’70s disco, ’80s new wave, and ’00s dance pop, so we asked them to put together a mixtape for us. They agreed, and gave us [...]
Attia Taylor , along with Summer Fiction and Pink Skull , are performing at The Key Studio Sessions Live concert at Johnny Brenda's on Friday, December 16th. This is our second Key Studio Sessions Live concert and we hope you can join us for this free show with three Philly bands. Registration is required and you can sign up for the show here . Attia recently released a new EP called Wild Forest that you can download for free here . Attia also recorded a Key Studio [...]
Recently we have been delivering quite a few mixtapes into the blogosphere via this portal. This has both delighted and dismayed some of you, dear readers. The delight, we are happy to hear, is from your enjoyment of the mixtapes. The dismay is from our probably rather mean habit of making you guess the tracklist in the comments. This post should bring you some light relief on the tracks featured in the slower than light mixtape from 8th October . Happiness is an odd thing to try [...]
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