MADE IN MEXICO
"Guerillaton"
diecut gatefold LP / CD
cat #: GR92CD / barcode: 647216609223
cat #: GR92LP / barcode: 647216609216

Short description: Providence-based No Wave influenced punk, combined with Reggaeton sounds.... Like Teenage Jesus and the Jerks mixed with Calle 13, or Daddy Yankee. Post-Punk with a Dem Bow beat, and a revolutionary flavor… the soundtrack to Simon Bolivar’s march through The Americas.
includes former members of La Machine, and Arab On Radar. Guerillaton is the highly anticipated follow up to MADE IN MEXICO's debut LP "Zodiac Zoo". Available on compact disc and as a limited edition Diecut Gatefold Vinyl LP.

SELLING POINTS:
o Includes former members of Arab On Radar.
o Track: “Yes We Can”, featured in the hit, multi-platinum selling video game phenomenon, “Guitar Hero II.”
o Played CMJ Showcases 2006, 2007
o International press and radio campaign
o Ads in Signal To Noise, Wire, Skyscraper, etc.

PRESS QUOTES:
o “For those of you scoring at home, my favorite song in the entire game {Guitar Hero II} is "Yes We Can" by Made in Mexico. - ”Wil Wheaton
[Wesley Crusher, Star Trek: The Next Generation]

o “Vocalist Rebecca Mitchell alternately speak-sings in dry detachment or warbles and shrieks like Diamanda Galás (with Lydia Lunch's range) in a back alley brawl. The guitar sounds like it's being swung around by loosened strings, the bass like it's being hit with a rubber mallet, and the drums like they're being used as trampolines by a free jazz maniac attempting the Stooges catalog. And if the above descriptions sound appealing -- and they're not meant to discourage -- then this album will not disappoint. Made in Mexico is a catharsis for misanthropes and stress-cases everywhere, and is guaranteed to rile the savage beast in all of us.” - All Music

o ”A completely fucked-up "psychedelic" rock band, giving your ears a bad LSD trip from hell…. I listened to made in mexico's songs, and i bled from the ears.”– UrbanDictionary.com

o"The best of the post-Arab on Radar sweepstakes" -Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, Lake of Dracula).           

TRACK LISTING:
1) Guerillaton / 2) Mundo 1 / 3) Viva La Luz / 4) For Your Own Good / 5) Remote Control Secrets / 6) Gringoton / 7) Villa Tranquila / 8) Yes We Can / 9) Mundo 2 / 10) The Americas / 11) Gran Columbia / 12) Mundovision / 13) March On La Migra /

Preview MP3: Guerillaton

SIDES 11-14
YOWIE / COLOSSAMITE
PRE / MULE
double 7" single & comic book set
(colored vinyl)
cat #: GR28-7 / barcode: 647216602873

Joe Carduchii wrote in his book "Rock And The Pop Narcotic" that today - "If you cut open young execs, housewives, rappers, house-mixers, salsa fans, hip-hopsters, etc, you're likely to find, 14 rings back, a layer of molten rock spewed by Australia's shaggiest eruption, AC/DC“.

SIDES 11-14 is the latest in SKiN GRAFT Records’ irregularly published series of tribute record and comic book sets published in conjunction with Gasoline Boost Records.  This deluxe double 7“ single and comic book set includes:

YOWIE "Dunderdruck“
The newly reformed YOWIE turn AC/DC’s „Thunderstruck” sideways to take the listener on a technically impeccable, hyper-alien-math-rock sugar high - played with spaghetti-strung guitars and stop on a dime drums.

COLOSSAMITE "Anti-Christ Devil Child“
The members of Gorge Trio (John and Ed of Deerhoof) plus Nick Sakes (vocalist of Dazzling Killmen) unite one final time for a maddening metal medley of AC/DC’s greatest hits.

PRE "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap“
London’s No Wave naughties apply their merry-go-round grind to the certified classic “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”.

MULE "Have A Drink On Me“
Vaulted for 10 years and previously unreleased, here is the final recording from this legendary Touch and Go / Quarterstick Recording artist, featuring the restrained redneck blues of PW Long on vocals and guitar.

Plus: a densely illustrated 20 page wraparound comic book sleeve written and drawn by Skin Graft founder Mark Fischer. 

SELLING POINTS:
o Incredibly packaged - includes (2) colored vinyl 7” singles and a 20 page gatefold comic book sleeve
o Timed to coincide with the AC/DC’s  first new album in over eight years.  AC/DC have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide
o All recordings and comics are exclusive to this release.
o Previous installments in the “SIDES” series included bands such as:
-- Shellac, US Maple, Palace Brothers, Killdozer, Zeni Geva and Brise-Glace (Jim O’Rourke).
o PRE will tour the USA in October.
o New albums from YOWIE and PRE coming in 2009.
o Ads in Signal To Noise, Wire, Skyscraper, etc.

TRACK LISTING:
1) YOWIE "Dunderdruck“ / 2) COLOSSAMITE "Anti-Christ Devil Child“
3) PRE "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap“ / 4) MULE "Have A Drink On Me“

AIDS WOLF Cities Of Glass

NEW ( ! ) AIDS WOLF electronic presskit (click cover to open PDF)

AIDS WOLF
"Cities Of Glass" CD
cat #: GR91CD / barcode: 647216609124

The Nine Principles Of AIDS Wolf

1. Maintain a Daily Ritual. Music is like breathing, eating, sleeping, pissing, and, with any luck, fucking. Music must be a physical need and a mental compulsion.

2. Live Aesthetic Immersion. There's no reason a sonic composition cannot be inspired by or contribute to a drawing, a tasty curry, or one's choice of socks.

3. When in Doubt, Bum Them Out. If you can't convert 'em, make 'em run crying and holding their ears.

4. Get in the Van.

5. Seek Strength through Strength. Gear's gotta be carried, sleep must be forsaken, and tours have to be survived.

6. Join the Family. Camaraderie with other bands is not only inspiring but also serves as a vital metrics by which to measure one's own perceived worth.

7. Allow for Sonic Fields of Nothing. The use of negative space in music creates new dynamics, abstracts the obvious, and challenges both the creator and the audience.

8. Lift Anchor and Set Sail. De-anchoring compositions by dispensing with a bass guitar allows AIDS Wolf to make rhythm, the central feature of its performances.

9. Become the Weird Punks. Remember when punk was weird and when weird was punk? Destroy genre straight jackets and move out of the comfortable.

Now that you have committed these principles to memory, we encourage further study through “Cities Of Glass”, the second album from AIDS Wolf. Once immersed in these tenets, you can be assured of finding failure and misery as you bring them with you into the wider world.

SELLING POINTS:
o Produced by Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX, Lake Of Dracula)
o AIDS WOLF will be touring throughout 2008. 
o Promotional posters available for display
o International press and radio campaign
o Ads in Signal To Noise, Wire, Skyscraper, etc.

PRESS QUOTES:
o "AIDS Wolf are easily one of the best bands in the city right now, with discordance still ruling their roost but more prog rearing its head - that both teases and startles. - Montreal Mirror
o "the new punk rock is live and running".” - Crashinin
o "It’s nice to know that rock can still sound threatening..." - Popmatters
o “...this disc, you'll want one...” - SPIN

TRACK LISTING:
1) M.T.I. / 2) Tied-Up In Paper / 3) Cities Of Glass / 4) Ch-ch-ch-chatter / 5) Down, Holy Ground / 6) Gnarly Tooth / 7) General _ _ / 8) A Sacrificial Drone / 9) Relevant Issues / 10) So Many Plastic Pearls

Preview MP3: Tied Up In Paper

GR39CD cover: above / SIN01CD: below

LAKE OF DRACULA
"Lake Of Dracula" CD
cat #: GR39CD / barcode: 036172603923
.........and also available...
"SiNRAFT LIVE 1996" CD
cat #: SIN01CD / barcode: 647216600121

Relive No Wave's summer of love! L.O.D. layer vicious, angular
guitar and obtuse, howling vocals over propulsive, throbbing dance beats in an unprecedented melange of excitement and alienation! Assembled from the lineups of THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, COUCH, SCISSOR GIRLS and U.S. MAPLE; LAKE OF DRACULA raise the wooden stakes for all them so-called "Super Groups". It's Clobberin' Time! Produced by Jim O'Rourke (Brise-Glace, Yona-Kit, Sonic Youth) and remastered by Weasel Walter.

As an extra special bonus, this new edition of Lake Of Dracula?s studio album has been augmented with the four legendary tracks from the infamous SINRAFT Bootleg 7" single - recorded live at the FIRESIDE BOWL in Chicago!

Also available: In a Limited edition of 300 copies ? the alternate version on SiNRAFT Records. Uncovered at customs in Norway, this bootleg CD has been seized by Skin Graft Records for lawful distribution worldwide. Includes the original 4-song SINRAFT Bootleg 7" songs, plus 16 bonus tracks - the entire Lake Of Dracula studio album (!), produced by Jim O?Rourke.

Please note: contents of Skin Graft catalog #GR39CD and Sinraft catalog #SIN01CD are identical, but with radically different artwork.

LINE-UP:
Weasel Walter: electric guitar
Heather M: drums
Marlon Magas: vocals
The Manhattanite: hat

PRESS QUOTES:
o "(Weasel) Walter adds layers and layers of cacophonous distortion... Vocalist Marlon Magas drowns in reverb U.S. Maple frontman Al Johnson (aka the Manhattanite) adds background vocals... Scissor Girls drummer Heather Melowic adds simplistic, yet furious, drumming... Lake of Dracula manages to create a big noise that's not soon forgotten. - All Music Guide

o "The best Now Wave No Wave album ever” - Runny Noise

TRACK LISTING:
1) Lake Of Dracula / 2) Plague Of Frogs / 3) Biographers Of The Flaming Druglords / 4) Cherries And Socks / 5) Blues Fantastique / 6) The Servo-Motor / 7) Green-Glassed Moves / 8) Violators / 9) Dracula Killed Frankenstein / 10) Coconut Wine / 11) The Carpet (Old Ghost) / 12) Henry Clay / 13) The Arctic Cats / 14) Memories Of Me / 15) Piss II / 16) Lake Of Dracula / 17) Blues Fantastique (live) / 18) Plague Of Frogs (live) / 19) Biographers Of The Flaming Druglords (live) / 20) Henry Clay (live)

Preview MP3: Plague Of Frogs
Preview MP3: Biographers Of The Flaming Druglords (live)

KOENJIHYAKKEI
"Hundred Sights Of Koenji" CD
cat #: GR90CD / barcode: 647216609025
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o “I'm probably going out on a limb here, but from my vantage point, this is not only the most brilliant of all of contemporary Japanese bands, but perhaps the greatest group currently operating in the world.” - Alternative Press

For the first time ever, Skin Graft Records proudly presents Koenjihyakkei’s legendary debut album “Hundred Sights of Koenji” to western listeners. With the original issue on Japan’s God Mountain label largely unheard and fetching enormous prices on the collector’s market, “Hundred Sights of Koenji”, returns to print in a deluxe, remastered edition. Originally released in 1994, "Hundred Sights of Koenji" includes the full RUINS line-up of Yoshida Tatsuya and Masuda Ryuichi, with Kubota Aki and Kuwahara Shigekazu for a futuristic journey forward to those hallowed fields of yore. KOENJIHYAKKEI is Area and ELP at their most excessive; Deus Ex Machina with tempo changes multiplied by 100; and Magma at their orff-ian choral, fusion jazz, overcharged gospel peak. Here begins a new chapter in the storied Zeuhl scene, where foreign tongues, interplanetary wars and inhuman technique rule the roost.

SELLING POINTS:
o Yoshida Tatsuya has a tremendous worldwide following, is the leader of KOENJIHYAKKEI and RUINS, and a player in renowned bands Acid Mothers Temple and Painkiller.

o Koenjihyakkei will be performing at Near Fest X, North America’s largest progressive rock festival this summer. Other US Dates
will follow.

o Yoshida Tastsuya will be touring Europe as RUINS Alone, part of the Japanese New Music Festival this April and May. He will be performing the music of RUINS and KOENJIHYAKKEI on these dates as well as performing in Acid Mothers Temple.

PRESS QUOTES:
o "The first emotion that the music of Koenjihyakkei provokes is disbelief, a total inability to
grasp how five individuals could come together to create such a sound. Their cacophonous yet ultraprecise future-prog truly sounds beyond the limits of human potential. But slowly it all starts to make sense. Koenjihyakkei's combination of operatic female vocals,
dizzying keyboard lines, bleating woodwinds and jawdropping drumming creates a sound that can be deeply enjoyed just as easily as it can be marveled at." - Prefix

o “No irony here: this rocks with the teeth and heart to cut through the “scenes” and the "overground" like a knife. …Koenjihyakkei may go down as Tatsuya Yoshida’s greatest achievement: the most perfect fusion of straight prog, the avant-garde and hardcore punk. Amen.” - Pitchfork

o "Essential. A masterpiece of progressive music." - Prog Archives

TRACK LISTING:
1) Loss 2) Doi Doi 3) Molavena 4) Gepek 5) Yagonahh 6) Ozone Fall 7) Zhess 8) Zoltan 9) Avedumma 10) Sunna Zarioki

Preview MP3: Doi Doi
Preview MP3: Avedumma

PRE / AIDS WOLF
"Live Dates (Bootleg)" split 7" & Calendar
cat #: SIN03-7 / barcode: 647216600374
DOWNLOAD PDF ONE-SHEET

Visit the new PRE "Epic Fits" website

Four song EP (all exclusive to this release) - Comes packaged in a 7" x 7" eight-page nudie calendar sleeve with topless pictures of both bands in full-color.

Uncovered at Austrian customs, this bootleg 7" single has been seized by Skin Graft Records for lawful distribution worldwide. Originating in Russia by the rogue record label SINRAFT Records, this vinyl record includes unauthorized live recordings of Montreal's AIDS WOLF and London's PRE, packaged in a full color 8 page calendar of compromising band photos.

Following is the original solicitation from SINRAFT records:

HERE IS THIRD RELEASE OF ILLICIT RECORDINGS OF SINRAFT RECORDS. LIVE RECORDED ON LONDON FROM KOSTYA DROBIK. INCREDIBLE AROUSE GUARANTEES. DOUBLE SUPER LIVE RECORDINGS OF NO WAVE ROCK!!! BOTH GROUPS IN SKIN GRAFT RECORDS.

AIDS WOLF IS CRAZY BAND OF MONTREAL ON CANADA!!! (HEARING LIKE "ARAB IN RADAR"!) PRE IS MAD BAND OF LONDON ON THE GREAT BRITAIN!!! (HEARING LIKE "MELT-BANANA"!) TOGETHER IS TWICE INTENSITY!!!! BONUS IS IMPROBABLE RECORD SLEEVE CALENDAR OF PRE AND AIDS WOLF GIRLS AND BOYS NO SHIRTS IN FULL COLOURS!!!! IS SUPER SEXY 2!!!

TRACK LISTING:
1) PRE LIVE!!! 2) AIDS WOLF LIVE!!!

THE CHINESE STARS
"Turbo Mattress" Transparent CD
catalog #: GR69-2 / barcode: 647216606925

On the heels of the new album from The Chinese Stars, "Listen To Your Left Brain", Skin Graft proudly re-presents the band's debut CD "Turbo Mattress" in a new edition. Previously available as a "weaponized, chinese throwing star - shaped CD", "Turbo Mattress" was quick to sell, but also proved problematic for those wishing to play the disc in front feed CD players, CD changers or darn near anything other than a tray loading disc player. So for this new edition, Turbo Mattress has been pressed on a TRANSPARENT CD - maintaining the illusion of a chinese throwing star with the added bonus of being playable on all CD players and drives!

Formed from the charred remains of Arab On Radar and Six Finger Satellite, Turbo Mattress is the Chinese Stars' most abrasive, harsh recording, harkening back to the members' previous acts while laying the groundwork for the band's signature disjunct new wave sound. Christened after the "Chinese Star Epidemic" of the early 80's which found legions of grade school kids across America armed with "shuriken" throwing stars, the band pledge to follow in this tradition: terrorizing parents, authority figures and the psyche of the free world.

o Pressed on a "see-through" transparent cd!

o "The music on their Skin Graft debut, Turbo Mattress, keeps the beats as jerky as a racecar driver with the e-brake on, with guitar noise as jumper cables and Paul's surreal lyrics as a hallucinogen--fans of a more fucked Ex Models aesthetic, take note." - The Stranger

TRACK LISTING:
1) Sick Machine 2) Eyes of the Secret North 3) Loose Traffic 4) Arson Hotline 5) The Fastest Horse Yet

Preview MP3: Sick Machine / Preview MP3: Arson Hotline

AIDS WOLF VS ATHLETIC AUTOMATON
"Clash Of The Life-Force Warriors"
Gatefold vinyl LP / CD
CD cat #: GR84CD / barcode: 647216608424
LP cat #: GR84LP / barcode: 647216608417

With AIDS WOLF VS. ATHLETIC AUTOMATON, the hard edge bleeds.

In the wake of their respective debut albums, Providence's ATHLETIC AUTOMATON and Montreal's AIDS WOLF came face to face; stripped bare of armor, draped in amour, wielding weapons of choice. With the battle lines drawn, each band tallied forcefully, committing individual tracks to tape. But as the war waged on, members defected from side to side, new alliances were formed and the hard lines blurred. What emerged from the battlefield was an entirely new entity: bloodied, unbowed, and undefeated.

Recorded by Radwan Moumneh at One Hundred Sided Die in Montreal and Patrick Crump in Lincoln, Rhode Island, Skin Graft Records presents "Clash of the Life-Force Warriors" on dueling formats: as a compact disc and gatefold sleeved vinyl LP, intimately designed by Montreal's Seripop.

Athletic Automaton is guitarist Stephen Mattos, formerly of Arab on Radar; and drummer Patrick Crump, Pellum 123 expatriate. Aids Wolf is concussionist Hiroshima Thunder and singer Special Deluxe, paired with guitarist's Barbarian Destroyer and Him, The Magi. Aids Wolf Versus Athletic Automaton is all of the above... and the dawn of a new age: a crystalline declaration of independence for an uncivilized world.

Preview MP3 HERE / Another MP3 HERE