XADDAX "Counterclockwork"

XADDAX
"Counterclockwork" LP (colored vinyl)
"Counterclockwork" MOD CD

cat #: GR107LP / barcode: 647216610717
cat #: GR107CD / barcode: 647216610724

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Nick Sakes: Vocals, Guitar
Chrissy Rossettie: Drums, Electronics & Backing Vocals

Recorded and Engineered by Colin Marston
at Menegroth: The Thousand Caves, Queens, New York
Mastered by Weasel Walter

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Nick Sakes boasts one of those impeccable underground-rock track records. His discography to date encompasses three brilliant, insular projects: prog-minded post-hardcore nightmare merchants Dazzling Killmen, cryptic art-punk psychos Colossamite and the skewed yet surprisingly tuneful Sicbay. Now, more than two decades on from Sakes's recording debut, comes the part where we inform you that the guitarist/shrieker has "matured," and is prepping his first singer-songwriter record or somesuch. Except that's entirely false; Sakes's latest band, Xaddax-- a duo with drummer Chrissy Rossettie -- is as challenging and gloriously cathartic as anything he's done to date.

Sakes and Rossettie met at Chicago's Fireside Bowl back in 2001, when Sicbay shared a bill with Rossettie's former band, the head-spinning neo–No Wave outfit My Name Is Rar-Rar. Flash forward to '09, when Sakes (then living in Minneapolis) and the Brooklyn-based Rossettie reconnected online and struck up a long-distance romance. Soon Sakes headed east, and within a few months, the pair had hatched a new musical entity, named Xaddax in honor of their shared love of "palindromes and pointy letters." A flurry of live shows commenced.

Counterclockwork, the debut Xaddax release is a must-hear for any Nick Sakes fan, but what's most impressive about the 25-minute LP is the way it places his trademark livid howl in an entirely new context. Working with a mad-scientist electroacoustic drum set-up -- huge toms, no cymbals, various sample-triggering pads and a foot-controlled synth pedal -- Rossettie pounds out lurching math-disco rhythms, haloed in scuzzy sci-fi FX. Sakes responds with perversely anthemic riffs and mantra-like shouts, resulting in a kind of hot-wired hardcore -- like Devo gone nastily dystopic. In a sense, Counterclockwork sounds like nothing Nick Sakes has ever done, but the record's spirit -- venemous aggression combined with bold ingenuity -- fulfills every promise of one of the most fiercely uncompromising discographies in contemporary American music.

In advance of the XADDAX final exam, here are two excellent primers:

o Hank Shteamer has taken some time out from his busy schedule at Time Out NY to pen “Sums of Parts: Nick Sakes from DAZZLING KILLMEN to XADDAX” at DARK FORCES SWING BLIND PUNCHES

o And here is an invaluable interview with Chrissy Rossettie, conducted by HEY DRUMMER, YOU RULE!

XADDAX's "Counterclockwork" releases this May.

A Summer European Tour is in the works for July.
For Booking, contact Jakub at SEEK HARBOR.

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o "Energetic & vital!" - KK Null / Zeni Geva

o "There is a certain category of well-known DIY-rock lifer who's been around forever and has been in a long string of bands. Folks like Ian MacKaye, Ben Weasel, Dave Pajo, Walter Schreifels, Mick Barr - even icons like Robert Pollard or Kathleen Hanna fit in this general classification. But if anyone's keeping some sort of master ledger of these sorts of folks and Nick Sakes Dazzling Killmen, Colossamite, Sicbay and now XADDAX), isn't on it, that list is incomplete. In terms of combining raw aggression with unconventional yet totally memorable form, Nick Sakes is one of the most potent musicians I've ever heard.

Chrissy Rossettie plays a hot-wired electroacoustic kit, which she wields like a post-industrial orchestra. Since there are only two members of XADDAX, the division-of-labor vibe is right in front of your face: What Rossettie brings to the table... as drummer and full-spectrum sound generator—is an inspired short-circuiting-cyborg vibe." - Dark Forces

o "Face Of Collapse" the debut album by Xaddax frontman Nick Sakes band Dazzling Killmen, was declared the top heavy album of the 90's by Alternative Press. "Sounds like Dave Bruebeck's Time Out played through Carcass' PA system." - Alternative Press

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1) Lives On Nerve
2) Sick Sneak
3) X Train
4) Busted Circuits
5) Falls Off The Bone
6) The High Hat
7) Dropping Knives Down The Well
8) Rickety Surveillance
9) Hit Cancel
10) Stark Terms

Preview MP3: Lives On Nerves

DOOMSDAY STUDENT "A Jumper's Handbook"

DOOMSDAY STUDENT
"A Jumper's Handbook" MOD CD
cat #: GR106CD / barcode: 647216610625

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Eric Paul - vocals
Stephen Mattos - guitar
Paul Vieira - guitar
Craig Kureck - drums
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A Jumper's Handbook is the debut album by DOOMSDAY STUDENT. Doomsday Student's bio reads as follows:

You know who these men are.

They have been other men.

Who they were before does not matter. What matters most is who they are now. These men, with two menacing guitars, violent drums, and wild words will fill that void in you. They will build bunkers out of your bones. They will make weapons out of your teeth. They will drink your tears and feed on your meat.

All of this will be outlined, annotated and acted upon in "A Jumper's Handbook", the debut album by DOOMSDAY STUDENT. DOOMSDAY STUDENT teams three quarters of Arab On Radar with three quarters Chinese Stars and a pinch of Athletic Automaton and Chrome Jackson for decidedly devastating results.

DOOMSDAY STUDENT are: Eric Paul - vocals, Stephen Mattos - guitar, Paul Vieira - guitar, Craig Kureck - drums

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o Recommended if you like: Arab On Radar, Battles, Lightning Bolt, Melt-Banana
o Artwork by Nathan Jurevicius (creator of Scarygirl)
o Produced by the team at Machines With Magnets who have worked with Lightning Bolt, Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah, Fang Island, Chinese Stars and Battles
o Members of the bands Arab On Radar, Atheltic Automaton and Chinese Stars
o Doomsday Student tours worldwide (West Coast USA tour February 2012)
o Release timed to coincide with Chrome Jackson "Chrome Forest"
o Key Markets: New York City, Boston, Providence, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Fransisco

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1. Ape in Love
2. The Unborn Chant
3. Bleeding Pioneers
4. Slap That Loudmouth
5. A New Bearded Monster
6. Dime Store Horsey
7. Her Hairy Graveyard
8. World Without Teeth

Preview MP3: Ape In Love

CHROME JACKSON "CHROME FOREST"

CHROME JACKSON
"Chrome Forest" MOD CD
cat #: GR105CD / barcode: 647216610526

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Stephen Mattos: Chrome Jackson
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Chrome Jackson is a steely-gray, hard metal of lustrous sound-scrapes and bruises.

Poked, plucked and prodded to a perennial high polish, Chrome Jackson's debut album “Chrome Forest” drags listeners knuckle-first through a corrosive wilderness of winding vascular tissues, interwoven to form a hard psyche.

Filled with innovative guitar wrangling and atonal six-string scrambling, ”Chrome Forest's” towering electro-plated frondescence has given way to reveal a dense, chromium-infused understory of infinite realms - a web of overgrown tangles and knots, spaghetti strung in service to a photosynthetic ecosystem out of control.

The roots run deep.

Chrome Forest has been cultivated by Stephen Mattos, formerly of Arab On Radar and Athletic Automaton. In addition to Chrome Jackson, he is presently a member of Doomsday Student.

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1) Glass Fight
2) Nail Storm
3) Shit Show
4) Sickle
5) Chrome Forest
6) Roly Poly
7) The Foam People Meet The Chrome People

Preview MP3: Chrome Forest

RUINS ALONE
"Ruins Alone" LP (Colored Vinyl)
"Ruins Alone" LP (3 Bonus Tracks)

cat #: GR100LP / barcode: 647216690016
cat #: GR100CD / barcode: 647216610021

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Yoshida Tatsuya / Alone
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SKiN GRAFT Records is proud to announce our 100th release, the debut album from RUINS ALONE.

Formed by drummer / vocalist Yoshida Tatsuya in 1985, RUINS played two rehearsals as a drum and bass duo before attempting to add a guitarist to fill out their sound. After a handful of rehearsals as a trio, the band abandoned the guitar and chose to jettison forward as a two piece. For nearly 20 years, Yoshida would remain the guiding force behind the band, while RUINS' bass duties would change hands four times.

The visceral energy of RUINS early years are chronicled on the "1986- 1992"collection and document the evolution of RUINS hardcore progressive rock sound. In 1995 bassist Sasaki Hisahi joined Yoshida, and the new duo made their debut on the "Refusal Fossil" album. Countless tours and numerous recordings would follow. "Tzomborgha" released in 2002 by Ipecac Records would be their last full length album - in 2004 Hisahi retired from the band.

In 2005, RUINS unveiled one last song, "Gwodhunqa", for a SKiN GRAFT / RELAPSE Records co-release - a split 7" and comic set with the band HIGH ON FIRE. In the summer of that year, Yoshida took on the task of performing the music of RUINS solo, while performing with a different guest bass player in each city, embarking on the "Bassist Wanted Tour".

From this point on, Yoshida would continue RUINS as a one-man act, touring as RUINS Alone and, with bassist Sasaki Hisahi, issuing remixed & remastered editions of their albums "Vrresto", Pallaschtom" and "Refusal Fossil". During this time, Yoshida also re-energized his other bands, KOENJIHYAKKEI and KOREKYOJINN - - and RUINS Alone was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

It's been nearly 10 years since the last RUINS album was released. Now, having traveled the world time and time again, refining RUINS for the 21st century, Yoshida is ready to release the debut album from RUINS Alone, 20 tracks - plus three bonus tracks (included on the CD and as a free download in the LP), featuring all new compositions, as well as new recordings of classic RUINS songs sporting new arrangements.

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o Recommended if you like: Naked City, Fantomas, Slayer, King Crimson, High On Fire, MagmaMagma, Henry Cow, John Zorn, Ruins, Koenjihyakkei, Yes, Massacre, Lightning Bolt
o Skin Graft Records' 100th release!
o First new RUINS album in nearly 10 years - on Vinyl and CD
o Includes THREE BONUS TRACKS - included on the CD and as a free download in the LP
o LP first pressing on COLORED Vinyl
o Yoshida Tatsuya has a tremendous following as the leader of RUINS, KOENJIHYAKKEI and KOREKOJINN, and a player in renowned bands Acid Mothers Temple and Zeni Geva.
o Ruins Alone tours worldwide
o International press and radio campaign

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o Ruins Alone is a direct interface between Tatsuya's brain and his drumsticks. You could get 15 rock records out of one Ruins Alone performance. - Life Is Noise

Ruins brilliantly structured compositions, in songs that range in length from less than a minute, to nearly seven minutes, are what make (the band) a constantly engaging and undeniably compulsive listening experience. The simple technical prowess amazes.- Popmatters

The opener wastes no time in burning down all bridges to sanity: "Outburn" is at once the greatest-ever hardcore punk song not to protest anything or even feature real words in the lyrics, and a public service announcement for ADD awareness. The main riff is as stubbornly assured as anything Bad Brains put to wax, and the lest you get bored during its eight seconds, another wild-ass riff is there to take its place, and again and again. - Pitchfork

o “Fiendish and crazed, Ruins explore string-popping ideas only to degenerate into complex whirlpools of distortion, then regroup into a new version of their original idea with surprising grace. Ruins grow on you like a cancerous cell, and are killer. - CMJ

o ”(RUINS) wed histrionic vocals like Magma's Christian Vander in a tourettic fit to seething hardcore re-interpretations of Udu Wudu-era Magma's motion, dicing up time signatures like a musical hibachi chef on Benzedrine. The peaks of gibbering lunacy Ruins occasionally achieve beggar disbelief... a definite A- ticket ride. - Alternative Press

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JEMVLESQAPP
LAIPTHCIG
IXZELGRIVER
STONEHENGE
BAXCEMGILASZ
HYDEROMASTGRONINGEM
EQUESSPALDHO
SANCTUARY
GLASCHZENCK
PALLASCHTOM
AHFTSIVESPHA
DAGDAD
VILLANZYATS
GRUBANDGO
LOCKSSOMBLEZ
SCHVOSTESS
NEFESTORXISS
CAMBODIA
OBTHECKLOMTZ
DHASKRIVE

- BONUS TRACKS (included on the CD and as a free download in the LP) :

NOTTURUNO
PROGROCK
HARDROCK

Preview MP3: GLASCHZENCK
Preview MP3: STONEHENGE

SATANIZED
"Technical Virginity" LP / MOD CD
cat #: GR103LP / barcode: 647216610311
cat #: GR103CD / barcode: 647216610328

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Andrew M. Gaspar: Vocals
Alex Nagle: Guitar
Evan Lipson: Bass
Vincent Klopfenstein: Drums
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Philadelphia's SATANIZED was made flesh with their first live performance on the day of our Lord 06.06.06. Renowned for delivering highly intense, aberrantly convoluted, and theatrically bizarre live performances, the band has steadily conjured scathing frequencies and heavy rhythms that have left listeners trembling, pummeled and sliced - ready for sacrifice. Amid the assault, freakish moments of high musical complexity and lyrical depravity always ensure a clean kill.

Authors at a loss for words have related SATANIZED's forbidden fruit as "forward looking avant metal (?)" that simultaneously harkens back to the heavy mindfuck throb of the Jesus Lizard and the disjunct, outside-the-groove damage inflicted by Colossamite, but the cauldron's ingredients are not so easily identified, much less digested. SATANIZED push into tenebrous spaces previously unheard – a black light shining into a den of darkness.

Following their split 7” with AIDS Wolf and extensive touring, SATANIZED make their full length SKiN GRAFT Records debut with “Technical Virginity”. SATANIZED is the end times: a dense, flinty, and anomalous antidote for modern hyperreality; ritually sewing your seeds of destruction, prick by prick.

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o Recommended if you like: Voivod, Big Black, US Maple, Whitehouse, Darkthrone
o Available as a limited Edition vinyl LP
o Also available on "Manufactured On Demand" CD retail-ready compact disc
o Touring the USA in September and October
o International press and radio campaign
o First full length released by SKiN GRAFT Records

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o "People claiming to have been saved by God tend to recount feelings of profound peace and warmth, a calming light, and a sense of life’s greater purpose. The opposite is true when you get Satanized..." - Onion AV Club

o SATANIZED embraces the lurching menace pioneered by ruthless ’90s bands such as Colossamite. The Philly group’s demented noise rock feels assaultive on every level—no small feat in these been-there-done-that times." - Time Out New York

o "My ears are bleeding ... but I don't want to stop listening to this gross and futuristic shredfest. This totally weird band is a terrifying and truly original blend of primitive and disgusting sludge punk aesthetics and really advanced musical content. -Not to mention that I saw them play once and there were strobe lights and capes and maybe even a knife? i can't wait to hear what comes from these creeps in the future!" - Verboser

o" "If noise-punk is an energy, then Satanized is a nuclear power plant. More like an atomic holocaust actually. Mixing No Wave with hardcore elements, this Philly four-piece created such an ear-deafening racket, it was easy to overlook the shape-shifting, almost mechanical-like flow to the sound. Abrasive guitars, bass-heavy attack, pummeling drums, and vocals thick with rage, yet structured and avant-garde enough to offer more than just a muddied assault. It’s pretty clear that Satanized don’t sugarcoat anything. This crowd should happily rejoice they didn't’t suffer permanent hearing loss." - Lonely Vagabond

o "SATANIZED, as the name might suggest, make music that is confrontational and completely uncompromising. The guitars rain and slither down in jagged sheets of pure treble, backed by heavy-hitting, stop-start rhythms and a crazed vocal attack not for the squeamish. Despite all this (or maybe because of it), SATANIZED is one of the most engaging bands of their type, combining the structure and ferocity of more recent thrash acts with the pure noise nihilism of New York's seemingly forgotten "no wave" scene. As with any artist having been involved with Badmaster Records, one can expect a full-out assault, and that's exactly what SATANIZED delivers (though not without a sense of humor, as the track "Purple Pickle" illustrates)." - The Deli Philadelphia

o "The brutal uncompromising philly wrecking crew satanized espouses 'positive misanthropy' with its infamous explosive live shows and intense, punishing, mind-bending noise-rock, pushing listeners through numerous twists and turns in its dark sonic labyrinth." - The Chattanooga Pulse

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1) One For Asmodeus
2) Arnaud De Verniolle
3) The Rites Of Sodomy
4) Raise The Flaccid Horn
5) Clause Of Nature
6) Perineal Wrath
7) Pain Is My Barometer
8) The Fear (To Penetrate)

- additional track (CD only):

9) Domestic Compulsions (hidden track)

Preview MP3: Anaudi De Verniolle

PRE
"Third Album" 7" EP / MOD CD
cat #: GR97-7 / barcode: 647216609773
cat #: GR97CD / barcode: 647216609728

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Exceedingly Good Keex / Singer
J. Art Webb: / Guitar
Kevin Hendrix / Bass
Matthew P. Warburton / Bass
Richard P. Bennett / Drums
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No-Core's M*P* Lockwood on the philosophy of "Pre-____" as championed by Tom Smith of To Live and Shave in L.A.: "Post-____" music styles are always more cerebral, less physical, more “informed” and less “inspired.” See for example post-punk, post-hardcore, and (your best example) post-rock.

“Pre-” music styles are all about original, instinctive expression.

In the band PRE, you’ve got 2 super-bouncy bass guitars leading things, plenty of punk speed, and yelped lyrics that sound like a looser version of Melt-Banana’s Yasuko. This music is definitely more about physicalism than intellectualism.
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It's been nearly two years since the release of PRE's second album “Hope Freaks”. Since then, the boys of PRE have continued to play hooky with their band Male Bonding over at Sub Pop, while vocalist Exceedingly Good Keex has kept busy with her band Comanechi, and a multitude of extra curricular activities including a stint in 4ADs Big Pink and a collaboration with Richard Kern. Fans of London's no wave titans had begun to fear that they'd heard the last of PRE, but this September, all fears can be put to rest as the band unleashes their long-rumored, but previously unconfirmed "Third Album".

Renowned for their concise, rapid fire, sugar high approach to song-writing, PRE return with five songs (laid down with "Hope Freaks" producer extraordinaire Steve Albini) - for the first ever 7" vinyl "LP" in history. In addition to these five new songs, the band has assembled eight additional rare and unreleased tracks for a special extended edition CD.

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o Recommended if you like: Melt-Banana, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Arab On Radar
o Features members of Male Bonding, Comanechi and The Big Pink
o Recorded by Steve Albini (Shellac, Big Black) at Electrical Audio in Chicago
o First vinyl pressing comes complete with off-set booklet
o CD includes eight bonus tracks of rare and unreleased material
o Exclusive, unique artwork on the 7" and CD edition
o First ever 7" vinyl LP released by SKiN GRAFT Records

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o “It can be hard to stand out among the hundreds of bands that play the annual CMJ Festival, so the hallucinogenic noise-smiths in PRE left it ALL on the floor." - Spin

o This is music dedicated to fast satisfaction; it is the fizz and the caffeine of a thirty-two ounce energy drink. In fact, Hope Freaks propelled me on my last run far and beyond my typical three miles, and into the outer limits of an eight-mile excursion that I thought was really only possible by statuesque people who wear those hydration fanny-packs. (Of course, I am now nursing shin splints, which I fully blame Pre for.) Pre managed, after all, to do something that not many noise acts are capable of: they’re stuck in my head, even as I sit on the couch and ice my shins.” - Feminist Review

o “If Pre are worried about anything in particular — and it doesn't’t seem likely — it’s letting that gut-level thrill die. With most tracks clocking under two minutes (and the album itself clocking in at fewer than 20), Hope Freaks is impeccably concise, as though recognizing that at any greater length it might not be able to sustain its continual in-the-red urgency, that the thrill might lessen. Hope Freaks is a desperately cynical album that nevertheless contains some of the most electrifying noise rock released this year.” - Tiny Mix Tapes

o ”The tracks on Hope Freaks are so feverishly, intensely immediate that you get the distinct impression you're host to some epic schizophrenic opera. When, really, you're on Track 5. But it sure as hell feels like you never left Track 1. Which is probably a good thing. Anybody who remembers the Ramones, with any degree of affinity, knows that they pioneered a rapid-fire approach to song structure that clocked in at under three minutes and, in most cases, usually far less. That same waste-no-time snatch-it-fast style is present here and works just as effectively.” – Katori Magazine

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1) Yr Fun Is Fun
2) Dweller
3) Cold
4) White Castle
5) Love, Peace and Hair Grease

- additional tracks (CD only):

6) Dead Pony
7) Treasure Trail
8) Swollen
9) Duncan's Banus
10) Silver Skull
11) Goof
12) Coughing
13) Big Dique

Preview MP3: Dweller

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KOENJIHYAKKEI
"Live at Koenji High" MOD DVD
cat #: GR104DVD / barcode: 647216610496

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Yoshida Tatsuya / Drums, Vocal
Sakamoto Kengo / Bass, Vocal
Komori Keiko / Soprano Sax
Yabuki Taku / Keyboards
AH / Vocals
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For the uninitiated, imagine Yoshida Tatsuya's drum and bass punk-prog-metal duo RUINS, preaching the one true interplanetary gospel - an overcharged jazz fusion opera emboldened by reeds, keyboards and a soaring front-woman speaking in somersaulting tongues.

That still doesn't come close.

“Live at Koenji High” is a live document of a band that is indescribable - performing at home - fresh off of their European tour, and with new members AH on vocals and Yabuki Taku on keyboards. Filmed with multiple cameras and excellent sound, "Live at Koenji High" is the bare bones - no interview clips – no special features – no mysteries revealed - just Koenjihyakkei live on stage.

“Towers over most modern progressive rock because of an attention to detail and almost overwhelming force of conviction. No irony here: this rocks with the teeth and heart to cut through scenes and the "overground" like a knife.” - Pitchfork

Previously available only in a limited pressing in Japan, “Live at Koenji High” includes two new songs, unavailable anywhere else and comes packaged in a standard DVD case with all new, exclusive cover art. All Region NTSC DVD – plays worldwide.

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o Recommended if you like: Magma, Henry Cow, John Zorn
o First Domestic DVD release
o Steadily touring and performing festivals worldwide
o Online Videos available
o Retail tie-in to new KOERKYOJIN "Tundra" CD and RUINS "1986-1992" CD compilation

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o On the Japan import DVD: Having seen this tour, this perfectly encapsulates just what makes this group so wild and so fun. This is *the* DVD to own. As usual, this is a wild race into Zeuhl territory, with all the throbbing bass, wild, Vander-inspired drumming, & Kobaian-via-Japan singing you could hope for.” - Wayside Music

o “Koenjihyakkei is a prog band that defies the criticisms of people who don’t like prog. Where the critic complains that prog is long-winded, meandering, and pretentious, Koenji is brisk, tightly arranged, and, in its own way, pleased to be entertaining, - and even catchy. For all its musical experiments, the album has the simple appeal of a potboiler novel: it picks up a flag of roaring melodrama and flourishes it rampantly, in triumph..” - Popmatters

o ”Creative in the extreme, it is a crime we haven’t had this over here sooner. Sublime prog pop with classical overtones, and the wonderfully inventive rhythm section keeps everything on the right side of barking. This is something to be absorbed, enjoyed and revered. Now, to check out the rest of their back catalogue.” - Subba-Cultacha

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1) Vissqaguell
2) Becttem Pollt
3) Rattims Friezz
4) Dhorimviskha
5) Phlessttighas
6) Fettim Paillu
7) Angher Shisspa
8) Wammilica Iffirom

KOREKYOJINN
"Tundra" MOD CD
cat #: GR102CD / barcode: 647216610229

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Yoshida Tatsuya / Drums
Nasuno Mitsuru / Bass
Kido Natsuki / Guitars
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Yoshida Tatsuya has proven himself a major force many times over in Japan's contemporary music scene. He is the founder of Ruins and Koenjihyakkei, a member of Zeni Geva and has been cited as "[the] indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground" by John Zorn. In Korekyojinn (alternately spelled Korekyojin), Yoshida joins Bondage Fruit's guitar wizard Kido Natsuki and Ground Zero's legendary bassist Nasuno Mitsuru to demonstrate the limitless potential of the “power trio”.

The band first formed in 1999, and while the style is recognizable to fans of Yoshida's other acts, Korekyojinn has carved out a sound all its own. The band dance on razors, are sharp as a tack - and their overwhelming ability, jettisons them into the outer limits - where progressive rock and contemporary jazz collide into a breathtaking, futuristic, hard rock funk. “Tundra” is Korekyojinn's latest, greatest and first release on Skin Graft Records.

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o Recommended if you like: Ruins, Koenjihyakkei, Yes, Massacre, Lightning Bolt
o Yoshida Tatsuya has a tremendous following as the leader of Koenjihyakkei and Ruins
- and as a player in renowned bands such as Zeni Geva, Acid Mothers Temple and Painkiller.
o Unites three of Japan's most accomplished performers from acts such as Ruins, Ground Zero and Bondage Fruit.

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o “...could school any number of modern "brutal prog" acts on how to string together 12 disparate sections into a 5-minute tune and not have it come out a) disorganized, b) disjointed or c) too fucking insane to listen to." - Pitchfork

o “12 out of 13. "Tundra" conjures up some mind bogglingly complex moments on and some of the riffs sound shockingly difficult to play; their mathy prog sound is also backed by some really solid Classic Rock moments with chunky guitars giving a more meaty edge. This is hardly easy listening, however these are brilliantly played pieces, which you just can't turn off once you start listening. If you appreciate prog, math or even classic rock - or are just looking to hear something a bit different Korekyojinn are sure to impress.” - Room Thirteen

o ”An essential collaboration between three of the best players on the Japanese progressive rock scene." - Prog Archives

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1) Swan Dive
2) Tundra
3) Upstream
4) Vanishing Point
5) Watershed
6) Xenon
7) Yellow Jacket
8) Zebra Crossing
9) Abandoned

Preview MP3: Swan Dive

CAMP SKiN GRAFT:
( ! ) NOW WAVE
Various Artists MOD CD
cat #: GR50CD / barcode: 647216605065

NOTE: This title was previously released with different artwork under
barcodes 036172605026 and 647216605027- this reissue now replaces that title.

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See "Track Listing" below for
a complete list of recording artists
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This long unavailable, critically-acclaimed compilation was the first attempt to arrive at an audio definition of the “Skin Graft Records” sound. File under: No Wave, Electronic, Jazz, Rock, Noise, Progressive Rock, Free Jazz, Abstract, Fringe Metal, Space Rock, Punk, Avantgarde, Glitch, Art Rock, Hardcore, Outer Jazz-Rock - - or as they say over in the new world: “Now Wave”.

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o Collects rare and exclusive tracks from bands such as Brise-Glace (Jim O'Rourke), Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, Bobby Conn, The Flying Luttenbachers, Cheer- Accident, The Scissor Girls, Quintron, Ruins, UFO Or Die (Boredoms), U.S. Maple The Denison Kimball Trio, Omoide Hatoba and many more!
o Spex Magazine's Album of the Month - November 1997!

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o “Every few years, a definitive compilation album comes out that helps define true avant garde - this is it." - Ink 19

o “Skin Graft picked up the torch when Amphetamine Reptile went m.i.a., releasing some essential noise rock and fucked up punk records. In an effort to give us, the listening public, a sampling of all the ruckus they favored, the label put together this compilation which spreads the spectrum of their aesthetic. You got your art damaged rock, your freakout jazz, your unabashed noise, your droning metal, your hardcore, your punk, your space jams, and most everything in between." - Shiney Grey Monotone

o ”The greatest WTF?! compilation ever put to disc. Essential!" - Runny Noise

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TRACK LISTING:
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SIDE ONE:
The Browns: My Name In Italics
U.S. Maple: Missouri Twist
The Flying Luttenbachers: Demonic Velocities
Lake Of Dracula: Plague Of Frogs
Yona-Kit: Skeleton King
You Fantastic!: Riddler 5
UFO Or Die: Zombie Tube
Zeek Sheck: The Beeper Gets Digested
Chuck Falzone, Telepath: You're Just Too Scared Boy
Shakuhachi Surprise: Nande
Melt-Banana: Zoo, No Vacancy

SIDE TWO:
Strangulated Beatoffs: Satan's Pool Party
Monitor Radio: Insouciance
Colossamite: Bewilderbeast
Flossie and the Unicorns: Chewing Gum
Shorty: Mitzy Lodge
ZZZZZ: One Two, May
Cheer-Accident: Filet Of Nod
Denison Kimball Trio: Framed
Ruins: Hydromasgroningem
Akaten: Latham's Snipe
Omoide Hatoba: Pikadom

SIDE THREE:
Last of SG's: Bye To Bags
Mount Shasta: S171
Dazzling Killmen: Windshear
Quintron: Bug Attack
Bobby Conn: 69 Annee Erotique
Nood Ham: Tokyo Santa
Tortured Machine: Flash Fire
Space Streakings: F.O.J.K.
Zeni Geva: Terminal HZ
F-Stein: Mighty Fuckin' Robots
Brise-Glace: Likeness

Preview MP3: U.S. MAPLE: Missouri Twist
Preview MP3: DAZZLING KILLMEN: Windshear

RUINS
"1986-1992" MOD CD
cat #: GR68CD / barcode: 647216606864

NOTE: This title was previously released with
barcode 647216606826 - this reissue now replaces that title.

LINE UP:
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Yoshida Tatsuya / Drums, Vocals
- with:
Kawamoto Hideki / Bass (1-8)
Kimoto Kazuyoshi / Bass, Violin, Vocals (9-18)
Masuda Ryuichi / Bass (19-23)
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Japan's drum(s) and bass duo RUINS are renowned around the globe for their mindbendingly fast and complex hyper-progressive rock onslaught. Ruins are masters of quick-change, stop/start tempos, time-signatures and textures. Hardcore, psych, speed metal, art rock, funk- all are elements incorporated into their music, but what comes out is irrefutably original. Unquestionably RUINS.

On "1986-1992", we unearth the band's earliest material, much of which is long out of print, never heard by the bands' "western audiences". Ruins founder Yoshida Tatsuya has extensively remixed and remastered 23 songs from the bands first seven years; including their debut 7", the cut from the NG II compilation, tracks from the first 12" EP, selections from their debut LP, and remixed ?best of? tracks from the Stonehenge and Burning Stone LP's. This is the essential slice of Ruins for the longtime fan or virgin eared enthusiast!.

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SELLING POINTS:
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o Recommended if you like: Naked City, Fantomas, Slayer, King Crimson, High On Fire, Magma
o Touring Europe September 2011
o RUINS "Vressto", RUINS "Pallaschtom", RUINS "Refusal Fossil" and the complete KOENJIHYAKKEI discography are also available on SKiN GRAFT Records

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PRESS QUOTES:
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o The opener wastes no time in burning down all bridges to sanity: "Outburn" is at once the greatest-ever hardcore punk song not to protest anything or even feature real words in the lyrics, and a public service announcement for ADD awareness. The main riff is as stubbornly assured as anything Bad Brains put to wax, and the lest you get bored during its eight seconds, another wild-ass riff is there to take its place, and again and again. - Pitchfork

o “Fiendish and crazed, Ruins explore string-popping ideas only to degenerate into complex whirlpools of distortion, then regroup into a new version of their original idea with surprising grace. Ruins grow on you like a cancerous cell, and are killer. - CMJ

o ”(RUINS) wed histrionic vocals like Magma's Christian Vander in a tourettic fit to seething hardcore re-interpretations of Udu Wudu-era Magma's motion, dicing up time signatures like a musical hibachi chef on Benzedrine. The peaks of gibbering lunacy Ruins occasionally achieve beggar disbelief... a definite A- ticket ride. - Alternative Press

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TRACK LISTING:
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1) Outburn
2) Epigonen
3) Body & Soul
4) Sanctuary
5) Cambodia
6) Human Being
7) Entropy
8) Birth Control
9) Hallelujah
10) Dadaism
11) Ripples
12) Infect
13) Bug
14) Plexus
15) Bighead
16) Kibbutz
17) Hail
18) Stonehenge
19) Burning Stone
20) Zasca Coska
21) Gold Stone
22) Praha In Spring
23) Grubandgo

Preview MP3: Praha In Spring (Burning Stone Remix)
Preview MP3: Outburn (Remix from the 1st 7")

GAY BEAST
"To Smithereens" LP / MOD CD
cat #: GR101LP / barcode: 647216610113
cat #: GR101CD / barcode: 647216610120

LINE UP:
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Isaac Rotto / Guitar
Daniel Luedtke / Keyboards, Sax, Vocals
Angela Gerend / Drums, Electronics
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Gay Beast formed mid-2005 during a fit of anxiety towards Midwestern passive aggression and as an attempt to make music that was queer in composition and aesthetic. Wielding a battery of drums, scraped and hammered guitars, chanted vocals, retro-future synths, saxophone, and other electronics, the trio (Angela Gerend, Daniel Luedtke, Isaac Rotto) build songs on grounds that adjoin complexity and catchiness, a space where both abrasion and tunefulness inhabit.

With releases on DNT, Gilgongo, and Skin Graft, Gay Beast have garnered a reputation for uniqueness on the rock fringe, their sound being both too weird for the stereotype of a “gay band” and “too gay” for the noise-rock set. Upon examination of the influence blender, one finds remnants of Devo, Captain Beefheart, equatorial pop-rock from the 60s and 70s, no wave, and feminist theory. This concoction, delivered via Gay Beast’s unique political approach to composition, is explored heavily on their third album “To Smithereens”, appearing on Skin Graft Records.

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SELLING POINTS:
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o LP packaged in eleborate hand silk-screened sleeves
o First vinyl pressing comes complete with off-set booklet
o Also available on "Manufactured On Demand" CD retail-ready compact disc
o Touring Europe in February / USA in Spring 2011
o Recorded at Minnesota Public Radio Studios
o International press and radio campaign
o Online Videos available
o Second full length released by SKiN GRAFT Records

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PRESS QUOTES:
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o “Thundering out of the basements of Minneapolis, Gay Beast brings its wide-eyed, brutal sound . . . The group's latest record, ‘Second Wave,’ is full of erratic shifts in time signature, pleading yelps over razor-sharp eight-bit keyboards, and pounding tribal percussion. Although not for the faint of heart, this frenetic trio's music is miraculously danceable--the perfect soundtrack for a post-apocalyptic discotheque.”
- New Yorker

o “It's hard to put guitar/synth/drums trio Gay Beast into a neat little genre box, as they make some seriously, awesomely weird noise . . . They look and sound like something new. That's not easy. Hell, in this day and age of recycled everything, doing something different or new is almost impossible. They should have called themselves the Gay Pioneers. Or the Queer Pathfinders.”
- Portland Mercury

o ”Bands like Gay Beast used to get me excited, but none have had such a gloriously bent and creative batch of songs to match up with the innovation.”
– Doug Mosurak / Dusted Magazine

o “Think Health, think Lovely Little Girls, think DNA. But don't think too hard. It wouldn't be right.”
- Sound & Fury Records

o “Gay Beast are one of the few bands I've seen around that are seriously challenging the form and content of modern rock music. Their compositions and execution are ambitious and effective. A truly unique and weird band.”
- Weasel Walter

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TRACK LISTING:
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1) Poverty Witch
2) Dot Dot
3) Lottery
4) #
5) Compact
6) Poly ASX
7) Right Through
8) Smithereens
9) We Keep our Victims Ready (version)
10) Probably Won’t
11) Goodbye World

Preview MP3: Smithereens

AIDS WOLF electronic presskit (click cover to open PDF)

AIDS WOLF
"March To The Sea" LP / CD
cat #: GR99LP / barcode: 647216609919
cat #: GR99CD / barcode: 647216609926

The landscape is all ears and the distance is deafening.

With a new LP (their third), and an ever-renewable call to action, AIDS Wolf dribble and smear, smudge and sweep - spilling across the plains.

AIDS Wolf March To The Sea.

o First LP pressing on Colored Vinyl.
o Recorded by David Bryant in The Pines, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
o Mastered by Weasel Walter in Hell, USA.
o Very Friendly written by Throbbing Gristle.
o Cover Art by Seripop.
o Released by SKiN GRAFT Records.

AIDS Wolf was birthed into the heady days of Montreal’s millennial music scene. Yannick Desranleau (aka Hiroshima Thunder)  and Chloe Lum began the band in 2003. Unlike most of the local units finding fame out in the world beyond Quebec, AIDS Wolf pushed an abrasive, unforgiving and rather unwieldy sound around North America in a battered van.

AIDS Wolf has formalized its sound into a tight construction relying on intentional dissonance, polyrhythms and disjunctive compositional forms. The band takes its cues from “classic” New York No Wave, 90’s Midwestern No Wave, vegan cooking, 70’s proto-punk, Beefheartian modes, Ville-Marie school of white elephant architecture, Literature, www.crwflags.com, post-war continental modern composition and their unrivaled network of friends and acquaintances the world over.

PRESS QUOTES:
o Rock can still sound threatening. - Popmatters
o A brutally beautiful sound that has caught the kids' pants on fire. - Hour
o An amazing, essential, noisy mess. - CMJ
o AIDS Wolf are a no wave sonic demolition squad cartwheeling on the edge of the noise-rock precipice. - Alternative Press

AIDS WOLF "March To The Sea" Promo Poster

SELLING POINTS:
o Available on compact disc and collectable vinyl LP on limited edition colored vinyl
o Features 10 minute cover of "Very Friendly" from "The First Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle
o Produced by David Bryant (Godspeed You Black Emperor!) and Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers)
o Full Color posters Available for Retail display
o International press and radio campaign
o Touring the USA this September, European Tour in 2011

TRACK LISTING:
1) Teaching To Suffer
2) Family Romance
3) Wet Winds
4) Catholic For Rent
5) Suck Is Hapiness
6) Cake On August 1st
7) Very Friendly

Preview MP3: Teaching To Suffer

ARAB ON RADAR
"Soak The Saddle" LP
cat #: GR60LP / barcode: 723721069513

"Arab On Radar were one of those rare groups to rise out of the muck of '90s post-Grunge with a unique sound and presentation. They were equal parts simian punk rock (complete with demented ass-touching and other monkey-like rituals) and cutting-edge psychedelia (the band mapped out a new synaethesial frontier that Frank Zappa or Faust would no doubt have been eager to explore).

Now all the AOR players - Mr. OCD, Mr. Pottymouth, Mr. Clinical Depression, Mr. Type A are back with their first tour since 2002 to save our insanity once again." - Sean Carnage

Powerful and cathartic, ARAB ON RADAR is a unique and unprecedented brand of psycho-neurological terrorism. The strain introduced on "Soak The Saddle" is the most dangerous: free-er, alive and unrooted, any semblance to daddy's Rock n' Roll is long gone. On stage, Arab On Radar generate more energy and
more hysteria than any band you've ever seen. Audience members have been known to have SEIZURES, HEART ATTACKS and HEIGHTENED STATES OF SEXUAL
AROUSAL while watching the band perform. "Soak The Saddle" is where it all came together- on vinyl.

This is no joke. This band will infect you.

First 600 copies pressed on colored vinyl with hand silk-screened sleeves, printed with metallic colored inks.

PRESS QUOTES:
o With 1999's "Rough Day At The Orifice", Arab On Radar seemed incapable of sinking any lower (thats a compliment). But as "Soak The Saddle" proves, that isn't the case. "Produced" in near defiance of fidelity by the Flying Luttenbachers' Weasel Walter, Soak The Saddle is AOR's crowning achievement: 19 minutes of trebly, cum soaked horror that captures all of
claustrophobia and wanton violence of the band's live set. - Magnet

o While many of today's rockers preach the tired "music is my only release" rhetoric, the men of Arab On Radar would rather feed you your teeth than say it. - Alternative Press

o Arab On Radar should be the most popular band in the world.
- - - - - Arab On Radar will never be the most popular band in the world. - Slender

Selling Points:
o Arab On Radar's original line up has reformed
- - - includes members of Made In Mexico, Athletic Automaton, and The Chinese Stars
o Band on tour throughout the USA and Europe
o Edition of 600 copies pressed on colored vinyl with hand silk-screened sleeves, printed with metallic colored inks.

TRACK LISTING:
1) Number Five
2) Number Seven
3) Number One
4) Number Two
5) Number Eight
6) Number Six
7) Number Four
8) Number Nine
9) Number Three

Preview MP3: Number Three

GAY BEAST
"Charm" 7" Vinyl Single
cat #: GR98-7 / barcode: 647216609872

"Charm" and "We Keep Our Victims Ready". Gay Beast's first new studio recordings since the release of their acclaimed "Second Wave" album. Previously only-available on tour, each copy sports hand silk-screened covers.

"Thundering out of the basements of Minneapolis, Gay Beast's latest record, 'Second Wave,' is full of erratic shifts in time signature, pleading yelps over razor-sharp eight-bit keyboards, and pounding tribal percussion. Although not for the faint of heart, this frenetic trio’s music is miraculously danceable—the perfect soundtrack for a post-apocalyptic discotheque.
- The New Yorker

This is like James Chance and Franz Ferdinand holding hands.
- KUCI 88.9 FM

Gay Beast are one of the few bands seriously challenging the form of modern rock music – that doesn’t make them a difficult listen though. Hard-boiled and jittering all over the place, yes, very busy, rushing off in ten directions at once, never abrasive though.
- Organ Magazine

I'm totally all gay over this band and I'm not shy about expressing it.
- Gumshoe Grove

As a listening experience, Second Wave is like hearing the children of outré music genres play in the sandbox of art. All they want you to do is the join them—and, based on the hypnotic, wholly unique sound presented by Gay Beast, who could resist one of the best records of the year?
- Minneapolis Fucking Rocks

"Second Wave" - it will bring great rewards upon many, many repeated listens. By the time you have the songs figured out, you will find that you've fallen in love with them. This ranks high as THE album most worth your hard-earned dollars.
- No-Core

Think of it this way: If Sonic Youth and Le Tigre got together and wrote songs for a messed up version of At the Drive-In, you may have Second Wave. Dancing to what sounds like a broken record has never been more fun.
- The Needle Drop

This is the kind of album that requires listening to marvel at the artistry on display.
- Citizen Dick

You could say Gay Beast are a combination of influences from the past, sure, like No Wave, prog rock, noise-rock, math rock... but these labels are so ill-defined themselves that all you're really saying about Gay Beast is that they are challenging, original, and experimental. This album pushes musical composition into the future. And t's "catchy." I've listened to this record tons of times, and get something new out of it every time. Prepare to have your mind blown open.
- End Of Irony

Gay Beast is the band that every experimental noise band tries to be.
- Verbicide Magazine

TRACK LISTING:
1) Charm
2) We Keep Our Victims Ready

Preview MP3: We Keep Our Victims Ready