The Philly based Pink Skull will add Throne Of Blood to their armoury of labels with a forthcoming EP that comes stacked with remixes – stream the results here.
Philly based psychedelic doods Pink Skull man the decks for the 18th mix in our podcast series with a near hour long all-vinyl excursion through recent disco and house burners.
News surfaces from the good ship RVNG Intl of the third album from Philly cosmic riders Pink Skull, entitled Psychic Welfare, which is being prepared for worldwide emission in September.
Interview – Pink Skull
Pink Skull’s debut longplayer Zeppelin 3 blasted through the Philadelphia duo’s love of 60s psychedelia, 70s kraut Kosmische and 90s bleep rave – amongst other things. With Endless Bummer, their sophomore effort released on boutique New York label RVNG, their sound has matured, relying less on scattergun processed MPC beats. This is in part due to the original core duo of Julian Grefe and Justin Geller adding a drummer (Jeremy Gewertz), bassist (Mike Hammel) and guitarist (Sam Murphy) to the Pink Skull ensemble.
The resulting album is one of 2009’s pleasant surprises (check out our full review here). Disco pogo workouts like “Chicken Dream Inside Egg” and “Oh Monorail” bring to mind The Emperor Machine in their pomp, whilst tracks such as “When Falling Straight Through A Goat” and “Wheet” hint at the ambience of Eno and The Orb.
Julian spoke to Juno Plus about Krautrock, mediocrity and, erm, ruptured testicles.
Artist: Pink Skull
Title: Endless Bummer
Label: RVNG Intl
Genre: Disco/Nu-Disco
Format: Digital (Juno Exclusive)
Buy From: Juno Download
Philly dudes Pink Skull scored one of last years more under rated albums with their debut longplayer Zeppelin 3. Blasting through the duos love of all 60s psychedelia, 70s kraut cosmiche and 90s bleep rave accompanied by deranged song titles, it was something of a breath of fresh air amidst the sea of electro house, 2008’s most prevalent sound.
With Endless Bummer, their sophomore effort released on the awesome NYC boutique label RVNG, Pink Skull’s sound has matured, relying less on scattergun processed MPC beats, with the core duo of Julian Grefe and Justin Geller adding a bass player, guitarist and drummer to their line-up.
Disco pogo workouts like “Chicken Dream Inside Egg” and “Oh Monorail” bring to mind The Emperor Machine in their pomp, whilst tracks such as “When Falling Straight Through A Goat” and “Wheet” hint at the ambience of Eno and The Orb.
Review: Tony Poland
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