Pink Skull
Genre-bending electronica outfit Pink Skull are primarily the brainchild of DJ and producer Julian Grefe, a longtime fixture of Philadelphia's punk and dance music scenes, along with a host of friends and collaborators, most notably Justin "JG" Geller, and, eventually, a full-fledged band. Through the late '90s and early 2000s, Grefe was a member of emo-punkers the Trans Megetti and the arty S PRCSS (a band whose name he also took as his DJ alias surname), while also working as a DJ and producing downtempo and drum'n'bass tracks, sometimes under the moniker EDK. As electroclash and dance-punk emerged in the early 2000s, helping to integrate the two previously emphatically disparate worlds of indie/punk and electronic dance music, Grefe was in the forefront of the revolution, helping to jump-start indie dance culture in Philadelphia and curating the first two volumes of the RVNG INTL mix series. He formed Pink Skull, together with fellow DJs Ian Kelly (DJ Diabolic) and Geller (who was half of drum'n'bass duo GFS, and later a third of Moqita), in 2003; their first release, the house-based Blast Yr AKK EP (featuring a Roxy Music cover), appeared in 2004 on Grefe's Tone Arm label.
The next several years saw a flurry of DJ activity from all involved; production work for fellow Philadelphians Yah Mos Def, Amanda Blank, and V.I.P.; remixes for the likes of HEALTH, Architecture in Helsinki, and David Gilmour Girls; and, in 2007, several single releases including an EP of reworked Chicago house classics. Over that time, Pink Skull morphed into a fully functional live band including the two originals JGs plus a third (Jeremy Gewertz) on drums, Mike Hammel on bass, and Sam Murphy on guitar. They released their full-length debut in April of 2008, an edgy, psychedelic, and intermittently danceable collection cheekily titled Zeppelin 3, which blended live instrumentation with electronic studio work, including remixes of Icy Demons and Plastic Little and contributions from Mirah and White Whale's John Anderson. The non-album single "Drugs Will Keep Us Together," a relatively straight-ahead house track, also arrived in spring 2008.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Taki Chrome / Stummer Maxxx
Alternative & Indie - Released by Höga Nord Rekords on 28 Jul 2021
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Huitlacoche Remixes
Dance - Released by My Favorite Robot Records on 11 Aug 2014
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Taki Chrome
Alternative & Indie - Released by Höga Nord Rekords on 25 Jun 2021
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New Orgo
Electronic - Released by Beachcoma Recordings on 25 Feb 2022
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All Aboard
Sid Le Rock, Sigward, Pink Skull
Dance - Released by Beachcoma Recordings on 25 Jan 2019
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Huitlacoche
Electronic - Released by My Favorite Robot Records on 17 Feb 2014
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You Ruined SST for Me
Electronic - Released by Insult To Injury on 30 Nov 2018
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Definitive Gauze
Electronic - Released by My Favorite Robot Records on 21 Jan 2013
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Drugs Will Keep Us Together
Techno - Released by The Savant Guard on 24 Mar 2008
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Braindance EP
Techno - Released by Throne of Blood on 11 Mar 2013
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Eklektisch Elektronik (Various Artists)
Sid Le Rock, Low Manuel, Pink Skull, Giz & Jules
Electronic - Released by Beachcoma Recordings on 17 Nov 2023
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Pink Skull EP
Electronic - Released by Free News Projects on 26 Nov 2007
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Clean Plate - Turkish Delight
Ambient - Released by Metal Postcard Records on 19 Apr 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo