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updated: June 7th, 2015

NOW IN-STOCK:

KOENJIHYAKKEI
"Hundred Sights Of Koenji"
Colored Vinyl LP / Black Vinyl LP
Limited Edition Import

RECENT RELEASES OUT NOW:

CHILD ABUSE
LP / MOD CD

DOOMSDAY STUDENT
MOD CD

THE BEATOFFS
LP / CD

SAX RUINS
LP / CD

STRANGULATED BEATOFFS CD

ZEEK SHECK
Distributed 2xLP

U.S. MAPLE
DIECUT METAL LP

U.S. MAPLE
CD / LP

SKiN GRAFT LOGO
2-SIDED T-SHIRT

ATHLETIC AUTOMATON LP / MOD CD

YOWIE
LP / MOD CD

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS LP / MOD CD

CHROME JACKSON
LP / MOD CD

DOOMSDAY STUDENT
LP / MOD CD

XADDAX
LP / MOD CD

PRE
7" EP / CD

KOENJIHYAKKEI
LIVE DVD

RUINS ALONE
LP / CD

All titles available for ORDER at

Hi Everyone!
This is Mark writing. It’s been a while since we've updated the News Desk here at the website, but rest assured that all is good! Orders keep coming in and Dave over in the Mailorder Department continues to flip 'em around and send them right out.

A few things to report:

ITEM! The SKiN GRAFT Records Facebook profile has changed. Way back near the dawn of Facebook, we established a Facebook profile for the label and it reached it’s cap of 5000 friends quite some time ago. Last month, Facebook got in touch and expressed that the "profiles" are really intended for individuals, not record labels (LOL), and so the long-standing SKiN GRAFT Records Facebook profile has now morphed into a SKiN GRAFT Records Facebook page. That means that if you were a “friend of SkiN GRAFT”, you are no longer a proper “friend” because Facebook Pages do not accept friends – just “likes”.

I wanted to make sure that this was clear - and certainly wouldn't want anyone thinking that SKiN GRAFT “unfriended" anyone - we’re all pals here! The new official SKiN GRAFT Facebook page is HERE, so swing on by and say hello.

ITEM! I've always kept personal anecdotes to a minimum here at the website, but today I have something that I really want to share. Many of you may know that while SKiN GRAFT's shipping takes place from within the U.S., I've actually been living over in Vienna, Austria for quite some time. Through SKiN GRAFT Records, I've had the honor of being involved in the creation of some pretty great stuff, and last month saw the release of the greatest collaboration yet!

My wife Johanna and I are thrilled to announce the debut of "Miss Rebecca Fischer" who landed on May 9th at 10:22 a.m., weighing in at 3 and a half kilos. In keeping with Austrian tradition, I have foregone the moniker "Daddy" for "Papa", while Johanna now goes by "Mama". Parenting certainly is a wild, wooly and wonderful new experience. In the pic above, you can see the three of us celebrating Mother's Day less than 24 hours after Rebecca's arrival.

ITEM! Just as SKiN GRAFT's supply of KOENJIHYAKKEI "Hundred Sights Of Koenji" CDs began dwindling, our pal Yoshida Tatsuya stepped in with a new master, remixed specifically to take advantage of every nook and cranny vinyl has to offer. We're pleased to announce that for the first time ever, Koenjihyakkei’s legendary debut album “Hundred Sights of Koenji” has been committed to wax - in two full-flavored, Full Contact editions, imported from Finland - a standard black vinyl issue and a deluxe clear vinyl edition, strictly limited to 150 pieces worldwide.

KOENJIHYAKKEI defies categorization. Originally released in 1994, "Hundred Sights of Koenji" teams the (then) 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 grind together intricate guitar riffs, speedy, convoluted bass/drum patterns, weird time signatures and flashy keyboard lines with apocalyptic female vocals, delivered in a language all their own.

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.

"Hundred Sights of Koenji" was originally released on CD in 1994 by God Mountain Records and issued again by SKiN GRAFT in 2007 in an enhanced, remixed and remastered version featuring re-recorded drums. The Full Contact album has been newly remastered and remixed by Yoshida Tatsuya specifically for this vinyl release.

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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 “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

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

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

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Tatsuya Yoshida: drums, vocals
Shigekazu Kuwahara: bass, vocals
Ryuichi Masuda:Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer
Kubota Aki: Vocals, Keyboards
Hoppy Kamiyama: Executive Producer
Eetu Henttonen: Layout

Originally Recorded by Kondo Yoshiaki
at Gok Sound between April and May 1994
Drums re-recorded and re-mixed in 2007 by Tatsuya Yoshida
Newly re-mixed for reissue LP in by Tatsuya Yoshida and remastered by Jussi Lehtisalo

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Preview MP3: Doi Doi
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Keep reading back through the News Desk updates below for the skinny on all of SKiN GRAFT's latest releases, including:

CHILD ABUSE "Trouble In Paradise"
DOOMSDAY STUDENT "A Walk Through Hysteria Park"
SAX RUINS "Blimmguass"
STRANGULATED BEATOFFS "The Beatoffs" (aka the White Album)
ATHLETIC AUTOMATON "5 Days In Africa: Extended"
U.S. MAPLE "Long Hair In Three Stages"
STRANGULATED BEATOFFS "Days Of Our Lives"
and the distributed Double LP from ZEEK SHECK "Joinus".

I'll be back soon with info on what future releases we've got cooking, but for now, I've got to pull this index finger away from the keyboard - this baby ain't gonna burp herself!

Bye,

Mark

MORE NEW NEWS

updated: December 24th, 2014

YO-HO-HO!:

The CHILD ABUSE CD restocks have arrived!
Read below for all the details!

updated: October 20th, 2014

NEW RELEASES:

CHILD ABUSE
"Trouble In Paradise"
LP / MOD CD / ULTIMATE EDITION
Ultimate Edition includes Colored Vinyl LP
and Compact Disc with Bonus Track

DOOMSDAY STUDENT
"A Walk Through Hysteria Park"
Compact Disc

All titles available for ORDER at

Hi Everyone!
This is Mark writing.
We have another two new releases out this month!

CHILD ABUSE "Trouble In Paradise" and
DOOMSDAY STUDENT "A Walk Through Hysteria Park"

You can place orders HERE and you can read all about them below!:

CHILD ABUSE "Trouble In Paradise"
LP / CD / ULTIMATE EDITION

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Tim Dahl: bass, vocals
Eric Lau: keyboards, vocals
Oran Canfield: drums

Recorded by Andrew Barker with Eli Crews
Mixed by Ben Greenberg
Mastered by Alex Theoret
Cover art by Albert Oehlen

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After hearing CHILD ABUSE, the trio's moniker seems more like a reference to violence inflicted by a toddler rather than upon one. The group's growled vocals, manic riffs and copious double-kick drumming nod to death metal. These loopy tones align with Tim Dahl's fuzzed-out bass and Oran Canfield's dense, swinging beats to create a highly technical sound that's also weirdly playful. - Time Out New York

In their ten years of existence, CHILD ABUSE have become much more than a jarring name. The NY trio has fused elements of Noise, Death Metal, Free Jazz, and Grind (among other things) into something entirely their own, all the while becoming one of the most innovative, and polarizing bands in New York. "Trouble in Paradise", the band's third full-length release, expands on their forays into uncharted musical territory.

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o Though Child Abuse does their best not to sound like anyone else, or fit into any genre's, open minded listeners of other genre defying bands such as Doomsday Student, Ruins, Flying Luttenbachers, Gorguts, Stockhausen, Univers Zero, Man is the Bastard, Meshuggah, Eric Dolphy, Butthole Surfers, Ocrilim, Gay Beast, Cecil Taylor, Captain Beefheart, etc...may or may not hear some similarities in Child Abuse's music.

o Includes an additional bonus track found only on the CD release

o Recorded by Andrew Barker and Eli Crews

o Tim Dahl is also currently performing in Retrovirus alongside Lydia Lunch, Bob Bert and Weasel Walter.

o Child Abuse tours worldwide: European tour begins September 2014, West Coast USA tour Spring 2015

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PRESS QUOTES:
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o "New York's Child Abuse is a gloriously confrontational band, mixing the incoherent glugs of death metal, the dissonant meander of 12-tone composition, the atonal squonk of free-jazz, blasts of ucky noise, and a wet gob of old- fashioned punk rock." - The Village Voice

o "This is some gloopy, mutant shit right here: a kaleidoscopic rush of snot greens, crackling electric blues and putrid mustard yellows mainlined straight through a jagged hole in the skull to force terrifying visions of something that’s all blurting, blunt-force horror, oogly-boogly keyboard shriek and pant-pissing threats and obscenities into your brain. Mere words can’t much do it justice...". - Rock Sound Magazine

o "Somewhere in between noise, metal, and avant-jazz lies Child Abuse, the wildman trio from NYC." - Brooklyn Vegan

o "Child Abuse revels in the craft that underlies its work. Despite the band’s harsh approach, the presence of thought and structure quickly emerge out of the maelstrom. And the fact that the band is drawing from many different stylistic wells at once should entice listeners across a wide range of tastes—as long as those listeners aren't bound by the tribal provincialism that plagues so many scenes" - New York Press

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TRACK LISTING:
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1) 300 Passengers Get Sick
2) Michael Landon
3) Casual Fridays
4) Straight Out of Compton
5) Child Abuse
6) Kings Highway -

CD / ULTIMATE EDITION ONLY
BONUS TRACK:
7) Wumble in the Bwonx

Preview MP3:Straight Out of Compton
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DOOMSDAY STUDENT "A Walk Through Hysteria Park"

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Eric Paul: Vocals
Craig Kureck: Drums
Paul Vieira: Guitar
Stephen Mattos: Guitar

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In the unhinged tradition of Arab on Radar & Chinese Stars, Doomsday Student caterwauls like four refrigerators dropped down an elevator shaft. As drums push the music forward, spiraling guitars & crazed singing use the tools of rock to dismantle rock, to make an alarm of rock, to make simultaneously songs with hooks & riffs & all that shit & also these little splitting-off universes of paranoia & hysteria & the ecstasy only exploding people truly feel.

When I listen to A Walk Through Hysteria Park on headphones in public I find myself laughing in that way that makes people cross the street away from me, that makes my spine feel made of broken bottles & soaked band aids. And I am better this way. I am more awake, more able to be in the terror & jaggedness & joy of what it is to be. Doomsday Student is a wake up call to anyone who thinks the world merely works.

Doomsday Student’s second record, A Walk Through Hysteria Park, is being released on October 28, 2014. The music of Doomsday Student is played by Eric Paul (of Arab On Radar, The Chinese Stars), Stephen Mattos (of Arab On Radar, Athletic Automaton, & Chrome Jackson), Craig Kureck (of Arab On Radar, The Chinese Stars), & Paul Vieira (of The Chinese Stars).

- Biography by Mathias Svalina, author of Destruction Myth, I Am A Very Successful Entrepreneur, and The Explosions..

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CLIFF NOTES:
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o Recommended if you like: Arab On Radar, The Chinese Stars, The Locust, Lightning Bolt, Liars, U.S. Maple, Harry Pussy

o Members of the bands Arab On Radar, Athletic Automaton and The Chinese Stars

o Doomsday Student tours worldwide (West coast tour with Retox in October 2014, East coast headlining tour will follow in November, Midwest headlining tour in early spring 2015, European headlining tour summer 2015)

o Cover art by Brian Chipendale of Lightning Bolt

o Key Markets: New York City, Boston, Providence, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Your Momma

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PRESS QUOTES:
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o "Bat shit. Terrifying speeds, Matching outfits. 4 guys just blasting it as hard as possible, and with the chops to make the magic happen all the while. Throbbing, writhing, undulating. The band. Their audience" - Boston Hassle

o "Doomsday Student is some of the loudest shit ever and an amazing take on post-hardcore. They wear all black, except for their orange shoes. Eric Paul is one of the most incredible frontman of any band ever, self-flagellating all over the stage, eyes bulging out of his shaven skull and screaming. They have really nice equipment, and they aren't just playing: every screaming guitar note and drum beat is not only turned up to 11, but maxed out on every channel". - Impose Magazine

o "Eric’s voice. It’s what makes the music more creepy than just aggressive. The creepiness is important. It’s hard to be tough and creepy at the same time. I'm not a tough guy and I don’t really like tough things. And these guys are making heavy, intense music that isn't masculine in the conventional sense. And it’s music that’s really sexual without being “sexy.” And it’s the kind of thing I love hearing at a party, but there’s no way you’d call it party music." - Dan Deacon - guest editor of Magnet Magazine

o "Like singer Eric Paul's other band, The Chinese Stars, Arab On Radar are just one of those bands that are purely addictive. When you first listen to either band you think that they must be absolutely bonkers and you are not sure what to make of it. It's not really experimental, nor straight forward and there is this weirdo element you just cannot shake. But once you have indulged in these Skin Graft acts more than once you cannot stop" - Berlin Craze

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TRACK LISTING:
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1. Disappearing
2. Murder In The Kitchen
3. Suburban Awards
4. You And Your City Teeth
5. The Lean
6. I Piss Sunshine
7. Four Knuckles
8. Hunting For A Headshrinker
9. Lifeboat Blues

Preview MP3: Disappearing
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Up top, the extreme slideshow women's collective PLANCHETTE has collaborated with the band for a video of the opening track "Disappearing". Check it out above!

Thanks
- and Happy Halloween!

Mark

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RECENT RELEASES OUT NOW:

CHILD ABUSE LP / MOD CD	DOOMSDAY STUDENT MOD CD	THE BEATOFFS LP / CD

SAX RUINS LP / CD	STRANGULATED BEATOFFS CD	ZEEK SHECK Distributed 2xLP

U.S. MAPLE DIECUT METAL LP	U.S. MAPLE CD / LP	SKiN GRAFT LOGO 2-SIDED T-SHIRT

ATHLETIC AUTOMATON LP / MOD CD	YOWIE LP / MOD CD	LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS LP / MOD CD

CHROME JACKSON LP / MOD CD	DOOMSDAY STUDENT LP / MOD CD	XADDAX LP / MOD CD

PRE 7" EP / CD	KOENJIHYAKKEI LIVE DVD	RUINS ALONE LP / CD