Big'N - Discipline Through Sound

Year: 2006

Label: Skin Graft

Recorded by Steve Albini? Check.

Sounds like a mix of Rapeman and Slint? Check.

I should be able to stop right there, and you would simply say, "oh, sounds nice, I'll go ahead and make this a part of my music collection". Is that an accurate assessment of what's going to happen? 

Oh jesus...fine. 

They were from Illinois, they operated during the second wave of the mid-western noise rock bonanza, they played with all those bands that you like from those Derek Hess posters, they grunt, the bass is out front, the time signatures are seldom 4/4, and the songs seem to be directed squarely at you.

DL 

V/A - Camp Skin Graft - Now Wave!

Year: 1997

Label: Skin Graft

Skin Graft picked up the torch when Amphetamine Reptile went m.i.a. in the mid-nineties releasing some essential noise rock and fucked up punk records. They did so in conjunction with comic books, posters, and various ephemera that made each record easily identifiable as being part of the Skin Graft stable. They  had a penchant for finding midwestern loudmouths and Japanese spazzes, two great tastes that go great together (Hey, you got Japanese spazz rock in my midwestern pigfuck. No, you got midwestern pigfuck in my Japanese spazz rock) 

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. It's a pretty good primer of what they're all about. The bands included are:

The Browns

U.S. Maple

The Flying Luttenbachers

Lake Of Dracula

Yona-Kit

You Fantastic!

UFO Or Die

Zeke Shack Care Company

Chuck Falzone, Telepath

Shakukachi Surprise

Melt-Banana

Strangulated Beatoffs

Monitor Radio

Colossamite

Flossie And The Unicorns

Shorty

Zzzzz

Cheer-Accident

The Denison Kimball Trio

Ruins

Akaten

Omoide Hatoba

Last Of SG's

Mount Shasta

Dazzling Killmen

Quintron

Bobby Conn

Nood Ham

Tortured Machine

Space Streakings

Zeni Geva

F'Stein

Brise-Glace

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