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. As electroclash and dance-punk emerged in the early 2000s, helping to integrate the two previously emphatically disparate words 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 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. They released their full-length debut in April of 2008, an edgy psychedelic, and intermittently dance-able collection cheekily titled Zeppelin 3, which blended live instrumentation with electronic studio work.

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