We really should go and find the original Organ review we wrote of this one back in 1997, it was a rather important statement back there, the statement that was compilation, not our review, although that might have been an important statement as well, there wasn’t a long line of publications covering these things back there at the end of the century. This thirty-three track beast was a defining thing, a vital compliation, a sign of the times and right now, almost thirty years later it still all sounds rather fresh and vital, still the now wave…

The important thing, and the reason for mentioning this today, if we do need a reason, is that the good people of SkinGraft land have made the long since deleted and impossible to find album avaiable as a free (or a pay what you want) download via Bandcamp. There are so many good things to be found on it.

“This long unavailable, critically-acclaimed compilation was the first attempt to arrive at an audio definition of the “Skin Graft Records” sound. File under: No Wave, Electronic, Jazz, Rock, Noise, Progressive Rock, Free Jazz, Abstract, Fringe Metal, Space Rock, Punk, Avantgarde, Glitch, Art Rock, Hardcore, Outer Jazz-Rock – or as they say over in the new world: “Now Wave”.

An album that collected rare and exclusive tracks from bands such as Brise-Glace (Jim O’Rourke), Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, Bobby Conn, The Flying Luttenbachers, Cheer-Accident (well a rather annoying four second track back when finding Cheer-Accident material over here wasn’t easy!), The Scissor Girls, Quintron, Ruins, UFO Or Die (Boredoms), U.S. Maple The Denison Kimball Trio, Omoide Hatoba and many more…