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Pineapple Records was a DIY
label. It managed one single. It issued singles in PULP-00
numerical series. 23 Skidoo are a British band playing a fusion of
industrial, post-punk, alternative dance, rock, and world music. The group was
named after an early 20th-century American slang phrase that later made
appearances in the works of Aleister Crowley, William S. Burroughs, and
filmmaker Julian Biggs. Formed in 1979 by Fritz Catlin, Johnny Turnbull and Sam
Mills, and later augmented by Alex Turnbull and Tom Heslop, 23 Skidoo had
interests in martial arts, Burundi and Kodo drumming, Fela Kuti, The Last Poets,
William S. Burroughs, as well as the emerging confluence of industrial,
post-punk and funk, heard in artists such as A Certain Ratio, Throbbing Gristle,
Cabaret Voltaire, The Pop Group and This Heat. Distributed By Pineapple
Records.
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