Somewhere between the “spooky synths in artsy hardcore are a joke” era and today’s post-everything landscape, Portland synth-punk duo POINT LINE PLANE quietly built one of the more mystifying two-piece catalogs of the early aughts — then powered down for 22 years. This week, they’re doing what nobody had on their 2026 bingo card: dropping a fully restored, high-definition animated music video that spent two decades lost to the ages.

“Death Dance 2000,” the opening track of POINT LINE PLANE’s long-out-of-print self-titled debut, was originally paired with an animated video created in 2003 by cover artist E*Rock (Eric Mast). The video vanished not long after. Now it’s been recovered, re-rendered in HD, and pushed out into the wild via SKiN GRAFT Records — timed to land days before the album itself finally gets its first-ever vinyl and digital release on May 29th, 2026.

Watch the freshly restored “Death Dance 2000” music video here: https://www.youtube.com/@SKiNGRAFTRecords

Originally co-released on CD by Xeroid Records and Sincere Brutality — and unavailable for over two decades — the POINT LINE PLANE debut has been radically restored and remastered. The first pressing arrives on 8-Bit Blue Vinyl with a double-sided collectible “Footlong” OBI. The CD edition throws in a bonus track, “Descender 2003.” Over at Bandcamp, there’s an Ultimate Edition Bundle that packages the Blue Vinyl LP, the OBI, and the Digipak CD together at a discount. Pre-orders get “Death Dance 2000” plus three additional advance tracks as an immediate download.

For the uninitiated: POINT LINE PLANE is vocalist/keyboardist Joshua Blanchard (Major Hex) and drummer Nathan Carson (Witch Mountain). Between 2002 and 2005 they played 150 shows, cranked out two studio albums, scored a documentary about haunted houses, and got tagged by critics who couldn’t quite pin them down — reviewers kept reaching for metaphors instead of reference points. The Wire called them “evil and edgy, while being very stupid at the same time.” Fader called them “a soundtrack for urban paranoia.” Village Voice went with “post-industrial prog-drone indie-rock goth-punk techno-metal,” which honestly reads like it was generated by throwing genre tags into a blender and hitting frappe.

The reunion is already in motion. PLP played their first shows in over 20 years earlier this May in Eugene and Salem, and they’ve now joined up with the also-recently-reformed DAZZLING KILLMEN for a run of West Coast dates culminating in appearances at Minneapolis’ Caterwaul Music Festival in June.

CAMP SKiN GRAFT: NAME YOUR PRICE (For Now)

While you’re clicking around Bandcamp, do yourself a favor and grab the CAMP SKiN GRAFT compilation — SKiN GRAFT’s 50th release, originally issued in 1997 as the cap on their gloriously stupid “Now Wave” campaign. The label’s set it to “Name Your Price” for a limited window, which means the entry point for a comp featuring U.S. MAPLE, MELT-BANANA, DAZZLING KILLMEN, RUINS, ZENI GEVA, QUINTRON, BRISE-GLACE and more is now… whatever you feel like paying.

For anyone who wasn’t around when SKiN GRAFT was flooding fax machines with impenetrable press releases from fake employees, planting MELT-BANANA references in SNL sketches, and getting label T-shirts onto MTV’s The Real World — Camp SKiN GRAFT is the mission statement. It’s the audio document of the moment when a Chicago-adjacent gang of no-wave/experimental/performance-damaged bands decided to plant a flag and die on that hill. Jim O’Rourke assembled the master. The closing BRISE-GLACE track was built on the spot from a bass recording. It holds up.

As label head Mark Fischer put it: “It’s an adventure that holds up exceptionally well in today’s Post-Now landscape.”

Grab CAMP SKiN GRAFT at whatever price feels right, cop the POINT LINE PLANE debut on 8-Bit Blue Vinyl before it disappears again, and watch “Death Dance 2000” while it’s still fresh out of the archive. This kind of confluence — long-lost animation, first-ever vinyl pressing, and a legendary comp going pay-what-you-want — doesn’t happen twice.

Head to the SKiN GRAFT Bandcamp page to dig in.