Dill Records was a small punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

/ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

 record label based out of Monte Sereno, California

Monte Sereno, California

Monte Sereno is a city in Santa Clara County, California, USA. The population was 3,341 at the 2010 census. The city is located in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 10 miles southwest of San Jose and is immediately northwest of Los Gatos. The city is named for the 2249 ft...

, that put out CDs

CDS

-Computing and electronics:* Cadence Design Systems, American Electronic Design Automation software company* Chromatography data system, software to control chromatography instruments* Cockpit display system* Compact Discs...

/records

Gramophone record

A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

 from 1989-1998. The name is an allusion to initially the label's only band, Skankin' Pickle

Skankin' Pickle

Skankin' Pickle was an American ska punk band formed in San Jose, California that was active from 1989 to 1996.-Biography:Skankin' Pickle first formed in December 1988, made up of students from Westmont High School and Los Gatos High School. The band played their first show on April 28, 1989,...

. It was started by Mike Park, a.k.a. Bruce Lee of Skankin' Pickle. The first other band with a release on Dill Records was the Tantra Monsters (Dill 006) in 1994. After the breakup of Skankin' Pickle, Mike Park continued releasing records, beginning the label Asian Man Records

Asian Man Records

Asian Man Records is a small, DIY record label run by Mike Park in Monte Sereno, California. Park started a record label and began releasing music in 1989 under the name Dill Records, with the Asian Man label established May 1996.-Artists:...

 in 1996. Asian Man and Dill Records coexisted until 1998. Asian Man re-released many albums originally released by Dill Records, as all releases are now out of print and Dill Records is no longer in operation.

A partial Dill Records discography:

Artist	Title	Catalog Number
Skankin' Pickle Skankin' Pickle Skankin' Pickle was an American ska punk band formed in San Jose, California that was active from 1989 to 1996.-Biography:Skankin' Pickle first formed in December 1988, made up of students from Westmont High School and Los Gatos High School. The band played their first show on April 28, 1989,...	Skafunkrastapunk CD/cass	DILL 001 (reissued as DILL 0012 in 1997)
Skankin' Pickle	Skankin' Pickle Fever CD/cass	DILL 002 (reissued as DILL 0014 in 1997)
Skankin' Pickle	Sing Along with Skankin' Pickle CD/cass	DILL 003
Skankin' Pickle	Skankin' Pickle Live CD/cass
Skankin' Pickle	Hi, My Name is Erik Yee. My Favorite Band is Green Day! 7"
Slapstick	Lookit CD/cass
The Tantra Monsters	s/t (12 songs) CD/cass	DILL 006
Janitors Against Apartheid / One Eye Open	Nerds CD	DILL 007
MU330 MU330 MU330 are a ska punk band from St. Louis, Missouri.Formed by students of St. Louis University High School in 1988, MU330 played a self-described brand of music called "Psycho Ska", high energy ska punk marked by manic performances and humorous, often strange lyricism...	Chumps On Parade CD	DILL 010
Los Rudiments The Rudiments The Rudiments are a ska and punk band from the East Bay, California.-Biography:The group was together in the 1990s, and were signed to Asian Man Records with other ska/punk artists of the era, such as Link 80 and MU330. They started out playing local shows and produced their first record with Dill...	Psychoska CD	DILL 0011
The Facet	Playing Second CD	DILL 0015
Janitors Against Apartheid / One Eye Open	1 in 3,000 Nerds Can't Be Wrong CD	DILL 016
Various Artists	Dillinquents Red & Green CD
78 RPM's	Go EP	DILL 0021
The Rabies	Want Me Back EP CD	DILL 022
78 RPM's	New World Chivalry CD	DILL 0023
Various Artists	Misfitz of Ska CD/cass
Less Than Jake Less Than Jake Less Than Jake is an American ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida. Originally formed in 1992 as a power pop trio, the band evolved into a hybrid of ska punk. Less Than Jake have also been cited as showing influences from a wide variety of genres including post-grunge, heavy metal, alternative...	Pezcore CD/cass	DILL #5