Hello! I try to get a record drop out every three months. And apparently I’ve been consistent enough over the years to have raised concerns from several people who have emailed lately (it’s been 5 months since our last drop) making sure I’m still alive. And I am!

But, I’ve been sorta delayed by waiting to get final art and audio from some of the artists. And I am extremely excited about this batch! Also, after years of trying to get any color of plastic than clear, white, and black, I finally found a supplier for Red, Yellow, and Green! Aaaaannnndddd…. They are in China, so this may be my last shipment from them for a while, but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts!

1. PATREON TEN DOLLAR SUBSCRIBER FREEBIE – DEAN AND BRITTA (Luna/Galaxie 500) cover NYC songwriters
2. SUN RA! – UNRELEASED TRACKS 10”
3. DOMINIC ANGELLELA – Set Fire to the House/Smoking at the Lake House
4. SPECIAL WORLD (Andy Molholt) – Big Apple 3 AM
5. LAKE – Red Sails 7”
6. Lathe Cut Camp 26 - Tucson, May 10-12, 2025

Upcoming Releases from Floating Action (another Last Album Ever!), The Websites (who I will be touring managing on a tour of France this June, Geckos (M. Ward + Howe Gelb of Giant Sand and McKowski), Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Polar Bear (Eric Avery from Janes Addiction) and a lot of other stuff I can’t talk about yet!

PAST RELEASES: Would love if you would check out the back catalog. Every release is hand picked by me. There is so much amazing stuff in the back catalog... Floating Action (ST Reissue and JInx Protecting still in print... the other 10 albums we've released have sold out, and these are down to less than 20 copies), Mr Husband's WildFlower is a fucking banger, Gift Machine are fantastic and worth a gander, Toby Leaman from Dr Dog's Solo album, Military Applications slaps harder than Wayne Gretzky, the Jason Simon (Dead Meadow) solo album Hindsight 2020 is fantastic, Golden Boots - Nite Drives and Money Mark - Stand up for Your Rice have everything you need for an instrumental music dinner party. So please help me spread the word about these fantastic albums!

1. DEAN AND BRITTA – PATREON FREEBIE!
This is a freebie that is ONLY available to people who were subscribed at the “TENNER” Level at www.patreon.com/piaptk before April 12, 2025. If you missed out and don’t want to miss out on the next freebie (I do four freebies a year), sign up for the Patreon! You also get discounts, first notice, free downloads, etc etc.

This is a one sided white vinyl 8” of two of the finest songwriters to ever come out of NYC (although they are polar opposites)…. Lou Reed and Paul Simon. Has the Songs “A Gift” by Lou, and “Homeward Bound” by Paul and Art.

2. SUN RA – UNRELEASED STENCIL 10” – Unique stencilled discs featuring two unreleased live Sun Ra recordings from his heyday. "The Place of Five Points" (1985) and "U.F.O." (1978).

This was a release that wasn’t even remotely on my bucket list because it seemed completely impossible. I first hear Sun Ra when I was visiting my sister in NYC in 2003 and went to see The MC5 (or what was left of them) in Central Park and the Sun Ra Arkestra with Marshall Allen opened and I was blown away! I went down a deep deep rabbit hole with Sun Ra. It was my first real foray into jazz having grown up in Texas surrounded by NeoTraditional country, Punk, and Indie Rock. Sun Ra still represents everything I love about jazz… skronky, spacey, melodic and way out there.

This is a co-release with classic indie rock label forefathers, Bar/None Records from Hoboken, NJ.

Only 159 made, and everyone is unique! I made about 25 stencils and my handyman Tommy Michael and I spent two days out in the yard just getting wild with stencil and color combinations. I don’t have many copies for sale, so if they sell out here, check Bar/None’s site because they will also have some.

Dominic Angella – Set Fire to the House / Smoking at the Lake House – Two songs about Fire and Houses from my old friend Dom, who I first met when he was on tour with Eric Slick’s band Lithuania. Dom now plays with Lucy Dacus. He just happened to be playing a solo show in NYC when last time I was there, and it was the first time I got to see what a truly great songwriter he was. So, we set a PIAPTK release in motion that night and it is finally coming to fruition.

Only 100 copies with both songs on one side of a red vinyl square

SPECIAL WORLD (Andy Molholt) – BIG APPLE 3 AM 7”
Weirdly enough, I first met Andy when he was on tour with Eric Slick as well. Andy also plays in Speedy Ortiz. We’ve been talking about doing something together for years, and now is the time.

Limited edition of 100 copies on green square vinyl!

LAKE – RED SAILS 7”!

LAKE are some of my oldest friends from Olympia. This is a cover of Red Sails by 80s British New Wave band China Crisis. Each one is spray painted in sunset colors with a transparency insert.

They just released an excellent new album called Bucolic Gone and are on tour now!

04/15 Butte, MT - Carpenter's Union Hall
04/17 Fargo, ND - Parachigo
04/18 Minneapolis, MN - Cloudland
04/19 Milwaukee, WI - Sky High
04/20 Chicago, IL - Hideout
04/21 Ypsilanti, MI - Ziggy's
04/22 Toronto, ON - The Garrison
04/23 Ottawa, ON - Rainbow Bistro
04/24 Montreal, QC - Cabaret Foufounes
04/25 Catskill, NY - The Avalon
04/26 Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right
04/27 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
04/28 Washington, D.C. - Pie Shop
04/30 Durham, NC - The Pinhook
05/01 Asheville, NC - Static Age
05/02 Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR
05/03 Athens, GA - Flicker
05/04 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
05/14 Bellingham, WA - Odd Fellows Temple Room
05/15 Vancouver, BC - KW Studios
05/16 Portland, OR - The Showdown
05/17 Everett, WA - Fisherman's Village Festival
05/18 Seattle, WA - Madame Lou's
05/19 Whidbey, WA - Bailey's Corner Store

LATHE CUT CAMP 26! May 10-12, 2025 in Tucson, AZ
(This Camp is PERFECT FOR NEWBIES or Folks who just want to learn how it's done whether they want to start cutting themselves or not!)
(Classes are Saturday thru Monday, but Monday is just extra practice and cutting of campers records, so if you need to fly in late Friday and leave late Sunday, you will get most of the information)
YOU ALSO GET TO CUT YOUR OWN RECORDS AND TAKE THEM WITH YOU!
THERE ARE ONLY 8 SPOTS AND ALL PREVIOUS CAMPS HAVE SOLD OUT!
Spend three days in scenic Tucson, AZ learning (almost) everything you need to know about DIY Record Cutting! The focus of this camp will be on mono "semi-professional" machines, with particular focus on Presto 6Ns, which are one of the most common and "industry standard" vintage machines around. (if you have a different model that you want to learn more about, please ask! I may have one you can use here, or you can bring your own). You can do some amazing things with these incredible machines, and I will show you how.
We will also talk about and do a little Stereo Diamond cutting demo.
Bring your own music and we will put it onto discs for you to take home. We will touch on professional record mastering/pressing, but my main interest and experience, and the focus of this camp, will be on the more DIY and experimental side of the hobby. There are only 8 spots available, so buy early because every previous camp has sold out!
Perfect if you are interested in:
Vinyl records and how their masters are cut
Learning how this strange black art works
Buying a lathe to make your own records
Ordering lathe cuts from a lathe cut service
Cutting your own music to disc

Topics covered:
The science behind vinyl record cutting
Lathe Operations and equipment
The pressing process
Lacquer dub plate cutting
Experimental and alternative materials (plexiglass, laserdiscs, picnic plates, etc)
Stereo Diamond Hifi One-Off Records (Introduction to)
Please Note: You are responsible for your own transportation to/from Tucson and your accommodations.

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Giant Sand's Howe Gelb teams up with M. Ward and McKowski (Ireland's The Lost Brothers / The Basement) for some killer Southwest vibe folk. Two different singles, both limited to 100 copies (we gave the band half so only have about 45 to sell, so don't sleep on them! The band requested this be physical only, no digital... but if you like the other projects of everyone involved and/or Calexico, Handsome Brothers, Morricone, Leonard Cohen, etc you will LOVE this. 45 rpm clear square lathe cut 7"s.

Geckos: Dance of the Gecko / Botas Negras

Geckos: Lo Hice / Black Diamond

Hey! Hope your winter is kicking off in fine form for you... it should be sweater weather in Tucson any day now. Been out and about installing lathes and doing service calls in Buenos Aires, Sydney, Manila, LA, and soon to be headed to NYC, Mexico City, and Bergen, Norway in the next month of two. But in the between times, I've got a few new releases ready for ya!

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"Pre-FLOATING ACTION" - Perigo Nau Tokar LP Pressed LP Freebie! PATREON EXCLUSIVE

XMAS SALE! - All this travelling Johnny AppleLathe life I've been livin' has really taken a toll on my credit card account. Help me Help You Help Me Help Yourself and Your Music Loving Friends by buying some cheap backstock!

Floating Action - ST LP Reissue- The classic official introduction of "Floating Action" to the world! Out of Print on vinyl for 15 years!

GIANT DAY - PYRAMIDS 10" - Elephant 6 Veterans return with a new project!

Lathe Cut Camp 25 - Mar 1-3, 2025

Patreon Exclusive - Pre-Floating Action - Perigo Nao Tokar LP!

This is the third Quarterly Patreon Freebie.. It is ONLY available to those Patreon subscribers who were signed up before Nov 30th. Previous freebies in the last 9 months have been from Dr Dog, Polyphonic Spree, etc and we have a lot more coming up in the near future. Sign up at www.Patreon.com/PIAPTK to get future editions!

Perigo Nao Tocar is the first album Seth Kaufmann recorded by himself. Recorded entirely on a four track and completely disowned by Seth almost two decades ago. Seth accidentally let it's existence slip while we were talking about the Ting Reissue. And then he said "naw, forget about that... that record isn't a real record, and it's not even real complete songs, and I wouldn't want anyone to pay money for it, thinking it was a Floating Action album". And I said "Well, I've got a solution! Because I love this record! It's raw, lo-fi, but is really fun and interesting and is quite obviously early stage Floating Action. So, how about I press up a handful of copies and give them to my Patreon Subscribers?” and he agreed! So, this is a real exclusive treat for EVERYBODY. A peek into the beginning stages of Floating Action.

It is only available on vinyl and no digital files will be given.

PIAPTK XMAS SALE!

All this travelling Johnny AppleLathe life I've been livin' has really taken a toll on my credit card account. Help me Help You Help Me Help Yourself and Your Music Loving Friends by buying some cheap backstock! 7"s as low $2, LPs as cheap as $5. Really great stuff at below cost prices!

Need the perfect gift for your friends/family? Or want to give Mike's daughter the gift of PIAPTK money in the bank account? Want to save my assistant Sam some end of year inventoryin' time? Now is your chance to get some excellent records at cut rate prices!

OR, Just throw me down $100 for Extra Value Discount Bin Mystery Box and get a stack of random goodness

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FLOATING ACTION - ST LP Reissue!

The second in the series of Pre-PIAPTK Floating Action Reissues! The First OFFICIAL "Floating Action album", which has been out of print on vinyl for almost 15 years and commands ridiculous prices on Discgos. This reissue Limited to 250 copies on 180g Black Vinyl! And as is the running custom with these reissues, includes a Floating Action Air freshener (Ocean Breeze scent!).

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GIANT DAY - Pyramids EP 10" Lathe Cut

It is with pretty sad timing that I get to announce this 10" that I was super excited about from mems of the E6 Collective Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System etc less than a week after we lost E6 Stalwart and creative powerhouse, Will Cullen Hart. But, at the very least, his art and music will live, as will his tremendous influence....

(For those not familiar with lathe cuts, they are hand made in real time using an experimental process on 80 year old machines. They have a little higher noise floor than pressed records and are "Mid-Fidelity), but should still sound pretty good and track on even the lowliest Crosley)

Giant Day is the new project of Elephant 6 Collective vets Derek Almstead and Emily Growden. Both longtime partners and established musicians, they’ve worked, recorded and performed in Athens, Georgia for many years with multiple groups, including between them The Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, Elf Power, The Glands, of Montreal, Faster Circuits and Marshmallow Coast to name a few. This latest musical iteration combines psych, art rock, post-punk and dream pop influences into a new sound.

Now based in rural Pennsylvania, the duo is dedicated to crafting music, touring, renovating their historic farmhouse and perfecting their sound in their new recording studio. Giant Day’s debut album, Glass Narcissus, was released by The Elephant 6 Recording Company in August of 2024.

Giant Day’s Pyramids EP is a hand-stenciled, lathe-cut three-song collection of covers available exclusively on PIAPTK Records. It features “And I Moved”; a song Bette Midler sent back to songwriter Pete Townsend for being "too sexual”, “Revenge”, from The Eurythmics stellar first record, 1981’s In The Garden, and “The Sphinx”, a song by the Great Sphinx herself and Queen of Queens, Amanda Lear.

“Quirky rhythms with infectious backbeats, occasional bass bursts, and subtle detours into Broadcast/Stereolab territory abound.” -Shindig! Magazine

“This music is sleek and precise, as if assembled with instruments surgical in addition to musical. In Almstead and Growden’s harmonies looms a different kind of darkness than that which haunts Neutral Milk Hotel. But…offers something better than a nostalgic rehash of late 90’s Athens, Georgia: sharp, propulsive pop-rock that doesn’t bother gazing backward.” -Stereogum

“Digital goodness with an analogue feel, [Giant Day] lazily sway into your subconscious with that confidence and swagger brought on by future legends in this latest sound from the independent universe. That signature, somewhat obscure sonic goodness that takes the music where most fear to tread while coming out of the other side unscathed and utterly original.” -Jammerzine

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Well, it was a crazy summer, and now the fall about to pick up... I've got Lathe Cut Camp 24 coming up this weekend, and leave immediately afterwards for a Lathe Install in Buenos Aires. So before things get too wild, I need to get this big old stack of new releases out into the wild!

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Polyphonic Spree - Fireworks Demo 7" PATREON EXCLUSIVE
Mr Husband - Wildflower LP
Scherler Sundays Comp LP + Bonus Fundraiser 7"s - Doug Martsch, Michael Hurley, Lavender Country and tons more!
Michael Nau + Mr Husband - My Only Friend 7" Stenciled Pic Disc
Adam Grahhs and Pan-AM - Pantosia 10"
Lathe Cut Camp 25 - Mar 1-3, 2025

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The Polyphonic Spree - Fireworks Demo 7"

This is the second of the Patreon Exclusive Freebies (the first one was a Dr Dog 7"). They are only available to Patreon subscribers of the Tenner $10/month level that were subscribed before 9/12/24. But I plan to keep on crankin' out the hits on a quarterly/biannual basis to future subscribers, and the freebie that will come out with the next batch is going to be really something special, so if you don't want to miss out, go to https://www.patreon.com/PIAPTK and sign up!

ALMOST every PIAPTK release from here on out will have some sort of special component for Patreon subscribers. Unique vinyl color, bonus disc or track, handmade component. etc

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE - FIREWORKS DEMO 7"~

Growing up in the Dallas area, Tripping Daisy was always a local favorite. Tim Delaughter has always written amazing pop songs and Polyphonic Spree of course is no exception. On top of that, plenty of my friends from college have been in the Polyphonic Spree, so I've been chasing them for years and it finally happened!

This is an early, never before heard PS demo called Fireworks on clear square vinyl with a transperency insert.

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Mr Husband - Wildflower LP

PIAPTK and Mr Husbands' first pressed vinyl collab after a fun string of sold out Lathe cut 10"s! And this is yet another exceptional slice of well written indie rock dreaminess!

Available on White Vinyl (150 copies), Purple Wildflower Pinwheel Vinyl (100 copies) and Unique Hand painted Test Pressings (20 copies).

Please do us a favor and add this album (and any other Mr Husband albums you feel like) to your "saved" or "liked" or "Followed" or "whateverthefuck" thing they have on your favorite streaming service. That kind of stuff really helps out the band get into the algorithm.

From Kenny (Mr Husband)
WILDFLOWER was sort of an accidental record. We never said “Ok boys we’ve got the songs now let’s go to the studio”. It came together song by song and surprised us. For years I had refused to set up a studio in my garage because it was such a bad fit for recording. There is no insulation so it’s usually freezing or sweltering (and you can’t record with electric heaters or air conditioners running or the noise will be there on the record). Also, the roof is just a sheet of tin so if there is any outside noise like rain or planes or if a squirrel decides to run across the roof it can easily ruin a good take. The roof also leaks which is awesome for vintage audio equipment. I could go on. But with the arrival of my wonderful daughter in 2021 I could no longer find enough time to record inside my house without disturbing her sleep. It was either the garage or no home recording at all which I’ve come to realize just does not work for me. So I finally gave in and lugged my equipment across the yard and set up a little corner studio in the garage to make some demos and test the space. WILDFLOWER is the result. Our drummer Chris Morris stuck with me during the most uncomfortable conditions to complete these tracks. One winter night we got started about 7pm after a long day of work at our day jobs. It got so cold that the kerosene heater couldn't compete at all and we could see our breath while tracking. We had to end the session because the cymbals started to sound terrible due to the extreme cold which is hilarious to me. I’ll always be grateful that I had a friend who cares enough about my songs to put up with that. Chris lost his dad to brain cancer as we were getting started on this project and he sort of used recording as a therapeutic space as he was grieving. That gave the sessions a higher sense of purpose and it steered us towards a wholesome process that I’m proud of. In the past I’ve gotten very obsessive when making records/art but this time around I let family life dictate the pace and didn’t let the process do me any harm. For that reason it is easily my favorite record that I’ve ever made. I really hope you enjoy it. Thanks for taking a minute to read about it and thanks for listening.

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Scherler Sundays Compilation LP!

My old Olympia buddy Markly Morrison (of LAKE, Lazer Zeppelin, Skrill Meadow, Fisher J Price, etc) has been hosting the EXCELLENT "Low Profile with Markly Morrison Podcast" which has featured/hosted an unbeliveable list of out there outsider musicians over the last half decade.. (all this is to say HIGHLY recommended)

In addition to Low Profile, Markly has been hosting a weekly summer show, ALWAYS FREE, ALWAYS ALL AGES, behind the Olympia Library with a regularly excellent lineup, sponsored by Olympia's
"Premium Shitty Beer", Scherler. Many a PIAPTK alumni has rolled through, in addition to the creme'de'la'creme of Pacific Northwest Indie Royalty.

Scherler Beer The Album: Volume One is culled from these performances and the profits go to support the ongoing series of free, all ages concerts. Ltd Ed of 500!

Tracklisting:
The Mona Reels - Don't Make a Promise
John Atkins (764-HERO, The Magic Magicians) - In Amber
Lavender Country - Y'all Come Out
The Gift Machine - One More Time Around
Karl Blau - Blue As My Name
Your Heart Breaks - Where Rejects Reign
Olivia Rose - Lottery
Michael Hurley - Ridin' Down the Canyon
LAKE - The Power Line
Elf Power - When the Red King Comes
Kicking Giant - This Song
Doug Martsch (Built to Spill) - Fruits of My Labor

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Scherler Sundays Fundraiser Bonus 7"s!

Four new one-sided 7"s (Clear Square lathe cuts) recorded live at Scherler Sundays (spearheaded by the excellent Low Profile Podcast). All profits from these singles will go to support the Scherler Sundays programs in my former home of Olympia, WA.

Doug Martsch - Cry For A Shadow
Michael Hurley - Slurf Song
Lavender Country - Back in the Closet Again
Kicking Giant - Fuck the Rules

All Limited to 100 copies on one-sided clear square 7"s with transperency inserts with art by Lazer Zeppelin's Andrew Ebright.

Past performers include Doug Martsch, Elf Power, Michael Hurley, Lavender Country, Mirah, Gift Machine, Gun Outfit, (and plenty of PIAPTK alums like Graves, Karl Blau, GIft Machine, LIttle Wings, Lee Baggett, etc).

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Michael Nau & Mr Husband - My Only Friend (Opal Cover)

Michael Nau introduced me to Mr Husband a couple years ago and I was smitten. To celebrate PIAPTK's first non-lathe cut Pressed Vinyl Mr Husband release, Michael and Kenny dug a long lost collaborative cover of Opal's My Only Friend out of the vault. The original plan was to just do a clear square one sided 7" with a foldover cover, but after Kenny sent me the artwork and I was looking at the foldover, I got a wild hair up my ass, made some stencils and four hours later had 125 stencilled discs, which got cut the next morning.

From Kenny (Mr Husband):
I can’t remember exactly who requested it but I was tasked with an “80’s” cover and I’m 100% sure they wanted something on the Tears for Fears / Thompson Twins / Chillwave spectrum. But being a life-long contrarian I chose this Opal song, a poignant suggestion from the great curator and lecturer Ian Nagoski of Canary Records (who was my pal and I was his bartender). Anyway By the time we made this recording somewhere around 2012 I had known Michael for a decade. Over the years we had recorded together a few times and were already comfortable with each other in that space which made this session a real pleasure. We met in the morning at my friend’s studio where I had been mixing records for local bands. I set up two mics in front of the couch. We had a little coffee, had a little chat, and then recorded 2 takes. This was the second take I believe. We overdubbed some piano and chimey bits and called it a day. The original is beautiful and hard to improve upon but we hope you enjoy the gentle ride on this version. RIP Roback. Love to Opal.

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Adam Grahhs and Pan- AM Pantosmia 10" Lathe Cut

Adam Grahhs (Amo Joy, SM Wolf, Frequency Ghost, etc) is BACK after putting together a live band to play songs off his one man band solo album, and deciding to re-record some of the songs for this EP. Adam is one of my favorite home recording engineers and this band is fire.

From Adam:
I put a live band together to play songs from my solo album Phantosmia. They brought an energy and perspective that took the songs into a fresh light so we put it to tape. The new album Pantosmia features new full band rendering of 4 of the tracks from that album plus a new instrumental written for this EP. We recorded it mostly live on 4 track reel to reel in my basement.

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LATHE CUT CAMP 25! Mar 1-3, 2025 in Tucson, AZ
(This Camp is PERFECT FOR NEWBIES or Folks who just want to learn how it's done whether they want to start cutting themselves or not!)
(Classes are Saturday thru Monday, but Monday is just extra practice and cutting of campers records, so if you need to fly in late Friday and leave late Sunday, you will get most of the information)
YOU ALSO GET TO CUT YOUR OWN RECORDS AND TAKE THEM WITH YOU!
THERE ARE ONLY 8 SPOTS AND ALL PREVIOUS CAMPS HAVE SOLD OUT!
Spend three days in scenic Tucson, AZ learning (almost) everything you need to know about DIY Record Cutting! The focus of this camp will be on mono "semi-professional" machines, with particular focus on Presto 6Ns, which are one of the most common and "industry standard" vintage machines around. (if you have a different model that you want to learn more about, please ask! I may have one you can use here, or you can bring your own). You can do some amazing things with these incredible machines, and I will show you how.
We will also talk about and do a little Stereo Diamond cutting demo.
Bring your own music and we will put it onto discs for you to take home. We will touch on professional record mastering/pressing, but my main interest and experience, and the focus of this camp, will be on the more DIY and experimental side of the hobby. There are only 8 spots available, so buy early because every previous camp has sold out!
Perfect if you are interested in:
Vinyl records and how their masters are cut
Learning how this strange black art works
Buying a lathe to make your own records
Ordering lathe cuts from a lathe cut service
Cutting your own music to disc

Topics covered:
The science behind vinyl record cutting
Lathe Operations and equipment
The pressing process
Lacquer dub plate cutting
Experimental and alternative materials (plexiglass, laserdiscs, picnic plates, etc)
Stereo Diamond Hifi One-Off Records (Introduction to)
Please Note: You are responsible for your own transportation to/from Tucson and your accommodations.

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Tucson summer is in full swing, which means you can find my ass somewhere else until it cools down. In the next eight weeks I will not be home for more than 3-4 days at a time in between trips to Portugal/Spain (to take my 13 year old daughter to see Olivia Rodrigo in Lisbon (in a transparently desperate bid for her to continue to think i'm "cool" as far into her teens as possible), Anchorage/Valdez Alaska, NYC for 4th f July to consult on a TV show with Natasha Lyonne and Giancarlo Esposito, Toronto to install a lathe, Buenos Aires to install a lathe, Colorado to see Dr Dog at Red Rocks (obvs a business trip), and a 3 night run to see The Dead at the Sphere in Vegas (again.... highly recommended... come roll with my crew Aug 1-3 if you are so inclined) etc.

|BUT, the new Floating Action LP "Cheey" just arrived, which means it is time to finally launch the other cadre of releases I've been sitting on for a while, and my tireless team of shipping professionals is waiting to serve you.


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Dr. Dog - Here Comes the Hotstepper / Great Work Everybody "Dub Plate" 7" PATREON EXCLUSIVE
Brainiac - We'll Eat Anything stenciled/screenprinted 10" of never before released demos
Floating Action - Cheey LP
Spaceface - BIttersweet symphony MIRROR 7" singles
Nathan Sabatino Reworks M Nau, Dream Sitch, Begale, and Floating Action.




Dr. Dog - Here Comes the Hotstepper / Great Work Everybody "Dub Plate" 7"

This is the first of the Patreon Exclusive Freebies. They are only available to Patreon subscribers of the $6 and $10/month level that were subscribed before 6/14/24. But I plan to keep on crankin' out the hits on a quarterly/biannual basis to future subscribers, so if you don't want to miss out, go to https://www.patreon.com/PIAPTK and sign up!

ALMOST every PIAPTK release from here on out will have some sort of special component for Patreon subscribers. Unique vinyl color, bonus disc or track, handmade component. etc



Dr Dog: Here Comes the Hotstepper / Great Work Everyone
Welcome to the first installment of the PIAPTK Patreon exclusive series, available only to PIAPTK’s Patrons (plus some copies for the band to distribute as they wish).

Handwritten labels on round black vinyl, dub plate style with yellow dusty!

It is an homage to the predecessor of the modern lathe cut record, the dub plate. Dub plates were used heavily in Jamaican reggae and Disco / House dance music in the 70s and 80s. They were one-off copies of a song cut in real time on a lacquer acetate blank record. In reggae, dubs were used to provide sound system DJs with a one-off copy of a song, sometimes with “toasting” where a DJ would sing or talk over an instrumental, identifying the sound system and proclaiming their superiority over other sound systems. This recording would be exclusive to that sound system and would be a way of setting them apart. In Jamaica, King Tubby and Arrows Studio were instrumental in providing dubs to sound systems. I used to own the Presto 8DGV cutting lathe from Arrows, but it now resides in the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. However, the Grampian cutter head from Arrows is still the daily runner in my cutting studio. In House music of the late 70s and 80s, dubs were used to extend 3 minute pop songs and to add musical elements such as drum machines and effects to really heighten then dance floor experience in clubs like Studio 54 and Paradise Garage. DJs would get dub plates made at dub factories like Sunshine Sound, Angel Sound, or Melting Pot sound. Rich Flores, who ran Melting Pot sound actually still makes my cutting styli to this day. DJs would also use dub plates to “field test” their remixes to see how the dance floor responded to the mix before they pressed the record in a larger quantity. Much like the Jamaicans, the house DJs wanted to bring songs and remixes to their club nights that no other DJs had.
The packaging of this record pays homage to both of these scenes. The yellow dust jacket and generic “studio label” is similar to the labels used by King Tubby and Arrows, and the poorly written chicken scratch shorthand (each hand written by me) is an homage to some of the NYC dub plates that were labeled this way to prevent other DJs from finding the track for themselves.

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Brainiac - We'll Eat Anything stenciled/screenprinted 10" of never before released demos

One sided 10" with four songs, all previously unreleased early home recorded demos. It is silkscreened and stencilled in a whole candy store selection of color combos. Limited to 200 hand numbered copies (the band got 100 freebies that they sold on their last tour).

About it:
Whoa boy, another bucket list band that I fell into just by asking nicely and being in the right place at the right time. I found Brainiac in the late 90s during my spazzy math rock phase and BOY did I wear out Hissing Prigs in Static Couture and Electroshock for President, and I must have seen John Schmersal's later project, Enon live 30+ times. I was really excited a couple years ago when the Brainiac documentary came out (if you haven't seen it, it's great!), and it really brought me back.

So, after the doc, I thought to myself "What is Schmersal up to now? Can I find him? Well, I did, introduced myself and talked to him about maybe doing something for his current solo project "Crooks on Tape". But, he's been on tour with Caribou for the last few years, so nothing has really materialized. He currently lives in Joshua Tree, CA, where I spend a fair amount of time, so whenever we are both there at the same time, we meet up for lunch or breakfast. Last time I was there, we had breakfast, and I casually, no presh-style, threw in my usual schmooze "not tryna be the too much business-guy, but just reminding you I'd love to collaborate on a project if the opportunity arises...." Amazingly, and totally unexpectedly (never in a million years did I expect to do a Brainiac release), he told me he had some rare, early Brainiac demos that they were looking for a cool way to release on a physical format to sell during their May tour. Since he was leaving to rehearse and record with Caribou in London, he put me in touch with the rest of the band and we hammered out some art together.

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Floating Action - Cheey LP
The newest LAST Final Floating Action album is here! CHEEY!

And, continuing with our long running tradition of including some sort of small, flat, and stupid freebie swag item with each new Floating Action album, it was a no-brainer to include "Cheey Candy" with industrial product design art by my 13 year old daughter, Ryer.

Limited to 250 copies. On Translucent red and Patreon exclusive white with Red Splatter.

WHILE YOU ARE AT IT: Add on the only two Floating Action LPs still in print: JInx Protecting (colored vinyl with Floating Action Incense and custom incense burner) and TING! (with Ting scented AIr Freshner)

Seth's Cheey Blurb

It feels like all songs are just rushing through space, kind of parallel to us. Who knows how many we’ve missed, failed to connect with. I feel like I’ve created enough albums in my life, I should probably stop. But then keep getting these darn ideas…so why not record them? Since the pandemic, I’ve been double-jobbin’ in, music & handyman for a vacation cabin rental place (Greybeard Rentals). No days off, ever - hard to find time to work on music.

I had been to this one small cabin to fix things a couple times, right in Black Mountain where I live. It had all these cool zones that struck me as cool places to sit and write - the cabin is on old stone stilts, and had a bamboo forest on a creek in the back.I was able to rent it with a discount from Greybeard, and had it for 2.5 days, in January, 2024.I packed up an extremely minimal batch of recording gear, and set it up in the cabin. Brought my espresso machine too of course.

This is the first Floating Action album where I’ve ever been totally alone, and able to focus 100% on what I was doing. Not much time either, 2.5 days, I entered this deep vigilant focused world, and just wrote and recorded like my life depended on it. I would go to sleep around 1am and get up at 7am, immediatetly keep working. It was cold (highs around freezing), I often wrote out by that creek, bundled up and freezing. I wrote and recorded so fast and focused, I got all of CHEEY made in those 2.5 days.

Relatively stripped down album, my self imposed rule for this one was, upright and electric bass on every song, at least two drumkits on every song, and no keys. (I put a little piano on ‘Stay Glued’ later).

No guests on this one, just me. (except for my daughter singing on the chorus of ‘Ants They Follow Fat’). I mixed it as I recorded, then Kyle McEvoy mastered it…nothing was ever analyzed or thought about..

It’s my favorite Floating Action I’ve ever done!
-SETH KAUFFMAN


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Nathan Sabatino Reworks M Nau, Dream Sitch, Begale, and Floating Action.

Hand stencilled discs for the one sided 12" of Nathan Sabatino Reworks from the Dream Sitch Family.

Remixes from Michael Nau, Dream Sitch, Floating Action and Begale (Mike's wife Whitney).

Track Listing:
Dream Sitch - Sideways (DJXII Pool Party Mix)
Floating Action - Give It Time (Egyptian Laser Mix)
Michael Nau - I Root (Kawai 151PS Mix)
Begale - Now and Then (K.0! Stretch Mix)

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Spaceface - Bittersweet symphony MIRROR 7" singles

For the first time in well over a decade, I decided to make MIRROR VINYL SINGLES. These have a little more surface noise than our standard lathe cuts, and are slightly lower-fi, but they fit very well with the vibe of this tune.

A sneak peek of the still-in-progress new Spaceface album! Spaceface covers a song that us old folks couldn't escape on the radio while they were still in day care. And listening to this 100 times in a tow, I am reminded of what a banger it actually it was. Everything old is new again, and Spaceface crush this version.

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