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
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!).
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