I know Mike Dixon who runs PIAPTK and he's definitely the one who does all of the crazy lathe cuts for Joyful Noise. He was hired to do some event for Justin Timberlake where he cut a live lathe cut behind him during some televised performance, too. He's an expert at that shit, so he flies around teaching people or... I don't know exactly, but he's always traveling. He's like the king of the lathe cuts, so people like Dead Meadow or Devendra Banhart will often ask him to do small runs for tour merch and he's kind of the got to for a lot of that stuff. He also did some crazy release for The Flaming Lips like that a number of years ago. He lives in Tucson.
Some of you might remember that Money Mark reissue that was posted on here earlier in the year. He put that out, too.
Here's a super crazy thing he did for Dale Crover on Joyful Noise
“A truly groundbreaking innovation in modern vinyl record / musical instrument hybridization.” “6.9” cymbal/records were hand-crafted by Michael Dixon.”
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