MICHAEL DIXON repairs and restores vintage mono machines; trains newbies and hobbyists to lathe-cut their own records; releases hand-cut records through his label, PIAPTK; takes educational programming into schools; and lathe cuts short-run albums for garage bands, weddings, and big-time recording artists like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Sufjan Stevens through his company, LatheCuts.com.

I caught up to Mike through The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls, a forum devoted to “record-cutting deviants, renegades, professionals and experimenters.”

For more about Michael Dixon, click here.

Artists mentioned in this episode:

• Beach House
  
• The Beastie Boys
  
• The Beatles
  
• Dr. Dog
  
• Donovan
  
• The Flaming Lips
  
• The Isley Brothers
  
• The Melvins
  
• Pavement
  
• Phish
  
• Real Estate
  
• Sugar Candy Mountain
  
• Justin Timberlake
  
• The xx