When Mike Dixon of People In A Position To Know asked me if I wanted to work with him at the release of American Monoxide’s new album, I had no hesitation.
PIAPTK is one of the most revolutionary record labels around, I’m crazy about their stuff, lathe cuts, unique releases, spectacular artworks, every new releases overpasses in greatness and originality the previous, amazing! Mike and I have been trading some stuff in the course of the years, boxes loaded of phenomenal records by Golden Boots and American Monoxide among the others. And hearing after hearing and listening after listening I’ve fallen in love with the work of Dimitri Manos. So when Mike offered to work together with PIAPTK at the release of Dimitri Manos’ last effort, I was on cloud nine. I’m supposed to draw 100 sleeves for this project, in advance, before I receive orders. And I’m going crazy… American Monoxide is the solo lo-fi home recordings of Dimitri (member of Tucson’s Golden Boots, Crab Legs and Philly’s Dr. Dog), His music described as ”Straight to tape trashy jams and trashy instrumentals”, ”weird electronic feel good summer jam”. Dimitri and Mike have gathered together all their favourite labels to co-operate at the release of ”Web Content”, all of them are encouraged to create their own variant/version of the album with special features. Here’s the list of all the fine folks involved and what their version will look like:
PIAPTK – Bonus Lathe Cut
Almost Halloween Time Records (Bari, Italy) – hand painted covers!
Soild Gold (Tucson) – Soild Gold Style Bootleg Cover
Baby Gas Mask Records (Tucson) – Library Style Mylar sleeves with Bonus Cassingle with unreleased track
Hocus Bogus (Tucson) – Bonus Zine with Lathe Cut cover!
Lazy Boy Recording Co (Lynchburg, VA)- TBD
Wooden Tooth Records (Tucson) – Cassingle with bonus track
Shot By A Fan (Austin) – Bonus video content!
Listen to American Monoxide “Web Content” here.
