Dr. Dog 7 inch lathe cut featuring 2 bonus tracks: "Here Comes the Hotstepper" (cover) and "Good Work Everybody" (an unreleased instrumental song Dr. Dog recorded during their last recording session).
All proceeds from this limited edition 7 inch are going to Hurricane Helene relief efforts in Asheville, NC. The profits will be donated to BeLoved Asheville, a non-profit community-oriented group that has done amazing work distributing food, water, and other essentials to those in need in the aftermath of the hurricane, as well as helping those who've lost their homes in the flood to rebuild or relocate to safe housing. They've been a major hub of community support and relief in this crisis.
Track Listing:
Side A: Here Comes the Hotstepper (cover)
Side B: Good Work Everybody
**A note on the 7 inches: Lathe Cuts are playable plastic records that are made one at a time, in real time using an experimental process on vintage mono record lathes, cutting the music into polycarbonate plastic (similar to plexiglass). Lathe Cut records are a TOTALLY different product than pressed records. There are pros and cons to each, but ultimately it comes down to treating them as playable art pieces, rather than as a simple delivery method for audio. Lathe cuts are made by the hand of the artist. Since they are cut into plastic discs, rather than pressed, the grooves tend to be more shallow and putting a weight on your record player needle arm is sometimes required to prevent skipping.
These discs were made by Piaptk (People In A Position To Know Records). These 7" lathe cuts feature handwritten labels with a yellow dusty! They are 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. 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 the dance floor experience. 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.
