PIAPTK

PIAPTK Recordings is an American independent record label founded in Olympia, Washington in 2006 by Michael Dixon and based in Tucson, Arizona.

History
Michael Dixon started People in a Position to Know (PIAPTK) Recordings in 2006 while teaching high school in Olympia. Inspired by New Zealand's lathe pioneer Peter King, Dixon acquired a disc cutting lathe and began cutting and releasing hand-made DIY records. In 2013, Dixon put his teaching career on hold and moved to Tucson to make records full time, through his five vinyl companies: PIAPTK, Soiled Gold, Lathecuts.com, Mobile Vinyl Recorders, and The Science of Sound.

Artists
• Advance Base

• Amo Joy!

• Anni Rossi/Whitman

• Anthony Junior

• Ariel Pink

• Bed Rugs

• Benoit Pioulard

• Bent Shapes

• Bishop Allen

• Black Prairie

• Blank Tapes

• Built In Sun

• Carcrashlander

• Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

• Casper and the Cookies

• Catherine Irwin

• Chris Sand aka Sandman The Rappin' Cowboy

• Christmas

• DOHM: Money Mark + Patrick Keeler

• Electric Sunset

• Eli Moore

• Emily Jane Powers

• Eric Slick

• Erick Hallden

• Firs Of Prey

• The Flaming Lips

• Floating Action

• Forest Fallows

• Foxx Bodies

• Fur Family

• Gene Tripp

• Gift Machine

• Globelamp

• Golden Boots

• Grandaddy

• Graves

• Great Lakes

• Grey Waves

• Haboob

• Hello Shark

• Impossible Sahpes

• Jack Lewis' Awkward Energy

• Jad Fair

• Jason Lytle

• Jeffrey Lewis

• Jeremiah Green

• Jescos

• Joey DeMarco

• Juston Stens

• Karl Blau

• Keith John Adams

• Krab Legz

• LABRYYYNTH

• Lazer Zeppelin

• Lee "Gull" Baggett

• Little Birds

• Little Wings

• Matt Hopper

• Meowtain

• Michael Nau

• The Microphones

• Mike Watt

• Miniature and Presidential

• Mona Reels

• Nate Ashley

• New Science Projects

• Norfolk & Western

• Paleo

• Poison Control Center

• Polka Dot Dot Dot / Jordan O' Jordan

• Protest Hill

• R. Stevie Moore

• Reptar

• S.M. Wolf

• Safe

• Salesman

• Saqqara Mastabas

• Saturday Looks Good To Me

• Scott Garred / Silver Scooter

• Scott McMicken

• Simon Joyner

• Solid Home Life

• Sonny and the Sunsets

• Southerly

• Spaceface

• Strong Martian

• Sugar Candy Mountain

• Surfer Blood

• The Coke Dares

• The Crash That Took Me

• The Ocean Floor

• This Frontier Needs Heroes

• Turner Cody

• Viking Moses

• Wight Lhite

• Wooden Wand