Elephant 6 Recording Co.

18/12/2024

Giant Day is hitting the road again in 2025!

13/12/2024

Tonight! Los Angeles! 🐞

Los Angeles! Final night of our west coat run with Tony Molina at Lodge Room Highland Park!Tickets: https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/the-ladybug-transistor/

11/12/2024

Giant Day has a new limited edition lathe cut ep! 🐘

06/12/2024

New experimental compositions from Robert Schneider available through Cloud Recordings bandcamp today.
https://cloudrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-man-and-the-computer

pay-what-you-want download of the new Robert Schneider available now on the Cloud Recordings Bandcamp page (link in comments)

arriving 2-years after his solo album of Non-Pythagorean compositions, Songs for Other Worlds, this was surprising to me in that it turned my mind around on AI in music. aesthetically, AI-generated music didn't sit right with me, BUT these pieces are so well done, that it changed my mind on the matter!

NEW MUSIC FROM MATHEMATICS: Generative musique concrete. Dedicated to W. Cullen Hart, my dear friend, collaborator and Elephant 6 Recording Co. co-founder, for whom I was creating these sound collages from AI-generated field recordings and audio passages at the time of his passing (November, 2024). Composed by Robert Schneider and Suno AI (version 3.5), using audio source materials generated entirely by the AI that were requested, curated and edited by the human. Cover art collage by Robert Schneider, derived from the cover of the book Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (Scribner, 1972); Kemeny co-invented the BASIC programming language in 1964. Thank you to the Suno AI developers, to Craig Morris for technical assistance, to John Kiran Fernandes and Cloud Recordings for releasing this work, and to Chris McKay and the WOW Signal Collective for teaching me to channel AI music. Thank you to composer Michael G. Maxwell for our ongoing collaborations and work through the Mathematics and Music Lab (MML) at Michigan Technological University, and to my Michigan Tech colleagues Timothy Havens and Evan Lucas for our AI coding and development research, as well as philosopher Zachary Peck for AI research we engaged in at University of Georgia, all of which gave me inspiration for these compositions. Furthermore, I am deeply thankful to my Elephant 6 co-founders and lifelong sound collage artists, W. Cullen Hart, Jeff Mangum and Jim McIntyre, for turning me on to musique concrete; and to my son, musician-mathematician-computer scientist Max Schneider, for teaching me about artificial intelligence.

04/12/2024

Catch these The Ladybug Transistor tour dates if you can! They’re going to be a much needed dose of joy! 🐞

Tomorrow start their December east coast tour with . If you haven’t picked up the expanded reissue of their classic album “The Albemarle Sound” don’t sleep on it as the label is almost out so pick one up at the show. Get a shirt while you’re at it. Get there early and don’t miss Lightheaded either.

29/11/2024

New music from The Olivia Tremor Control out today! New T-shirts too!

26/11/2024

Only 1 week until The Ladybug Transistor tour kicks off! 🐞

Merch desk exclusive! The Albemarle Sound available on cassette for the first time ever - limited edition of 50 and Includes 11 bonus tracks. Catch us on tour in December with Lightheaded, Tony Molina & friends.

12/4, Medford, MA - Deep Cuts (with Lightheaded and Mark Robinson)
12/5, Keene, NH – Nova Arts (with Lightheaded and Kendra)
12/6, Kingston, NY – Tubby's (with Lightheaded and Kyle Forester)
12/7, Brooklyn, NY – Public Records (with Lightheaded)
12/9, Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s (with Tony Molina)
12/10, Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios (with Tony Molina)
12/12, San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop (with Tony Molina)
12/13, Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room (with Tony Molina)

08/11/2024

Happy reissue day to The Ladybug Transistor! The Albemarle Sound is back in print on vinyl. 🐞

The Albemarle Sound 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition is out today! Out of print on vinyl for the better part of two decades we are glad to present this silver edition brought to you by Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records. Digital version is available via Merge Records on all streaming platforms and contains 12 bonus tracks of rare b-sides, alternate mixes and demos.
https://hhbtm.bandcamp.com/album/the-albemarle-sound

06/11/2024

⭐️ Thanks for featuring the new Giant Day LP in It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine! ⭐️

Giant Day – ‘Glass Narcissus’ (Elephant 6 Recording Co.). Glass Narcissus is the debut from Giant Day, the creative fusion of Derek Almstead (Circulatory System, The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power) and Emily Growden (Marshmallow Coast, Faster Circuits). Their sound? Lush, danceable pop with a dark, psychedelic twist—hooky melodies that pull you in, layered with just enough shadow to keep things intriguing.

03/11/2024

E6 themed playlist everyday at 6am and 6pm at http://www.athensgeorgialive.com online radio station 🎶

28/10/2024

Thanks Shindig! Magazine... for reviewing the Giant Day LP! ⚡️

25/10/2024

Once a year we offer E6 logo sweatshirts through a pre-sale. This allows us to offer you many more styles, brands, colors, and sizes. This year we're going big and offering more options than ever before! Place your order from now until November 3rd at www.elephant6.com/shop

Have questions? Email Kelly at elephant6 dot com

05/10/2024

New music coming soon from our friend Jeremy Barnes (A Hawk and a Hacksaw, The Gerbils, NMH)! Hear the first track from his upcoming album and pre-order the limited edition cassette/download on Bandcamp.⚡️

11 track album

02/10/2024

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Coming November 29, 2024...
The Olivia Tremor Control present two new songs as part of the official Elephant 6 Movie soundtrack, an exclusive Record Store Day release. "Garden of Light", written by Bill Doss, and "The Same Place", written by W. Cullen Hart, are tracks that will eventually also be included on our final album, The Same Place. We are still slowly in the process of completing that record. Thanks for listening.