Elephant 6 Recording Co.

12/06/2025

Thank you for everything, Brian Wilson.

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesHeroes & Villains · The Apples in StereoLet's Go! (EP)℗ 2009 The Elephant 6 Recording CoReleased on: 2009-02-02...

09/06/2025

👑 Today we are launching the pre-order for our next reissue, The Olivia Tremor Control’s 1996 ambient experimental album, Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences. It’s been out-of-print for decades and will be available on double LP vinyl for the first time ever. Streaming and digital will be released August 8, 2025.

We’re also offering some additional add-on items exclusively limited to advance orders. Presale ends July 1 and orders begin shipping mid-July. Order link:
https://elephant6.com/product/otc-explanation-ii

You can also listen to Will Cullen Hart talk about Explanation II on the podcast “Don’t Bother Wearing Seatbelts”, an interview he recorded only days before he passed away. (Link in comments)

30/05/2025

⭐️ Out today! ⭐️🐘

An unearthed time capsule showcases the collaboration between two kindred Elephant 6 luminaries and contemporaries.

23/05/2025

The Rishis will be playing an in-store performance at Royal Records Seattle on Saturday, May 24 at noon! Free, all ages!

22/05/2025

More spring cleaning at The Apples HQ: https://theapplesinstereo.bandcamp.com/merch

And we’ve still got a few t-shirts left at https://elephant6.com/shop

The Apples in Stereo, styled as The Apples in stereo, are an American indie psychedlic rock band and co-founders of the Elephant 6 Recording Co, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, and Circulatory System.The band is largely a product of lead voca...

22/05/2025

The record will be out May 30th! 🐘

https://www.orangetwin.com/store-1/w-cullen-hart-and-andrew-rieger-leap-through-poisoned-air-4-song-10-inch-ep

W. Cullen Hart & Andrew Rieger – “Through Poisoned Air” by Andy Read Next TWÏNS Another archival treasure from the vaults of Elephant 6 approaches this week. Following the first new music from Olivia Tremor Control, out just a few months ago, Orange Twin has announced that a 10” of collabor...

19/05/2025

We wanted to bring your attention to a new(ish) Substack account by our friend Bill Swan of the band Beulah. He has written a memoir entitled “Off To See The Elephant: My time in Beulah - Before, and maybe after”. Lots of old photos and great stories about recording and touring and the history of the band. 🐘🎺

My Life in Beulah - Before, and maybe after. Click to read Off To See The Elephant, by Bill Swan, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

16/05/2025

Happy album release day to The High Water Marks! “Consult the Oracle” is out now on Meritorio Records. ⭐️

12/05/2025

Hear Andrew Rieger talk about the first Elf Power album on this episode of the E6-themed podcast, Don’t Bother Wearing Seatbelts. 🐘

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02/05/2025

🚨New single out today from The High Water Marks on all streaming platforms. Their new album is out May 16 and you can preorder the vinyl today on their bandcamp page! 🐘

30/04/2025

New release from Robert Schneider available today on Bandcamp:
https://cloudrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/1983-dedicated-to-paul-schreiber

link in comments to a new EP by Robert Schneider released today on the Cloud Recordings Bandcamp page

from Robert:
"VARIATIONS ON MY FIRST COMPOSITION. I recorded my first composition at age 12 in Ruston, Louisiana, using a Realistic Moog MG-1 synthesizer and dual cassette boombox, on a Radio Shack data cassette (1983). Track 1 is an excerpt of my 1983 recording. Subsequent tracks are reimaginings of my first composition by Suno AI versions 3.5 - 4.0 Pro, which I generated, curated and edited. I have dreamed about AI since I was a child when I saw the film Tron (1982), with soundtrack composed by synthesizer pioneer Wendy Carlos. Decades later, my own child explained the mathematics of AI to me. This EP is autobiographical.

Dedicated to Paul T. Schreiber (1956-2025), who invented the Moog MG-1 synthesizer. Schreiber also designed the TRS-80 personal computer, on which my father taught me to program in BASIC. I am deeply grateful to Paul Schreiber for the impact he made on my life.

The Moog MG-1 was my first instrument. My parents bought me the Radio Shack-manufactured synth second-hand for my 12th birthday. My life was changed by the magical, supremely useful keyboard. I used it to teach myself to compose, arrange and record. A lifetime later, I used the MG-1's noise generator to open Fun Trick Noisemaker by The Apples in stereo, our first album (1995); my bandmate Robert Beatty played an MG-1 exclusively in Ulysses (2004); it is the lead synth on Apples song "Energy" (2007); and it was an essential component in my inventions both of the Teletron mind-controller for analog synthesizers (2010), and of the Synthesizer For The Wind installation designed in collaboration with my son, Maxwell Schneider, for the Advice From The Oceans exhibit at Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Athens, Georgia (2014). The MG-1 served me in many lifetimes.

I had the honor of meeting Schreiber at Knobcon 2024 in Chicago, and of being able to tell him how important his invention was to me as a child, as a producer, as an inventor, and as a father. He was amazing. His eyes beamed joy and intelligence and clarity. He showed me new synth modules he built through his company Synthesis Technologies, and I felt a sense of magic -- the same magic I felt as a child. Paul Schreiber was the source of my music. He cast a spell on me that lasted my whole life.

The Moog MG-1 is responsible for some of my greatest moments. Thank you, Paul, for those moments.

All tracks composed by R. Schneider, copyright (c) 2025 6EQUJ5 Music Publishing Co. (ASCAP). Produced by Robert Schneider. Track 1 performed by Robert Schneider (1983). Tracks 2 - 5 performed by Suno AI versions 3.5 - 4.0 Pro (2025). Cover art collage by Robert Schneider based on the cover of Machine Man #2 drawn by Barry Windsor Smith (Marvel Comics, 1984).

Thank you to my father Peter Schneider and my mother Cheryl Griesbach for encouraging me in music. Thank you to John Kiran Fernandes and Cloud Recordings for releasing this work, to the Suno AI developers, to Max Schneider, Zachary Peck, Tim Havens and Evan Lucas for teaching me about AI, and to Chris McKay and the WOW Signal Collective for teaching me how to channel AI to make music. Thank you to Marci Schneider for giving me Machine Man #2 as a present. Thank you to Radio Shack where I spent many happy childhood days with my father, and many happy adulthood days with my son."