Peanuts & Corn is a Canadian independent record label, releasing hip hop recordings since 1994.[1] They have also been a distributor of Canadian hip hop releases since 2002.
History
editPeanuts & Corn was founded in Brandon, Manitoba, by Rod Bailey AKA mcenroe.[2][3] The first recording to be produced under the label was The Space EP, created by mcenroe's band, Farm Fresh in 1994.[4]
The label has since relocated first Winnipeg, Manitoba, and later Vancouver, British Columbia, where it is now based.[5] One of the most actively involved artists at Peanuts & Corn has been Pip Skid, who has also gone by the name of Wicked Nut.[6]
By 2004 Peanuts & Corn, along with its sister company Breadwinner Music Group, was producing and releasing tracks and albums for a number of artists in the Canadian hip hop music scene,[7][8] As of 2010 there had been about 40 releases on Peanuts & Corn, and more on affiliated and subsidiary labels throughout Canada and internationally.[9]
Artists with releases on P&C
edit- mcenroe
- Pip Skid[10]
- John Smith[11]
- Gruf the Druid
- DJ Hunnicutt
- Birdapres[12]
- Yy
- The Gallivanting Spoof
- DJ Moves
- Fermented Reptile (Gruf the Druid, and Wicked Nut)
- Parklike Setting (DJ Hunnicutt, mcenroe, and John Smith)
- Farm Fresh (DJ Hunnicutt, mcenroe, and Wicked Nut)[13]
- Break Bread (mcenroe, Pipi Skid, John Smith, Gruf, DJ Hunnicutt and Yy)
P&C imprints and affiliations
edit- Camobear Records
- Clothes Horse Records
- First Things First
- Foultone Records
- Frek Sho
- Fried Chicken Productions
- Futility Records
- Goodnight Musics
- Hand'Solo Records
- Low Pressure Productions
- Plague Language Records
- Sound Barrier Recordings
- Your Brother Records
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn. Exclaim!, November 2001.
- ^ Wishahouse: Great white Northerner never-weres make a mountain out of a prole hill Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine. The Village Voice, August 30, 2005.
- ^ Holy crap! Nuts and corn Archived 2005-11-14 at the Wayback Machine Gauntlet, March 24, 2005 by Nolan Lewis,University of Calgary. Archived at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Label Life: Peanuts & Corn". Exclaim!, Archived at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "A Winter Harvest". Uptown, Archived 2009-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Archived at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Skid makes his mark". Now Magazine, by Jason Richards, September 29, 2005.
- ^ Label Life: Peanuts & Corn. Exclaim!, September 2005.
- ^ "Breaking Out". Georgia Strait, by Martin Turenne on February 26th, 2004
- ^ "Foultone Records Presents: Pip Skid [PSA + Audio]" Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine. Hip Hop Canada, Mar 12th, 2010
- ^ "Pip Skid Skid Row". Exclaim!, By Thomas Quinlan. Apr 24, 2010
- ^ "John Smith – Pinky’s Laundromat (Peanuts & Corn / 29)". Debug, 27.8.2004
- ^ "Birdapres Nothing Is Cool (with Mcenroe)". Tiny Mixtapes
- ^ Peanuts & Corn Records". Stylus, APRIL — MAY 2016 Issue . Harrison Samphir.