Peanuts & Corn Records

Peanuts & Corn is a Canadian independent record label, releasing hip hop recordings since 1994. They have also been a distributor of Canadian hip hop releases since 2002.

History

Peanuts & Corn was founded in Brandon, Manitoba, by Rod Bailey AKA mcenroe. The first recording to be produced under the label was The Space EP, created by mcenroe's band, Farm Fresh in 1994.

The label has since relocated first Winnipeg, Manitoba, and later Vancouver, British Columbia, where it is now based. One of the most actively involved artists at Peanuts & Corn has been Pip Skid, who has also gone by the name of Wicked Nut. In 2004, mcenroe and Birdapres released the album Nothing Is Cool.

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, As of 2010 there had been about 40 releases on Peanuts & Corn, and more on affiliated and subsidiary labels throughout Canada and internationally.

Artists with releases on P&C

  • mcenroe
  • Pip Skid
  • John Smith
  • Gruf the Druid
  • DJ Hunnicutt
  • Birdapres
  • Yy
  • The Gallivanting Spoof
  • DJ Moves
  • Fermented Reptile (Gruf the Druid, and Wicked Nut)
  • Park-Like Setting (DJ Hunnicutt, mcenroe, and John Smith)
  • Farm Fresh (DJ Hunnicutt, mcenroe, and Wicked Nut)
  • Break Bread (mcenroe, Pipi Skid, John Smith, Gruf, DJ Hunnicutt and Yy)

P&C imprints and affiliations

  • 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

References

  1. ↑ Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn. Exclaim!, November 2001.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Label Life: Peanuts & Corn"[link removed]. Exclaim!, Archived at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "A Winter Harvest". Uptown, Archived at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Skid makes his mark". Now Magazine, by Jason Richards, September 29, 2005.
  7. ↑ Label Life: Peanuts & Corn[link removed]. Exclaim!, September 2005.
  8. ↑ "Breaking Out". Georgia Strait, by Martin Turenne on February 26th, 2004
  9. ↑ "Foultone Records Presents: Pip Skid [PSA + Audio]" Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine. Hip Hop Canada, Mar 12th, 2010
  10. ↑ "Pip Skid Skid Row". Exclaim!, By Thomas Quinlan. Apr 24, 2010
  11. ↑ "John Smith – Pinky’s Laundromat (Peanuts & Corn / 29)". Debug, 27.8.2004
  12. ↑ "Gruf: Hopeless". PopMatters, By Lee Henderson. June 12, 2005
  13. ↑ "Birdapres Nothing Is Cool (with Mcenroe)". Tiny Mixtapes
  14. ↑ Peanuts & Corn Records". Stylus, APRIL — MAY 2016 Issue . Harrison Samphir.