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American record store and label From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mississippi Records is a record store and label. It was founded by Eric Isaacson in 2003 in Portland, Oregon.[1] It also houses a café, equipment repair shop, and the Portland Museum of Modern Art.[2]
Mississippi Records | |
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General information | |
Type | Shop |
Town or city | Portland, Oregon |
Country | U.S. |
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The name Mississippi Records originates from Isaacson's original store location on Mississippi Ave, Portland, Oregon.[3] Isaacson worked previously as a manager at Oakland's now-defunct Saturn Records.[3]
For many years Isaacson ran Mississippi Records from Portland with co-founder/co-owner Warren Hill.[4] Isaacson is historically taciturn about speaking on Mississippi's background: "I haven't really found a way of finding great joy in sharing this information because the records are a better messenger for my ideas than anything I could say and a lot of times when you talk about stuff it just loses a lot of its power."[5]
Mississippi Records co-founder Warren Hill has cited The Origin Jazz Library, Smithsonian Folkways, Arhoolie Records, Sublime Frequencies, and Herwin as sources of inspiration for Mississippi Records compilations.[4]
Warren Hill formed his own record label Little Axe Records in 2011, also based in Portland, "when the original Mississippi Records label split."[6]
On January 1, 2019, filmmaker Cyrus Moussavi and musician Gordon Ashworth became the new owners with Isaacson working as a label project manager. Mississippi Records relocated to Chicago.[7][8] In 2019, Mississippi Records went on a national tour.[9]
The Mississippi Records Tape Series is an ongoing open-edition mix tape project. Mississippi Records store employee Karen Antunes originally suggested the idea for a low-price mix tape to Eric Isaacson, with the first tape appearing in 2005.[10]
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