Peanuts & Corn Records

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

Peanuts & 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

• 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

• 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

• List of record labels