audio mmm010 sound 2004-10-31 16:33:13 My Mean Magpie Recordings <img src="http://ia200010.eu.archive.org/hdb1/audio/mmm010/mmm010cover.jpg" hspace=15 vspace=15 align="left">Featuring exclusive recordings by Royal City, Oval-Teen, Jim Guthrie, and loads of others... The year is 1998 and Lil’ RedWagon (run by Chris Abbott) is a new label just starting out, and a zine called Tape-Gun (written by Five Seventeen from My Mean Magpie Records) is approaching it’s third issue. Both are working on separate compilations. Lil’ Red Wagon focused its’ sights on the music of Japan and Tape-Gun was compiling artists for a cassette to accompany the next issue. They knew one another and, at the time, it seemed to make sense to pool their resources and funds and release a full blown CD. And the music began to pour in... As is the story with many of these compilations, funds, time and delays keep putting off the release. Bands break up, lose contact and everything gets lost, only to be released elsewhere or never. However, though the delays happened, the funds disappeared, and bands disappeared Ten; Ten was released on CDR and now is archived here. Also, check out these other fine <a href="http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=mmm" > My Mean Magpie Releases</a>. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ 2002-10-17 00:00:00 mmm five17@telus.net 2004-10-30 16:24:15 Five Seventeen 0 1:11:03 2005-03-31 11:42:27 Five Seventeen Status of artists: The Yarns - missing, presumed dead. The Long Boat - missing. Aikagi - residing in Japan. Kisswhistle - disbanded. Lunchbox - unknown. The Salteens - currently signed to Endearing Records. Strawberry Land - unknown, presumed living in Japan. Mean Red Spiders - quiet in Toronto, Canada. Georgia - disbanded. Jim Guthrie - Three Gut Records artist also in Royal City. Red Go-Kart - living in Japan. Oval-Teen - disbanded, now seen in Lake Holiday, with Jonas Crenshaw and Paper Airplane Pilots. Jumprope - unknown. Royal City - signed to Rough Trade Records. De Kooning - unknown. Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers - happily married in Brooklyn with records on Teenbeat and Darla. Telegraph Melts - Absolutely Koser artist disbanded. Kymbliss - deceased September 1999. 1 JPop netlabels netlabels