Mint Records

Mint Records is a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based independent record label founded in January 1991, by friends and campus radio enthusiasts Randy Iwata and Bill Baker.

Randy Iwata and Bill Baker started working together at CITR-FM, the University of British Columbia radio station. Three years after graduation, they decided it was time to move on from the station. However, they wanted to stay connected to new music, so they founded a record label to release the best up-and-coming music of the city.

History

Since its conception in 1991, Mint has put out over 150 releases. Most of their catalogue is available for sale through their website as well as MapleMusic Recordings' e-commerce site. One of their earliest successes was a band called cub who, alongside Bunnygrunt and labelmates Maow, helped pioneer the vein of indie pop known as cuddlecore.

In the late 1990s, the label was heavily affected by the financial crisis at and eventual bankruptcy of distribution company Cargo Records, when Cargo's failure to pay the label for Gob's album Too Late... No Friends led to the band, then Mint's most lucrative act, defecting to rival label Nettwerk.

Mint 400 Records

Mint 400 Records is an independent record label based out of North Jersey.

About

Mint 400 Records was founded in 2007 by indie music veteran Neil Sabatino. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, but specializes in indie rock and acoustic folk music. On being an independent record label, Sabatino maintains "we sign a lot of our acts based on potential." Mint 400 Records is considered to be a "roster of some of the Garden State’s most under-appreciated and challenging bands" by The Star-Ledger's Tris McCall. The name Mint 400 is the name of the motorcycle race fictional character Raoul Duke is supposed to be covering in the Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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