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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.〔http://www.exclaim.ca/musicschool/labellife.aspx?csid1=86〕 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.〔http://www.spin.com/articles/greetings-vancouver〕 ==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.〔http://mintrecords.com/store〕〔http://www.maplemusic.com/artists/mnt/default.asp〕 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.〔http://music.lovetoknow.com/Cub〕 In the late 1990s, the label was heavily affected by the financial crisis at and eventual bankruptcy of distribution company Cargo Records,〔"Still in Mint condition: A small Vancouver record label has quietly carved out an enviable 'killer brand' reputation in the indie market". ''The Globe and Mail'', August 30, 2001.〕 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.〔Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, ''Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-992-9.〕 Mint achieved Billboard chart success in the early 2000s with Neko Case and The New Pornographers. In the year 1998, Mint Records album ''Get Outta Dodge'' by Huevos Rancheros was nominated for a Juno Award in the Best Alternative Album category,〔http://junoawards.ca/database/yearly-summary/?group_id=1420&category_id=0&from_year=&to_year=〕 and in 2001, Mint album ''Mass Romantic'' by The New Pornographers won the Juno Award for Best Alternative Album.〔http://junoawards.ca/database/artist-summary/?artist_name=new+pornographers〕 ''Mass Romantic'' was listed at #17 in the 2001 Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll,〔http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres01.php〕 and later ranked at #24 in Blender's 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Ever list.〔http://www.blender.com/guide/68967/100-greatest-indie-rock-albums-ever-151-30-to-21.html〕 ''Electric Version'' by The New Pornographers was listed at #7 in the Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll of 2003.〔http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres03.php〕 In 2009, the album was ranked at #79 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the Decade list.〔http://stereogum.com/105081/rolling_stones_100_best_albums_songs_of_the_00s/list/〕 New Pornographers album ''Twin Cinema'' was voted the #9 album of 2005 in the Pazz & Jop poll of 2005,〔http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres05.php〕 and PopMatters ranked the album at #1 on their Best Music of 2005 list.〔http://www.popmatters.com/music/best2005/cds5.shtml〕 It was later shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize in 2006,〔2006 Polaris Music Prize〕 while Pitchfork Media placed ''Twin Cinema'' at number 150 on their list of the Top 200 Albums of the 2000s. In October 2006, in conjunction with ''Exclaim!'' magazine and CBC Radio 3, Mint Records mounted a cross-Canada tour called the "Exclaim! Mint Road Show!" with headliners The New Pornographers along with Immaculate Machine and Novillero (except the final show in Vancouver, which featured Young and Sexy and Bella).〔http://www.punknews.org/article/19923〕 In 2010, Mint Records album ''Let's Just Stay Here'' by Carolyn Mark and NQ Arbuckle was nominated for a Juno Award in the Roots & Traditional Album of the Year category.〔http://junoawards.ca/database/artist-summary/?artist_name=carolyn+mark〕 In 2011, a book about Mint Records by Kaitlin Fontana was published by ECW Press. It is titled ''Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records''.〔http://www.kaitlinfontana.com/projects/project-MINT/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mint Records」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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