My Mean Magpie







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My Mean Magpie Recordings 2007

Clicking on the artwork in the discography below will take you to a detail page where you can sample tracks from available recordings and download the recordings through the NetLabels website. All recordings are FREE with no strings attached (though leaving a few words would be nice).

February 18th, 2007:

1999's Always Sick, a split release by The Felicity Syndrome and The Linger Effect was meant to be the start of a series of experimental cassettes to be launched on a side label called Tape-Gun cassettes. However, the bands submitted tracks that were more great than experimental and the music was released under My Mean Magpie.

The 30-minute cassette was originally packaged in hand-made cases that were both elaborate and painstaking - with rivets, string, fabric and French paper. 13 of the limited edition were made.

After 8 long years, the ablum finally sees a reissue in digital form with reworked artwork and a bonus track from The Felicity Syndrome. Listen to it here.

Read older news here.

Coming Soon:
Various Artists TBA (MMM030)

Demo Policy:
Interested in releasing a record with My Mean Magpie? Read here.

About the downloads:
All My Mean Magpie Releases are available in mp3 and lossless CD-quality flac format. To convert flac to other formats try dbpoweramp (Windows/Linux) or MacFLAC (Mac). For more information on the flac format, or to download the codec, click here.

MMM30: VARIOUS ARTISTS tba not yet available.	MMM29: POWER CRAIG Field Recordings of Terrified and Delusional Nose-Pickers and Nail-Biters details / direct link	MMM28: TBA tba not yet available.
MMM27: MIKE RICHARD Affections, Affects 1-4 details / direct link	MMM26: THE TIDBITS Of Geldwen: Tenth Aniversary Edition details / direct link	MMM25: VARIOUS ARTISTS Relax Brother, Relax: A Tribute to Teenbeat Records details / direct link
MMM24: THE LINGER EFFECT Charmer NetRelease details / direct link	MMM23: OVAL-TEEN Kissing Ghosts details / direct link	MMM22: VARIOUS ARTISTS Recordings From CKLN's Wired for Sound CDR not yet available.
MMM21: JONAS CRENSHAW ...Colossal Failure details / direct link	MMM20: VARIOUS ARTISTS Peeler: for Right or Left... details / direct link	MMM19B: LAKE HOLIDAY American Summer CDR details / direct link
MMM19A: LAKE HOLIDAY Send Off the Summer CDR details / direct link	MMM18: TOYS FOR ELLIOT The National Tapes 2XCDR details / direct link	MMM17: 5MP The Remains of 5MP CDR details / direct link
MMM16 / ULL010: VARIOUS ARTISTS Amateurs on Plastic CD details / direct link	MMM15: 5MP 5MP is Dead CDR details / direct link	MMM14: OVAL-TEEN Don't Think for a Minute CDR details / direct link
MMM13: GEORGIA Nothing New CDR. details / direct link	MMM12: WENDAL Pop Particulants details / direct link	MMM11: TOYS FOR ELLIOT A National Tape available as MMM018
MMM10 / LRW10: VARIOUS ARTISTS Ten; Ten details / direct link	MMM09: KYMBLISS Sicker than a Cat not yet available.	MMM08: FELICITY SYNDROME / LINGER EFFECT Always Sick details / direct link
MMM07: THE 25¢ SOUL PROJECT Volume One not yet available	MMM06: THE TIDBITS Of Geldwen available as MMM026	MMM05: 5 MINUTE PACKAGING Sissy Factor available as MMM017
MMM04.02: TAPE-GUN — zine. Issue 2. not yet available.	MMM04.01: TAPE-GUN — zine. Issue 1. not yet available.	MAG02/MMM03: GEORGIA Georgia not yet available.
MMM02: CHARLOTTE BLAKE & 5:17 Snarkmuffin — Art Exhibition. Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts. Toronto, ON. March 14-27, 1997. not yet available.	MAG01: MEOWCH Splitsville details / direct link	MMM01: TOYS FOR ELLIOT Toys For Elliot details / direct link

About My Mean Magpie Recordings 1995-2004

"Existing from 1995 as a cassette label steeped in the influences and traditions of Shrimper, Simple Machines, Teenbeat, etc. My Mean Magpie continued to release the cassette recordings of friends and like-minded acquaintances. But, by the year 2000, it was impossible not to consider the cassette a dying breed and with the purchase of a new computer (with CD burner), the second Georgia release ushered in My Mean Magpie's era as a CDR label. This release also marked the end of Patti's active involvement with the label and all operations from that point forward were handled alone.

Patti continues to occasionally produce the 'zine Fuzzy Heads are Better and currently lives happily in New York City.

"Though the move to CDR improved the production and sound quality of the releases, the networks of distribution that existed within the cassette community began to erode as fanzines and mailorder were replaced by weblogs and email. Almost overnight the number of packages arriving and being sent from the post office box dwindled as people began to discover the MP3 format. Yet, the label continued to create and release recordings, all the while awaiting the return of "the album." That day never arrived.

"After trying to find alternate ways to promote CDR releases and coming up empty, the services offered by archive.org/Netlabels, though utilized primarily by the electronic music community, seemed an ideal way to release (and reissue) all of the My Mean Magpie material. NetLabels allows for the free upload and download of CD quality audio and print quality artwork which would allow users all over the world immediate access. It certainly seemed worth a try.

"On October 30th of 2004, My Mean Magpie uploaded Lake Holiday's Send Off the Summer EP (MMM019A) with plans to archive all previous My Mean Magpie releases and quietly retire the label. However, inspired by the minimal initial downloads, the exact opposite occurred and plans were formed for new releases.

"In less than six months, My Mean Magpie has achieved increasing numbers of downloads (all promoted releases have recieved an average of 350+ downloads), and the most current release Relax Brother, Relax: A Twentieth Anniversary Tribute to Teenbeat Records (MMM025) currently enjoys the number 7 position in the archives top downloaded items since the NetLabels launch in March 2001. It has been downloaded roughly 2200 times.

"My Mean Magpie has no plans to expand into offering commercially available releases, nor does it intend to ever make any money off of it's efforts. The only goal of the label has always been to give exposure to music I enjoy and believe in."

— Five Seventeen. April 3rd, 2005.

Click here for a more detailed history of My Mean Magpie.

All music on the label is offered under the Creative Commons licence at no charge to the downloader and may be distributed freely. For more information on Creative Commons licences click here.