Mammoth Records
| Mammoth Records | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Parent company | Disney Music Group |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Founder | Jay Faires |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Carrboro, North Carolina |
Mammoth Records was an independent record label founded by Jay Faires in Carrboro, North Carolina in 1989. Its roster included Antenna, Blake Babies, Chainsaw Kittens, Dash Rip Rock, Dillon Fence, Frente!, Fun-Da-Mental, Fu Manchu (band), Jason & the Scorchers, Joe Henry, Juliana Hatfield, Kill Creek, Machines of Loving Grace, The Bats, The Melvins, My Friend Steve, Seven Mary Three, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Sidewinders, Vanilla Trainwreck, and Victoria Williams.
The label went from a stand-alone company to being a part of a joint venture with Atlantic Records in 1993; it returned to stand-alone in 1997.
Faires sold Mammoth Records to The Walt Disney Company in 1998. Mammoth Records was folded into Hollywood Records in 2003.
Other Mammoth Artists
1988
- A Picture Made – Past EP
- Downsiders – All My Friends Are Fish
1989
- Blackgirls – Procedure
1990
- Frequency – North Carolina Compilation
1991
- Blackgirls – Happy
- Vanilla Trainwreck – Sofa Livin' Dreamazine
1992
- Big Wheel – Holiday Manor
- Vanilla Trainwreck - Sounding To Try Like You
1993
- Big Wheel – Slowtown
- Transmissions From The Planet Dog - Volume 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
1994
- Eat Static – Implant
- Kevn Kinney - Down Out Law
- Kill Creek – St. Valentine’s Garage
- Laundry – Blacktongue (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
- Porch (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
- Vanilla Trainwreck- Mordecai
- Velo-Deluxe- Superelastic
1995
- Alphabet Soup – Layin Low in the Cut (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
- Banco de Gaia – Last Train to Lhasa (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Banco de Gaia – Maya (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Bandit Queen – Hormone Hotel
- Children of the Bong – Sirius Sounds (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Eat Static – Abduction (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Eat Static – Epsylon (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Eskimo (band) – The Further Adventures of Der Shrimpkin (Mammoth/Prawn Song)
- Feed Your Head – Volume 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Feed Your Head – Volume 2 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Fun^Da^Mental – Seize the Time (Mammoth/Beggars Banquet)
- Quadruped – Vol 1 (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Various Artists - Up and Down Club Sessions Vol. 1 (MR0103-2)
- Various Artists - Up and Down Club Sessions Vol. 2 (MR0104-2)
- Vowel Movement- Vowel Movement (Mammoth/Atlantic)
1996
- Clarissa – Silver
- Dirty Dozen Brass Band- Ears To The Wall
- Future Loop Foundation – Time and Bass (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Jabberjaw Compilation – Pure Sweet Hell (feat. Everclear, Mary Lou Lord and Jawbreaker)
- Jack Drag - Jack Drag (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
- Kill Creek – Proving Winter Cruel
- Melvins - Stag (Mammoth/Atlantic)
- MTV Buzz Bin - Volume One: The Zen Of Buzz Clips (Mammoth/MTV) (feat. the Dave Matthews Band, Radiohead and the Stone Temple Pilots)
- Planet Dub – Planet Dub (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- The Raymond Brake - Never Work Ever (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
1997
- Clarissa – Blood and Commons
- Elevate – Interior (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
- Fabric – Woolly Mammoth (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
- Feed Your Head – Volume 3 : Accelerating The Alpha Rhythms (Mammoth/Planet Dog)
- Jack Drag –Unisex Headwave (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
- KCRW Rare on Air - Rare On Air Vol. 3 (feat. Fiona Apple, Patti Smith and Ben Folds Five)
- MTV Buzz Bin - Volume One: The Future Of Buzz Clips (Mammoth/MTV) (feat. D’Angelo, The Flaming Lips and The Chemical Brothers)
- Strangefolk – Weightless in Water
- Two Dollar Pistols - On Down the Track (Mammoth/Hep-Cat)
1998
- April March – Lessons of April March (Mammoth/Ideal)
- Creeper Lagoon – I Become Small and Go (Mammoth/Ideal)
- Far Too Jones – Picture Postcard Walls
- Jocelyn Montgomery & David Lynch - Lux Vivens: The Music of Holdegard von Bingen
- My Friend Steve – Hope and Wait
- Natural Calamity – Peach Head (Mammoth/Ideal)
- The Hope Blister – Smile’s OK (Mammoth/4AD)
1999
- 10 Cents - Buggin' Out (Mammoth/Ideal)
- Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Buck Jump
- James Mathus & His Knockdown Society – Play Songs for Rosetta
- Whalen – Jazz Squad
- Splendid - Have You Got A Name For It (Unreleased)
- Strangefolk – A Great Long While
- Styles of Beyond – 2000 Fold (Mammoth/Ideal)
2000
- Frankie Machine - One
- John Wesley Harding - The Confessions of St. Ace
2001
- Schatzi - Death Of The Alphabet e.p.
2002
- Schatzi - Fifty Reasons To Explode
Soundtracks
- Hurricane Streets – feat. Marcy Playground, “Sex and Candy”, Xzibit and De La Soul
- Jesus' Son – feat. Wilco and Joe Henry
- Orgazmo - (Mammoth/ideal) feat. Wu-Tang Clan, Dust Brothers, Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Smashmouth
- Reality Bites - feat. Juliana Hatfield, U2 and Dinosaur Jr.
- The Crow - feat. Machines of Loving Grace, RATM and The Cure
- The Crow: City of Angels - feat. Seven Mary Three, Iggy Pop and Deftones
References
- http://www.variety.com/article/VR1116676444.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&query=mammoth+records
- http://www.variety.com/article/VR101450.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&query=mammoth+record
- http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117775630.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&query=jay+faires