VARIOUS ARTISTS - PEPPERMINT PRESENTS… RAT RACE! - VINYL LP

Come along as we take you on a journey through Peppermint Productions’ early days. We’ve gone deep into our archive and scraped the mold off of 12 never-before-heard tapes just for your aural excitement. Since 1971 Peppermint has been bringing you the finest popular and ethnic music, and all of it recorded right here in Youngstown, Ohio. Founder and engineer Gary Rhamy is still behind the recording console and has lovingly transferred these recordings himself on the same Ampex 440 tape machine that most of these songs were recorded on or mixed down to. So you can rest assured that what you’re hearing is the same fidelity that was blasting out of the JBL’s when the Blalock brothers were hearing playback of “Rat Race” for the first time.

Don’t think of this as a definitive collection of Peppermint’s output. This is more of a snapshot of a moment in our history. We chose to only include recordings that were never released and that were from our first ten or so years, while also showcasing the relationship between all the recordings. Every song, ad, segue, and snippet have some significance here. From Gary Rhamy’s intro (he’ll be a reoccurring voice throughout the album) to the tape rewind at the end (we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves), there’s almost too many...  more