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Mike Varney

Novato, United States

Mike Varney is credited on 470 releases across 217 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1980–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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470

Pressings credited

217

Albums

5

Decades active

130

In collections

Biography

Michael Varney (born 1958) is an American record producer and music publisher. He is the founder of the Shrapnel Label Group, which includes Shrapnel Records, Tone Center Records, and Blues Bureau International. He also owns 50% of Magna Carta Records, a New York–based label. Varney is often credited with popularizing the mid-1980s shred guitar boom, and has continuously specialized in producing musicians within the genres of instrumental rock, hard rock, jazz, jazz fusion, blues, blues-rock, progressive metal, and speed metal.

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Credited work

470 releases · 217 albums · active 1980–2023

  • Production · 452
  • Performance · 93
  • Other credits · 14

Studios: Prairie Sun Recording Studios · Studio Sasquatch · Sound Temple Studio · Cairo West Studios

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