Raumklang
German Audiophile label. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Raven
USA based classical music label that specialises in pipe organ works or music that feature that instrument prominently. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Raven Records
A re-issue label based in Australia that specialises in pop and rock, primarily material from the 50’s into the early 80’s, notably their releases are exclusively from the English language sphere. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

RCA See --> Bertelsmann Music Group

RCA Red Label See --> BMG Classics

Realtime Records See --> M & K Sound Entertainment

Real World
British label that puts out "World Music", a term that apparently is meant to mean music free from Anglo-Saxon influences but in practical terms means popularist music from third world countries sprinkled with some musical tourism, i.e. almost the reverse, part of the EMI group. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Red Rose SACD Club
Actually a hardware company but it is so excited by SACD that they have put up a label. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : SACD.

Reference Recordings
USA based label that has some audiophile pretensions, does mostly classical music but also a little bit of jazz. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, HDCD.
Distributed in Canada by Liberty Trading, in Germany by Sieveking Sound and in Israel by Arama Audio

Resonance See --> Academy of Sound and Vision (ASV)

Retrieval See --> Challenge

Roulette Jazz See --> Blue Note Records

Rounder Records
USA based label that publishes bluegrass and similar under their own name, Reagge music under the Heartbeat brand, blues and jazz records under the Bullseye in addition to publishing under the easydisc, Zoë and Philo labels. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Rune Grammofon
Norwegian label that specialises in publishing "modern Norwegian music", that's Scandinavian jazz and 20th century classical to you and me. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.
Rune Grammofon, Akersgaten 7, 0158 Oslo, Norway.
Fax : +47 23 35 80 01 Email : rune at grappa.no

Rycodisc
US based label that publishes mostly rock, world music and new age, in the 80's one of the most adventurous of all labels but is now mostly a run of the mill reissue label. Also publishes under the Gramavision, Hanibal, Slow River, Tradition and Ryko Latino labels and owns the Hifi records and Candescence catalogues. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Sacral See --> Bauer Studios

Samsara Records
Finnish folk and rock label, also has a sub-imprint called Presence Records that appears to put out Jazz records. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Sanctuary
Large British indy, in addition to putting out records under their own name they put out re-releases under the Castle Music label, own the Academy of Sound and Vision (ASV) co. classical label and so on. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Scamp Records See --> EMI

Schwann See --> Koch International

Sheffield Lab
Long running audiophile label based in the USA, publishes the usual fare for such a label in the form of classical music, jazz and similar light contemporary music, mostly new recordings made by them but also some reissues. Some titles available in gold plated CD form and they also publish under the Inner Circle Recordings label. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Silverline See --> 5.1 Entertainment Group

Simply Vinyl
UK based audiophile label that re-releases LP's from majors on a high quality 180g vinyl. Big catalogue that covers jazz, classical, pop and rock best sellers, but a tad unadventurous, highly recommended nevertheless. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : LP.

Situation 2 See --> Beggars Banquet

Sledgehammer Blues See --> Valley Entertainment

Slovart Records
Slovakian label that puts out mostly classical music. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, SACD.

Slow River See --> Rykodisc

Songlines Recordings
Small Canadian Jazz/World music label. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Songlines Recordings, 3036 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6K 1X3 Canada.
Phone : +604 737 1632. Fax : +604 737 1678. Email : treif at songlines.com

Sony Music
This is the old CBS record company, a true multinational that covers almost any style of music, owns labels such as CBS, Columbia and Epic. Unlike most other labels Sony's SACD releases are UDF format only so they will not play back on CD players, however they are also slightly cheaper than full price releases from other publishers. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CC, LP, SACD, DVD, CD, MD.
Sony Classical UK Homepage

Sounds True
USA based label that puts out spoken word and "self improvement" CD's etc. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, DVD.

Source See --> EMI

Sparrow See --> EMI

Speakers Corner
German audiophile label that puts out music on a 180 gr. virgin vinyl, this includes the classical catalogues of Decca, DG, Philips, Deram, Mercury etc. etc. etc., sound quality on some of their pressings is dream like. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : LP.

Spex See --> Octavia

Spheric Music
Tiny German label that puts out instrumental electronic music. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Spiritlands See --> Wind Records

Spirit Of Sound See --> Cat's Heaven

SP Records
Small Polish label that issues local rap music, not to be confused with the reissue label of the same name. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CC, CD.

Staalplaat
A long running Dutch record label and associated store that deals exclusively with industrial and experimental music. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, CDR, LP.

STS Digital
Dutch company that publishes technical CD's and SACD's such as test and demonstration disks. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Distribution : In Bulgaria by Top Audio Video Design

Stockfisch Records
German audiophile label that deals primarily with acoustic guitar music but has released material from other genres inc. classical music. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, LP, SACD. Distributed in the Czech Republic by RP Audio

Sundazed
USA based reissue label, rock and pop mostly. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, LP.

Sui Generis
Classical label based in Brazil, they have a very intriguing SACD of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, SACD.

Supraphon
A long running Czech label, impressive back cataloge especially the classical music one. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Swedish Society Discofil (Swedish classical) See --> Naxos Sweden AB

Synkronos
Tiny label based in Philadelphia, USA, puts out instrumental electronic and or "progressive" music, not as active currently as it was a few years back. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

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