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Hallé See --> Academy of Sound and Vision (ASV)
Hanibal See --> Rykodisc
HatHut Records
Modern Jazz and improvised music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Heads UP
Jazz Specialist. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Heartbeat See --> Rounder Records
Helios See --> Hyperion
Hemisphere Records See --> EMI
Heyday
Small USA based label, rock oriented music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Hey Presto!
Budget label, while their catalogue is mostly re-recordings, instrumental and other material familiar from the genre they do have a nice disk or 2 with original material, including a couple of classical disks. Their catalogue is hidden away on their Asian homepage. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CC, CD.
KB Import & Export, 43 North Street, Manchester M8 8RE, England.
Phone : +44 (0)161 834 8485. Fax : +44 (0)161 832 8057. Email : sales at plustron.com
Hi-fi Records See --> Rykodisc
Higher Octave Music See --> EMI
Hightone Records
USA based independent, mostly Americana. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Hi-Res Music
USA based Jazz label that re-releases disks on DVD format (using normal digital encoding, e.g. playable on all DVD players, not DVDA disks). Official homepage.
Formats supported : DVD.
Holyland Records
Company based in Israel that publishes disks with Christian religious music recorded in monasteries and churches around the "holy land". Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Hostile Records See --> EMI
Hungaroton Records
Hungarian label founded in 1951 as MHV and originally put out classical music and traditional Hungarian music and other "state approved" forms of music, gained notoriety in the west during the 60's with a series of excellent classical recordings and changed it's name to Hungaroton in 1969 and was noticeably the first eastern European company to manufacture compact disks. Today Hungaroton is an independent company that publishes both classical music and popular music by local artists, does or has in the past published under labels such as Echo which is used for the re-releases of the classical back catalogue, while Bravo, Favorite, Cream, Gong and others have been used for their pop recordings, Hungarian Pop Story is however used for the re-releases of the popular music back catalogue, and although no longer used, the Qualiton and Profi brands where used for some of their pop output. This is also the company that used to put out the old Colorvox picture soundcards (postcards playable on a record player, a very popular novelty in the early 60's). Official homepage.
Hyperion
UK based classical label, also has 2 underlabels, the mid-price Dyad and the budget Helios. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Incus Records
Tiny UK based label, mostly improvised jazz etc., run by guitarist Derek Bailey. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, LP.
IMG Artists
Primarily an artist management company specialising in the classical music sector, they do however hold out the BBC Legends label that publishes historical recordings from the vaults of the BBC. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Immergent Records See --> 5.1 Entertainment Group
Impulse See --> GRP
Inner Circle Recordings See --> Sheffield Lab
Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA)
A directory of downloadable music by independent/unsigned bands, mostly rock etc.. Official homepage.
Formats supported : MP3.
Íslensk Tónvekamiðstöð
Primarily a collection point for modern classical Icelandic music but they do from time to time publish works both in printed form and on CD's using the ITM label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Java Records See --> EMI
JAV Recordings
USA based label that specialises in pipe organ recordings. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Jazz Legends See --> Naxos
JBR Records
Oddball US based label that offers classical music made by electronic instruments, sometimes in novel arrangements. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Jeremy Bamber Tapes See --> Cat's Heaven
Jive See --> Bertelsmann Music Group
John Marks Records
Small audiophile classical label based in the USA. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
J-Records See --> Bertelsmann Music Group
JVC XRCD
Audiophile sub-imprint of the Japanese major that re-releases classical music and jazz remastered using the company's XRCD process. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Norwegian audiophile label, mostly religious music of all kinds but also instrumental and jazz. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
KlangRäume
Small German label does mostly early and modern classical music, but also some jazz and other 20th century music. Emphasis is on recording quality and they have a binaural compatible recording or 2. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD.
Klimo
While this German company is primarily a manufacturer of high end audio equipment they do publish a small range of audiophile classical recordings, noticeably they are one of the few labels that is putting out original recordings of classical music on LP. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, LP.
Koch International
Austrian label that publishes mostly classical and traditional music, also operates the Schwann label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Koch International, Postfach 24, Gewerbegebiet, A-6600 Höfen, Austria.
Phone : +43 552 238 862. Fax : +43 552 238 872.
Kopasetic Productions
Small Swedish label that specialises in locally produced Jazz and improvised music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Labels See --> EMI
La Má de guido
Spanish classical label, mostly Catalonian artists but varied repertorie and quite a few regoridings of works difficult to get hold of elsewhere, Sometimes seen publisised or sold in other countries as ARS Harmonica. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Lammas Records
Small independent British classical music label with a sizable catalogue of organ music but does publish other genres. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Lammas Records, 118 The Mount, York YO24 1AS, Great Britain.
Tel/Fax : +01904 624132. Email : enquiries at lammasrecords.com.
LaserLight Digital See --> Delta Music
Legend See --> Delta Music
Linn Records
Small label based in Scotland, a division of Linn and usually has releases with very high sound quality. Mostly Jazz, MOR, folk and classical music and having sampled some of their recordings recently I must say that they are rather nice sounding, if a tad unadventureos musically, but that was to be expected!>. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Lion Music
Small company based in Áland of all places (tiny semi-independent state in the Baltic), puts out guitar oriented music from artists around the globe, mostly metal and progressive etc.. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD.
Little Snowman See --> Wood Records
Living Era See --> Academy of Sound and Vision (ASV)
LSO Live
A smal label run by the London symphony orchestra that publishes live recordings by the same on budget price on CD and on mid-price multichannel SACD's. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Lyrinx
French label that does mostly classical and early music, please note that homepage is currently undeveloped, Started releasing SACD disks in, some of the "early music" ones particularly interesting, here is an article in French on the technology behind DSD and Lyrinx position on it. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Manhattan Records See --> EMI Classics
Manikin Records
Small German label that publishes some of the best electronic music out there, that includes old masters like Klaus Schulze and younger artists. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Mapleshade Records
Audiophile label based in the USA, minimalist recordings using analogue equipment, mostly acoustic jazz. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Mapps Cafe See --> Almafame
Marco Polo See --> Naxos
MA Recordings
Japanese label that specialises in acoustic material, some stunning recordings. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Matador Records See --> EMI
Mediaphon
German mid price and budget label, mostly pop reissues and themed compilations but also a nice classical catalogue. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Melankolic Records See --> EMI
Messenger Records
Small USA based independent label, mostly folk/rock oriented music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Metropolis Records
USA based label with Industrial and EBM artists like Front Line Assembly, Die Form and suchlike. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
MFW See --> Cat's Heaven
MHV See --> Hungaroton
Minus Habens
Italian concern that puts out industrial, experimental and electronic material, some of it quite interesting and usually interesting designs as well. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, LP.
M&K Sound Entertainment
USA based label with audiophile pretenceions and owned by Miller & Kreisel Sound, publishes under the Perpetua and Realtime Records labels, originally mostly classical and jazz but these days more light pop and Americana. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD.
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Legendary audiophile label, now under new ownership and management. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Morrison Music Trust
A trust fund in New Zealand dedicated to publishing local artists and composers. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Mosaic Records See --> Blue Note Records
Motile
Small UK based label specialising in experimental music with emphasis on improv. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, NET.
Move Records
Astralian independent record company, mostly classical and light classical music of all types but emphasis on local composers and artists, lots of antipodal TV and movie soundtracks as well. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
MoWax! See --> Beggars Banquet
MTM Records See --> Enja Records
Myutopia Recordings See --> 5.1 Entertainment Group
Nabel
German jazz label, some of the recordings have excellent sound quality. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Naim Music
Primaily a manufacturer of hi-fi equipment but do put out classical records every now and then and even the odd jazz, emphasis on sound quality. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, LP.
Naïve
French classical label, wide range of releases including early music, modern works and historical recordings. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD.
Narada See --> EMI
Naxos
This label is based in Hong Kong and was founded by German expat. Klaus Heymann in the late 70's, initially releasing local artists but had the foresight to start publishing classical CD's at mid/budget price fairly early on and along with a sound release strategy it has managed to become the biggest and best known classical label this side of Deutche Grammophon. Although the company's output is mainly classical there is also a variety of historical records, jazz and spoken word released by Naxos each year and noticeably the spoken word catalogue is usually available in both German and English, sublabels include Marco Polo that publishes little known works or works by little known composers, the Jazz Legends and Nostaglia labels publish out of copyright works in the jazz and classical fields respectively, Amadis is a super budget imprint while White Cloud is a more adventurous part that focuses on modern jazz and contemporary classical music. Has recently started releasing hybrid SACD's for world-wide distribution, previous releases were for the Asian market only, this will include future releases of some of the Marco Polo sublabel as well. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD, DVDA, SACD.
Neuronium Records
While ostensibly an outlet for the output of the band Neuronium, this label also puts out "space music" and other instrumental music by other artists, for those of you not in the know space music is the Latin European term for the (mostly) instrumental electronic music that came out of Europe in the latter half of the 70's/early 80's, there are some excellent music put out by this label, but they definitely need to work on their covers. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Nostaglia See --> Naxos
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