Obscurica
Tiny USA based Industrial/Noise/Experimental label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CDR.
Octavia Records
Japanese company that holds out the Exton, Spex and G.Face classical labels in addition to the Audio Lab Record jazz label. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Omega Record Group
US based publisher of mostly light classical and classical music but also a few light jazz and folk titles. Releases under the Amadeus, Everest, The Bach Guild, Omega and Everest Classics labels. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Omega Record Group, Inc., 27 West 72nd Street, New York, New York 10023-3401, USA.
Phone : +(212) 769 3060. Fax : +(212) 769 3195. Email : info at omegarecords.com
Omnimusic See --> UBM Records
One Way Records
US reissue label, seems to concentrate on mostly on early 80's FM rock. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Opus Arte
Label that publishes current audio and video recordings of classical music made at or by the BBC. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, DVD.
Opus 3
Swedish label mostly world music and jazz but also some classical music and technical test disks. Noticably they have quite a few hybrid multichannel SACD, interestingly the CD comparability layer on their recordings is HDCD encoded, making for an audiophile disk any way you play it. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, HDCD, LP, SACD.
Pacific Jazz See --> Blue Note Records
Parlaphone Records See --> EMI
Pentatone Classics
Classical label that has the old Philips records team and specialises in audiophile recordings, some of them stunning. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, SACD.
Performance Recordings
Tiny USA label that puts out recordings of and by pianist James Boyk. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, LP, SACD.
Perpetua See --> M & K Sound Entertainment
Pilgrim's Star
A tiny label that I belive is based in Sweden and puts out Russian religious & choral music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CC, CD.
Placebo See --> Beggars Banquet
Play That Beat! See --> EMI
Philo See --> Rounder Records
Philomel Records
Tiny USA based label that releases the works of Diana Deutsch, not music per se but "musical illusions". Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Pioneer Entertainment See --> Geneon
Positiva Records See --> EMI
Premonition Records
Small USA based label that puts out light jazz and similar "soft" music etc., has a few LP's out on 180g vinyl. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, LP.
Priority Records See --> EMI
Pro/Profi See --> Hungaroton
Project Freies Kunsthaus
Some sort of an artists collective based in Aachen in Germany, has released some audiophile classical recordings, no homepage.
Projekt Freies Kunsthaus, Ludwigsallee 79, Aachen 52062, Germany.
Tel : ++49 (0) 241 158846. Fax : +Fax: +49 (0) 241 99 73 255..
Formats supported : CD.
Proper Music
British reissue label, mostly well known Americana. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Qualiton See --> Hungaroton
Quantum Records
Small Dutch label that puts out electronic music. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Pro Piano
USA based label that publishes piano pieces only, many young and interesting artists. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
Raumklang
German Audiophile label. 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.
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
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
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 independent 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.
Sundazed
USA based reissue label, rock and pop mostly. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD, LP.
Supraphon
A long running Czech label, impressive back cataloge especially the classical music one. Official homepage.
Formats supported : CD.
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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