1. Coloursound
Established in Munich in 1979 by jazz composer and arranger Gunther Greffenius. Artwork paintings were often created by his wife Waltraud Greffenius.
🎧 CS 79 - Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Avision (1988)
🎧 CS 24 - Eric Vann - Water World (1982)
2. Europhon
🎧 ELP 558 - Orchester Franco Taormina / Ernst Kugler ( 1979)
🎧 ELP 544 - Orchester Joe Scott / Teddy Windholz ( 1976)
2. Golden Ring
Mid-70s German based label, started by Ralph Marco. Approximately 100 LPs produced. Famous cues: BBC Radio 3 cricket interval music
🎧 Sound Music Album 49 (1987)
🎧 Sound Music Album 2 (1973)
3. Happy Records
German library label started in 1974, part of the Golden Ring library empire
🎧 HR 2233 - Waves 2 (1982)
🎧 HR 2208 - Frank Pleyer _ Munich Pop Chamber Set (1975)
4. Intersound
Music seems to be spread across a few different publishers, including Edition Dezime (Sonoton), Figurata Musikverlag (Rotheide Narholz), Vivatone Editions (Intersound), Atlas-Musikverlag (Hilla Seuß) etc, the label's catalogue is now under Sonoton.
🎧 ISST 121 - Claude Larson - Synthesis (1980)
🎧 ISST 125 - Troll - Turned to Stone (1978)
5. Selected Sound
Large quality German label set up by Klaus Netzle in 1968, the 9000 Series runs to over 120 LPs, with the ST series runing to over 90 LPs. Famous cues: some BBC schools interval music and some pronography
🎧 9053 - Rex Brown Company & WERSI Electric String Orchestra - Action & Tension & Space (1976)
🎧 ST 115 - VA - On the Road (1978)
6. Sonoton
Notable and long-running German label, founded by husband and wife Gerhard & Heide Narholz in the mid 60s, but they first seem to have started issuing records in the late 70's/early 80's. Though seemingly separate companies, Sonoton remains closely tied to
Intersound, both being based at the same address in München and featuring many of the same composers and performers.
🎧 SON 113 - Walt Rockman - Underwater Vol 1 (1980)
🎧 SON 169 - Claude Larson - Scenes and Images (1981)
