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| The history of Quebec's independent record LABELS |
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List of labels by genre List of labels by period List of Quebec’s independent labels in 2003 List of periodicals with material on the subject |
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The history of the independent record labels:
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Key
Quebec labels by par genre
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Musical genres |
Record companies (independent labels) |
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Classical music |
Amberola / Analekta / Apex / Atma Classique / Baroque / Dorian / Eclectra / Fonovox / JMC – Club musical national (Jeunesses musicales du Canada) / Jupiter / McGill Records / Musiart / Port-Royal / Radio-Canada International / Richelieu / Sélect / SNE (Société Nouvelle d'Enregistrement) / UMMUS / Vox / XXI-21 |
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Musique actuelle, contemporary, acousmatic |
Alien8
Recordings (musique électronique) / Allied Record Corporation /
Ambiances magnétiques / Analekta /
Atma Classique / Avatar / Centredisques
(Centre de musique canadienne) / Disques Victo / Empreintes digitales / Janus (devenu Pirouette) / Laurentian
Records / McGill Records / Radio-Canada International / SNE (Société
Nouvelle d'Enregistrement) / UMMUS |
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Song, popular
and
alternative music
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Traditional music (folk)
and country
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Amical /
Apex (Starr) / Barclay / Bonanza / Borealis / Bouleau noir / Brunswick
/ Catalogne /
Centre de valorisation du patrimoine vivant / Columbia / Compo
(Carnaval) / Dangeville AV / Direction Records / Discord / Disques double / Disques Jouflu / Disques
Mérite /
Dominion / Elektra / Folk
Dancer / Folkways / Gamma
/ Heritage / Interdisc / Kébec Disc / Laridaine / London /
McGill University / MCA Coral / Mérite / Météor /
Metro / Mille-pattes
/ Musiques BMG / Nôroit (livre-CD) / Opus / Passe-temps /
Presqu’Île / Productions Guy Cloutier / Productions Serge
Paré / Patrimoine / PCR / Philo / Productions Victoriaville /
Radio-Canada / RCA Victor (Bluebird) / Sélect / Smithsonian
Folkways / Son d’or / Starr / Tamanoir / Totem / Voyageur |
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World music |
Audiogram
/ Justin Time / Mille-pattes / Musi-comptoir / MMM (Musique
Multi-Montréal) / Nuits d'Afrique / Radio-Canada /
UMMUS |
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Jazz |
Disques
Victo / Effendi / Justin Time
/ Ambiances
magnétiques / McGill Records / Radio-Canada / Uptown / XXI-21 |
Labels distributed in
Quebec
in the first half of
the 20th century
Ajax (affliated
with Herbert Berliner, son of Emile; records for the black community:
Fletcher Henderson, Louis Hopper)
Alco
Alouette
Apex first called Sun (from Société Compo; ffliated with Herbert Berliner, son of Emile; in 1925, Columbia buys the distribution rights for French Canadian records in the United States)
Salvation army
Audio devices
Audiodisc
Bambin
Barclay
Beaupré
Berliner
(several labels including: Black Label, Red Seal,
Impérial)
Berliner: His Master’s
Voice
Berliner: Improved Berliner Gram-o-phone
Bluebird
Brill
Brunswick (created in Chicago; Canadian subsidiary created in
Toronto in 1917)
Cameo
Canadia
Cantilenes sacrees
Castor
CBC / Radio-Canada
CHGB
CHRC
CJBR
CJMS
CKAC
CKLD
CKBM
CKCV
CKVC
CKVL
Columbia
Compo (seeApex, Phonola, Starr-Gennett, Sun)
Cristal
Crown (affliated with
Herbert Berliner, son of Emile)
CT
Decca
Dis-Q-ton
Disques Renaissance
Dominion
Domino (created
in New York in 1916 ; affliated with Herbert
Berliner, son of Emile)
Duprex
Edison
EMC
Encore
Epic
Family library of recorded music
Favorite
Fleur
de lys
French Broadcasting System in North America GRC
Gais Lurons
Gala
Gennett (launched
by Starr in 1917; Remington was the first
Starr label, in about 1914)
His Master’s
Voice
Impérial (affliated with Berliner)
Jeune-S
Liberty
London
Lucky
Strike (affliated with Herbert
Berliner, son of Emile)
Magic
Maple Leaf
Melotone
Météor
Microphone
(affliated with Herbert
Berliner, son of Emile)
Mignon
Music-Hall
Operaphone
(affliated with Herbert
Berliner, son of Emile)
P. M.
P.R.
Pacific
Pathé (created
in France in 1896)
Patrie, La
Phonola (from Société Compo; see also Apex)
Pierrot
Polydor
Popular Records
Quality
Radio-Canada
RCA Bluebird
RCA Victor
Red Seal Record
Rusticana
Rythmique Grégorienne
Sandryon
Spiral
Standard Vox
Star Series Perfect
Starr (launched by Starr in Indiana in 1915; Remington was the first Starr label in about 1914; the Starr label changed names to Gennett in 1917)
Starr-Gennett (of
the Société Compo)
Stella
Sun
(seeApex)
Turret
Variétés
Vedettes
Velvet Tone
Victor
Vitaphone (aassociated with Columbia)
Vogue
Voix de son maître, La (affiliated with
Berliner)
Walter P. Downs
Windsor
York
Independent record
labels in Quebec in 2003
(N.B.: This industry is
constantly changing. This list of 250
labels, put together in September of 2003 is not exhaustive)
In the section Interviews on the sound heritage, consult also: Sound engineers (film and music), record producers and distributors
List
of periodicals with material
on the history of music recording in Quebec
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Title (periodical) |
Date |
Vol. |
No. |
Page |
Subject |
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Canada qui chante |
Sept 1927 |
1 |
9 |
1 |
Hector Pellerin |
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Canadienne, mag.
du Can. français, La |
24/09/1921 |
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353 |
Discophonia
article (Maison Langelier) |
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Entre-nous |
Oct-nov 1930 |
1 |
9 |
1 |
Dufault |
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Lyre, La |
Nov 1926 |
4 |
46 |
1 |
L. Chartier |
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Lyre, La |
Nov 1922 |
1 |
2 |
8 |
Henri Miro |
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Montéal
qui chante |
01/12/1908 |
1 |
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15 |
Fertinel |
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Montéal
qui chante |
30/03/1909 |
1 |
16 |
5 |
Fertinel |
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Montéal
qui chante |
20/01/1910 |
2 |
17 |
1 |
Hamel
(Ladébauche) |
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Montéal
qui chante |
20/04/1910 |
2 |
26 |
5 |
Dubuisson |
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Passe-Temps, Le |
20/03/1897 |
3 |
52 |
64 |
Blanche
Sablonnière |
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Passe-Temps, Le |
21/01/1899 |
4 |
100 |
404b |
Henri Cartal |
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Passe-Temps, Le |
19/08/1899 |
5 |
115 |
273 |
Several artists |
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Passe-Temps, Le |
14/11/1908 |
14 |
356 |
507 |
Dalberty |
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Passe-Temps, Le |
28/11/1908 |
14 |
357 |
530 |
Chamberland |
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Passe-Temps, Le |
28/11/1908 |
14 |
357 |
531 |
A. Desmarteaux |
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Passe-Temps, Le |
03/04/1909 |
15 |
366 |
1 (p. titre) |
H. Cartal |
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Passe-Temps, Le |
03/04/1909 |
15 |
366 |
2 (p. after the
title page) |
Advertisement |
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Passe-Temps, Le |