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le_tomval

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What is your favorite library label ?
« on: August 20, 2018, 09:53:11 AM »
Just a simple question : what is your favorite library label ?

For me, it changes everytime, but I think it could be Montparnasse 2000.

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2018, 10:15:21 AM »
tough question that can be answered from different point of view:

- music
- cover art
- obscurity
- ...

impossible to name only one for me.

i would say currently i am really into Musax though.

Greta

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2018, 11:16:43 AM »
Impossible for me too, to name only one or two.
I'm pretty much into all italians, but I'm having new interests in french labels lately.
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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2018, 11:32:43 AM »
You really can't go wrong with most labels as a whole, I feel. RCA Original Cast, Auvidis and Harmonic, though. And Gemelli. And Media Music.

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2018, 01:17:22 PM »
My favourite label is Amphonic. I just love the sound of those and Syd Dale's arrangements.

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2018, 02:31:52 PM »
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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2018, 03:34:48 PM »
Let's see here...
-any British label that was active during the 78 RPM era (especially KPM, Southern, De Wolfe, FDH, JW)
-Cinemusic/Langlois (always love me some Shaindlin!!)
-Video Moods
-Capitol Hi-Q
-Major Records/Valentino
-Mozart Edition
-Studio One
-Sonoton
-Sam Fox
-Drive-In/Comes
-General Music Corp. (US label run by Gordon Zahler, not the Italian label!)
-Publications Francis Day (only for their "Crazy Bass" album!!)
-Brilliant Muzik (although they're more of a publisher than label)

le_tomval

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2018, 05:58:59 PM »
tough question that can be answered from different point of view:

- music
- cover art
- obscurity
- ...

impossible to name only one for me.

i would say currently i am really into Musax though.

That's why I'm into Montparnasse 2000, I like all these things, from the music to the cover, some are still not really famous..
I like stuff like Selected Sound or Tele Music but their covers is not as beautiful as Montparnasse 2000's ones. But I don't say that MP2000 have the best music... I think there is a lot of other excellent labels like Freesound but I am not really into them, cause they are too hard to find for someone like me :)

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2018, 07:42:34 PM »
Too difficult to choose just one, also feels difficult to leave so many amazing labels out. So I list three Italian and three French labels that came to my mind first. I'd pick these with me if the house was on fire. From the British labels I'd go with Bruton and from the big German labels I couldn't choose.

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2018, 12:02:45 AM »
For me, it'll always be KPM and De Wolfe. Those are the two labels that introduced me to library music.
And I still maintain that the KPM/DeWolfe catalogues are consistently top of the line on every level. Cream of the crop, imho.

Of course, I also love most every French, German, U.S., and Italian label ;)
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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2018, 01:03:27 AM »
I like almost all the library music releases, depending on my mood.
Perhaps the great quality of De Wolfe, KPM, Chappell and Bruton is above all else.
But I love the Italian labels, especially RCA, CAM, Omicron/Liuto/SWS and Fonit-Cetra, including Usignolo, Goldfinger, Commenti Musicali series and Nuovo Repertorio Editoriale.
I think of NRE as the Italian KPM 1000 series, with all due respect.  ;)

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2018, 06:44:06 AM »
I am going to have to say Sonoton or Bruton Music.

Because those were the first two library labels that I came across, and that brought me into this fantastic music world.

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Re: What is your favorite library label ?
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2018, 09:13:30 PM »
Major records,for sure.
those few second fxs of major records can be heard at almost every greek vhs or cinema movie of the 80s:)