Illustra-Son

[roope]

Has anyone seen any other Illustra-Son LPs than the ones listed on Discogs?

I'm especially interested in the series IS 860 9XX, with the pixelated cover arts.

I'm curious, because I'm pretty sure that I once saw a bunch of these in a record shop in Paris, much before I was interested in the label. I had just started getting into library and was mainly interested in Crea Sound, so I was a bit disappointed to find mostly Orlys and Illustra-Sons in that shop. But the Illustra-Son covers I found very attractive. Didn't buy any, and I regret now. Later I got into the wonderful Quiet Times LP, and checked the label, and started to drool back in time. I don't find much information on the label outside of Discogs.

PS. If anyone has a rip of the Secrets LP (IS 860 912), that would be well appreciated! All the other missing Illustra-Sons would be great too. If anyone needs I can provide rips of PRD 820 801, PRD 820 802, PRD 820 803, IS 870 617, 840 307, 840 408 and DBL 851 010.

[Greta]

I don't know much about this label, but I have rips of IS 860912, IS 860913, IS 880620. Which of these would you like me to upload?
The PRD ones, look interesting to me.

[roope]

860912 and IS 880620 would be very welcome for me, thanks a lot!

i'll rip the PRDs at some point if no-one has them already ripped! they are pretty good.

[Mr]

This is another one of those inherently confusing 'multiple labels that are part of the same catalogue' things. From what I can tell, both Records PRD ('productions Régis Delaye'?), Discobole and Illustra-Son are essentially the same label, all produced by Régis Delaye ("Bernard Lamastre"). I don't think there were any other "Alexandre Kush" LPs, but Michel "Misha" Lobko has some LPs under his real name. Never heard any of them, though.

However, I can help with some info!
I'm fairly certain the first four digits of the catalogue number indicates production/release year and month, and the last its number in the overall catalogue
 - e.g. IS 860 912 means "Illustra-Son, September 1986, release #12". As such, the two 860 9XX LPs are preceded by Discobole 860311 "Sound Illustration for Radio-TV-Cinema n° 11: Voyage en flûte" by Ida Heidel. I don't of the two LPs that follow these two (#14, #15), but they are succeeded by 870516 "Magic Music n° 2".

I'll just add - Illustra-Son seems to be the latest label name used, running from the mid-to-late-80's into the CD age. The label was even active well into the 2000's, but seems to have closed down/gone bankrupt a few years ago. Not sure if Monsieur Delaye is still around.

[roope]

Oh, wow! Beautiful, thank you! Totally makes sense.

So maybe #14 and #15 may have been with similar pixelated cover style and I've really seen them. Probably one of them is Magic Music n°1.
#18 seems to be missing too. Could it (or one of the other missing ones) be Force I?

By the way, I once had this one, and it had about 8 songs from Enfantillages (IS 870 617):
discogs.com/Fran%C3%A7ois-Comtat-Jean-Baptiste-Chaudoul-Musique-Mill%C3%A9sim%C3%A9e/release/2883192