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Inside Balkanton, the State Label That Let the West In — Barely
There’s a grey concrete building at 6 Haidushka Polyana Street in Sofia that, for roughly…
Supraphon 0 13 0599 / 1 13 0599 - A Guide for Hardcore Collectors
This post supplements the main feature on the history of Supraphon and the Artia–EMI contract…
How Supraphon Smuggled the Beatles into the Eastern Bloc
It is December 1968. Tanks from five Warsaw Pact armies have been stationed in Prague…
Is "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" the best album in the history of popular music?
There are certain albums in the history of music that always prompt a sigh at…
The Soviet vinyl record industry
One monopoly, many factories For millions of Soviet citizens, the word Melodiya wasn’t just a…
Love Me Do — One Song That Started It All
Three sessions, three drummers, one lost master tape, and sixty-two years of pressing variants: this…
Introducing The Beatles - how to identify a fake copy
Introducing… The Beatles is the first Beatles album released in the United States — and…
Evolution of the Bałkanton labels
Founded in 1952, Balkanton (Bulgarian: Балкантон) was the sole record company in Bulgaria throughout the…
Rubber Soul (AnTrop П91 00215)
In 1991, AnTrop prepared covers for the release of the Rubber Soul album and most…
EP The Beatles (Poland 1979) - Tonpress N-10/11
The Beatles – an EP album with two small discs under the catalog number N-10/11…