Modern Music Records GmbH

About

Modern Music Records GmbH was a Berlin record company founded in 1981 by Karl-Ulrich Walterbach, which owned the Noise Records, Machinery and Dynamica labels until it was sold to the Sanctuary Records Group in 2001; releases usually credit it simply as Modern Music.^[1] The company sat at Kurfürstenstraße 23 in Berlin-Schöneberg, the address the Machinery label also used, and Walterbach held the rights to the labels while their day-to-day management lay with their own staff.^[1][2]

Referenced by

• Inferred: Registered GS1 prefix used by Ashtrayhead derived
  Prefix 400 is a GS1 Germany range; no public source names the registrant of 4006030, and the label that issued this release belonged to Modern Music Records GmbH
• Imprint of Dynamica since 1993 until 2001 sourced
  Founded as a sublabel of Machinery and part of Modern Music Records GmbH; dropped when the company was sold in 2001
• Markets Ashtrayhead in Germany sourced
  Dynamica was a sublabel of Machinery and part of Modern Music Records GmbH, Berlin

Also known as

• Modern Music

References

1. ↑ Discogs label 36044: Modern Music Records GmbH Accessed 2026-09-12.
2. ↑ German Wikipedia: Machinery, Berlin label of Modern Music Records GmbH Accessed 2026-09-12.