Electrola: version 1

Saved 2026-09-14 03:08 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added Falco's posthumous album *Out of the Dark (Into the Light)* (CD, Electrola, cat. 7243 4 94469 2 2), a wanted barcode from the 2008 Barcodepedia page. Identity from MusicBrainz release b9f2330b (. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Electrola <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Electrola
website: https://www.electrola.de/
founded: 1925
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                | market | from | until | ended | status  | source         | note                                                                                                                          |
| ---------- | --------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| imprint_of | company/emi-electrola |        | 1972 | 2002  | true  | sourced | ^discogs-label | Discogs: EMI Electrola GmbH, established 1972, used the EMI Electrola trademark until its 2002 merger into EMI Music Germany. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name          | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------- | ---- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| EMI Electrola | name |        | 1972 | 2002  |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref                 | url                                                                                                                     | title                                                         | accessed   | publisher   | kind        | published | record_id                            | locator                     | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------- | ----------- | --------- | ------------------------------------ | --------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-label       | https://api.discogs.com/labels/917                                                                                      | Discogs label 917: EMI Electrola                              | 2026-09-14 | Discogs     | catalogue   |           | 917                                  | Profile, parent label, URLs |              |             |          |
| wikipedia-electrola | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrola                                                                                 | Electrola                                                     | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia   | publication |           |                                      |                             | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| musicbrainz         | https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/b9f2330b-bbf3-4001-acbf-410fdbec2b18?fmt=json&inc=labels+recordings+artist-credits | MusicBrainz release: Out of the Dark (Into the Light) (Falco) | 2026-09-14 | MusicBrainz | catalogue   |           | b9f2330b-bbf3-4001-acbf-410fdbec2b18 |                             | CC0          |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Electrola is a German record label, founded in 1925 by the British Gramophone Company as its German subsidiary; it became EMI's German company after the 1931 merger that formed EMI, and since 2012 it has belonged to Universal Music Group, based in Munich.[^wikipedia-electrola] Discogs describes "EMI Electrola" as the trademark of EMI Electrola GmbH on German pressings from 1972 to 2002 and lists the Electrola label under label code LC 0193.[^discogs-label] Falco's *Out of the Dark (Into the Light)* appeared on the label in 1998.[^musicbrainz]
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