Memory Records

Memory Records
Parent company	Renata Edizioni Musicali
Founded	1983
Founder	Alessandro Zanni & Stefano Cundari
Distributor(s)	self-distributed
Genre	Italo Disco Pop
Country of origin	Italy

Memory Records is an Italo Disco record label in Italy.

History

It was founded in 1983 by Alessandro Zanni (executive producer) in association with Stefano Cundari (art producer). Since the very beginning, Memory Records took a special care for the instrumental synthesizer productions, launching artists such as Hipnosis, Koto, and Cyber People. Beside of these, the main label artists are: J.D. Jaber, Mike Cannon, Duke Lake, Baby's Gang, Ken Laszlo, Alan Ross, Brian Ice, Roy, and Swan.

Aside from having a main studio in Italy, Memory Records had branches in Spain & Germany.

Digital Records was a sublabel of Memory from 1985 - 1988. It was formerly branded as Plexi-Glass Productions for a short time from 1985 - 1986.

Partnership with ZYX Records

ZYX Records became a partner since the first releases, licensing almost the entire catalogue for the German market. By 1984, the company of Bernhard Mikulski even starts to use the Memory Records logos and similar catalogue matrix.

Popularity Loss & Closure

After 4 years, the beginning of the end arrived in 1987, when Italo Disco was fading out in Europe & its business suffered drastic decline due to increasingly strong popularity of House Music. Then the label, as many others, tried to survive changing its style towards House and Eurobeat with discrete results.

Memory ceased in 1989 & its back catalogs were sold to ZYX Records. Zanni-Cundari team founded the company M.C.E. Records to produce Techno House music, but ceased its operations since Cundari's death in 1993.

References

• Memory Records at Discogs
• Momory Records at Eurpo Flash