Amiga (record label)

Amiga (record label)

AMIGA was a record label for popular music of the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin in East Germany. In 1994 it became a label of the BMG Berlin Musik GmbH.

In 1947 German actor and singer Ernst Busch got from the Soviet Military Administration in Germany the permission to create a record label, that got its name AMIGA the same year. Since 1954 AMIGA was part of the VEB Deutsche Schallplatten - a state-owned record company having the monopoly on record production. The label AMIGA was used to release following music genres:
* rock music
* pop music
* "Schlager"
* entertainment
* children
* folk music
* jazz music (on the sub-label AMIGA JAZZ)
* chanson
* political songs

Its catalogue constitutes of 2,200 albums (plus about five thousand singles) with a total of 30,000 titles. Since 1994 Amiga (now spelled capitalizing only the first letter) is part of BMG Berlin Musik GmbH, reissuing around 200 records with tracks from the back catalogue.

See also

* List of record labels

Books

* Birgit und Michael Rauhut: "AMIGA - Die Diskographie" (ISBN 3-89602-189-3) [http://www.schwarzkopf-schwarzkopf.de/szene/ddr/vergriffenetitel/amiga.html Info in German]

External links

* [http://www.amiga-musik.de/ Amiga Musik] - Official Site of the Sony BMG label (in German)
* [http://www.discogs.com/label/AMIGA AMIGA] at Discogs


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