Balkanton

Balkanton (Bulgarian: Балкантон) was a state-owned record manufacturing company in Bulgaria founded in 1952. Many of the produced records were, or still are available in the countries of the former Soviet Bloc. Balkanton's plant in Sofia was equipped for all aspects of record manufacturing from recording the masters and pressing the vinyl records to printing the cover. Multi-channel sound recording was introduced in 1972 with equipment purchased from England. In 1982 Balkanton received its own digital recording equipment. By the mid-1980s annual LP production reached 9 million units.[1] The company mainly produced LPs and from 1980 it started to manufacture cassettes. Being the only record company in Bulgaria during four decades, Balkanton accumulated a vast library of performances of folk, classical, Bulgarian and foreign popular music, theater, poetry and more. After a couple of attempts to reorganize the company in the 1990s, it was finally privatized in 1999. Currently, Balkanton is reissuing some of its old recordings, mainly in the digital format, closing deals with digital distributors like Amazon.com,[2] Spotify, Napster, 7digital and more.

Balkanton
Founded1952
GenreVarious
Country of originBulgaria
LocationSofia
Official websitehttp://www.balkanton.su
A Balkanton logo on the record

Balkanton is located at No.6 Haidoushka Polyana Street, Sofia, but is not known to have a company web presence.[3] Second-hand Balkanton records are widely available at tourist-oriented market stalls in Sofia and other Bulgarian cities.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-11-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Reported by an EEFC tourist in June 2008
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