Life Records
Life Records , actually Hup Hup Sdn. Bhd. , is a music label founded in 1949 in Kuala Lumpur .
history
It was founded in 1949, followed by foreign subsidiaries, specifically Life Records Limited in Hong Kong in 1960 and Life Record Industries Pte Ltd in Singapore in 1966 .
According to their own information, Life Records was the first regional licensee of renowned foreign record companies, including the US label Columbia Records ( marketed internationally as CBS ), MCA Records (a subsidiary of the Music Corporation of America that was merged with Geffen Records in 2003 ) and Kapp Records (1967 on MCA sold and discontinued in 1973).
Until the early 1980s was the only musical Life Records label, the Indonesian music legally correct licensed in Malaysia marketed - otherwise it was only in breach of copyright sold copies , that is pirated . In 1981 a joint venture with Asia Pacific Records followed in order to market Indonesian artists even more intensively. In line with the spirit of the times and local conditions, a division of 80% music cassettes and 20% records was calculated in production.
Portfolio
The record company has developed over the decades and a. specializes in pop, classical music, dangdut , folk music such as the Keroncong song genre , which emerged under Portuguese influence , drama, opera and children's songs in Chinese and Mandarin and, according to his own admission, has built up the largest repertoire in Asia.
The record company’s repertoire includes or has included a. the Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng , Frances Yip , a singer of Cantonese pop music from Hong Kong, the Taiwanese boy group Fahrenheit and the all-female metal band Candy from Malaysia, originally founded under the name "G-Saphia" .
In addition to own productions , the range also includes licensed albums and re-releases, including, for example, the 1973 album Nashville Skyline originally published by Bob Dylan in 1969 .
distribution
In addition to Malaysia, the Life Records sales network basically covers the entire Asian region, including Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China.
Trivia
With its managing director Ng Cheong Hock, Life Records is represented with a seat on the council of the “Recording Industry Association of Malaysia” in the 2016–2018 term of office. During the same period, Hock is also a board member of “One Stop Music”.
Publications (selection)
- 1972: Teresa Teng - 電影 原聲 帶 插曲 「風 從 那裡 來」
- 1973: Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
- 1975: Frances Yip - Frances Yip's Golden Hits ( Compilation )
- 1987: BumiPutra Rockers - Selamat Pagi Malaysia
- 1992: Abdullah Chik - Suka Sama Suka
- 1997: Candy - Candy
- 2005: Ito Blues Geng - The Best Of Me
- 2012: Tribute - Clash Of The Bands - Rock Never Die ... (compilation)
- 2013: Dead Mushroom - Superock
- 2017: Rusty Blade - Rintangan Hidup Dunia
- 2018: XPDC - Kita Peng-Yu
Web links
- Official website ( Memento of June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Life Records on Facebook (English)
- Life Records at Discogs
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us> Record Label. ( Memento from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Life Records
- ↑ Christie Leo: Joint Malay-Indonesian Test . In: Billboard . July 18, 1981, ISSN 0006-2510 , pp. 71 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ↑ a b About us. ( Memento from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Life Records
- ↑ Candy ( Memento from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: muzikrock.com ( Malay ).
- ^ Recording Industry Association of Malaysia - RIM Council Members. In: rim.org.my. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .