Mood Records

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Mood Records
Active years 1977-2016
founder Werner Schretzmeier, Wolfgang Dauner, Volker Kriegel, Albert Mangelsdorff, Ack van Rooyen
Seat Stuttgart , Germany
Label code LC 05453
distribution Two thousand and one
Genre (s) Jazz , rock

Mood Records was a German independent music label that mainly published jazz productions . It was created in 1977 from the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble (UJRE) and was based in Stuttgart , and now also in Heidelberg .

prehistory

The establishment of the label goes back to the television program "Elf 1/2", which was broadcast on Sundays by Südfunk in Stuttgart (SDR) in the 1970s and was supervised by Werner Schretzmeier as editor . To round off the youth program musically, the Elfeinhalb Ensemble was founded, which appeared exclusively in this program. At that time Schretzmeier was also part of the cabaret ensemble “Die Resstandsler” and since 1968 has operated the Manufaktur jazz club in the Swabian town of Schorndorf . In 1976 the ensemble finally accompanied the legendary family series “Goldener Sonntag” (with Ingeburg Kanstein and Hanns Dieter Hüsch , among others ), which was broadcast throughout Germany on ARD . After the end of the festival, it was decided to hold a farewell concert, which took place in the singer hall in Untertürkheim .

history

Schretzmeier and Dauner decided to produce an album for the ensemble on their own. In order to document the independence from the industry, the name Roots Records was found for the label . After the veto of an Austrian label of the same name, an agreement was finally reached on Mood Records .

In addition to Schretzmeier, Volker Kriegel , Wolfgang Dauner , Albert Mangelsdorff and Ack van Rooyen , the Sugar Factory recording studio should also be mentioned as founders . The label with the subtitle “Production of the Musicians” was seen from the beginning as an alternative to the usual way of dealing with musicians in the music industry. "We oriented ourselves a bit to the way the authors' publishing house works," Dauner said in a 1977 interview with the news magazine Der Spiegel . The goal was fairer pay for those involved, especially the musicians. In order to save costs, one wanted to do without the usual production and distribution channels. So one found similarly organized companies that worked with the label for practically all of its years of existence. For the production of the records you could see the records of the family business factory Pallas in Diepholz win, later as P + O Pallas manufactured the compact discs of the label. The recording studio Bauer in Ludwigsburg was responsible for the audio and vinyl mastering , and distribution was handled exclusively by the mail order company Zweiausendeins (back then also often regarded as "the politically left side of capitalism") from Frankfurt , who sold the records for 15 , 90 DM offered. Although this only operated 12 shops in Germany, its booklet catalog reached around 1.2 million customers.

Thanks to their own initiative and the fact that Dauner and Schretzmeier worked as honorary managing directors for the first 10 years , the goal of distributing around a quarter of the profit to the musicians was achieved.

But Mood Records also saw itself politically as an “opposition label”. For example, leaflets against the Pershing stationing were distributed or “songs for repairers” were produced.

With the sale of two thousand and one to an investor in 2006, the end of the label was inevitable. In 2010 Dauner resigned as managing director and on May 9, 2016 the label was finally deleted from the commercial register.

Manufacturing and sales

All of the sound carriers were produced by the Pallas record factory or P + O Pallas in Diepholz . The Bauer recording studio in Ludwigshafen was largely responsible for the mastering of audio and vinyl . Until the early 1980s, SST Brüggemann GmbH also performed some vinyl cuts in Frankfurt .

As deliberately founded independently of the music industry, the label founders found an ideal partner in the alternative mail order company Zweiausendeins, who marketed the label exclusively through its booklet . In addition, Zweiausendeins also had shops in various large cities such as Munich , Frankfurt am Main , Freiburg and Berlin .

After the end of the label through the sale of two thousand and one in 2006, the last sign of life in the 2: 1 edition series in the music distribution of the hi-fi company in-akustik was a handful of double CDs, each with two albums by a musician from Mood -Catalog included. The albums were digitally restored and remastered at Pauler Acoustics by Hans-Jörg Mauksch.

In the following years, records with the original distribution information for two thousand and one appeared again and again, but were covered with stickers “In in-akustik sales”, which allows the conclusion that in-akustik had taken over the remaining stocks of the label.

Through the Pallas Group and its internal label Deutsche Austrophon ( da-music ), which had a subsidiary in the USA, some titles were also offered on the American market. For this purpose, the CDs made in Germany were used and only the sales information was given the da-music logo and its American address.

Some early Mood Records recordings were released in the US on the Arista label. However, these were probably license pressures.

Musicians and productions

The first release on the label was in September 1977 the album Live in the Schützenhaus of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble . With ten other albums and various compilations, the band formed both the musical and commercial backbone of the label. The style-forming fusion of rock and jazz was supplemented by political and cabaret publications. Albums by Biermösl Blosn , their "sister band" Wellküren or Maria Peschek found a place in the label's catalog, as did those of the members of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, above all Albert Mangelsdorff , Volker Kriegel or Ack van Rooyen and of course Wolfgang Dauner.

In addition, there was also space for cross-border commuters such as the classically oriented Modern String Quartet or Anne Haigis, who acted between pop and jazz . As early as 1978, the former Dauner bassist Jürgen Karg was given the opportunity to release his only album to date, "Electronic Myths". The guitar duo Kolbe Illenberger also found a new home at Mood Records in 1978 and released five albums there.

The last release on the label was 2006 "Forever" of Wellküren.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://jazzpages.com/archiv/news_fr_bis_071299.htm
  2. ↑ https://www.theaterhaus.com/theaterhaus/index.php?id=1,1,29
  3. ↑ https://www.fernsehserien.de/goldener-sonntag
  4. ↑ a b c d MoodRecords ( Memento from September 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ https://volker-kriegel.de/vita.html
  6. ↑ a b Star jazz musicians establish record production . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1977, pp. 138 ( Online - July 11, 1977 ).
  7. ↑ https://www.online-handelsregister.de/handelsregisterauszug/bw/Stuttgart/M/mood-records+Schallplatten+GmbH/121163
  8. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Ralf-Illenberger-Martin-Kolbe-Highlights/release/1103148