Hallé See --> Academy of Sound and Vision (ASV)

Hanibal See --> Rykodisc

HatHut Records
Modern Jazz and improvised music. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Heads UP
Jazz Specialist. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, SACD.

Heartbeat See --> Rounder Records

Hearts of Space See --> Valley Entertainment

Hed Kandi (Dance compilation albums) See --> Ministry of Sound

Helidor See --> Deutsche Grammophon

Helios See --> Hyperion

Hemisphere Records See --> EMI

Heyday
Small USA based label, rock oriented music. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Hey Presto!
Budget label, while their catalogue is mostly re-recordings, instrumental and other material familiar from the genre they do have a nice disk or 2 with original material, including a couple of classical disks. Their catalogue is hidden away on their Asian homepage. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CC, CD.
KB Import & Export, 43 North Street, Manchester M8 8RE, England.
Phone : +44 (0)161 834 8485. Fax : +44 (0)161 832 8057. Email : sales at plustron.com

Hi-fi Records See --> Rykodisc

Higher Octave Music See --> EMI

Hightone Records
USA based independent, mostly Americana. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Hi-Res Music
USA based Jazz label that re-releases disks on DVD format (using normal digital encoding, e.g. playable on all DVD players, not DVDA disks). -- Official homepage
Formats supported : DVD.

Holyland Records
Company based in Israel that publishes disks with Christian religious music recorded in monasteries and churches around the "holy land". -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Hostile Records See --> EMI

Hugo Productions
Hong Kong based company that puts out traditional Chinese and Russian folk music alongside Chinese classical works on the Hugo label and issues audiophile quality recordings under the LPCD label much of it being Classical music including re-releases but also peculiarly Chinese musical forms that could be classifiable in the west as Easy Listening or New Age. The LPCD name is also used for a line of power and loudspeaker cables & interconnects the company sells. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, LP, SACD.
Distribution: In Canada by Liberty Trading and in the USA by May Audio Marketing.
Hugo Productions, No. 1-2/5/F, Kinglet Industrial Building, 21-23 Shing Wan Road, Taiwai, New Terretories, Hong Kong.
Tel: +852 2602 4066. Fax: +852 2602 4078..

Hungaroton Records
Hungarian label founded in 1951 as MHV and originally put out classical music and traditional Hungarian music and other "state approved" forms of music, gained notoriety in the west during the 60's with a series of excellent classical recordings and changed it's name to Hungaroton in 1969 and was noticeably the first eastern European company to manufacture compact disks. Today Hungaroton is an independent company that publishes both classical music and popular music by local artists, does or has in the past published under labels such as Echo which is used for the re-releases of the classical back catalogue, while Bravo, Favorite, Cream, Gong and others have been used for their pop recordings, Hungarian Pop Story is however used for the re-releases of the popular music back catalogue, and although no longer used, the Qualiton and Profi brands where used for some of their pop output. This is also the company that used to put out the old Colorvox picture soundcards (postcards playable on a record player, a very popular novelty in the early 60's).
Homepage: http://www.hungaroton.hu

Hyperion
UK based classical label, also has 2 underlabels, the mid-price Dyad and the budget Helios. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, SACD.

Incus Records
Tiny UK based label, mostly improvised jazz etc., run by guitarist Derek Bailey. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, LP.

IMG Artists
Primarily an artist management company specialising in the classical music sector, they do however hold out the BBC Legends label that publishes historical recordings from the vaults of the BBC. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Immergent Records See --> 5.1 Entertainment Group

Impex Records
USA based audiophile re-issue label, mostly ligh jazz and classic pop & rock on CD while thei LP catalogue contains some classical music as well. Label founded by some of the staff from Cisco Music. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, LP.
Distribution: In Canada by Liberty Trading

Impulse See --> GRP

In-akustik
German label that puts out rock, jazz and classical material, also a cable manufacturer (see : In-Akustik). -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, DVD, SACD.

Inner Circle Recordings See --> Sheffield Lab

Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA)
A directory of downloadable music by independent/unsigned bands, mostly rock etc.. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : MP3.

Íslensk Tónvekamiðstöð
Primarily a collection point for modern classical Icelandic music but they do from time to time publish works both in printed form and on CD's using the ITM label. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Java Records See --> EMI

JAV Recordings
USA based label that specialises in pipe organ recordings. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Jazz Legends See --> Naxos

JBR Records
Oddball US based label that offers classical music made by electronic instruments, sometimes in novel arrangements. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

Jeremy Bamber Tapes See --> Cat's Heaven

Jive See --> Bertelsmann Music Group

John Marks Records
Small audiophile classical label based in the USA. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

J-Records See --> Bertelsmann Music Group

JVC XRCD
Audiophile sub-imprint of the Japanese major that re-releases classical music and jazz remastered using the company's XRCD process. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.
Distributed in Canada by Liberty Trading, in Germany by Sieveking Sound and in the USA by May Audio Marketing

Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Norwegian audiophile label, mostly religious music of all kinds but also instrumental and jazz. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

KlangRäume
Small German label does mostly early and modern classical music, but also some jazz and other 20th century music. Emphasis is on recording quality and they have a binaural compatible recording or 2. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, DVD.

Klimo
While this German company is primarily a manufacturer of high end audio equipment they do publish a small range of audiophile classical recordings, noticeably they are one of the few labels that is putting out original recordings of classical music on LP. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD, LP.

Koch International
Austrian label that publishes mostly classical and traditional music, also operates the Schwann label. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.
Koch International, Postfach 24, Gewerbegebiet, A-6600 Höfen, Austria.
Phone : +43 552 238 862. Fax : +43 552 238 872.

Kopasetic Productions
Small Swedish label that specialises in locally produced Jazz and improvised music. -- Official homepage
Formats supported : CD.

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