BRONS

Pirate company, well known on the Russian market in 1998-2001. On first releases the company acted as an 'anonymous' manufacturer - no company logos or any other info appeared on releases. These releases can be recognized by cat# (which usually appeared on CD logo surface) and matrix number, which were "BRONS xxx", where "xxx" is a 3 digit number. On some releases cat# printed in lower case ("brons xxx"). Later the company started using aliases Dance Ok! Studio, DJ's Club Records \ DJ's Club Rec. GmbH and E.S. Records Ltd.. Some releases came without these aliases, but with 'stolen' logos of respected Western labels instead. Cat# were assigned to releases in the same manner (and "stolen" releases often additionally kept original cat#). Some releases of this label are collectible, as they came with unique artwork and tracklists. At the same time, some releases contain tracks mastered from poor quality sources (such as MP3 files).