The Argentine Talking Machine Works

Argentinian record company and Shellac fatory, funded by Max Glucksmann under Carl Lindström A.-G. in October 1919. Prior to that, Odeon records for the Argentine market were pressed by Brazil's International Talking Machine Co.Ltd.. It published various labels, including: Odeon, Disco Nacional, Disco Gardel-Razzano, Disco Rob. Firpo Disco Nacional Odeon and Disco Criollo Odeon. While the earliest date of appeareance is November 1919, Glucksmann has been operating Odeon franchise since 1913, recording artists from his store Casa Lepage, the prototype that in 1919 becomes Estudios Odeon, Argentina In 1931, after a series of mergers, it came under administration of Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.. It was rebranded Industrias Eléctricas y Musicales Odeón S.R.L. in 1936. Earliest releases would read as "Exclusividad Max Glucksmann, Buenos Aires", and from Nov. 1919 onwards "Manufacturado Exclusivamente Para Max Glucksmann Por la Primera Fabrica Nacional de Discos de la Republica Argentina", eventually becoming "Manufacturado Exclusivamente Para Max Glucksmann Por The Argentine Talking Machine Works Buenos Aires"