Industrias Eléctricas Y Musicales Odeón S.R.L.

Argentinian record company and shellac factory, subsidiary of Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI) operating from circa 1936. Previously known as The Argentine Talking Machine Works, it was renamed Industrias Electricas Y Musicales Odeon S.A.I.C. between 1957 and 1958, a few years after EMI acquired Capitol Records. Its previously operating labels Disco Nacional Odeon & Disco Criollo Odeon were absorbed into the Odeon label from there on. The company began production of 10'' 331/3RPM hard vinyl records in 1954 and moved to full production by 1955. However, shellac production facilities credited under IEMO SRL lasted a few years longer, closing in 1956-57. From 1957 onwards, the company started pressing vinyl LP and EP 7'' 45RPM formats, and became IEMO SAIC less than a year later. Usually appears as - Industrias Eléctricas Y Musicales Odeón Soc. de Resp. Ltda. Bs. Aires The Odeon logotype found almost all Odeon SRL labels is introduced in 1933 and used for Argentina, Brazil, Spain and other countries. It differs from the European and North American logotype used at the time. Important: Perforation (Recording) date of songs recorded in Estudios Odeon, Argentina does not represent the release date. Information on early Tango recordings has been compiled in multiple books and it's availability online often leads to misinformation. From the point of recording the tracks may be pressed and releases as little as a couple months later, delayed, shelved permanently or assembled eclectically in 78RPM records years after. The matrix number e XXXX / e XXXXX is sequential, based on recording session, but rarely indicative of anything. Releases may be: 1. Released within two or three months, depending pressing & distribution related factors. 2. Released with delay some months o years later. These delays are clearly noticeable due to asynchronous label design that doesn't fit the immediate period recorded 3. Arranged with tracks from other recording sessions and released later. Easy to notice due to asynchronous label design and non-sequential matrix numbers ie (e 11078 / e 11336) 4. Shelved permanently and never released on 78RPM, they usually appear on 60s EP/LP compilations or CD collections many decades later. Analysis and timeline of releases: * Cap. $ 750.000, Cap. $ 2.000.00 and Cap. M$N 15.000.000 refers to capital (assets) of the company. It began appearing during 1941. The exact dates of their appearance haven't been determined, but a range of their appearance can be established: 1941-1948 - Cap. $ 750.000 1948-1955 - Cap. $ 2.000.000 / Cap. M$N 2.000.000 1955-1955 - Cap. M$N 15.000.000 Combined with variations in label design, this can be used for estimating the release dates of the recording. Across all it's history Odeon SRL uses 3 different label colour schemes with several variants each. Design changes are incremental and rarely misprinted or reused. Exact dates dates of changes are unknown, but there's comprehensive databases for perforation (recording dates) and comparative images within the database itself. 1936-1943: - Gold print on Dark Red label Ex. 1 - Earliest date 06/1941, design gets updated to adequate Cap. $ 750.000 Ex. 2 - Introduced design a Folklore series Ex. 3 1943-1944: - Gray print on Black label. Earliest date 03/1942. Short lived. Ex. 1 - Verofon logo is dropped. earliest date 08/1943 Ex. 2 1944-1949: - Design gets updated to adequate Trademark identifiers. earliest date 08/1944 - Ex. 1 - Occasionally, variants appear (Gold print on black label Ex. 2 Gold print on Purple label Ex. 3 Gold print on Green label Ex. 4 - SADAIC logo appears for new Side A - Side B combinations, earliest date 04/1948 Ex. 5 - Cap $ 2.000.000 appears, min. date 04/1948 Ex. 6 - At the very end of the design's life, min. date 11/1948, Cap. $ 2.000.000 gets moved to the center Ex. 7 1949-1951 - Black print on White and Black label. Earliest date 10/1949. Earliest know recording Vast mayority of these are reissues or never released old recordings. Ex. 1 - Blue print on White and Blue label - same design as before, earliest date 09/1950. Ex. 2 1951-1955 - Blue print and White label, The 48-49 design. Earliest date 06/1952. Ex. 1 Variant, unknown earliesta date. Ex. 2 1954-1956 - Blue print on White label Ex. 1 - Black print on Yellow label. "Grabación Particular". Min date 06/1954 Not present on database - Silver print on red label. For classical release Ex. 2 - BIEM rights society begins appearing Ex. 3 - Orange / Red / Green print White label Ex. 4 Ex. 5 - Black print on Orange / Red / Green label. Ex. 6 Ex. 7 - Cap. M $ N 15.000.000 appears. Last records to be released before IEMO SRL gets reformatted as vinyl publisher. Design is similar to first IEMO SAIC releases Ex. 8 Print colour varies a little. Some 40s black labels may have gold print, some 50s white labels may have white print on blue label. Some may be completely different colours Notes: * Many 1948 and up records lack the SADAIC logo. It's possible that only new record compositions (not reissues) may be subject to SADAIC copyright.