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Turicaphon AG

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Swiss record company Turicaphon AG was founded on October 1st, 1930 in Zurich. In 1936 they took over a bankrupt pressing factory in Riedikon, where they manufactured vinyl discs until 1992. Before and during the war, they mainly released Swiss artists. In 1948 Turicaphon opened a studio in Vienna, releasing on [l61614]. In Switzerland they founded [l34647] for all different kinds of music. All together, 100.000 titles got recorded for the biggest Swiss labels, radio and TV stations, as well as many self-released artists. In their best times, they pressed up to 4 million records a year, mainly for other labels like [l69368], [l1610] or [l26126]. In 1985 Hans L. Oestreicher junior took over the business. In 1991 they stopped to press records. Nowadays, Turicaphon works as Broker for CD/DVD and vinyl manufacturing, label producer, distributor and publisher. Vinyl pressings can be identified by "Made in Switzerland", "SWISS MADE" and / or the [crossbow logo] or TU in the runouts. "TU" is sometimes printed on labels. Turicaphon AG = Turicaphon SA = Turicaphon Ltd. These are all language variations.