{{short description|Yugoslavian music label}} <!---the logo is low-res don't make it bigger its bad. better find or scan a hi-res version---> {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Diskoton | image_name = Diskoton records Sarajevo logo.png | image_size = 200px | image_bg = | parent = | founded = 1974 | founder = | status = Defunct since 1992 | distributor = | genre = Various | country = [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|SFR Yugoslavia]] | location = [[Sarajevo]] | url = }} '''''Diskoton''''' was a major [[record label]] in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|SFR Yugoslavia]], based in [[Sarajevo]], [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. The company ceased to exist in 1992, with the outbreak of the [[War in Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. The studio was destroyed along with all master recordings.
==History== Diskoton was formally established in 1972 in Sarajevo at the instigation of Asim Haverić, then an employee of the record label Beograd Disk (later to become [[Jugodisk]]). He persuaded Jovo Beatović, manager of the city public utility company Park in Sarajevo, to organize a record production company within his enterprise.<ref>{{cite web |title=Diskoton |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/61922-Diskoton |website=Discogs |language=en}}</ref>
Record production began in 1973 and Diskoton operated as a subsidiary of Park until 1977, when it became an independent company. Diskoton's premises were located in Pionirska dolina, a popular city park and zoo maintained by the Park company. The label acquired its name through a public call advertised via the popular weekly gossip-lifestyle magazine/newspaper, ''Ven'', opting to pick a name suggested by young musician Brano Likić, later the founder and leader of the band {{ill|Rezonansa|bs}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Diskoton |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/61922-Diskoton |website=Discogs |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:DiskotonLabel.jpg|thumb|Diskoton label on Ansambl Branka Milenovića vinyl record.]]
Diskoton's first equipment were French-made automatic press machines Materiel Applications Plastiques (MAP) for [[7" record]] manufacturing. In the earliest months of operation, due to unskilled staff, a large quantity of [[PVC]] was wasted because the machines produced defective records, which were then trashed. Diskoton could manufacture only singles and [[Extended play|EP]] records until late 1975, when they acquired the equipment for manufacturing [[LP records]] as well as [[cassette tape|cassettes]]. Starting from 1980, Diskoton began occasionally using the service pressing of [[Jugoton]] pressing plant, while it became almost entirely dependent on the service pressing of [[PGP-RTB]] pressing plant by the late 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Diskoton |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/61922-Diskoton |website=Discogs |language=en}}</ref>
The most prominent A&R executives of Diskoton were [[Vajo Milošević]] and {{ill|Slobodan Vujović|bs}}, the latter being the former leader of the band [[Ambasadori]]. In 1987, Nevad Hadžić, a graduate of the Academy of Music in Sarajevo, joined Diskoton as Editor in Chief for Folk Music and inspired many already established performers to publish their music with Diskoton.
With the outbreak of the [[Bosnian War]], the company ceased to exist in 1992. The studio was completely destroyed along with all master tapes and recordings, meaning that most albums are unavailable in master quality (apart from the few that were released in the short time that Diskoton was producing [[CD]]s before its literal collapse).
==Artists== Diskoton is notable for signing numerous eminent former Yugoslav [[pop music|pop]] and [[rock music|rock]], as well as [[folk music|folk]] acts. Some of the artists that have been signed to Diskoton, include: {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *[[Amajlija]] *[[Ambasadori]] *[[Bajaga i Instruktori]] *[[Đorđe Balašević]] *[[Bele Višnje]] *[[Halid Bešlić]] *[[Bijelo Dugme]] *[[Goran Bregović]] *[[Zdravko Čolić]] *[[Arsen Dedić]] *[[Divlje Jagode]] *[[Raša Đelmaš]] *[[Ljubiša Racić#Formula 4 (1970–1979)|Formula 4]] *[[Duško Gojković]] *[[Osman Hadžić]] *[[Hari Mata Hari]] *[[Indexi]] *[[Safet Isović]] *[[Jugosloveni]] *[[Kameleoni]] *[[Kongres]] *[[Lepa Brena]] *[[Lutajuća Srca]] *[[Mugdim Avdić "Henda"]] *[[Srđan Marjanović]] *[[Seid Memić Vajta]] *[[Merlin (Yugoslav band)|Merlin]] *[[Metak]] *[[Kemal Monteno]] *[[Hanka Paldum]] *[[Josip Pejaković]] *[[Plavi Orkestar]] *[[Zoran Predin]] *[[Regina (Bosnia and Herzegovina band)|Regina]] *[[Boba Stefanović]] *[[Jadranka Stojaković]] *[[Miladin Šobić]] *[[Mladen Vojičić Tifa|Tifa Band]] *[[Neda Ukraden]] *[[Valentino (band)|Valentino]] *[[Vatreni Poljubac]] *[[Milić Vukašinović]] *[[Zabranjeno Pušenje]] *[[Zana (band)|Zana]] {{div col end}}
Like other former Yugoslav labels, Diskoton also had a licence to release foreign titles for the Yugoslav market including notable international [[popular music]] stars such as: [[Commodores]], [[Marvin Gaye]], [[Gonzalez (band)|Gonzalez]], [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]], [[John Holt (singer)|John Holt]], [[Diana Ross]], [[Tavares (group)|Tavares]], [[The Temptations]], [[Stevie Wonder]], and others.
==Competition== Other [[major label]]s in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were [[PGP-RTB]] and [[Jugodisk]] from [[Belgrade]], [[Jugoton]] and [[Suzy (record label)|Suzy]] from Zagreb, [[ZKP RTLJ]] from [[Ljubljana]], [[Diskos (record label)|Diskos]] from [[Aleksandrovac]], and others.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.discogs.com/label/Diskoton Diskoton at Discogs]
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