Intakt Records

{{Short description|Swiss record label}} {{Infobox record label  | name = Intakt Records | image = | founded = {{start date|1986}} | founder = Patrik Landolt | distributor = | genre = Jazz, avant-garde | country = Switzerland | location = Zürich | url = {{URL|http://www.intaktrec.ch/}} }}

'''Intakt Records''' is an independent record label, based in Zürich, Switzerland.

==History== The label was founded in 1986 by Patrik Landolt.<ref name="DB">Margasak, Peter (September 2013) "Intakt's Landolt Takes Long-Term Approach to Avant-Garde". ''Down Beat''. p. 16.</ref> In the early 1980s he had co-founded Fabrikjazz, a cultural organization, with Remo Rau and pianist Irène Schweizer.<ref name="DB" /> "It was due to high-quality festival recordings made by Swiss Radio that Landolt was eventually inspired to start the label": he said that "Irène Schweizer was internationally known at this time, but her music wasn't well documented, [...] I decided to bring out the first recordings as LPs".<ref name="DB" /> The first release sold well – 2,000 copies in one month.<ref name="DB" /> In 2003 the 80th album was released<ref name="AAJ">Gottschalk, Kurt (5 April 2003) [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/intakt-records-by-kurt-gottschalk.php?width=1366 "Intakt Records"]. All About Jazz.</ref> and by mid-2013 Intakt had released more than 220.<ref name="DB" />

==Practices== The label "sees itself as something more than a traditional record company, working with its artists over the long term to produce carefully curated editions."<ref name="DB" /> In the late 1990s, a subscription service was introduced, allowing customers to buy every new release directly from the label at a discount.<ref name="AAJ" /> Although the catalogue has been made available for digital download, as of 2013 Landolt still enjoys producing CDs as a physical product.<ref name="DB" />

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Category:Jazz record labels Category:Record labels established in 1986 Category:Swiss record labels