Dyna Music Entertainment Corporation is a Filipino
record label
"Big Three" music labels
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. It is one of the major record companies in the Philippines; in the 1960s, it was the country's largest licensee of foreign labels. The first
independent record label
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in the Philippines, Dyna Music was founded as Dyna Products, Inc. by businessman James Go Dy in 1959. It is a member of the
Philippine Association of the Record Industry
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(PARI).
Dyna Music also released
video karaoke VCD
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s versions of the label's songs in the Philippines. It also became the first recording company in the country to produce and distribute a large catalogue of
audiophile
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CD titles from the label's homegrown and foreign artists, using 24-bit, 192 kHz digitally remastered audio processing technology.
History
Dyna was established in 1957 by James Go Dy. It became the first recording label in the
Philippines
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. During most of the period from 1970s to the 1990s, It was the local distributor for
PolyGram (including
MGM Records
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,
Polydor Records
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,
Casablanca Records
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,
RSO Records
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RSO managed the careers of several ma ...
,
Mercury Records
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,
Fontana Records
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History
Fontana began in the 1950s as a subsidi ...
,
Island Records
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,
A&M Records
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, and
London Records
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),
Hansa Records
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History
In the early 1960s, brothers Peter and Thomas Meisel, grandchildren of Will Meisel, who was th ...
(for
Modern Talking
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releases only), and
EMI Records
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(under the name ''Dyna EMI'' and later ''Dyna EMI
Virgin
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''). In the late 1980s and in the mid-1990s, Dyna did not renew their contracts with both EMI and PolyGram, and two local companies assumed distribution of their releases, Cosmic Records assumed distribution of PolyGram releases and later became PolyCosmic Records in 1993, then PolyGram Records Philippines in 1997, and after the merger with
Universal Music Group
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in 1999, MCA Music Inc. (now known as
UMUSIC Philippines), while EMI signed with
OctoArts International in 1995, and they became OctoArts-EMI, which eventually became
PolyEast Records
PolyEast Records (formerly Canary Records, OctoArts International, OctoArts EMI Music Inc. and EMI Philippines) is a Philippine record label in the Philippines. It is a member of the Philippine Association of the Record Industry and from 200 ...
.
Notable artists
References
External links
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1959 establishments in the Philippines
Companies based in Pasig
Philippine independent record labels
Pop record labels
Record labels established in 1959
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