AMIGA

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East German label, former State label of the German Democratic Republic (DDR).

Please enter as Amiga, not AMIGA.

Label Code: LC 0055 / LC 00055.
Former pop sub-label of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin, was sold to BMG National Berlin in 1994.
It was founded on 3 February 1947 initially as folder for light entertainment on VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin. Amiga is modified from the Latin "amica" = "friend".

Sister labels:
SCHOLA.

The release year can usually be identified by the last two numbers, represented as "xx", in a so-called legal printing permission that is printed on the back of the cover, e.g. "AG 511/1/xx".
Please check runouts information as well! After the cat. no and the side-index, there is a code that can look like "G88 I C", "J83 EN NT" or, something similar.
The two numbers found in this code point to the actual pressing year.
These numbers are usually the same as the ones found in a legal printing permission, printed on cover's back. IF the two are not the same, please use the later one found in runouts as the reference for the release year.

For Amiga records of the 1983-1987 area the last one or two letters of the runout code encode certain properties of the record. The following codes are documented: "C" stands for "copper cut" (presumably similar to DMM), "U" stands for UC (Universal Compatible) compander usage, and "CU" stands for both. Example: "F85 EN CU".

Items with catalogue numbers like "[x x0 xxx]" are mono releases, while catalogue numbers like "[x x5 xxx]" or "[x x6 xxx]" indicate stereo sound. This applies to all releases on VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin sublabels, at least before 1991.

Series (there might be more series' than listed below, please state them in the release notes):
- AMIGA JAZZ: belongs to the Amiga label, as it's only mentioned on the cover and several records with catalogue numbers less than "8 55 1xx" (on LP) are reissues with new artwork and were originally available before 1970.
- Für Dich: appears as pink symbol on the front cover.

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Sublabels:

Big Beat (10), ...

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  • discomatador2's avatar
    discomatador2
    I just bought close to a dozen of these Amiga label discs. I like the different covers, this is what collectors like of course, even if they look kind of cheap - like K-Tel style TV promoted LPs from the west in the 1970s. Still! I like the liner notes (in German) educational. And, also the compilations are really nice and different and not available elsewhere, and perfect for bands I only like "Best Of s" from -like Phil Collins or Joe Cocker or SAGA gathering -up the best of that period when the sound is not the most important thing as just having the best hits. AMIGA FILLS A VOID is what I say.
    • impending_gleam's avatar
      Edited 3 years ago
      The main problem with the inconsistent Amiga vinyl pressings is the fact,
      that they have to blend the rare virgin vinyl with slate powder.
      • jamesjazzy's avatar
        jamesjazzy
        I love Amiga label and German Free Jazz! Jim United States.
        • Ludwig.Mausberg's avatar
          Love Love
          • sunflower3001's avatar
            sunflower3001
            Tolteke, sounds like a good chance for you to submit it :-)
            • Discots's avatar
              Discots
              Edited 11 years ago
              I lived in West Berlin from 1988-92 and I purchased an arm full of these releases from the former East Berlin, I would play them once and record them to cassette because the assumption was that these records were made of inferior quality and the sound would degrade gradually the more you played them. Anyone know if that assumption is true?
              • der_haase's avatar
                der_haase
                Most of the AMIGA records have plain white inner sleeves. Only a very few have lyrics or ment printed on them. You can find printed inner sleeves not much earlier then the 1980s.
                Licensed editions mostly have no printed inner sleeves.
                • souljacker8888's avatar
                  souljacker8888
                  I recently got about 8 Amiga releases and all had plain white inner sleeves. They all came second hand from the same place, so I am wondering if this person just replaced all the inner sleeves with new white ones or if all Amiga releases came that way.

                  One of them was Dark Side of the Moon (which I am glad to learn is a Quadraphonic version) and it was also without the posters and stickers.

                  I am thinking that maybe Amiga releases did not come with picture inner sleeves or any of the inserts that came with other original releases, but not sure and wonder if anybody knows more about these German releases.