The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label
A bootleg label that emerged from the Trade Mark Of Quality label in 1973, when one of the founders of Trade Mark Of Quality was pushed out of the business by his companion and founded his own label with another partner:
The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label
You can read everything about these events and about the history of
Trade Mark Of Quality and The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label
in this blog written by their (co-)founder Ken Douglas:
- It coulda happened this way -
Among plenty others, the label released several bootlegs featuring The Sisters of Mercy.
Often enough, these releases would show both, Trade Mark Of Quality identifiers on the cover and The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label markers on the vinyl labels.
All of these releases are limited editions.
In the late 1980ies, another bootleg label located in Frankfurt,
Germany, re-released earlier Kornyphone-records under the
slightly varied name of
The Amazing Kornyphone Rebirth Label.
Among these re-releases were, again, some bootlegs featuring
The Sisters of Mercy. Typically, these releases were issued in
a plain white cover with a xerox glued on the cover front and
with "Limited Edition 100 Copies Only" stamped on the back.
The labels differ from the original Kornyphone-labels and show
on side A an elephant rowing a boat and on side B a sort of
crosshairs.
Catalogue# and matrix numbers for all the above mentioned releases do always start with "TAKRL".
Releases
- see also Out Through The Poison Door
| Title | Catalogue# | Format | Content | Remarks |
| Ghost Riders | TAKRL 1402 | 12" vinyl LP | Leeds University, 16.03.1985 | Limited edition of 100 copies |
| Ghostriderz | TAKRL 1402 | 12" vinyl LP | Leeds University, 16.03.1985 | Limited edition of 500 copies |
| The Dark | TAKRL 2040, TAKRL 2163 and TAKRL 2212 (Rebirth) |
3 x 12" vinyl LP | Brixton Ace, London, 29.06.1983 and Paradiso, Amsterdam, 28.08.1983 |
Limited edition of 100 copies |
| Live In Holland | TAKRL 2122 (Rebirth) | 12 " vinyl LP | Paradiso, Amsterdam, 28.08.1983 | Limited edition of 100 copies (allegedly), only few were ever heard to exist |
| Dead Flowers | TAKRL 2192 (Rebirth) | 12" vinyl LP | Peel & Jenson Sessions | Limited edition of 100 copies |
| Dark Paradise | TAKRL 2212-11 (Rebirth) | 12" vinyl LP | Lyceum, London, 25.03.1985 | Limited edition of 100 copies |
| Live At Leeds | TAKRL 2226 (Rebirth) | 12" vinyl LP | Leeds University, 16.03.1985 | allegedly a limited edition of 100 copies very few do actually exist |
| Floor Show | TAKRL 2402 | 2 x 12" vinyl LP | Lyceum, London, 25.03.1985 and Danceteria, New York, 13.04.1984 |
Limited edition of 500 copies |
| Ghostly Crew | TMQ 71124 | 12" vinyl LP | Kid Jensen Sessions & Demos | Limited edition of 500 copies Comes with TOQ logo on cover and with TAKRL labels on the vinyls |
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