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Music World (New Zealand)

Posted by Bruce on November 15, 2009 in Labels with No Comments

the New Zealand budget label headed by Houghton Hughes. It was in operation in Australia from around 1980 until 1996 (in New Zealand, it had been around since the mid 1970′s)

In Australia the label was distributed by a company named Trans Tasman Productions (by the late 1980′s it became Music World Australia)

their specialty was in compilations and original recordings featuring recording artists as Tom Sharplin and Rhonda

the first logo above appeared on LP releases from the 1970′s. Below is the label from this era:

and here is the label as it appeared in the 1980′s

by the late 1980s, the comany branched into CDs and Videocassette releases.

The last known releases by this company were released around 1996.

During it’s heyday, the record company was available everywhere in Australia, but by the mid 1990′s it was only available at dollar shops such as The Reject Shop.

The new and improved AFD is now online

Posted by Bruce on November 15, 2009 in Announcements with No Comments

It’s not just Foxtel and Austrar that is launching it’s new TV channels today.

the new and improved Audio Fidelity Database comes online today.

The website has now had it’s layout re-conformed to the rest of my website (no more frames, Yay!) , and has had additional pages (which had been submitted to me while I was in transit, but was unable to be added until now.)

Actually, if you were online between 4 PM and 5 PM yesterday, you would have got a preview of the site, as I was fixing a few bugs before I made the site officially “live”

After 5PM, I had changed the index page back to the “pre-launch” page once I completed my bugfix, but now the site is now officially live.

click on the link on my links area on the right, and let me know what you think. by contacting me at offrecord at brucelaing.com