This chapter
is dedicated to give a detailed description of the most significant
CD labels involved in publicing Led Zeppelin's bootlegs. It contains
not only professional labeled silvers, but also some professional and
fan-made CD-R labels which used to produce (or still do) CD-Rs. I excluded
many low budget labels and almost all of compilations, mostly due to
the fact they do not show important value for most of the collectors
and very often are reissues of material released.
I especially
focused on those CD labels, that publish Led Zeppelin's music only:
Antrabata Reference Master (ARM), Immigrant (IM), Image Quality (IQ),
Last Stand Disc (LSD), The Diagrams Of Led Zeppelin (TDOLZ), Watch Tower
(WT), Wendy Records and a couple more. Many of titles published by those
CD labels are priceless for Zeppelin's fans, because they contain material
that hasn't been published before and was rarely (or never) reissued
on other albums. The most significant of them is TDOLZ which has published
many worth-getting titles.
A separate category
is dedicated to those CD labels, which, due to a very limited edition
and horrendal prices, are wanted by many collectioners; CD labels like
Akashic, Empress Valley Supreme Disc, Tarantura or Tarantura2000 may
be mentioned here. The interest that they arouse is caused not only
by the unique music material they contain, but also by the most beautiful
cover designs. Especially Empress Valley may be praised for having published
many tapes that are really hard to find or are rarely reissued.
The last category
is dedicated to previously mentioned CD-R labels, which are very often
home-made, with amateur graphic designs (with the exception of Beelzebub
Records, that issues its records in gatefold card sleeves, similar to
professional issues). They often contain the same material as on professionally
labeled CDs but due to their lower price and modern equalization are
highly appreciated by many of collectors.
The task of
acquiring most of these pieces is a dauting and very expensive proposition,
even for the well-connected collector. Without advocating the sale of
this kind of product, I listed below those CD labels that I feel are
worth searching out plus some that are worth mentioning due to their
historical importance. The list is alphabetical and containing very
detailed informations about every title.
In the case
of sound quality I've given similar rating system as on vinyl albums
though I haven't mentioned detailed recording characteristics. Most
of CDs have sound equalized a lot due to the professional mastering
job so You must remember that original tapes have far worse sound than
their CD reissues. Only few earliest CD labels released their titles
in a similar quality as original tapes.
Click the label
that you are interested in and try to choose the title you are looking
for while browsing the subpage:
A
-> Akashic
-> Amsterdam
-> Antrabata
Reference Master
-> Apple
Music
-> ARMS
-> Atlantic
Ocean Records
B
-> Baby
Face
-> Badgeholders
-> Balboa
Productions
-> Beat
And Beat
-> Beelzebub
Records
-> Black
Cat Records
-> Black
Dog Rekords
-> Black
Swan
-> Blimp
-> Boogie
Mama
-> Bumble
Bee
C
-> Cannonball
Records
-> Capricorn
Records
-> Cashmere
-> Celebration
Definitive Masters
-> Chronicles
Of Led Zeppelin (The)
-> Cobla/Cobra
Standard Series
-> Confusion
Records
-> Crazy
Dream
D
-> Dadgad
Productions
-> Diagrams
Of Led Zeppelin (The)
-> Digger
Productions
E
-> Eagle
Music
-> Eelgrass
-> Electric
Magic
-> Empress
Valley Supreme Disc
-> Equinox
F
-> Fire
Power
-> Flagge
-> Flying
Disc/Ghost Music
-> Forever
Standard Series (People's Choice)
G
-> Genuine
Masters
-> Godfather
Records
-> Gold
Standard Series
-> Graf
Zeppelin
H
-> H
& Y Records
-> H-Bomb
Music
-> Holy
-> Holy
Grail
-> House
Of Elrond
I
-> Image
Quality
-> Immigrant
J
-> Jelly
Roll
K
-> Kaleidoscopic
Music
-> Keep
Out
L
-> Last
Stand Disc
-> Le-Mon
-> Led
Note
-> Lemon
Song
-> Live
Remains
M
-> Mad
Dogs
-> Magnificent
Disc
-> Mandala
Records
-> Masterport
-> Memphis
-> Midas
Touch
-> Missing
Link
-> MMachine
-> Moonraker
Records
-> Mud
Dogs
N
-> Nasty
Music
-> Neptune
-> Neutral
Zone
-> Never
End
-> Neverland
-> Nighthawk
-> non
labelled releases
-> Noise
Generator
O
-> Ocean
Recording Corporation
-> Oh
Boy
-> Osoz
P
-> Patriot
-> Pot
-> Power
Archives
-> Power
Chord
R
-> R&E
Music
-> Rag
Doll Music
-> Red
Devil
-> Red
Hot
-> Reel
Masters
-> Rock
Calendar Records
-> Rockin'
Records/Pageboys (The)
-> Rockwrok
-> Rubber
Dubber
S
-> Sanctuary
-> Savage
Beast Music
-> Scorpio
old
-> Scorpio
new
-> Scorpio
fake
-> Sharakuled
-> Shout
To The Top
-> Silver
Rarities
-> Small
Fish
-> Smoking
Pig
-> Sodd
Singer's Original
-> Sugar
Mama
-> Swansong
-> Swingin'
Pig Records (The)
-> Symbols
(The)
T
-> Tarantura
-> Tarantura2000
-> Tattytura
-> Tecumseh
-> Theramin
Music
-> Thin
Men
-> Toasted/Condor
-> Totonka
-> Trade
Mark Of Quality
W
-> Wardour
-> Watch
Tower
-> Water
Tank
-> Way
Of Wizard
-> Wendy
Records
-> White
Summer
-> Whole
Lotta Live
-> Winston
Remasters
-> Wyvern
Legend
Z
-> Zeppelin
Digital
-> Zeppelin
Live Archives
-> Zoso