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Encyclopedia > Unidisc Music Inc.

Unidisc Music Inc. is a Canadian-based record company. One of Canada's largest Independent record labels, it is best known for releasing rare, & at times, hard to find disco & Hi-NRG music from the 1970s & early 1980s. The record industry (or recording industry) is the industry that manufactures and distributes mechanical recordings of music. ... The concept of an independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of one of the major record labels, which are generally defined to be the handful of media corporations which have recently dominated the recorded music industry in the West. ... Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136 beats per minute) that originated in the early-1970s, a derivative of funk and soul music, popular with audiences in larger cities all over the world. ... Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of electronic dance music popular in nightclubs in the early 1980s. ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...


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The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ...

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  • Official site


 

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