The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label

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Typical TAKRL Logo on vinyl label
Typical TAKRL Info on vinyl 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.

The Amazing Kornyphone Rebirth Label
- Typical label on records' side A
The Amazing Kornyphone Rebirth Label
- Typical label on records' side B


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


 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 


Additional pictures


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Live At Leeds
Live In Holland
Dead Flowers
Dark Paradise
The Dark
Ghost Riders
Out Through The Poison Door
Ghostly Crew
Ghostriderz
Floor Show