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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Ajax Records, Apex Records (Canada), Attic Records (Canada), Beat Factory, Berliner Gramophone, BMG Music Canada, Boot Records, Canadian-American Records, Cargo Records (Canada), Cinnamon Toast Records, Compo Company, Dependent Music, Ductape Records, Duke Street Records, Dumb Drum Records, Festival Distribution, Figure IV Entertainment, FRE Records, Fringe Product, Gold Jam Records, Great White North Records, Griffin Music, Handsome Boy Records, Heart Records and Tapes of Canada Ltd., Intrepid Records (Canada), Knee Deep Records, Mime Radio, Mo-Da-Mu, Mushroom Records (Canada), No Records, Og Music, Orion Records, Psyche Industry Records, Quality Records, Raw Energy Records, Ready Records, Risque Disque, Savannah Records, Sparton Records, Sublight Records, Summer Records, The Ford Plant, The Great American Steak Religion, Three Gut Records, ViK. Recordings. Excerpt: Great White North Records was a Canadian independent record label founded in 1999 and dissolved in 2006. It was founded by Remi Cote and Stephan Belanger and focused on promoting metal. Though the label released music by bands from around the world, it was a notable outlet and supporter of Canadian metal. Over the course of its existence GWN had a European outlet in the Netherlands (Great White North Records Europe) which manufactured select GWN releases for its own market, a French distribution office (GWN Records France) and spawned two sub-labels: Grind It! Records (for grindcore and crust) and Demysteriis (for black metal and other dark music). Productions Nouvelle France was also started with partner's in France, specializing in French rock and punk. In late 2003 the European outlet separated from the Canadian branch due to "differences in company politics." On December 3, 2003 Remi opened a record store in Montreal called Profusion: Le Metal Store. The record label operations were run out of the same offices. In March 2006, Remi Cote decided to leave Great White North Records to "concentrate on store, traveling addiction and various new projects." That July, only a few months later, Great White North closed. Cote went on to start Prodisk, which continues to release Canadian metal. These releases were slated for release in 2006, however, they never materialized before the label dissolved. Cargo Records was a Canadian independent record label and distributor, active in the 1980s and 1990s. Based in Montreal, the company both released albums directly as a label, and distributed albums on behalf of many other small independent labels, making it one of the largest and most influential Canadian record companies of the alternative rock era. By the mid-1990s, the company was so powerful that its decline toward bankruptcy between 1995 and 1997 initially appeared destined to set off a cascading failure of the entire Canadian music industry; however, these early predict
