GAMA Musikverlag was started by Peter Garattoni and Gunter Marek in 1980. Not really a record company in itself, GAMA instead became an umbrella for a number of sublabels of which most should be well known names to all devoted Heavy Metal Hunters. José Luis Cano's GAMA Rec site Cry Out For Metal covers some more details and has been a great source of info for this list, so so much for the basics.

Why they chose to start up so many sublabels is a mystery yet unsolved (perhaps it's just some boring, bureaucratic tax-evasion reason behind it all?) and it has made the cataloguing rather complicaded. I finally decided to put all labels on one page to get a good overview, but divided into subsections:

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Seems to be the first label created by misters Garattori & Marek. I've once seen it referred to as "a sister label to Rockport [Records]", so that might give some indications on where they started out in the record company business. The early SL releases were mostly prog, classic rock and blues with the odd hardrocker thrown in. Just for the hell of it I've included the titles of all early, non-Metal releases I've found info on. Maybe one or 2 them will be recognized as at least semi-ontopic hard rock by better knowing parties?

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It's my impression that the bands and albums under the Scratch Records flag were the ones that got the most promotion and attention from the men in charge. GAMA's "A-label" if you will. They're also the ones you'll most often come across in the 2nd hand sale bins.


...would be GAMA's "B-label" then. One notch down qualitywhise imo, but there's a handful of decent ones among them. Sehr Kult!


Um, "Hot Blood Rec. part 2"? Sorry, I don't see any pattern or method behind the madness here.


I only know of 2 releases and they certainly didn't have much in common musicwise. Kinda cool logo though.


A few thrashers that could just as well have been released under the Scratch/Scratchcore monicker.