page_title: Diskoton
section_title: Background Company History
hierarchical_section_title: Diskoton / Background Company History
caption_attribution_description: English: Diskoton vinyl record label.
context_page_description: Diskoton was a major record label in SFR Yugoslavia, based in Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. With the outbreak of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the company ceased to exist in 1992. The studio was completely destroyed along with all master recordings
context_section_description: Diskoton the record company was formally established in 1972 in Sarajevo at the instigation of Asim Haverić, then an employee of Beograd Disk, later to become Jugodisk, a record label. He persuaded Jovo Beatović, manager of the city public utility company Park in Sarajevo, to organize a record production company within his enterprise.
  Record production began in 1973 and Diskoton operated as a subsidiary of Park until 1977 when it became independent. Diskoton premises were located in Pionirska dolina, a popular city park and zoo maintained by Park company. The label acquired its name through a public call advertized by a popular magazine Ven, opting to pick a name suggested by young musician Brano Likić, later the founder and leader of the band Rezonansa.
  Diskoton's first equipment were French-made automatic press machines Materiel Applications Plastiques (MAP) for 7” record manufacturing. In the earliest months of operation, due to unskilled staff, a large quantity of PVC was wasted because the machines turned out defected records, which were then trashed. Diskoton could manufacture only singles and EP records until the late 1975, when they acquired the equipment for manufacturing LP records as well as cassettes. Starting from 1980 Diskoton began occasionally using the service pressing of Jugoton pressing plant, while it became almost entirely dependent on the service pressing of PGP RTB pressing plant by the late 1980s.
  The most prominent A&R executives of Diskoton were Vajo Milošević and Slobodan Vujović, the latter being formerly the leader of the band Ambasadori.
  With the outbreak of the Bosnian War, the company ceased to exist in 1992. The studio was completely destroyed along with all master recordings, meaning that most albums are unavailable in master quality (apart from the few that were released in the short time that Diskoton were producing CDs before its literal collapse).
caption: Diskoton label on Ansambl Branka Milenovića vinyl record.
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