Electrecord

Electrecord is a Romanian record label which was founded in 1932. It was subsequently transformed into the national recording company following the socialist doctrine of centralization and was the only record label in Communist Romania.

Communist times
To avoid disc importing from Western Europe and the U.S., Electrecord was often demanded to release copies of some of the discs released abroad (just as recording companies in U.S.S.R. were doing themselves). Even today it is the subject of many anecdotes complaining about the bad quality of Romanian discs; a comparison between an import and a local copy would be the most eloquent proof.

Electrecord had to balance the government's demands with those of listeners and musicians. Despite the poor quality of recordings and the lack of information on disc covers, Electrecord released a number of collection discs of which the most successful were the Formaţii de muzică pop series (translated "pop music bands"), which became Formaţii rock – "rock bands" starting with number four.

Contemporary
Beginning in 1990, Electrecord lost market share as record companies formed. But some of the groups who recorded for the label continued. Most discs released by Electrecord after 1990 were either greatest hits albums extracted from older recordings or remastered versions of LPs.

In June 2017, Electrecord released the album Songbird by pop singer-songwriter NAVI. Electrecord went into insolvency in 2018. A new start with a new corporate concept followed in 2020.

The last released by Electrecord album was in December 2022 - the CD album Se schimb ceva by the Romanian pop-singer Beni Mihai.

Roster
• Dan Andrei Aldea

• Theodor Andrei

• Alla Bayanova

• Mircea Baniciu

• Pascal Bentoiu

• Lola Bobesco

• Florin Bogardo

• Constantin Brăiloiu

• Tiberiu Brediceanu

• Ion Buzea

• Celelalte Cuvinte

• Sergiu Celibidache

• Elena Cernei

• Marin Constantin

• Paul Constantinescu

• Viorica Cortez

• Gabriel Cotabiță

• Nicu Covaci

• Dimitrie Cuclin

• Hariclea Darclée

• Grigoraș Dinicu

• Gil Dobrică

• Ion Dolănescu

• Sabin Drăgoi

• Iancu Dumitrescu

• George Enescu

• Adrian Enescu

• Dumitru Fărcaș

• Ionel Fernic

• Mircea Florian

• Tudor Gheorghe

• Loredana Groza

• Nicolae Herlea

• Magda Ianculescu

• Iris

• Mihail Jora

• Nicolae Kirculescu

• Krypton

• Ovidiu Lipan

• Dinu Lipatti

• Fanica Luca

• Radu Lupu

• Silvia Marcovici

• Ion Miu

• Horia Moculescu

• Octavian Nemescu

• Ștefan Niculescu

• Irina Odăgescu

• Anca Parghel

• Margareta Pâslaru

• Ionel Perlea

• Valeria Peter Predescu

• Gică Petrescu

• Phoenix

• Progresiv TM

• Romica Puceanu

• Johnny Răducanu

• Mihaela Runceanu

• Ileana Sărăroiu

• Sfinx

• Constantin Silvestri

• Dan Spătaru

• Tatiana Stepa

• Valeriu Sterian

• Vasile Șirli

• Maria Tănase

• Octave Octavian Teodorescu

• Mircea Tiberian

• Timpuri Noi

• Cornel Trăilescu

• Cristian Vasile

• Sofia Vicoveanca

• Anatol Vieru

• Ion Voicu

• Gheorghe Zamfir

• Virginia Zeani