During the 1920s, Odeon issued American jazz records in other countries, such as Germany, Italy, France, and Spain. During the 1930s and 1940s Odeon sold its Swing Music Series. Odeon recorded and issued over 2,700 titles of Indian music from the period 1900–1940. Odeon's shellac disc issues were in two phases: (1) 1912–1916 and (2) 1932–1938. During the first phase their engineers visited many cities to record the diverse regional music of India, and after production in Berlin shipped records back to India. The company was based in Mumbai and Madras during the second phase. However the outbreak of World War II, and the subsequent trade embargoes, meant that the company had to wind-up its operations in India. The company's output included "drama songs, speeches, folk music, classical music, drama sets, skits and plays, vocal and instrumental music". It has been estimated that about 600 titles have survived in private collections. The British Museum have digitised some of these records which are free in an online archive. After World War II, the Odeon label continued as an EMI subsidiary in many non-English-speaking markets, such as West Germany, France, Spain, Scandinavia, Japan and Latin America. The dome logo was still used in most of those places, although they also had their own label designs. With the sale of most EMI properties to erstwhile rival Universal Music Group (UMG) in September 2012, Universal retained the right to reissue from namely Odeon's post-war Japanese, Latin American, German and select European catalogues, while another former competitor Warner Music Group (WMG) acquired the rights to the remainder of EMI in February 2013 and with that, reissues from Odeon's French, Scandinavian, Spanish and most other European releases, to comply with the European Commission's divestiture conditions. Universal Music Enterprises manages UMG's Odeon catalogue with Parlophone and WEA International handling WMG's own. In October 2018, Universal Music Germany revived Odeon to release the brass pop band Querbeat's third album Randale & Hurra. See also List of record labels References External links Odeon Records: Their "ethnic" output. Paul Vernon. 31 July 1997. Accessed 2 Apr 2010. russian-records.com, Odeon-Record The British Library: Odeon record label recordings from the Indian subcontinent Odeon Records on the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project German record labels Record labels established in 1903 EMI Jazz record labels 1903 establishments in Germany