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Encyclopedia of recorded sound - Volume 1 - Page 583 Frank W. Hoffmann, Howard
Ferstler - 2005 "KOCH INTERNATIONAL (LABEL) Founded in 1986 by Franz Koch, Koch is the largest independent recording distributor in the U.S. and Canada, and its Koch Entertainment unit is also an important record producer.
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to challenge the dominance in the budget classical sector of Naxos. The new Koch
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