Italian record company and music publishing founded in the first 70s by composer, arranger and record producer Gianni Dell'Orso, mostly specialized in music soundtracks published on CD. The whole catalog - distributed worldwide also in digital - includes over 2.000 titles, many of them by Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Armando Trovaioli, Piero Piccioni, Carlo Rustichelli, Nico Fidenco, Nino Rota and by many others Italian composers, plus high quality music libraries, synchronization, documentaries, commercials and TV programs.
The two sons of the Maestro Dell'Orso, Daniela and Paolo Dell'Orso, permanently working for the company, in which in the mid-90s was active also Claudio Casalini in the field of Latin music and the disco-dance-oriented. More enduring Claudio Fuiano, known as Mr. Soundtrack, for several years major contributor of the label, whose name simply means Gianni Dell'Orso Music (which should not be confused with "Generale Discografica Milanese", destroyed in an arson attack on 1993 and with namesake G.D.M., General Distribution Music, record distributor in Bari).
For the label use GDM and not others.
Name variations:
- GDM Music srl
- GDM Music S.r.l.