Spalax

French independent label established circa 1974. The label started from offices in a north-west suburb of Paris, largely with folk and jazz releases, changing focus to contemporary music and prog rock, especially so when producer/manager Gabriel Ibos joined the partnership in 1982. Gabriel was first known as the owner of Vamp Records, worked for Barclay and other labels as an A&R man, and French manager / tour promoter for bands like Agitation Free and Ash Ra Tempel. Thus he was in a key position to get all the licenses when he later reinvented Spalax as a major CD reissue label in 1991. Circa 1994+ the status of the company changed and Spalax was rebranded Spalax Music.

Important: enter label names as per the logo
Spalax all releases 1974 to mid 1990s (with the Spalax blind mole-rat "Spalax Ehrenbergi" logo) as seen here
Spalax Music all releases mid 1990s plus with the SPALAX MUSIC logo

Spalax Music also exists as a publisher (established in 1988) although is as often credited with "marketed by".
Tempel on such releases is a copyright holder only, not a label (established 1991).
Add these additional identifiers to the "LCCN" as appropriate.

Ohr certain 1992-94 releases are devoid of the Spalax logo, with only the Ohr logo present. For credits for this please see Ohr.
Pilz similarly appears on some devoid of a Spalax logo. For credits for this please see Pilz (2)
(both above: with Tempel and Spalax Music as copyright and marketing roles as specified on the release).
Tempel / marketed by Spalax also established other labels. See Spalax Music for a list.

Spalax was handled by several distributors during its lifetime (some credited on releases, some not), including: label, Madrigal (stickered only), CFD, Média 7, MSI, label.