Panton Records  Panton Records or PANTON was a Czechoslovak and later Czech record label and music publishing house of the Czech Music Fund, founded in 1968. In Czechoslovakia it was one of the three major state-owned labels, the other two being Supraphon and Opus. It was active until mid-1990s. Now its musical catalogue belongs to Supraphon. Around the year 1998 Panton published a Czech record LP and SP boards (published at that time, and classical CDs ). Genre was the music of all styles ( country , folk , tramp , jazz , jazz-rock , etc.), which contributed to the development of musical culture in Czechoslovakia . The profits came mainly from the sale of works from popular music and helped finance the loss-making of works by contemporary composers of classical music . Panton published and spoken boards, eg. Recording memories Werich The Talk(interview with daughter Jana ) or the album of author Jiří Grossmann and Miloslav Šimek ( The Days of Shimk and Grossmann ). He also published several books (eg Booklet ( 1986 ) and Another book ( 1991 ) by Jiří Suchý ).