A label from the late '60s and early '70s, owned by Gordon Lotinga. Plexium apparently issued a number of singles which are of interest to collectors of Psychedelia, examples being the records by Freedom, The Glass Opening and Keith Dangerfield, but it is most often met with nowadays - if 'often' is the word - in the form of its Easy Listening LPs. The first issues came out in 1968 and were numbered from P-1234 onwards, for some reason. The numbering changed to PXM-0 in 1969, perhaps with a change of distributors - the PXMs were linked to Transatlantic and were manufactured and distributed by EMI. Early labels, including the 'P-1000' series, were dark blue with silver printing (1); the colours changed to black on red at PXM-15. By the time PXM-17 came out the old design had been replaced by an orange one with a cherub on it. Intermittently, Plexium singles of both types had a small 'A' on the appropriate side, along with the track time (2); the rest didn't (3). The company seems to have ceased trading in 1973, at which point the numbers had reached PXM-32. Thanks to John Timmis for the second scan.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.