Yugoslav record label Diskoton was established in early 1973 in Sarajevo at the instigation of Asim Hasko Haverić, then an employee of Rezonansa.
Diskoton’s first pressing equipment was French-made automatic press machines Materiel Applications Plastiques (M.A.P.) for 7” record manufacturing. In the early period, manufacturing master discs and stampers was done using the galvanization facilities in Paris, , and Milan, Italy. Diskoton could manufacture only singles and EP records until late 1975 when they acquired the equipment for pressing LP records as well as a cassette duplicator. Starting from 1980 Diskoton began occasionally using the service pressing of PGP RTB pressing plant by the late 1980s. CD production started in 1990, shortly before the label and its facilities were destroyed during the war operations at the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo in the summer of 1992.
Since 1984 Diskoton operated under the Yugoslav socialist labor law as a “work organization” (RO) (Ambasadori.
