Fania Records

Label created in late 1963, by Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci.

At one time (pre-2005) the nearly 1500 title catalog was readily available on cd. Since then, only a few hundred titles have seen the light of day due to changing ownership of the rights to the catalog and other complications.

In 2005 Fania Records was acquired by Miami based Emusica , a sublabel of V2 Records, Inc., from the Masucci family.
In 2009 Codigo purchased the label from eMusica.
Both times a program was started to reissue the catalog on CD but the first attempt stalled when the ownership moved from Emusica to Codigo. Sometime in 2011/12 the reissue attempts of Codigo started to go out-of-print and became yet again unavailable as Codigo's distribution was changing hand to a company called Red. Until they make a new attempt to supply the full reissue catalog the existing stock of already reissued titles will again dry up and disappear.