Please use Record Service (2) for recordings after 1988

Record Service Schallplatten-Herstellungs-Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, Alsdorf was founded in 1975 as a facility for the manufacturing and distribution of Warner, Elektra & Atlantic records. The company, equipped with a pressing plant, a large mastering and offset printing facility, employed more than 1200 staff and began pressing vinyl records in 1976, manufacturing cassettes in 1977 and compact-discs since 14 May 1986.

Typically the credit may appear in print as:
- Manufactured by Record Service, 5110 Alsdorf, Fed.Rep. of Germany
- Manufactured in Germany by Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf
For vinyl etching/stamps "R/S Alsdorf" and "RSA" in the CD matrix, please use Record Service Alsdorf.

After Warner Communications' acquisition of TELDEC Schallplatten GmbH in 1988, Record Service GmbH was renamed to Record Service in May 1988 and became a division of TELDEC Record Service GmbH.

In November 1990, TELDEC Record Service GmbH became Warner Music Manufacturing Europe GmbH but continued as Record Service, a division of WMME (identifiable in the runouts by WMME Alsdorf).