Founded around October 1979 by Paul Gardiner (Rolling Stone Australia editor / owner) and British born Andrew Penhallow (GAP = G ardiner A nd P enhallow), licensing a.o. Factory and Rough Trade (UK) releases for Australia. GAP itself is attached to EMI Australia Ltd., doing the manufacturing and distribution, and the first records are released in February 1981. The GAP catalogue system for singles is based on a compromise between GAP and EMI: GAP could define the prefix and EMI allocated their generic number. via Discogs →