The first attempts by Nelson Montes-Bradley and Ivan Cosentino to produce and publish vinyl records in Argentina was made under the umbrella of Fondo Cultural, a firm based in Rosario, and incorporated in Buenos Aires.

Fondo Cultural became extinct and Fonema incorporated thus allowing Nora Raffo and Carlos Melero, newest members of the Qualiton team, to join in the corporation.

Take one, which would eventually become a landmark of the record industry was located at Fonema's HQ on Perú 375 in Buenos Aires historical district known as Monserrat[7] The original concept of a small and family orientated garage experiment born in Rosario had grown out of proportion.

However, by 1976, a military putsch, led by Jorge Rafael Videla, ousted Argentine president Isabel Perón making life quite difficult for the arts at large, and in particular for domestic labels linked to the previous years of social unrest.

The clipping inspired a paramilitary group to target the studios of Discos Qualiton, then located in Calle Perú 365, Buenos Aires, and also members of the board of directors.

It is worth noticing that up to 1977, the artistic direction of Discos Qualiton was mostly the result of the expertise of Ivan Cosentino as a musician and recording engineer, while the publishing, editorial presentation, production, and marketing was carried out by Nelson Montes-Bradley.

Guitarist Roberto Lara plays from a repertoire of Argentine composers: Carlos Guastavino, Pelaia, A. Alemann, Julián Aguirre, Gómez Carrillo and Abel Fleury.

Spoken Word: Authors such as Federico García Lorca, Dylan Thomas, Jacques Prévert or local icon Tejada Gómez were either publish in their own voice or read and interpreted by others.

The denomination "QH" corresponds to the original Qualiton, the following known as the series that begin with "JC" and "JQ" were inscribed in the attempt by Fonema to create label exclusively for literary works.

Each LP jacket was carefully designed with the works of local artists such as Mele Bruniard, Battle Planas, Luis Seoane, Antonio Berni and Mario Loza.