Gleengus Records is a Latvian record label founded in 1976 by John Gleengus and Janis Aiga. The record label is famous for signing bands like The Black Socks, Qliphoth, Cynicalia, Mahaprajnaparamita, Ten Days of Peanut Allergy, Jimmy and the Tumors, The White Gloves and Weezer, along with creation of the GlumboDisk.
Gleengus Records started as Bink Jongus Music in the late 50s. In 1969, John Gleengus heard a live performance of rock band Cynicalia, he immediatly tried to get them signed to a record. Cynicalia was the first rock band to be signed to Bink Jongus, and did not fit in with the other bands. After Cynicalia achieved mainstream popularity, other bands, such as Ten Days of Peanut Allergy were signed. In 1975, Mahaprajnaparamita was signed to Bink Jongus. Gleengus would remark, "...Cynicalia had a different sound, and so did Peanut Allergy, but Mahaprajnaparamita was... almost metal-esque." The following year, a subsidiary of Bink Jongus, Jongrock was founded for aforementioned bands. In 1991, Bink Jongus dissolved, and Jongrock was renamed Gleengus Records following Aiga's death.
In 1987, Mahaprajnaparamita's National News went gold, and Jimmy and the Tumors' Yellow Album went platinum. Following these releases, Gleengus Records, under their former name, Bink Jongus Music, introduced a new media format, the GlumboDisk. The GlumboDisk was able to hold up to a terabyte of information (advertised as 1,000,000 megabytes). The GlumboDisk was first introduced as a music format with the album Bink Jongus Greatest Hits!, a 157-song disk containing the most popular tracks that Bink Jongus Records, along with their subsidiary, Jongrock had released. The format eventually died out due to people not believing the large amount of space that the disks contained and the fact that the GlumboDisk Audio Format (.GDAF) file format did not work on major computer systems.