ZYX Music is a
German record label which was founded in 1971 by Bernhard Mikulski. It is one of the most successful German record labels of the 1980s and 1990s. Until 1992, the label's name was
Pop-Import Bernhard Mikulski. The label specialized in
disco and early
house music. Founder Bernhard Mikulski is credited with coining the term
Italo disco in the 1980s. Since the death of Bernhard, his wife Christa Mikulski took over in 1997.