After sixty years in the music business, Claus Schreiner, founder and owner of the music publishing company and label Tropical Music, is retiring from active day-to-day business. At the beginning of 2025, Daniel Dinkel, owner of Galileo Music Communication, will take over the publishing and master catalog of Tropical Music. These rights will be transferred to a new company based at Dinkel/Galileo called Tropical Media Publishing. Dinkel founded Galileo Music Communication in 2002 in Fürstenfeldbruck as a distribution company with its own label specializing in world music, which this year reached number 7 in the World Music Charts Europe label charts. The label's greatest successes include releases by Al Andaluz Project, Dotschy Reinhardt, Dulce Pontes, and most recently LINA and Nancy Vieira.

Claus Schreiner started out as a concert promoter in Marburg in 1964, while at the same time expanding his concert office to manage many jazz musicians, producing tour programs, and founding Tropical Music in 1976, initially as a music publisher, which was expanded in 1982 to include recordings with the first LP by Mercedes Sosa – initially distributed by Pläne and then by BMG/Sony until 2018. In addition to Sosa, Schreiner also successfully established artists such as Astor Piazzolla, Cesaria Evora, Chavelas Vargas, Georg Dalaras, Ondekoza, and many others on the German market for the first time with over 250 releases on Tropical Music. With more than 1.4 million records sold, Tropical ended its recording division in 2018 and owner Claus Schreiner refocused on his publishing activities, presenting another comprehensive standard work on the origins and reception of “exotic” popular music in the Metzler/Springer Nature publishing house in 2022 with the three-volume book Schöner Fremder Klang (Beautiful Foreign Sound). (Beautiful Foreign Sound), published by Metzler/Springer Nature Verlag.

In addition to evaluating the publishing catalog, Daniel Dinkel intends to reissue forgotten treasures from the wide-ranging global music repertoire that Schreiner discovered for Tropical Music during his 40-year history with the label for music lovers in Germany and neighboring countries.