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Active until 1999, the Society of Studies and Public Relations (Société d’Etudes et de Relations Publiques - SERP) is a record company founded in 1963 by Jean-Marie Le Pen and others. It publishes many thematic compilations of historical documents, music and political speeches on records, cassette tapes and Cds. Their editorial design and political orientation made them an instrument to serve the political practices first of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and then of his party Le Front National. Like the other sonic contents of the SERP disc, music is also used as a political tool, through a discourse on its signifying capabilities, and its exploitation as a historical, memory and identity referent. After a historical presentation of the SERP, this article will explore the use of music discs by the actors of a political practice. Through written sources (partisan press) and recordings (liner notes, listening and characterization of recordings), I will try to understand how the SERP and its music became vectors for the transmission of memory, identity and activist images of various far-right communities, that were invited to support the implementation of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s and the Front national’s political project.