[mb-style] ARs for labels

Olivier viapanda at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 23:10:12 UTC 2006


2006/11/8, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <freso.dk at gmail.com>:
> 2006/11/8, Olivier <viapanda at gmail.com>:
> >(a) the "professional" ARs are "redundant": if we have an AR "Person
> >produced Release", it's implicit this person worked for the label as a
> >producer.
>
> What if the label doesn't have any producers on the payroll and
> artists have arrange producing and engineering themselves? (I think
> GO' Danish Folk Music, for one, works something like that, though not
> completely sure. I actually don't know too much about how labels work,
> since that hasn't really mattered so much for me until now.)

In this case, we probably should not credit them on the label level.
That's definitely an argument for *not* systematically "cascading"
from releases to label, and to have the suggested independent
Artist--Label ARs.

- Olivier



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