Topic: Producer relationship for artists
I was just fixing up this article and was adding relationships when I noticed we don't have a relationship for artists' producers. Thoughts?
Re: Producer relationship for artists
What type of producer is this? If it's musical production then obviously the relationships should go against the music that is produced, i.e. the recordings - this is similar to how you don't have "Artist X is a drummer of group Y" - you record the specific detail against the music itself.
Executive producers also tend to be recorded at release level for the releases they were involved in.
We don't have relationships for a lot of things at a more management layer of the music industry as well; band managers, label managers etc. While we could, the community will need to decide whether this type of role is something we really want to track. It does get messy quite fast.
Re: Producer relationship for artists
voiceinsideyou wrote:
What type of producer is this? If it's musical production then obviously the relationships should go against the music that is produced, i.e. the recordings - this is similar to how you don't have "Artist X is a drummer of group Y" - you record the specific detail against the music itself.
Executive producers also tend to be recorded at release level for the releases they were involved in.
We don't have relationships for a lot of things at a more management layer of the music industry as well; band managers, label managers etc. While we could, the community will need to decide whether this type of role is something we really want to track. It does get messy quite fast.
From the Wikipedia article, he appears to be the person who put the band together; no word on whether he produced all their work. The reason I brought this up is because I've seen this relationship a lot with Japanese artists: one person produces said artist from start to finish. Rarely ever do they switch; you mostly see this with independently-formed bands and the like. One prominent example is Morning Musume, whom Tsunku formed and has produced every release for, even when each artist has graduated and gone solo (until recently).
Re: Producer relationship for artists
I'd say an (external) "founder" relationship should work for those cases, together with producer credits where applicable. I should look at that pre-RFC again...