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Specialized in electronic music from the 80's, 90's and 00's, in the 12" format.

Big mistakes while editing/adding releases:
- To use Right Societies or "Made in" to determine COUNTRY. Example: Many CDs/cassettes/vinyl were made in Holland by EMI Uden or CBS/Sony Haarlem and them have written "Made/Printed in Holland" and the R.S. BIEM/STEMRA. This doesnt mean those entries were released in The Netherlands. Neither BIEM means Europe per se. I cases like this, there's a connection between manufacturer country and R.S.
- Also the supposed label location is not always the one for all its releases, because that label could have an office in other COUNTRIES.
- Instead to fix an ENTRY, adding a NEW one, when it's the same. The easiest way!
- To think that YEAR given in (C)(P) or Depósito Legal info is the one for the release, as a rule, while there's more world outside, like cat.no., barcode, etc.
- To add the year to a White Label/Promo/TP release, taken the one from the commercial version, when it could be al least 1 year previous.
- Bad use of COPY-DRAFT. Copy info which is not on your release, copy the year, even the month!
- To confuse artwork with addable info. Examples: Spaces between characters, reverse letters, order of the text, etc.
- To think that info on releases can't be mistaken and must be added like it is / Do not know interpret the info given; sometimes open mind is very necessary. Example: Sometimes distribution info, R.S., year, etc are copy-pasted between versions of a release and you have to discern which info you take to determine country, year, etc. Sometimes even info is fake! (E.g.: Italian record says Made in England. It is just hype!) Where is the limit to add info as the release show? Some users take it to the extreme.
- This is good: Written-By/Author doesnt mean ALIAS. Still existing many wrong alias/profiles due this mess.
- To add in WHITE LABEL entries any white vinyl label pic you have. Wrong because each vinyl has its press prints, which provides us info. And the pic added is a generic plain W/L, when the real label could be stickered or stamped, and what happend next is other user add the stickered or stamped release because he thing the old entry is plain. What a mess...
- To add a WHITE LABEL just as a TEST PRESSING or PROMO. What happen is like above: If there're no pics, another user will add the same as WL, because he only saw a (fake) TP or Promo version in the web.
- To add the RPM tag in a vinyl entry, taken the info from vinyl labels without checking it. (Many times info is wrong).
- When MERGING two releases, dont follow the process till the end and lost the pics or info of the passed away entry.
- This is a TEAM work, so comunication is a must but many times it doesnt happend. Ones add pics, others add info from its records, others fix the existing info, others add profiles info, etc. We all complement each other. Many users are here just for sell and they dont cares anything else.

To be continued.