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=KrazyKiwi=
=KrazyKiwi=


I am me. I guess that was obvious.
I am me. I guess that was obvious. This is a foetal page - I guess that was obvious too. I'll put real stuff on it when (if) I am convinced the evil wiki fairies aren't going to eat the darn page. Don't laugh, it's happened before.

==TODO==

* Fix up [http://www.emusic.com/album/Cat-Coore-Uptown-Rebel-MP3-Download/10868292.html http://www.emusic.com/album/Cat-Coore-Uptown-Rebel-MP3-Download/10868292.html] (Which I added just to get the Cindy Breakespeare credit, but the rest of the album needs filling in now)

* Fight with the wiki formatting for [[User:KrazyKiwi/Wibble|KrazyKiwi/Wibble]] where I intend doing some... you know, wibbling on about stuff, until it's in good enough shape to present to you know, people who aren't me.
* Fix [http://musicbrainz.org/release/4262bda6-1d17-4c6c-84e0-e97ae18ff4b9.html | Cerrone]; it's a remix album, and the discogs link goes to a deleted entry.
* Currently on my second go through adding/fixing/cleaning up the extensive (but extensively documented at least) "Absolute.." music series of compilations (up to here: [http://www.absolute.nu/samlingar_detail.asp?albumType=1&albumID=264 http://www.absolute.nu/samlingar_detail.asp?albumType=1&albumID=264]).
* Work through AR'ing out the extensive and detailed roster for Magnet. Tons of artists and albums to add, as well as all the connections: [http://www.therealmagnet.com/roster.html http://www.therealmagnet.com/roster.html]

==EX-TODO==

* Fix up [http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=125839 Akt disc 1] and [http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=125840 Akt disc 2] by Die Form. This is a 'best of side projects' release, and should probably be VA, Album Artist Die Form, and tracks attributed to whichever side project they actually got released under (if they were released at all).
* Indie band Tilly & The Wall make a feature of having a tapdancer instead of a drummer (both live and in recordings). She is always credited as such and they probably have 5 releases all on their own. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_and_the_Wall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_and_the_Wall] -- KrazyKiwi (Now mentioned on the instruments page.)


==Bands I am especially interested in fixing the discographies of (and keeping fixed)==
==Bands I am especially interested in fixing the discographies of (and keeping fixed)==


* The Angels (AKA Angel City)
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/06e4547a-bdbf-44a6-bca6-af015fb05376.html The Angels] (AKA Angel City)
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/f779ed95-66c8-4493-9f46-3967eba785a8.html Letzte Instanz]
* Letzte Instanz
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/e8de9906-a496-4744-aeca-051c2f91f695.html Sissel] / [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/b0283c6c-ba16-4ebe-a0f0-9f78f65a0e52.html Sissel Kyrkebø]
* Sissel / Sissel Kyrkebø
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/45074d7c-5307-44a8-854f-ae072e1622ae.html KMFDM]
* KMFDM
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/aae96072-e23c-496a-9016-8637be8c67bc.html Dragon]
* Dragon
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/fce5eb9a-95a7-4a54-b9e4-fe1b036fbe57.html The Chieftains]
* The Chieftains
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/a3534292-7820-48df-8a9c-6b363aff43ed.html Tomas Ledin]
* Tomas Ledin
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8612924d-2946-49e1-970f-ef1c36517428.html Ulf Lundell]
* Ulf Lundell
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/47f67b22-affe-4fe1-9d25-853d69bc0ee3.html Dave Dobbyn]

==Others (stuff I noticed in my travels that need work)==

* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/bb65c705-e9ab-42f0-ba12-5f11c0b66cd9.html Koo De Tah] (Tina Cross and Leon Berger, neither of whom are in here either)
* Everyone who's ever been on one of the Nature's Best compilations of NZ music


==Useful Musical Resources==
==Useful Musical Resources==
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* [http://www.mariann.se/ http://www.mariann.se/] (Mariann Gramafon, the infamous Bert Karlsson's label. Decently complete catalog on the site, but very light on details. However, they have a big roster of swedish artists, and usually have a link to their home pages if nothing else. Also they do lots of compilations, under various brands)
* [http://www.mariann.se/ http://www.mariann.se/] (Mariann Gramafon, the infamous Bert Karlsson's label. Decently complete catalog on the site, but very light on details. However, they have a big roster of swedish artists, and usually have a link to their home pages if nothing else. Also they do lots of compilations, under various brands)
* [http://www.absolute.nu/ http://www.absolute.nu/] (Absolute Music, until recently a compilation house, but they seem to be releasing or at least distributing some new releases since the start of 2006. In any case, this is the canonical source for the Swedish release of "Absolute ...." where ... is just about anything you can think of.)
* [http://www.absolute.nu/ http://www.absolute.nu/] (Absolute Music, until recently a compilation house, but they seem to be releasing or at least distributing some new releases since the start of 2006. In any case, this is the canonical source for the Swedish release of "Absolute ...." where ... is just about anything you can think of.)
* EVA Records (In Sweden, part of Absolute Music). This was originally a joint venture from EMI, Virgin and BMG (in some other countries, Ariola), licensing music from all three for the purposes of compilations. Over the years the parent labels have changed, Virgin and EMI merged, Sony and BMG, and Warners is now involved, but they license music from other labels too. There have been related companies in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, and perhaps most succesfully in Belgium. Where I've been entering these, I've used Absolute Music/EVA Records to distinguish the Swedish versions. Norway's is called EVA Records ANS. Unfortunately, the only one with a complete catalogue online is the Swedish version (at absolute.nu), and I would be very interested to get hold of such a thing for the other countries.
* EVA Records (In Sweden, part of Absolute Music). This was originally a joint venture from EMI, Virgin and BMG (in some other countries, Ariola), licensing music from all three for the purposes of compilations. Over the years the parent labels have changed, Virgin and EMI merged, Sony and BMG, and Warners is now involved, but they license music from other labels too. There have been related companies in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, and perhaps most succesfully in Belgium. Where I've been entering these, I've used Absolute Music/EVA Records to distinguish the Swedish versions. Norway's is called EVA Records ANS. Unfortunately, the only one with a complete catalogue online is the Swedish version (at absolute.nu), and I would be very interested to get hold of such a thing for the other countries.

==About Languages & Countries & Why my edits appear to be all over the place==

I am from New Zealand, although I haven't lived there for a long time. I did grow up there in the halcyon days of kiwi rock, and I grew up in in a family heavily involved in the music scene (my mother is a musician, so are several cousins, your average "Best of Kiwi rock" album has at least a half dozen of them on - it's their eternal disappointment that none of us in my generation were all that interested :). Suffice it to say, I am very familiar with exceedingly obscure Australian and Kiwi music of the 70's and 80's, and my plan is to get to work on all those great and largely unknown outside oceania bands of my childhood. I also have an enormous vinyl collection from those days, and a nearly as enormous CD collection, but it's packed in boxes in my grandmother's house in NZ, so it's not that easy for me to add them, unfortunately.

Among other places I've lived in Switzerland for quite a while (Basel, to be specific, great city), and I've spent a good deal of time since then working with German folk. So I have a fondness for weird German language bands (especially but not exclusively industrial), and know enough german to spot grievous errors in spelling and pick out impossible grammar constructions, but not enough to see the subtle ones, and I never did learn the gender stuff. Also, when I attempt to speak german, I send real germans into fits of laughter, thanks to the swiss accent.

Since then I've lived in Sweden for many years, my husband is Swedish, and I am quite fluent. I also adore Swedish Music, and having grown up immersed in the Kiwi music scene, I made a point of immersing myself equally much in the Swedish scene since I've been here. So I've grown quite a collection of Swedish stuff to get around to fixing up here. Mostly "classic" rock and power pop stuff, folks like Tomas Ledin and Ulf Lundell. My step-father-in-law has an even more enormous than you could believe collection of 60's through 80's vinyls too, all in Swedish, and I've been adding and/or cleaning up a bunch of those over time.

==KK's little guide to bug triage==


===Labels to work on===
The start of some notes about [[Bug Triage|BugTriage]] (see the [[Great Dispute|GreatDispute]])


Other than the obvious ones, Absolute, Metropolis and Zoth Ommog, I intend to do some work on these too. Which doesn't mean you can't start without me if you find one of these links interesting:
Main points, not in any particular order yet, and not nearly ready for comment:
* Recognise
* Reproduce
* Refine
* Restate
* Reorganize (ok, assign, but I couldn't resist the alliteration, which was quite by accident until this one, I swear)
* Spot early which are bugs ("It doesn't work as intended") and which are feature requests ("It doesn't work how I expect/It doesn't work how I want"). Is it an HCI/UI bug? ("It doesn't work how I expect, but does work exactly as intended")
* Weed out duplicates.
* Prioritising. There can be several scales of priorities, and they can be quite orthogonal to each other, sometimes even completely in opposition. We should be able to rate on various scales, such as:
** in order of urgency (not necessarily importance - some things are urgent, but not very important, and some things are very important, but not at all urgent. That's a bit difficult to grok sometimes):
**# Data is lost (Existing data is damaged or removed, when it shouldn't be). I guess MB doesn't have much possibility of this. Picard may though. Includes "CRASH", if it causes damage to existing data.
**# User time is lost (Data entry needs to be done over, for instance) Includes "CRASH" if it means you have to redo your tagging.
**# Data is duplicated because... (bad, but not as bad as a crash making you reenter a whole album)
**# Interaction: Does this problem cause a chain reaction? Is this potentially related to other problems?


All this first lot is Swedish
** in order of importance
* [http://www.mementomateria.se Memento Materia] - Swedish EBM label, early signers of Covenant among others. Also the label Prototyp's catalogue is here.
**# Scale of problem (does it affect a thousand edits a day? or one?)
* [http://www.subspace.se/ Subspace Communications] - Where Covenant is now (also Client, and some other bands)
**# Scale of cleanup (if this isn't fixed in a day or a week or a month, how many edits will need to be reentered? Corrected? removed?)
* [http://www.progress-productions.com/main.shtml Progress]
**# Scale of fix (hard to judge from outside, but is it a huge change, database schema, or is it a one liner, will it cause an interaction)
* [http://www.megahype.com/ Megahype]
**# Can it be worked around? If there's a known and doable workaround, can we educate people to use it in the mean time?
* [http://www.substream.se/ Substream]
* [http://www.wonderlandrecords.com/ Wonderland]


===Absolute Stuff===
Other things:
* Is it reproducible on the test server (if yes, what specifically and exactly are the steps to reproduce it)
* Is there more than one bug here? If yes, they need splitting


====Skipping====
... and more, when I get around to it.


* [http://www.absolute.nu/samlingar_detail.asp?albumType=2&albumID=261 | Absolute Charter 21] 2 CD's, if anyone actually bought this..
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Latest revision as of 23:57, 11 September 2014

KrazyKiwi

I am me. I guess that was obvious.

TODO

  • Fight with the wiki formatting for KrazyKiwi/Wibble where I intend doing some... you know, wibbling on about stuff, until it's in good enough shape to present to you know, people who aren't me.
  • Fix | Cerrone; it's a remix album, and the discogs link goes to a deleted entry.
  • Currently on my second go through adding/fixing/cleaning up the extensive (but extensively documented at least) "Absolute.." music series of compilations (up to here: http://www.absolute.nu/samlingar_detail.asp?albumType=1&albumID=264).
  • Work through AR'ing out the extensive and detailed roster for Magnet. Tons of artists and albums to add, as well as all the connections: http://www.therealmagnet.com/roster.html

EX-TODO

  • Fix up Akt disc 1 and Akt disc 2 by Die Form. This is a 'best of side projects' release, and should probably be VA, Album Artist Die Form, and tracks attributed to whichever side project they actually got released under (if they were released at all).
  • Indie band Tilly & The Wall make a feature of having a tapdancer instead of a drummer (both live and in recordings). She is always credited as such and they probably have 5 releases all on their own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_and_the_Wall -- KrazyKiwi (Now mentioned on the instruments page.)

Bands I am especially interested in fixing the discographies of (and keeping fixed)

Others (stuff I noticed in my travels that need work)

  • Koo De Tah (Tina Cross and Leon Berger, neither of whom are in here either)
  • Everyone who's ever been on one of the Nature's Best compilations of NZ music

Useful Musical Resources

Swedish

  • http://www.doloresrecordings.com/katalog.htm (Dolores Records katalog, home to among others Håkan Hellström, Alf, Caesars, Broder Daniel, I'm from Barcelona) Notable for being very complete, albeit with some misspellings, and some corrections where they managed to label their own CD's with the wrong catalog number. Useful starting point, stuff from here probably needs confirmation from other sources.)
  • http://www.emi.se/genre_svenskt.aspx (EMI Sweden - they distribute a lot of other labels (like, Dolores above), as well as having their own roster. Pretty complete discographies, but light on details (sometimes the release dates disagree with sublabel's info, they tend to have all the albums and singles listed, but for instance, no track times or catalog numbers) Again, good starting point, look for confirmation elsewhere before relying on the details.)
  • http://www.mariann.se/ (Mariann Gramafon, the infamous Bert Karlsson's label. Decently complete catalog on the site, but very light on details. However, they have a big roster of swedish artists, and usually have a link to their home pages if nothing else. Also they do lots of compilations, under various brands)
  • http://www.absolute.nu/ (Absolute Music, until recently a compilation house, but they seem to be releasing or at least distributing some new releases since the start of 2006. In any case, this is the canonical source for the Swedish release of "Absolute ...." where ... is just about anything you can think of.)
  • EVA Records (In Sweden, part of Absolute Music). This was originally a joint venture from EMI, Virgin and BMG (in some other countries, Ariola), licensing music from all three for the purposes of compilations. Over the years the parent labels have changed, Virgin and EMI merged, Sony and BMG, and Warners is now involved, but they license music from other labels too. There have been related companies in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, and perhaps most succesfully in Belgium. Where I've been entering these, I've used Absolute Music/EVA Records to distinguish the Swedish versions. Norway's is called EVA Records ANS. Unfortunately, the only one with a complete catalogue online is the Swedish version (at absolute.nu), and I would be very interested to get hold of such a thing for the other countries.

Labels to work on

Other than the obvious ones, Absolute, Metropolis and Zoth Ommog, I intend to do some work on these too. Which doesn't mean you can't start without me if you find one of these links interesting:

All this first lot is Swedish

Absolute Stuff

Skipping