Today, the
KLab Sound Team came to my attention, after seeing the artist added to the archives. I added the albums released on their Spotify page, but quickly got confused as to how such a "band" should be approached.
You see, this isn't a band, nor a solo artist, it's a
sound team, it's basically a company that makes commercial music. I've added commercial music artists previously, but those were all individual artists working independently for companies such as Kosinus or Cézame, and their releases were credited to their names. In the case of this sound team, there are some releases credited to them and released under their own name, but there are
some other releases which the team wrote, but which were released under other names. For instance, the soundtrack for Magatsu Wahrheit was composed by the sound team, but it was seemingly performed and/or released under the name of individual members, while the soundtrack for Tales of Crestoria was seemingly written by the sound team, but released under the name of a different sound team.
If this wasn't confusing enough, the line-up for these sound teams is equally confusing. Their roles aren't those of a regular band or even those of a music collective, but instead they're more like job positions: Sound Designer, Sound Creator, Group Leader, etc. The tracks on their releases are written by different members, possibly performed by different members, not all members partake in these processes, and there's also the chance that the performance of these scores might be outsourced to third parties.
So, basically, the question here is: how do we deal with this? Because these are not really bands and the validity of their releases seems to rely entirely on the name they were released under.