FGBG-4919: What's up? / Motoi Sakuraba

[Datschge]

As I don't have iTunes can someone who does please check for the album on the Japanese Store and add a respective entry? Also I couldn't find the exact release date, it seems to have been released to the surprise of a lot of people...

[Cedille]

Originally Posted by Datschge

As I don't have iTunes can someone who does please check for the album on the Japanese Store and add a respective entry?

I'm less than certain about our policy on digital releases, but not sure if we need one more digital releases. On the iTunes page there is no "Musea Records seen" (instead (P) Motoi Sakuraba), but based on what Sakuraba's wife states, it should be that French label which jumped the gun and released this album digitally. If a physical album is coming in Japan in the near future as she says, maybe we'd hold off adding anymore entries and wait for it coming.

[Datschge]

Thanks for the clarification.

[Cedille]

Info on the release date (2013/4/10), catalog number (DUJP-011), price (2500), label (diskunion) and some extra info (possible liner notes) of the Japanese release is revealed.

http://sakuraba-motion.com/muscat2/

Which's the parent isn't clear, but perhaps you need to submit the domestic release separately and then ask somebody to make this entry a child of it.

[Datschge]

Can a child be older than the parent? Interesting precedent in any case.

[CHz]

Yes it can. It displays as "pre-release of XXXX": http://vgmdb.net/album/9774.

I think we usually use it for preview versions or enclosures/limited editions released prior to the general release of an album.

[Datschge]

But that's just done for making the more common (i.e. easier to get) version the main one, this doesn't really apply here.

[Cedille]

It's at each submitter's discretion, and I don't have a strong opinion on which should be, but as this is a Japanese album and the French release is a localized release, I see a kind of subordinate-superior relationship here. I'd say otherwise, if this album was planned and produced by Musea Records.

[Datschge]

Just got the Musea release. There is a lot the Japanese release can improve upon package wise. Will add scans sometime later.