# DJ/Promo/Non commercial releases
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Created:** [April 19, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708 "2022-04-19T23:47:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@thwaller](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/thwaller)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/1 "2022-04-19T23:47:43Z")
This thread is a continuation of a few others. I feel these issues are all related, so I wanted to contain the conversation in one place. Here are three more releases, as provided to me:
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### Author:  [@thwaller](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/thwaller)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/2 "2022-04-19T23:52:16Z")
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### Author:  [@IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/IvanDobsky)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/3 "2022-04-20T00:01:25Z")
Add the thread we bailed from as the topic went OT
> [@Release completeness](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/release-completeness/581581/19):
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> Here is another. I reply on the people here for guidance on these. The credits on this release are a total mess. EDIT: To be proactive, yes the CD states side A and B. There is no such thing. It is one CD.
The beauty of a unique release is it is harder to be wrong… but it is also fun researching all those little artists. I always search Discogs and link across. I search via DuckDuckGo and related artists. Hunting down fan sites and find those connections. Yeah - some of these bands probably only released that one track that appears on this CD… but that is just as important as the Elvis back catalogue.
(but trying to disambiguate “Big Mike” will be a challenge… 🤣 I think there may have been a few of them around over the years…)
This is what I mean about a release that takes more research time than edit time. But is so much more satisfying to add than yet another copy of a release everyone else already has.
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### Author:  [@thwaller](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/thwaller)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/4 "2022-04-20T00:04:50Z")
Yes, agreed. My point here is have such information as posted above. I want to add this as it is great historical data that I am quite sure that no other editor can supply.
EDIT: I do need some help though on how to add such contents. MB does not really accept such things.
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### Author:  [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/5 "2022-04-20T00:22:09Z")
> [@thwaller](#):
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> EDIT: I do need some help though on how to add such contents. MB does not really accept such things.
What’s giving you trouble exactly with the above?
At a glance they don’t necessarily look like [promo releases](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release#Status), just DIY small run releases, but you know them better 🤔
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### Author:  [@thwaller](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/thwaller)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/6 "2022-04-20T01:44:31Z")
> [@aerozol](#):
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> What’s giving you trouble exactly with the above?
Who is the artist? I can for sure trace it to the original work, but this is not that.
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### Author:  [@thwaller](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/thwaller)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/7 "2022-04-20T01:48:43Z")
> [@aerozol](#):
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> just DIY small run releases
I would hesitate to say this, although I understand the basis you say it on. These releases were used heavily back in the day. I would go as far to sat that they were a part of Mexican-American culture, with use on block parties and such.
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### Author:  [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/8 "2022-04-20T01:55:28Z")
> [@thwaller](#):
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> Who is the artist
For what? Sorry I don’t know anything beyond the pictures you’ve posted, which don’t say if these are chopped up or remixed or originals or whatever.
> [@thwaller](#):
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> with use on block parties and such
These sound like ‘official’ releases.
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### Author:  [@thwaller](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/thwaller)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/9 "2022-04-20T02:02:23Z")
> [@aerozol](#):
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> For what? Sorry I don’t know anything beyond the pictures you’ve posted, which don’t say if these are chopped up or remixed or originals or whatever.
Ok, I am sorry. These are edits, not at all in the liking to the original recordings. Adding them as such would misrepresent.
> [@aerozol](#):
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> These sound like ‘official’ releases.
Not at all. Is there a means that I can share these releases for you, and others, to experience personally?
EDIT: I can host these files on one of my servers, but I will need to have access restricted.
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### Author:  [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 2:09am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/10 "2022-04-20T02:09:58Z")
I’m guessing these are similar to [DJ Screw](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d0dd58c4-ab66-41c4-9883-4f493ef6653f?all=1) releases? Which are a total mess so probably not helpful at all 😛
If you can provide some info on what kind of mix it is (maybe it fits [one of the terms here](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Terminology#Mix_terminology)) the style guide @reosarevok might be able to provide some guidance.
Did you have a look at the link for what MB calls a ‘[promo](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release#Status)’? If someone was giving away CD’s on the street it’s still ‘official’, as it was distributed. Promo is very specific. Or is there some reason you think these don’t count?
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### Author:  [@thwaller](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/thwaller)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/dj-promo-non-commercial-releases/581708/11 "2022-04-20T02:23:04Z")
> [@aerozol](#):
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> DJ Screw
LOL! Yes, I know DJ Screw.
> [@aerozol](#):
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> If someone was giving away CD’s on the street it’s still ‘official’, as it was distributed.
No, these were for purchase, not free. I guess you are right, these are not really promo. Hmmm, I need to think more.