Question re: a fringe featuring artist credit

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I am looking to add this release to the MusicBrainz database, but I am a little confused as for what I should do for one of the tracks.

Track 6 has a featuring credit attributed to “Discord friends”. This is not a formal group named Discord Friends, or even a group at all, it is merely a way of saying “some people sent me stuff on Discord that I used for this track”. It seems unnecessary and in my opinion even incorrect to create a new artist for this one-off configuration of barely-connected people, but it’s certainly worth keeping the featuring credit somehow.

What’s the proper way to handle this?

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You could use a trailing join phrase like this example Release “Star of Wonder” by Amanda Palmer & Friends - MusicBrainz credited to “Amanda Palmer & Friends” but “& Friends” is not an artist but just extra words attached.

Or you could make the track by Angelwings Marmalade but credited to “Angelwings Marmalade feat. Discord friends” like an alias or alternate name.

I kind of like the first way.

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I would credit this to [unknown artist] aliased to “Discord friends”. Along the lines of this one Release “Anthology Jazz Manouche” by Various Artists - MusicBrainz.

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