Futuramerlin (Begun 2011)

Note from https://musicbrainz.org/user/calculator.ftvb, who runs/releases music under this label: While the "renamed from" relationship isn't quite precise, because I don't consider this to be the same label as https://musicbrainz.org/label/8d99d4ad-42df-49b0-90d3-1306f53d5b4e, this is a successor to that other label, and as such this relationship type seems like the closest way to describe that connection, and more informative than not mentioning the connection.

The first release for this label seems to have been 2011: a physical CD release using the new branding was dated 2011 and I think came out in August of that year — I have a specific date of August 10th for a bonus track version of that release. While I previously listed a start date of 2012 for that label when I added it in https://musicbrainz.org/edit/23528981, that must have been wrong. I opened an edit to correct that: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/85307740. The label was added in the edit https://musicbrainz.org/edit/15055807 from August 8th, 2011 (and subsequently removed and re-added), confirming a start year of 2011 rather than 2012.

Catalog numbers:

* Original series: Numbers under 5000 are from the time period of the predecessor label. I call these "Original series" numbers, which is the name of the column for them in a spreadsheet from ~2014. They correspond to the HTML files describing the albums from the Futuramerlin.com web site. The web site was built with each file given a numeric ID as the filename, and then I later decided to use those numbers as catalog numbers.

• The likely earliest-dated number in the original series range I have is 23, for a file dated February 26, 2009, but it doesn't correspond to a release. (0 is the first in sequence, and likely predates number 23 but was modified later). Some other files have earlier dates, but later numbers, and I'm guessing those files were assigned their numbers later.
• The earliest original series release catalog number numerically is 2556 (see also the annotation here).
• The most recent non-release number in the original series range numerically appears to be 4604, dated May 10, 2010.
• The most recent original series release ID by number appears to be 4605, for a release from May 26, 2010.
• There are a few cases where the same original series ID ended up assigned to two different releases. 4580/4580 and 4581/4581 appear to be mistakes. Also, 2556 may have originally been used for the release intended to be represented by the current original series ID 2659; see the annotation there.

* New series: Numbers with a hyphen in them are "new series" catalog numbers. The digit before the hyphen represents the project/artist; the digit(s) after the hyphen represent the release for that artist.

• New series release 1-1 appears to have been assigned no later than November 22nd, 2010.
• 6-70 may be the most recent new series release ID (December 25, 2010), which overlapped with the "Release IDs".

* Release ID: Numbers 5000 and greater are "release IDs". Starting at 5000 was to avoid collisions with the "original series" numbers.

• The first "release ID" numerically and likely also chronologically is 5000.
• I had begun assigning "Release IDs" with ID 5000 no later than October 9, 2012.