Duplicate artist - Richie Hawtin

Shouldn't there be a link of some kind between Richie Hawtin and Plastikman? Or just merge them? It's the same person, and there are duplicate submissions like Richie Hawtin's Behringer BCF2000 and Plastikman's Behringer BCF2000 where the same piece of gear is listed under each artist, using the exact same source.

This site is just not set up to handle solo electronic artists that release under multiple names. period.

It frustrated me at first, but I've just come to accept the reality.

Look at the case of one of the most popular producers on this site: Aphex Twin: aka AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, GAK, Q-Chastic, Phonic Boy on Dope, Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Smojphace, Soit-P. P., The Dice Man, The Tuss, user18081971...

(amazingly, I don't think he's every released anything with "Richard D. James" as his artist name)

I think the only way to bypass this limitation right now is to make all the aliases a "band" and then make Richie a member of all those bands. If this is what we are supposed to do, officially, I can hang with that just fine, but I have doubts that a lot of the less-obsessive posters here could figure it out/abide by that without some more explicit technical intervention.

But, big picture, 90s electronic music heroes just don't seem to be a focus of the community at the moment. Take a look at the current genre breakdowns from this Jupiter 8 example:

https://imgur.com/OS6OnSc

The focus seems to be on getting the nuances of rock right first and foremost, "Electronic" isn't getting the same focus, and if that's where the bulk of the traffic and developer passion lies here, there's nothing wrong with that. So I think you and I are scratching at something that just isn't a current priority.

... all that said, I obviously feel you re: the double-ups. It's a problem I'm interested in resolving.