How can I be designated as an Artist ?

It's totally understandable that, after putting in over 30 years, proving you have talent and releasing 20+ albums, you'd expect to see your name counted as an Artist here.

Something to keep in mind: this database/service/community functions on Wikipedia(-ish) rules, in that you don't make your own artist page, BUT this community doesn't yet (YET!) have a Wikipedia-sized pool of contributors for every type of music... so as of right now, there are still some fairly significant artists that don't have pages and/or a lot of followers.

Consider that, as of Sept. 2020, the following electronic artists only have 1 follower/contributor each:

• Mike Paradinas (U-Ziq, Mike & Rich, founder of Planet Mu)
• Raymond Scott
• Marc Mac (4hero, Tom & Jerry, Manix)
• Park Hye Jin
• Cinthie
• Patricia
• Shamir
• Imanbek (produced a 2020 dance hit approaching 1B streams on Spotify)

(and yes, I'm the 1 page-creator/follower/contributor for each of these folks in this head-scratching list... judge away... I swear I like things people HAVE heard of too!)

As for what to do when the artist themselves creates a user profile before anyone has created an artist profile for them... I don't know... that would be a cool problem to have... we'll know the answer sooner or later. :)

even Marc Mac?

even Marc Mac?

Yes. He is even holding a mysterious piece of cool-looking suitcase synth in his profile pic, begging one of us to solve the mystery... If there was ever a British rave, jungle, and jazz-flavored-D&B pioneer that gets us, that gets the Equipboard lifestyle... it's Marc Mac. ;)

definitely... the game's afoot

The only one of those I've heard of is Mike Paradinas. Graham Massey of 808 State told me about 16 years ago that I should've been on his Planet Mu label, so I sent a demo to Mike. Never heard a thing back. Reminds me of that old maxim "if at first you don't succeed, stop wasting money on stamps"

I'm just gonna take a photo of me with an old suitcase and claim it's a top secret Behringer version of the EMS VCS 3

The only one of those I've heard of is Mike Paradinas.

I figured he'd be the one on your radar, given the other artists you mentioned in your EB profile. That's why he's first. :D

Also: anyone out there making electronic music should look up Raymond Scott.

• He was a synth-building mentor to Bob Moog

• He was putting wild modular synth sounds into TV and radio commercials decades before Suzanne Ciani

• He was releasing all-electronic albums made from synths of his own creation by the early '60s

• He had a fruitful career as a composer and radio bandleader before even getting into electroacoustic instruments... regardless of what country you hail from, you've heard some of his music.

I'm just gonna take a photo of me with an old suitcase and claim it's a top secret Behringer version of the EMS VCS 3

Do it! Lol.