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A split album (or split) is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively. It is different than a 'various artists' compilation album because split albums include several tracks of each artist, instead of multiple artists with only one track.
A split was initially done on vinyl records, with music from one artist on one side of the record and music from a second artist on the opposite side. As vinyl records have declined in popularity, this format has been done on CDs. Although there are not multiple sides to a CD, the idea is still the same. From the early 1980s through the present, the format has been used widely by independent record labels, and artists in punk rock, hardcore, black metal and indie rock circles. Buying a split record because of a particular band, one gets also several tracks of two or more bands, which are often close in music style or share similar ideas.
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Examples
Many EPs of the noise band Melt-Banana are splits with another band
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