Ok, I'm not talking about "vault remixes", I'm talking about the remixes that get put out on a contemporaneous release. I'm wondering who decides that a remix can/will be done, and who decides who's going to do it. Is it entirely a label/producer decision, or is the artist involved at some/any stage?
I'm sure it varies from case to case, but I'm talking about what "the norm" is.
Seems to me that there's some creative work going on in this field, as well as a lot of bullshit. But the announcement of the upcoming Ellington Mosaic got me to thinking that Ellington was maybe the/one of the original remixers, often recording the same song in different versions for different labels in a relatively short time frame. Yeah, in a lot of ways (some of them pretty fundamental) it's not the same. But then again, in a lot of ways (some of them equally fundamental), it's not all that different. It's still a matter of taking the raw materials of a song and making the same different, which in turn highlights that the different is still the same.
Anyway, that's not really the point. I'd just like to know the "usual process" that goes on for a song to be released in several different versions at the same time. It's something that interests me at this juncture.
As always, thanks in advance!