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Originally Posted by denkbat
I always assumed the original artist or the record company submitted the song to potential remixers of their choice, asking them to have a go at it.
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some record companies submit the remixes, and then let the artists veto the tracks, some companies just send tracks to remixers and whatever they sound like will put them out, just because the remixer has overall say so...
New Order's Ruined in a Day track was remixed by every genre dj at the time, so you had about 8 different versions - one for each type of audience... some were obvioulsy shite...
usually most artists don't have that much say so over who remixes thier tracks, but I know UW work pretty closey with Steve Hall at JBO and they, i believe, choose their remix partners pretty carefully...
its generally who's hot or up coming at any particular time...but if you check who's mixed UW in recent years, King Unique, Futureshock, Pete Heller, etc, all of these were at some time on the Junior Boys Own books...
there are obviously artists out there who do have a pretty big sayso in who remixes their stuff, but most major artists don't have the time or just don't care...as long as it gets thier music out there...
with UW though i think that R&K are pretty in the know about who's hot and who's not, and with the help of britain's number one house label boss picking up on talent all the time, they do tend to get some decent remixers on board...