Crediting a remix album

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@UltimateRiff

based on what I’m reading, should the tracks not be credited to either Secret Chiefs 3 or Nothingnæss Præsence and 964 Outsidr? the tracks seem to be credited to NP and 964, which is why I ask. that’s just how Bandcamp does artist credits

Hmm. I had the impression that remixes are typically credited to the recordings’ original artists, who I think would be UR and Ishraqiyun in this case. See e.g. the comment by @reosarevok in this thread:

@reosarevok

This is the usual standard, yes. The official use of the artist field is “who is this mainly credited to”, which is usually the original artist. There are some rare cases (especially when one remix of other artist’s music is included in the remixer’s album) where the main credit is actually the remixer, and the title’s “X (Y remix)” actually means “this is the remix of the song X by Y”, but they’re rare enough I don’t have any examples for you off the top of my head.

Or are you suggesting that I should set the recording artists to UR and Ishraqiyun and then set the tracklist’s artist credits to Nothingnæss Præsence and 964 Outsidr?

@UltimateRiff

I think I would also propose that the release group (maybe the release too) be credited to Kid MarsCat, since yes, they released it on their own label. alternatively, it could be Secret Chiefs 3 and Kid MarsCat. the release group doesn’t have to match the release artist credits (although in most cases that is best practice)

Crediting both the release group and release to Kid MarsCat would definitely be my preference, but I feel like I’d be hiding the important information that this is an album of SC3 remixes unless I also changed the release title to something like “Secret Chiefs 3: The Kid MarsCat Remixes”. I think I’d prefer that, actually, but I wonder if it’s too much of a stretch. All of those words appear on the album cover, but it’s not the way the artist entered the title when she uploaded the album to Bandcamp.