question: How are producers, DJs and remix artists able to separate the singing/lyrics from the original song so cleanly? (Without the instrumentals)
comment: There parts that are called Song Stems. These are broken down parts of the song. Separate parts like drums, percussion, strings, etc and of course the vocals. Sometimes this is provided by the artists or the label themselves. If stems are not available, a DJ can do pre-work and do vocal isolation. There are many ways to do this but the end is not as clean as stems. Then they add the music part themselves. Last option is to get vocals from cover artists the use it to start the remix.
passages: They use various tropes of 80's music such as saxophone solos, syncopated synthesiser beats, and a more liberal use of chord progressions than the originals.
  
  Some song adaptions seek inspiration from specific 1980s songs. An example is "Sugar" by Maroon 5 reworked with a backing track very reminiscent of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.
   2007 Just Like You Keyshia Cole Mixing
  
  2007 Look What You Made Me Yung Berg Enhanced Recording
  
  2007 Love Is Wicked Brick & Lace Mixing
  
  2007 Love/Hate The-Dream Mixing
  
  2007 P!nk Box [2007] P!nk Mixing
  
  2007 Souljaboytellem.com Soulja Boy Tell Em Mixing
  
  2007 Soundboy Rock Groove Armada Mixing
  
  2007 Spirit Leona Lewis Mixing
  
  2007 Strength & Loyalty Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Mixing
  
  2007 System Seal Audio Engineer, Mixing
  
  2007 Taking Chances Céline Dion Mixing
  
  2007 The Best of Me: Yolanda Adams Greatest Hits Yolanda Adams Mixing
  
  2007 The Cool Lupe Fiasco Enhanced Recording
   2008 Best of Hilary Duff Hilary Duff Engineer, Audio Engineer, Mixing
  
  2008 Best of the Best: Love Songs Diana Ross Mixing
  
  2008 Black Summer Party: Best Of, Vol. 5 Mixing
  
  2008 Brutha Brutha Mixing
  
  2008 Call and Response: The Remix Album Maroon 5 Mixing
  
  2008 Colby O Colby O'Donis Mixing
  
  2008 Cookie Jar The-Dream / Gym Class Heroes Mixing
  
  2008 Departure Jesse McCartney Mixing
  
  2008 Discipline Janet Jackson Mixing
  
  2008 Doll Domination The Pussycat Dolls Mixing
  
  2008 Dream a Little Jimmy Demers Mixing
  
  2008 E=MC² Mariah Carey Mixing
  
  2008 Exit 13 LL Cool J Mixing
  
  2008 First Love Karina Mixing
   He further stated:
  
  Irwin's assertions that no liberties were taken have been proven false in a couple of instances. The vocals on most of the album's songs are mixed noticeably higher than they were on the original mixes and the fades are different on almost every song as well.
   In 2016, Marshmello remixed Anne-Marie's song “Alarm.”. Fond of the remix, Anne-Marie wanted to collaborate with Marshmello, and eventually they met in a studio in London, where production of the song commenced. Initially Marshmello played some guitar, piano, synth and drum loops, listening to every single one they decided to proceed with guitar. Anne-Marie wrote the lyrics for the song corresponding to the loop. The major lyrics and drum sessions were completed in thirty minutes. Following next two hours, they completed the entire lyric session and the whole song was completed in three hours.
   Keyboards, live percussion, guitars, bass guitars and drums were used in the making of "No Mas". The duo studio-recorded real drums for a few cuts, and then added samples of an older drum kit from years ago into those recordings. They making that producing the songs are "basically like these tracks are like our children that we totally put out into the world ourselves", saying that only one song was mixed on the album. Scotty "Scotty Hard" Harding was credited on the release as handling the recording and mixing, and the duo enjoyed working with him in the studio, although at first they were a bit nervous, as they were dictators regarding how their songs would be re-adjusted.
   They made all these different bits up, not thinking in terms of verse, chorus, bridge or what was going to go where, just coming up with all these sections of chanting, rapping and singing, which we recorded all higgledy-piggledy. And then we just sewed it together. It was rather like the way we'd been working on the dance remixes we'd been doing before. Kind of a cut-and-paste method.
   2006 Club Bangers Mixing
  
  2006 Coming Home Lionel Richie Mixing
  
  2006 Dance Revolution The Slumber Party Girls Mixing
  
  2006 Director Avant Mixing
  
  2006 Heart to Yours/Do You Know Michelle Williams Mixing
  
  2006 I Don't Need a Man The Pussycat Dolls Mixing
  
  2006 In My Own Words Ne-Yo Mixing
  
  2006 Kelis Was Here Kelis Mixing
  
  2006 Light Poles and Pine Trees Field Mob Mixing
  
  2006 Live in London The Pussycat Dolls Mixing
  
  2006 Loose Nelly Furtado Mixing
  
  2006 Maneater Nelly Furtado Mixing
  
  2006 My Book K-Ci Mixing
  
  2006 My Friends & Me Dionne Warwick Mixing
   Other classics mastered by Ray Staff include "Physical Graffiti" and "Presence" by Led Zeppelin, "Crime of the Century" by Supertramp, "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" by The Rolling Stones and "Hemispheres" by Rush.
  
  Section::::Recent years.
   BULLET::::- "2003" Justin Guarini Justin Guarini Assistant Vocal Engineer
  
  BULLET::::- "2003" For You Jonathan Pierce Mixing
  
  BULLET::::- "2003" Ednita Por Ti Ednita Nazario Engineer, Mixing
  
  BULLET::::- "2003" Becstasy Becky Baeling Mixing
  
  BULLET::::- "2003" 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Vanessa Williams Producer, Sampling, Beats
  
  BULLET::::- "2002" Walk to Remember Original Soundtrack Mixing
  
  BULLET::::- "2002" Volume Flipp Producer
  
  BULLET::::- "2002" Unison/Celine Dion/The Colour of My Love Celine Dion Mixing
  
  BULLET::::- "2002" Medicine Man Richie Booker Mixing
  
  BULLET::::- "2002" Marie Sisters Marie Sisters Mixing
  
  BULLET::::- "2002" Emotions/Vanishing Mariah Carey Mixing
   Thanks to a combination of guest raps, re-sung or altered lyrics and alternative backing tracks, some hip-hop remixes can end up being almost entirely different songs from the originals. An example is the remix of "Ain't It Funny" by Jennifer Lopez, which has little in common with the original recording apart from the title.
   Section::::Personnel.
  
  Credits adapted from AllMusic.
  
  BULLET::::- João Daltro de Almeida – photo research
  
  BULLET::::- David Blumberg – arranger
  
  BULLET::::- Lawrence D. Brown – producer
  
  BULLET::::- Rodger Carter – studio assistant
  
  BULLET::::- Neil Citron – engineer, mixing
  
  BULLET::::- The Corporation – arranger, producer
  
  BULLET::::- Hal Davis – producer
  
  BULLET::::- Jill Ettinger – product manager
  
  BULLET::::- Berry Gordy, Jr. – arranger, producer, executive producer
  
  BULLET::::- George Gordy – producer
  
  BULLET::::- Willie Hutch – vocal arrangement
  
  BULLET::::- Eddy Manson – arranger
  
  BULLET::::- Monique McGuffin – production coordination
  
  BULLET::::- Alphonso Mizell – arranger, producer
  
  BULLET::::- Fonce Mizell – arranger, producer
   BULLET::::5. "Same Old Love" (Romos Remix) – 4:59
  
  Section::::Credits and personnel.
  
  Credits and personnel adapted from "Revival" album liner notes.
  
  Recording
  
  BULLET::::- Recorded and tracked at Westlake Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California) and Dreamlab Studios (Studio City, Califórnia)
  
  BULLET::::- Vocals engineered at Westlake Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California) and Dreamlab Studios (Studio City, California)
  
  BULLET::::- Mixed at Mixsuite UK/LA
  
  BULLET::::- Mastered at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York)
  
  Management
   Of the release, Bernard Sumner explained that:"We’ve given [the music] to different mixers, and they’ve chopped it up and rearranged it and stripped it back, so it’s like another take on the original album[...] Some of [the songs] are radically different, but rather than like a remixer who would write a new set of music, they used the music that we’d already incorporated in the songs, but warped it in a way that was very interesting."
   BULLET::::- 2004: "The Red Light District" - Ludacris
  
  BULLET::::- 2004: "Turning Point" - Mario
  
  BULLET::::- 2004: "Free Yourself" - Fantasia
  
  BULLET::::- 2004: "The Mind of Mannie Fresh" - Mannie Fresh
  
  BULLET::::- 2005: "Wait (The Whisper Song) (Single) - Ying Yang Twins
  
  BULLET::::- 2005: "All I Do" (Single) - B5
  
  BULLET::::- 2005: "Go Crazy" (Single) - Young Jeezy featuring Jay-Z
  
  BULLET::::- 2005: "Stilettos (Pumps)" (Single) - Crime Mob
  
  BULLET::::- 2005: "Boyz N Da Hood" - Boyz N Da Hood
  
  BULLET::::- 2005: "Who Is Mike Jones?" - Mike Jones
  
  BULLET::::- 2005: "The First Lady" - Faith Evans
   BULLET::::- Brian Gardner – mastering
  
  BULLET::::- Chris Jones – engineer
  
  BULLET::::- John Laker – engineer
  
  BULLET::::- Michael C. Ross – executive producer, mixing
  
  BULLET::::- Martin Schmelze – engineer
  
  BULLET::::- Yo-Yo – engineer
  
  Section::::Remix album.
   In August 2005, a number of songs recorded for the album were leaked onto the internet by a Turkish DJ. The leaked songs garnered considerable airplay in dance clubs in Turkey, before Tarkan's management took legal action against the DJ's playing the songs.
  
  Section::::Track listing.
  
  BULLET::::- "Come Closer" US Remix Editio
   On December 24, 2013, MisterWives released a trap remix of "Coffins" with the Pegboard Nerds under Monstercat.
  
  Section::::History.:"Reflections EP".
   2005 Hero Kirk Franklin Mixing
  
  2005 I Am Not My Hair India.Arie Mixing
  
  2005 Illumination Earth Mixing
  
  2005 In Public Kelis Mixing
  
  2005 In This Life Together Kindred the Family Soul Mixing
  
  2005 In the Mid-Nite Hour Warren G Mixing
  
  2005 In the Mix [Music from the Motion Picture] Mixing
  
  2005 Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen Mixing
  
  2005 Lost and Found Will Smith Mixing, Composer
  
  2005 Missundaztood/Can't Take Me Home P!nk Mixing
  
  2005 PCD The Pussycat Dolls Mixing
  
  2005 Sweatsuit Nelly Vocal Mixing
  
  2005 The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige Mixing
  
  2005 The Way It Is Keyshia Cole Mixing
   Section::::Commercial performance.
   As Mansun's albums were concept albums, each a continuous piece of music, many of the band's singles had to be re-edited or even re-recorded, especially those from their second album "Six". The single version of Being a Girl, for example, was just the first two minutes of section of a track which, on the album, lasted over seven.
   The re-issued album is not a straight re-mastering, but a whole new session. Though the original blend sequences remain the same, as do all the original elements, Sasha and Digweed re-created the album using Apple G4 laptops to create, what they considered, a better quality version of the original mix, with recording techniques simply not available in 1994, as well as the advantage of crystal clear audio, and spatial separation of frequencies within the song, making it sound more dynamic.
  
  Section::::Second part.
   BULLET::::7. Hybrid Feat. Julee Cruise - "If I Survive (Jerome Sydenham Dubstrumental)" - 7:17
  
  BULLET::::8. Hybrid - "Finished Symphony (Deadset Dubtool Mix)" - 6:07
  
  Section::::Trivia.
  
  BULLET::::- In the writing credits for "Keep It In the Family (Tomboys Quirky Piano-Intro Version)" Harry Gregson-Williams is wrongly named as Gregson and Williams.
   2011 Contact Boney James Mixing
  
  2011 Gloria Gloria Trevi Mezcla
  
  2011 Killer Love Nicole Scherzinger Mixing
  
  2011 Roy: Tribute to Roy Orbison Damien Leith Mixing
  
  2011 The Light of the Sun Jill Scott Mixing
  
  2010 Calling All Hearts Keyshia Cole Mixing
  
  2010 Charice Charice Mixing
  
  2010 Greatest Hits... So Far!!! P!nk Mixing
  
  2010 Just Dance, Vol. 3 Mixing
  
  2010 Love King The-Dream Mixing
  
  2010 Luna Nueva Debi Nova Mixing
  
  2010 Monkey Business/Elephunk/Bridging the Gap The Black Eyed Peas Mixing
  
  2010 Pulse Toni Braxton Mixing
  
  2010 StarStruck Disney Mixing
  
  2010 Still Standing Monica Mixing
  
  2010 The Love Trilogy The-Dream Mixing
   2005 This is Me Jully Black Engineer
  
  2005 Tilt Ya Head Back Nelly Vocal Mixing
  
  2005 When Love Is Gone Martin Nievera Mixing
  
  2004 At Last...The Duets Album Kenny G Mixing
  
  2004 Barbershop 2: Back in Business Mixing
  
  2004 Beautiful Life Guy Sebastian Mixing
  
  2004 Believe in Angels Believe in Me Angel Mixing, A&R
  
  2004 Cherie Cherie Engineer, Mixing
  
  2004 Destiny Fulfilled Destiny's Child Mixing
  
  2004 Do You Know Michelle Williams Mixing
  
  2004 Grammy Nominees 2004 Mixing
  
  2004 I Changed My Mind Keyshia Cole Engineer
  
  2004 Just for You Lionel Richie Mixing
  
  2004 Let's Talk About It Carl Thomas Mixing
  
presuppositions: Producers, DJs and remix artists separate singing and lyrics from original songs.
corrections: Producers, DJs and remix artists do not separate singing and lyrics from original songs, as song stems are provided.
raw_presuppositions: Producers, DJs and remix artists separate singing and lyrics from original songs. Producers, DJs and remix artists have to separate the singing and lyrics from the original song on their own.
raw_corrections: Producers, DJs and remix artists do not separate singing and lyrics from original songs, as song stems are provided. Producers, DJs and remix artists are provided with song stems by the artists or label to separate the singing and lyrics from the original song.