Poll: Remixed Music

[Zeke109]

Yes, yes, I know. The 'music' genre has been done over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and and and over and over over and over and over and over. But I think that remixing music is just stealing other people's music and butchering it so it sounds like techno shit.
How do you feel?

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Change a few words and the beat then claim it's their work. That's stealing to me.

And almost all remixed stuff sucks.

 

[Arntor]

No, not really. I just hate it when I search for some classical music and I get their techno remix instead.

 

[zen5887]

They pay royalties.. Not stealing

And remixing a song into a solid dance track is a lot harder than you think

 

[Omnidum]

No. Some of it blows, others are great.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Apologies Zeke109, but once again I would like an "it's a blight upon the face of the universe" option

 

[Ares Tyr]

I love song remixes of all sorts. If there is a song I like, and then another artist does their own take of said song in hopes of putting there own edge on something popular, then that just shows how good the original was and gets it out there to another crowd of people who may not have known about or appreciated the original.

Perfect example being "Umbrella" by Rihanna, a song that I really liked. Then came the Punk Goes Crunk album and the pop-punk band All Get Out did their own version of the song, and I loved it.

Or in a Hip Hop sense, when a song is remixed, it usually just shows how good the production quality of a beat is, because other rappers really want to rhyme over said beat. Alot of Hip Hop music is based on the premise or remixing, and even more is bsed on the premise of sampling. In fact, if it weren't for the remix or sampling, I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be much Hip Hop.

 

[zen5887]

Oh and the album "Voices of the Lifestream" is remixed FF7 songs

It is fantastic!

 

[The Kind Cannibal]

I like techno, so the more remixes the better ^.^

 

[Ultrajoe]

Man, Zeke... you don't need to throw up a thread for every thought that occurs to you man.

lay off it for a bit, let your keyboard cool down.

 

[Tanner fool]

But I think that remixing music is just stealing other people's music and butchering it so it sounds like techno shit.
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ok 1: techno isnt shit
its the greatest music of all time

and 2: remixing is more than turning things into techno
ive heard other remixes
other than techno

 

[Zeke109]

techno? ehh...theres one good techno song that i know of....

 

[WlknCntrdiction]

I think they do remixes when they can't think of any new material, fair enough some remixes are good but the majority of them aren't, so just leave them alone and make new songs already.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

DEATH TO REMIXES, however, bands performing together is ok.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

Change a few words and the beat then claim it's their work. That's stealing to me.

And almost all remixed stuff sucks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpRM2zDHTBw

Apology accepted.

 

[Crofty]

I consider dance/techno/hip-hop/other remixes to be bastardisations of actual music, and anyone who calls themselves an artist when their work is mostly remixes does not deserve a place in the music industry. A band mixing their own work is acceptable, it's their own work and if they think it sounds better with a different mix then it's their prerogative. Those who think I'm a narrow minded moron or similar insult for such statements, consider this.
I have photoshop on my computer, and a copy of the Mona Lisa (not really, it's a hypothetical situation). I scan this copy into my computer, and use photoshop to alter the image, putting the face towards the bottom left, enlarging the nose to comical proportions, inverting the colours of the background and shrinking most of the body, maybe adding a little yellow smiley face somewhere. Does that make me an artist? Does it hell as like, it makes me a guy with photoshop making a work of art look crap. So, if I have a copy of The Summer of '69 on my computer, and a music editing program, and make the drums and bass louder and faster, make the guitar unnoticeable and edit the voice to a comical chipmunks-esque pitch, and maybe add a synthesised keyboard, how does that make me any more of an artist than if I screwed around with the Mona Lisa on photoshop?

 

[electric discordian]

I consider dance/techno/hip-hop/other remixes to be bastardisations of actual music, and anyone who calls themselves an artist when their work is mostly remixes does not deserve a place in the music industry. A band mixing their own work is acceptable, it's their own work and if they think it sounds better with a different mix then it's their prerogative. Those who think I'm a narrow minded moron or similar insult for such statements, consider this.
I have photoshop on my computer, and a copy of the Mona Lisa (not really, it's a hypothetical situation). I scan this copy into my computer, and use photoshop to alter the image, putting the face towards the bottom left, enlarging the nose to comical proportions, inverting the colours of the background and shrinking most of the body, maybe adding a little yellow smiley face somewhere. Does that make me an artist? Does it hell as like, it makes me a guy with photoshop making a work of art look crap. So, if I have a copy of The Summer of '69 on my computer, and a music editing program, and make the drums and bass louder and faster, make the guitar unnoticeable and edit the voice to a comical chipmunks-esque pitch, and maybe add a synthesised keyboard, how does that make me any more of an artist than if I screwed around with the Mona Lisa on photoshop?

Firstly dicking about with the Mona Lisa is art, look up Dadaism. Secondly I am not a fan of remixes as they arent my musical bag but I have nothing but time for the people that do them. You are all basing remixes on what is in the charts, this is like saying all rock is bad because of Fallout Boy or decrying Hip Hop on the basis of Soldier boy Im sorry I cant write his name correctly!