Dhinchak dhinchak….

In order to remix music, one needs to know a LOT about music. Alto and Bass are basic stuff for these people. They need to know scales and if so are they pentatonic or classical or whatever (not getting into details here). And once they analyse the song they plan to remix they need to deconstruct it to its basic components, add some of their parts to it and rebuild it.

Agreed that the essence of the song may not be original, but the act of remixing is an art. It gives the remix artist a chance to take a look at the song elements of the original composer and try to add elements of his own to add his interpretations to it. Nothing wrong to it if you ask me. Famous artists such as Nine Inch Nails these days upload their songs online free to other artists to dabble in remixing it.
(If you understand programming it is something like open source software where every one can contribute. Remixes can be a good thing)

I have dabbled in music composition myself, so I thought I might add my two cents of opinion here.

Of course, the Hindi pop industry takes a very lazy approach to remixing, which is worrying.

And despite the overblown media sensation of HR, we’ve had a string of interesting music in the last few years. A bit too much punjabi-style dance numbers, sure. But there’s Vishal Bhardwaj, A.R.Rahman, the under-used Sandesh Shandilya, M.M.Kreem, Mithoon (with Anwar) Swanand Kirkire singing ‘Bawra Mann’, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan with ‘Naina’, Mohit Chauhan in ‘Guncha’ and ‘Khoon Chala’, Naresh Iyer crooning ‘Roobaroo’ and Kailash Kher rocking ‘Chak De Phattey’; none of them wannabes.