Remix!!

These days I'm high on this new remix number "Dafli waale, dafli baja". One of the very famous oldies from one of those Rishi Kapoor movies. Sometimes I really find it difficult to respond to the remix culture. Almost everyone I meet has found the entire remix business an evil empire. The general opinion remains that they have no originality and are literally screwing up some of the best stuff Indian Music Industry ever churned out. Well, my opinion kinda differs. I am totally with the remix revolution and I think the question of originality should not even be asked when the album has "REMIX" written on it in caps and bolds. Coming to the "screwing up" part of it, I think some of the remixes we've had in recent times have been simply amazing. You won't ever realize that if you listen to them on the TV for the obvious reason that the videos are so umm, distracting (took a while to find the correct adjective) that you don't concentrate on the audio of it. The real creativity out there in not in making few scantily clad women dance. It is in fact in the audio part of it. You have to admit that people like DJ Aqeel, Suketu and Harry haven't become celebs just like that. All these people did was to play some songs at most ordinary places in Mumbai and today they attract crowds and play at some of the finest and most elite places in India. Their story is not very different from that of say, Abhijit Sawant who, from a most ordinary boy, became a youth icon. They have worked hard for the success that they enjoy today. So, if they adhere to the copyrights act, noone has any right whatsoever to point fingers at them. And just like movies and songs, some remixes are good, some are not so good and some are pathetic too. If we give that freedom (to be bad) to movies and songs, remixes deserve it too.
Anyway, for those who are actually wondering which songs made me write this post, check out the following. There are some songs here, that I might have never even heard, forget liking them-
1. Roop Tera Mastana - Style Bhai (I guess this is where it all started)
2. Chandni Raatein - Bally Sagoo
3. Tere Bin Nahin Lagda - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan/Partners In Rhyme
4. Intezaar - Anamika
5. Kaliyon Ka Chaman
6. Dil Kya Kare/Julie - Instant Karma
7. Tu, Tu hai Wahi
8. Chadti Jawaani
9. Pardesiya
10. Badan Pe Sitaare
11. Ja Re Ja
12. Dafli Waale

I'm sure i have missed out many of them, but at least these are the ones that immediately came to mind. I haven't mentioned the remixed version of songs in the movies today and that's gonna be a big list of really nice songs.
Well then, if you don't have the talent to do it, then be professional and don't degrade someone else's hardwork.