Hi! I very much remember A.R.Rahman saying that the concept of remix is not a good. THe exact statement which i remember him syaing was "Nobody has right to touch someone's compositions". I remember it well because those exactly were/are my thoughts on remixes. Remix is exactly touching someone's work and making money out of it. its like giving a new dress to Monalisa's painting and marketing it. It is also derogatory in the sense that by adding something new to someone else's work, a wrong message is conveyed to original composer - "your rhythms, background music is no longer good but my addition makes it better". this is just like an insult to someone's work. The concept of Remix works fine only when a song is remixed by the original composer himself since it is his baby afterall. He alone is entitled to do whatever with it. Sad that A.R.Rahman changed his stance on Remixes. I wish he didnt. My 2 cents!
Regards Kamal Aakarsh Vishnubhotla. http://kamal-aakarsh.blogspot.com there are two ways to live life.one is as though nothing is a miracle. and the other is as though everything is a miracle. choose yours... --- On Sat, 6/21/08, Aravind AM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Aravind AM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [arr] ARR's view on Remix To: "ARRFANS" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 9:35 AM On the BBC show in Radio One (Chennai), music directors were asked about their views on Remix. Here's what ARR had to say: There's so much of exposure these days... we keep listening to a song and (in our minds) the tune gets attached with the backing music in the song like how a pickle gets soaked... Remixing is about taking that tune from that original "surrounding" and present it in an interesting way thereby utilising the popularity of the song also... If done well, it will be interesting, otherwise it will be the most boring and irritating thing to do. i've uploaded the audio clip at: http://www.4shared. com/file/ 52137954/ ea650727/ Aravind http://arrahmaniac. blogspot. com
