Remixes Defined

What exactly is a remix? It's a souped up song-- take a usually staid or original golden oldie, throw in some hot beats and a young singer and, voila, you get a remix.

Remixing is distinctly different from digitally remastering original recordings or even reperforming and remaking songs (version recordings). Some 20 years ago, Super Cassettes (T-Series) used to get popular songs re-performed by artists like Kumar Sanu, Abhijit and Sonu Nigam with the disc or cassette cover prominently mentioning "with Jhakar Beats." But this essentially involved version recording, not remixing as the term is now understood.

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