Remixes and renditions are bogus unless you've put out at least 2-3 albums of your own material prior.

I can't fucking stand when a group's first release is a remix or a cover of an already well known song. It's such a weak ploy to get noticed, it's bullshit really.

What I'm trying to say is that people should write their own songs. Like Miles Davis said: "Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

If a group approached me to do a remix of a song that I had made, the song had better be at least 10 years old and that group better have been around for a few years and have at least 25 of their own songs produced and out there.

I'd probably still be bummed and say no unless I really respected the group or the remix.