Remixing isn’t lazy. Choosing what to keep, flip and cut is a creative decision every step.

Working with existing material swaps one kind of difficulty for another. You are not inventing the sounds, but you are making hundreds of judgements about what to foreground, what to discard, where to break the expectation the original set up. Selection is a skill, and it is the same skill editors and curators live by.

Take a track you love and make a version this week that keeps less than half of it. Decide in advance what the one element you will protect is. Then notice how many actual choices you made, because that count is the answer to anyone calling it lazy.