ive just been caught out by this..
Ive just finished a remix for a dutch label which was a right mission.. The parts i was supplied were so thin and meaningless that there was just nothing tangible to work with. Its difficult to get somthing interesting out of such generic sounds without completly morphing them into somthing different. So i hate to say it but i am guilty of now doing a remix which only has the percussion of the original and i either completly rewrote everything else or morphed it into obvlivion. i honestly tried for weeks spending hours every day trying to use the original shit but i just wasnt feeling it and had made a promise so...
Anyway Ive learned my lesson from it and now im not going to even bother trying unless i have a good feeling about it.
the "remix" did turn out pretty darn phat though ;)