Ah you mean the stems.
1. Yes, unless the material is released under creative commons.
2. yes, the owner can refuse to give anything. I had some success after asking nicely and explaining what I was doing, and why I was doing it.
3. not really
4. there is no reason why not, as long as you're not selling it, or have permission to sell it
5. Overdubs, mashups etc. Look at hip hop history, they pretty much all sampled James Brown and the Amen break back in the day.
6. It's a creative process, you'll need either some planning thinking, and/or on the spot creativity to get the remix somewhere. It's always hard to remix anything because of people's expectations, to hear something as good, if not better. And an audience will expect no less.
I'm going to brag a little and throw a little remix of mine. Did it because I could not find a remix that did not make me cringe. This is a radio edit, I keep the fully finished, extended version in my vault for gig bragging purposes
I had to go, find and resample all of what I needed to get it out of my head, then I started remixing the thing when I had all the elements. It did take me ages to gather all of what I needed, but it was worth it. Everything but the drums and percussion, which I made from scratch.
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