Isreal’s Kutiman link has been floating around the last week (over a million hits in the last week, actually). And damn, it’s probably what I’ve listened to the most since. The premise is that Kutiman samples and arranges clips from YouTube musicians to create new compositions. Kutiman took the scattered talents from dozens, if not hundreds, of individual musicians and funneled them into one cohesive brilliant opus. The project is presented as an entire album distributed on YouTube.
The verse by Portuguese reggae artist Mighty Lion is fayah (accapella here)! Above you’ll find #2 cut, a dub tune titled ‘This is What It Became’. The concept is not only clever, it’s extremely well executed & sounds great. Listen to and view the album in it’s entirety on Kuitman’s site, Thur-You.com.
Before this ambitious, thinking-outside-of-the-box project, he was signed to Melting Pot Music which released his debut single ‘No Groove Where I Come From’ in 2006, and his self-titled debut LP in 2007. Here’s some the aforementioned single and a choice cut from the album featuring Karoline of Melting Pot’s Karoline & Funset (and Israel’s top-selling Habanot Nechama) and another featuring Israel’s Elran Dekel.
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MP3: Kutiman – Music Is Ruling My World (feat. Karoline) (2007)
[ 6mb | 217kbps vbr | 4:00 | Genre: Dub ]
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MP3: Kutiman – No Groove Where I Come From (feat. Elran Dekel) (2007)
[ 8mb | 221kbps vbr | 5:08 | Genre: Dub ]
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P.S. Another neat outside-of-the-box use of streaming media on social networks is this mini-mixtape created with MySpace music players from Alexander Lehmann. View and listen to the mix on his site, alexanderlehmann.net. It features the homies Kill the Noise, Feedme, Computer Club, Noisia & SebastiAn. Woah!
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