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05-27-2009, 03:55 PM
Kutiman’s ThruYou Mashup Turns YouTube Into Funk Machine | Underwire | Wired.com (https://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/03/kutimans-pionee/)
Kutiman’s <cite>ThruYou</cite> Mashup Turns YouTube Into Funk Machine
Five years ago he’d never heard of the "godfather of soul," James Brown. Now an Israeli mashup artist is basking in the spotlight after making the funkiest tracks on the internet, using YouTube clips of musicians who’ve never met each other. Earlier this month, Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, released seven videos made by mixing and matching found footage for his project, called ThruYou (https://thru-you.com/). The clever musical mashups have since been viewed more than a million times, and Kutiman is basking in the glow of raves from MySpace commenters and mainstream media alike.
"I didn’t expect it to blow up like this, even in my wildest dreams," the 27-year-old Kutiman (https://www.myspace.com/kutiman) told Wired.com by phone from his self-described "crib" in Tel Aviv, Israel. "I live in a small city in a small neighborhood in a small house in a small country. I didn’t expect it to get this big this fast. It sometimes feels impossible to reach out to the world’s music scene from Tel Aviv, but now it’s all good."
The videos Kutiman used to create <cite>ThruYou</cite> are mostly low-budget recordings of amateur musicians playing at home or taking music lessons. Kutiman cut the performances together so that the musicians appear to be playing together in real time –- with truly astonishing results.
Kutiman’s <cite>ThruYou</cite> Mashup Turns YouTube Into Funk Machine
Five years ago he’d never heard of the "godfather of soul," James Brown. Now an Israeli mashup artist is basking in the spotlight after making the funkiest tracks on the internet, using YouTube clips of musicians who’ve never met each other. Earlier this month, Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, released seven videos made by mixing and matching found footage for his project, called ThruYou (https://thru-you.com/). The clever musical mashups have since been viewed more than a million times, and Kutiman is basking in the glow of raves from MySpace commenters and mainstream media alike.
"I didn’t expect it to blow up like this, even in my wildest dreams," the 27-year-old Kutiman (https://www.myspace.com/kutiman) told Wired.com by phone from his self-described "crib" in Tel Aviv, Israel. "I live in a small city in a small neighborhood in a small house in a small country. I didn’t expect it to get this big this fast. It sometimes feels impossible to reach out to the world’s music scene from Tel Aviv, but now it’s all good."
The videos Kutiman used to create <cite>ThruYou</cite> are mostly low-budget recordings of amateur musicians playing at home or taking music lessons. Kutiman cut the performances together so that the musicians appear to be playing together in real time –- with truly astonishing results.