YouTube Funk
It took Kutiman just two months to finish ThruYOU, the project
that would make him both a musical pioneer and an Internet
celebrity. Kutiman — a.k.a. Ophir Kutiel, an Israeli
musician — took footage posted on YouTube by amateur
musicians and mixed it together (drums, piano, synth, theremin,
vocals, whatever he could find) into video jams of amazing
funkiness, in the process creating an all-new art form that
combines DJing, video montage and found art. Some of the players
are just goofing around. Some aren't even very good. What
makes it work is the performers' unjaded enthusiasm, the hypnotic
effect of the looped samples and the sheer serendipitous grooviness
that brings it all together as if it were meant to be.
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