Kutiman is a game-changer - will make VJ remixes mainstream - showcases the true potential of Youtube
I haven't been this excited about a musical artist in a long time. Kutiman, an Israeli artist, has garnered a million hits in a week through word of mouth by making a 7-track album composed of only amateur youtube music clips chopped up and looped. Lest it seem to be further processed, he provides links to all the original youtube videos.
Styles range from drum n bass to hip-hop to funk. In this segment, he remixes a famous Chopin piano piece with solo string players, woodwind ensemble and an R&B acapella vocal. What?
Although VJs have done things like this before, it's usually done with pro source material, usually doesn't have as many simultaneously layers, and definitely isn't found in album-sized pieces like this. A lot of people are calling him the DJ Shadow of Youtube, but with all respect to Shadow, that is too narrow a description of the musical style, and doesn't say anything about the video editing either.
This is also a good argument for why copyright is too restrictive for the digital age, and possibly one of the truest examples of "user-generated content" yet made online.
