Archive for the Game Changers Category
If you take a look at the recently-published list of Time Magazine’s “50 Best Inventions of 2009″, you will find many technologically significant inventions — NASA’s missles, a racing car made entirely out of food, and even a human-powered vending machine. Among these inventions, a surprising (and deserved) addition has appeared: the YouTube remix projects of Israeli musician & composer Kutiman as seen in his prodigious website, ThruYOU. ThruYOU, completed in just two months time, is a sweeping work of musical “found art”, deftly and intelligently remixed into miniature funk masterpieces. Ophir Kutiel, better known to the world as Kutiman, spent weeks searching through YouTube videos of dozens of musicians, primarily amateurs, to find patches of instrumentation and vocals from which he would invent his virtual funk quilt. MORE »
(Editor’s note: this originally appeared on Loudersoft on 4 March 2009. I’ve updated the post to include MP3’s of the tracks so that, hopefully, it will pull people from MP3 search engines to discover Kutiman and his site. It’s definitely my favorite website of 2009 and, without a doubt, one of my favorite experiences of the past decade. If you’re visiting here from The Hype Machine, please be sure to go back and ‘love’ the songs you love by clicking here. Thanks.)
The full story on Thru-You, video and MP3’s after the jump.
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Two of my favorite talents in the extensive world of music remain the illustrious DJ Day and Kansas City’s #1 soul brother, soul singer and virtuoso Miles Bonny. DJ Day, whom I have written extensive praises of, wrote on his own blog, Like A Throttle, about how he came to generate this genuinely soul-stirring rendition of “Still Ray” by Raphael Saadiq.
I came home and listened to it, figured out the piano part and played everything else from there. Once I was finished I called my man Miles Bonny to lay down vocals and trumpet like only he can and here it is, free for you.
Word is this may yet still come out on vinyl, but it’s way too good to let collect dust. Enjoy this track and let it fill you with the essence. Keep up with DJ Day over at Like A Throttle.
