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Ted    Said...

This is dynomite! A decent track besides the novel way in which it was produced. But fully ingenious. Video sampling.

It does remind me a bit of that Coldcut song with the sequenced chainsaw footage, but that was more like video as drum machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLu7p9bTJ84

16-Mar-09 03:37 PM

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Nick B    Said...

What I like about these is that they not only highlight Kutiman's abillity but also the featured artists too.

He also seems to know who to choose, both of those singers have something about them top

16-Mar-09 03:54 PM

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DJ Sean Sax    Said...

Most of the times I think that we humans, as a whole, are so unworthy of sharing this planet with it's other living inhabitants. That all we do is take and destroy and kill and then take some more. Then I see something like this. Something where one individual shows us that, under the right circumstances, we can make something beautiful when we work together. Something more beautiful than when we stand on our own and keep our gifts to ourselves. Yeah, I know it's just a video mashup but my mind works musically so when I see something like this, I guess it affects me a lot more deeply than it does others. Then again, this is Sonic State. If your mind didn't work musically to some extent, you probably wouldn't be here :-)

16-Mar-09 04:19 PM

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Wqautr    Said...

Sometimes we come together because of, or despite, our particular musical leanings.

Music will set us free.

- Sammy

16-Mar-09 09:22 PM

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dulac    Said...

you have to watch mother of all funk chords from him

âmazing

17-Mar-09 03:45 AM

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Velocipede    Said...

Wow! He turns all these performers into stars. Some of the original videos look like they could be pretty cheesy on their own, but he handles them with great respect (at least in the this video).

17-Mar-09 04:00 AM

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Chuck Silva    Said...

Lasse Gjertsen?

NOT!

The true 'mash up' innovators are these guys: Joshua Pearson, Gardner Post and Brian Kane from Rhode Island School of Design.

Back in the early 90s these incredible innovators were cutting up video to create very cool & meaningful art.

Check these links for more info:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg6qSGXGvq8

http://www.joshualpearson.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network

I'm quite surprised that the good folks at Sonic State wouldn't be aware of these great men???!!!!!

17-Mar-09 06:27 AM

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Nick b    Said...

Chuck, I'm sure your right about these guys, I was talking within the context of Youtube really. Lasse was one of the first 'hits' on YT doing this kind of thing s'all

17-Mar-09 06:45 AM

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Brian N.    Said...

Must be an uphill battle editing YouTube quality audio.

17-Mar-09 12:27 PM

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S R Dhain    Said...

in a word...WICKED!!

:-D

18-Mar-09 07:13 AM

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flux302    Said...

I was listening to the podcast about this and thinking, "yeah ok so he sampled youtube videos, I do that all the time in my beats whats so damn special about that, yeah the track sounds really dope but whats sooo special?" THEN I SAW IT!!!! amazing I love it through and through. just great. i co-sign I would buy this.

22-Mar-09 07:23 PM

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