Kutiman's remix/mashup/sampleathon opus thru-you.com is all the more astonishing when you dig into his source material. Kutiman does not lean on familiar riffs. He builds his hooks from the long tail of YouTube musical miscellanea. While there are obvious talents like Dadasara and ElexisTrinity, the singers on Someday and I M New (might Kutiman do for ElexisTrinity what Eminem did for Dido?), the vast majority of his source is the common and mediocre.
Watch tadois, the drummer sampled on Babylon Band. Kutiman transforms his amateur slosh into a breakbeat that Goldie could have written. The tweaked baseline on I M New has The Juice, where the original was little but a sketch. Dozens of experimenters and dilettantes have chanced into playing parts in an artistic and technical masterpiece, but the credit is mostly with Kutiman.
This is a major talent.
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