There must have went an unbelievable amount of time (2 months as I read later) in producing this professional web album of YouTube based music mixes.

The album is named “ThruYou” and contains 7 mixes.

The creator has single handed created a new category entry in most pop encyclopedias.

You could start out listening to a mix (a good example is #05 someday) and then be amazed on how well the song sounds. Then click on “credits” and the credits will roll over the screen with the original YouTube movies (e.g. this one). When you click through to the originals you probably will make the “click in your head” how only a genius could recognize the gaps in the overall visible YouTube spectrum.

The author: Kutiman, a musician, composer, producer and animator from Israel. He is best known for creating the online music video project ThruYOU, as well as his self-titled album and collaboration with many other Israeli artists including Hadag Nahash.

Ophir Kutiel was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Zichron Yaacov. He studied piano since the age of six, and then drums and guitar at age 14. When Kutiel was 18, he moved to Tel Aviv to study Jazz at Rimon Music College.

While working at a local convenience store in Tel Aviv, Kutiel tuned into a college radio station that was playing music that was much different than the classical jazz he had been used to playing. Soon after, Sabbo, another Israeli artist and current music partner, introduced him to afrobeat and funk, including the sounds of James Brown and Fela Kuti. His obsession with Fela Kuti and the fact that his last name was similar led him to create the stage-name of Kutiman. He traveled to Jamaica to research reggae and afrobeat and work with Stephen and Damien Marley.

Kutiman was signed to Melting Pot Music, based in Cologne in 2006. Soon After, his first single, "No Groove Where I Come From" was released and soon after, he released a hit song with Karolina of Habanot Nechama, "Music is Ruling My World". His self-titled, debut album, which received an 8.2 in Pitchfork Magazine, was released in the fall of 2007. Under the Radar picked Kutiman as one of the "Artists to Watch in 2008" , along with Glasvegas and MGMT.

Kutiman has worked with many other Israeli artists and is currently working on arrangement and composition of Karolina’s solo album. He has also created animated videos for his song, "Chaser" and Hadag Nahash’s "Eze Kif".

In 2009 Kutiman released ThruYOU, an online music video project mixed from samples of YouTube videos.  After disclosing his work to just twenty friends, Kutiman’s project spread virally across the web, racking up more than one million views in less than a week. After viewing ThruYOU, open source advocate Lawrence Lessig praised the project as a pioneer of a new, less regulated form of media, saying "If you come to the Net armed with the idea that the old system of copyright is going to work just fine here, this more than anything is going to get you to recognize: you need some new ideas."

On here you can find an annotated version of the album.

More Reviews:

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/9002/kutiman.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2009/03/heavy-sifting-a-1.html
http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/remix_buy_the_remix.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/the-future-begins-thru-yo_b_174483.html
http://eartothesound.blogspot.com/2008/03/k-is-for-kutiman.html
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11159-kutiman/
http://mpmsite.com/index.php?area=news&view=detail&id=542

THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes YouTube
We used to mix with songs on cd’s this site produces mixes with flards from youtube video’s and it sounds amazingly cool (which is why it probably already has 1646 saves on delicious).

Sexy Music Album Overlays · Komodo Media
when you integrate last.fm with your weblog you should read this (or even show any music in your sidebar)

Normally I would post this in the VodPod widget on the homepage of this blog but this was just too funny not to blog.

goodwatermusic by petr spatina – glasharp – Glasharfe – vienna
Check out the video: I always wondered if this would be possible and here is someone who does it: making beautiuful music from filled glasses with different frequencies.

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Top 10 Incredible Recordings – The List Universe
pretty nice to stumbleupon a list like this, especially if you can listen to them

Lisette en Leon bij de singer songwriter contest from noon on Vimeo.

See it here (YouTube movie with yet another use of songsmith, Microsoft’s music tool)

Girls displaced by war stood at a makeshift camp near Goma, Congo, Wednesday. Rwandan Hutu rebels are eluding a joint Rwanda-Congo military effort by retreating into the bush. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters )

From the wsj photo journal, which I promised myself to visit everyday just now.

I also noticed how different the photo’s feel when playing different music while looking at them… urm.. well…. uh… try it yourself and see. What is the best song to play with this photo?

So uhm here: http://www.ziggyremixed.com/, drag it directly into your iTunes, don’t forget to mark the mp3’s as "collection” so they fall under the folder “collection”.

Today I receive the limited edition of “Once upon a Dream” of Angie Arsenault. (#0354)

I was one of the 531 people who supported/invested/believed in this album through Sellaband.

The album is definitely superb. You can listen to the songs here (except for the two bonus songs they are only on the limited edition).

If you are quickly you can still get one of the remaining 5000 limited edition digipacks.

A while ago I ended up at Musipedia, which lets you search for songs based on piano playing (and cords and drawing and singing…). When I “sat behind the piano” and started to play it brought up songs with basically whatever melody I (non musician) played starting from the middle-ages.

It entered my mind that it is not even remotely possible anymore to find any original song, whatever you play (here), even the craziest combinations, bring up existing songs!

I think that if you do find an original song it will be worth a lot money but I think they have already crossed the possibility out of existence by creating this tunes database.

I was listening to my songs in iTunes and noticed that the album that has my current highest total score is …

yes… Fahrenheit! No not IV, The Seventh One or Hydra but Fahrenheit, which is pretty weird because I never realized before that this was (apparently) my favorite cd album of all times… (!) I would have mentioned a lot of cd’s but probably never not this one lol.

Long live iTunes for bringing subconscious insight in my hidden desires Here is a beautiful love song:

This is the 1986 music video for "I’ll Be Over You" by Toto from the "Fahrenheit" album. This song features Steve Lukather on lead vocals, and watch for Michael McDonald on backup vocals.

And if you now click through to YouTube you can listen and watch for the rest of the evening Toto! For instance:

1. Till The End (HQ VIDEO)
2. We can make it tonight
3. Without your Love 
4. Can’t stand it any longer
5. I’ll be over you (music video with michael mcdonald)
6. Fahrenheit
7. Somewhere Tonight (/no woman no cry LIVE)
8. Could this be Love
9. Lea
10. Don’t stop me now 

Toto – Somewhere Tonight/No Woman No Cry live – Sung by their current backround vocalist Jenny Douglas McRae and the other guy is John James.

Could this be Love – Live Solid Gold 1986

ook leuk or in other words: tres cool.

I really get those memories of the past when listening to this song. Great song.

Nice video about the Watermelon man

Watch Music Videos Free at VidZone
VERY addictive movie vids site, added it to http://music.populair.eu

I like this song! Anjulie | Love Songs http://www.myspace.com/anjulie

The new Mozart: Blind girl, 5, can play any song on piano ‘after just one listen’

Via  Soul Sides

but this mix is better or this one or this one or this one or this one or …

I received an invite for Loudcrowd (beta) which lets you listen to new songs and dance to them in a guitarhero style. You must hit the arrows to make a move and as you progress in our dancing style you earn extra moves and new cool stuff to wear. It’s also a social network kind of thing since it lets you dance and romance with others.

The current version though is a little bit “shocky” on some occasions I didnt even see the dot and the game was already over. On other occasions I had to press the arrow keys a little bit before the actual arrow to “hit it”.

Then again, it’s an early beta, so that will undoubtly improve. It was neat enough for me to return.

At Loudcrowd you listen to music with others, and play games to hang with friends or to meet new people. Everything here is about who’s online right now, what they’re doing, and what you can do with them. Instant gratification.

If you’re reading this, you’ve found yourself a backstage pass or hacked in to see what we’re up to. Things are still very rough – we’re testing out new ideas about how people can interact online and still figuring things out – so expect things to crash a bit and explode.