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" This is what happens when DJ Ophir Kutiel (known as Kutiman) gets down to business: A bassist heavily plucks an upright. A man taps bongos. A drummer hacks away a linear rhythm. A classical ensemble, with an oboe, flute, French horn, and two piccolos, tosses out quick flourishes. Another group echoes them, this time with three violins and a cello. A girl jumps in on piano. A man shakes a cabasa. Some synthesizer. Some singing. Out on a street, a rapper spits game. In a store \u2014 cha-ching! \u2014 an elderly woman opens a cash register. Out of the chaos, song builds. And then... more layers:      The video above, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m New,&amp;quot; is just one of seven songs recently released by Kutiman as ThruYOU, a sort of Internet-based album (and a site so immediately popular it has repeatedly crashed since going live a month ago; until it&amp;#039;s back up permanently, search YouTube for &amp;quot;thru-you&amp;quot;). The song itself and the &amp;quot;album&amp;quot; as a whole represent an unprecedented online art form, through which video clips, uploaded to YouTube, are transformed into an altered musical life. Of course, since the birth of hip-hop and rap, there has been this sort of ambitious remixing. Along these lines, DJ Shadow&amp;#039;s mindboggling Endtroducing..... was probably the first to break through to something resembling the mainstream. More recently, five years ago, there was Danger Mouse&amp;#039;s controversial Grey Album in which he combined clips of The Beatles&amp;#039; White Album with Jay-Z&amp;#039;s Black Album. But ThruYOU is different. Here, the musicians mixed by Kutiman haven&amp;#039;t sold millions of records. They&amp;#039;re not Jay-Z. Definitely not The Beatles. They&amp;#039;re just online bystanders whose clips are available on YouTube. But when mashed up, they make music \u2014 music that sure beats the sponsor-ific YouTube Symphony Orchestra stunt. Who needs Carnegie Hall when you&amp;#039;ve got funk? RELATED LINKS: EARLIER: Five Videos from the Man Singing YouTube&amp;#039;s New Soundtrack SXSW: 10 New Breakout Bands for Your Boring iPod PLUS: The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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