The Ultimate Music Mashup

It’s no secret that I love mashups. They showcase a creativity and vision that requires you to look beyond the initial function of a piece and see it’s potential.

I was over at a friend’s house on Friday and got introduced to a mashup artist named Kutiman and his project “Thru-You”. The Thru-You project is simple: he mashes up random music clips from YouTube to make songs. But unlike the current mashup artists out there who draw their material from pre-existing pop songs, he takes his source sounds from school concerts, piano lessons, weirdly intimate soliloquies and how-to music lessons uploaded by people across the world.

Viewed separately, his source clips are crap. That’s the beauty of this process. He has taken chicken shit and made chicken salad. Check out a couple of his videos below:

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- Christian