Remixing is an often unappreciated art form, but there are some groups out there who take the art of remix to such level, there is no denying that it is exactly that… art.
I’ve always been a fan of the Emergency Broadcast Network, a multimedia group from the early 90s who use clips of news, music video, and movies to create seizure-inducing, but amazing videos. EBN’s videos can be found today on YouTube, but during the 90s they were circulated tape-to-tape by art students and fans of odd entertainment along with MST3K episodes and Heavy Metal Parking Lot (Hell yeah!).
More recently, Israeli funk mucisian Kutiman launched Thru-You.com, a new album which was painstakingly created entirely from YouTube videos and mixed into 7 track songs. The website allows you to listen to each track in an easy interface that mimics the best of YouTube and MuxTape. The result is nothing short of incredible. It’s art, it’s entertainment, and it’s evidence of something pretty amazing…
We are living and have been living in the Remix Culture for quite some time. We have taken entertainment out of the hands of studio executives. We have taken broadcast channels away from the hands of networks. The social web itself represents a platform based on letting go of control, sharing ideas and code, building on what others have built, and freeing your data. The perfect environment for the art of remix to thrive in full entertaining glory.
Marta Strickland