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This ticks all of the boxes for me — a seven-track album by Kutiman, created entirely from samples taken from YouTube . The site (built by Bacon Oppenheim, who are now ones to watch as far as I'm concerned) is the perfect visual and functional reaction to the album's concept. I recommend you taken the suggestion that came to me with the link, and make sure you check out track 3 right away. This is not music that needs the site's high concept to carry it — and this whole project is the kind of thing that makes me excited every day to be working on the web.

(update)

“ Unsolicited tip for media company c-levels: if your reaction to this crate of magic is "Hm. I wonder how we'd go about suing someone who 'did this' with our IP?" instead of, "Holy crap, clearly, this is the freaking future of entertainment," it's probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page. ”

Merlin Mann's preemptive commentary on the inevitable record-company litigation is as smart as ever...