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As far as DJ mixes go Girl Talk is one of the best out there.I have Feed The Animals and I LOVE THAT CD. I was excited to listen to Night Ripper, but I gotta say everything doesn't come together in all these mixes as smoothly as Feed The Animals.Save Yourself the 10 bucks and get Girl Talk's next cd instead.
Step 1 read title.Step 2 refer to step one.Step 3 "you do not talk about fight club"
These albums are a more unique and fresh take on remixing hits. Forget Ministry of Sound's junky Annual albums, forget Ultra Mix, get Girl Talk's albums. This album can be played at parties or just hanging out, and it lacks the bass-heavy headache that tooo many electronic songs contain, Buy it.
Other than that I give it a two thumbs up.and since I only have two thumbs, that is as high as it gets. It does have some language and some lewd lyrics so maybe not the best thing to give our fresh young minds-but for adults who are not easily offended it is the shizzle. This is a must have if you like re-mixed music.this was truly a find. From start to finish it is fun, fun, fun. The language is only in a couple of places, so that could easily be edited.
Click on his Myspace page and the first thing you see is a link to purchase his newest album that says "Pay What You Want For The New Girl Talk Album".For me, the combination of his composition skills and fair use beliefs make for a listening experience that's about more than just the samples. He has been both criticized and praised for his work, receiving good reviews from both Time Magazine and Rolling Stone. and layered on top of each other. I like mash-ups and always have, but I find most of them two dimensional and repetitive. Somehow, the samples work together cohesively, regardless of the age or genre of the song sampled and they are utilized/arranged in a way that they create something new, rather than just sounding like two, three, four songs that are similar in BPM, style, etc. My interest in Girl Talk increased when I learned more about Gillis.
An advocate of the fair use doctrine, his brazen attitude against strict copyright laws make him both intriguing and controversial. One listen-through of this album and I was blown away. The range of samples come from songs that are both old and new, nostalgic and currently popular, mashed together to create something familiar and completely new at the same time. All of this makes for a fun and exciting listening experience. This album is more than just a jumble of music samples. I stumbled upon this album purely by accident.
There are a dozen or more samples in each song and they have been skillfully put together. It's a fine line that's being treaded here, with Girl Talk scoring high because of the artful use of the samples.Girl Talk is actually Gregg Gillis, who started making mash-ups when he was studying biomedical engineering at Case Western.
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