Girl Talk - Feed the Animals

[grimm]

I just came across this guy. Girl Talk, and his new Album "Feed the Animals"



This is a blurb from amazon about him. It's a good summary of the guy.

Girl Talk is the pseudonym of DJ and remixer Greg Gillis. A Pittsburgh native who works as a biomedical research engineer during the day, Gillis channels his other creative energies into Girl Talk, whose sample-based dance tracks have made him the John Oswald or Christian Marclay of the mash-up generation: each of his songs are built on recognizable samples of recent hit singles, recontextualized into an entirely new piece. Not just a geeky studio boffin, Gillis is also a manic, intense live performer known for his high-speed exhortations into the mic and tendency to strip to his underwear on-stage while dancing circles around his laptop and DJ setup. At first a teenage punk performer inspired by Japanese noise acts like Merzbow and the Boredoms, Gillis made the surprisingly slight conceptual shift into copyright-flouting sample work around the turn of the millennium. Hooking up with the proudly anti-copyright collective Illegal Art, a shadowy label vaguely connected to the pioneering samplers Negativland, Gillis made his CD debut with 2002's Secret Diary, an artsy and largely conceptual release that turned the recognizable snippets into brief blasts of glitchy noise. 2004's Unstoppable was far more direct, using fewer and longer samples to create more recognizable mash-ups in the manner of early KLF singles, making Girl Talk suddenly by far the most pop-oriented and accessible project on the Illegal Art roster. After a pair of vinyl EPs, 2004's Stop Cleveland Hate and 2006's Bone Hard Zaggin', Gillis' third album as Girl Talk, 2006's Night Ripper, split the difference between his two previous full-length efforts, with the playfully recognizable samples of the second and the more complex structures of the first. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

The new album Feed the Animals is an awesome album. It's a continuous loop of some of the hottest mixes and breaks of many recognizable/popular songs. At times I can't help but smile about how fresh the mix is. it's genius!!!

anyway, if you like hip-hop, turntablism, dj, breaks, then you will love this!!!

[Snoozie]

I've heard of them, but haven't had the chance to listen to them yet. But, now that I'm reminded, I'm going to go check them out.

[grimm]

yea if you are into hip-hop and like dj/turntablism, then you should love this album. I haven't been able to get enough of it. Got it on here at work, had it going while watching football yesterday, basically ever since i downloaded it i've been listening too it. SOO GOOD!!!

[Scapegoat]

I downloaded this and another album.

its not bad stuff. I might play it tonight while i work

[bmatyeah]

I like it. wikipedia has a list of all the samples used. I really like his use of the metallica sample and the one eminem other then that this cd only lasted in my player for liek a week it got boring and repetitive.

[evogsrviii]

never heard of him. ill give him a listen.

[grimm]

Originally Posted by bmatyeah

I like it. wikipedia has a list of all the samples used. I really like his use of the metallica sample and the one eminem other then that this cd only lasted in my player for liek a week it got boring and repetitive.

I'll have to take a look at the list of samples, that would be very interesting for me. I just think the composition of all the tracks/samples is pretty complex but done in a very clean way.

[Scapegoat]

i do wonder what kind of legal issues are involved with him sampling other artists work and then combining it and selling it

[grimm]

i believe that there is a legal length of a sample you can use before you need rights. I think thats the thin line he treads on. i always thought it was 7 seconds... but i could be wrong.

[bmatyeah]

There is a sick article in the latest spin mag about how mostly rap artist's are getting away from using samples. Usually samples are a unnecessary amount of money.