Mash-up/Smash-up/Bootleg/Cut-up master, Pittsburgh-native Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk, is back at it again; this time with a freshly chopped batch of mixes in the newly-released-a-month-ago, Feed the Animals.
Designed to be listened to as one seamless track, the album plays through as if it took a thousand cd’s and vinyl albums, blended them up and spit them out. In the third track, Still Here, he squeezes in samples from Kanye West (“Good Life“), Youngbloodz (“Damn!”), BLACKstreet (“No Diggity”), Michael Jackson, some more Kanye, and then finishing it off with some Radiohead (“15 Step”) for good measure – and that’s just the first 1:25 of the almost 4 minute track.
The fourth of his LPs released on Illegal Art [sixth release, including 2 EPs on other labels], Feed the Animals contains over 300 samples of pop/rock/rap/jazz/indie/etc in over 50 minutes – a definite step from his freshman release, Secret Diary.
Feed the Animals is being sold online similarly to how Radiohead released their In Rainbows – pay whatever you like. For $5, you get an option of FLAC files, plus a seamless mix of the album; and for $10, you also get a packaged CD (when it’s released around September 23)
“Anyone can download an album for free… I just wanted to acknowledge reality. I think it makes it easier for people to get their hands on the music, which is my number one priority.” -Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk, on the reasoning behind the pay-what-you like system
Gillis has become known for his ingenious blends of every genre, but his most famous – the one everyone goes apeshit for? The infamous Biggie-Elton John “Juicy/Tiny Dancer” mash (Night Ripper – Track 5 – Smash Your Head). Amazing.
Feed the Animals looks to solidify Gillis’ title of mash-up master, especially when coupled with his previous album, Night Ripper; one of Rolling Stone’s best albums of 2006. With a rhythmic cadence and almost mathematical precision, this release is a definite leave-on-during-a-badass-pool-party-and-rock-out-all-day album.
Click here to pick up FEED THE ANIMALS
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