Girl Talk
(Illegal Art)
First things first: Greg Gillis – the boy wonder sampler/MC that is Girl Talk – is pulling a RadioReznor.
Take it for free at the Illegal Art site, listed above -- pay any price for a download of the entire album as high quality mp3s. Cough up $5 and get the album as one long track (how Gillis intended for people to listen to it), or $10 or for all of the above and a packaged CD when available in September.
Pay for this.
The talent behind Girl Talk (and any great sampling/sequence outfit and merry mash-ups) is his taste when it comes to the treatments – like the window dressing your girlfriend puts in your office that makes you smile or scowl. You’ll want hear Gills zip through the culture in Ratatat-meets-Paul's Boutique fashion like a pitch-shifting snippet-stealing bar mitzvah DJ swallowing globs of amber crystal meth – the chunky stuff. That don’t mean Gillis/Girl don’t like his slow grooves: Lil Wayne meet a Red Hot Chili Peppers ballad, Fergie’s Shelia-E steal “Glamorous say hello to my lil-fren’ Ludacris.” It’s just that the rapier slaps and the rapid-fire pushed-to-the-max rips of Metallica, Yung Joc, Levon Helm, Jay Z and his pay-it-forward pals in Radiohead give you a reason to cheer; to recognize, to scream and kick out the jam because it’s a jam.
And there’s nothing better than not hedging that bet when it comes to doing it sampladelciately.
Standout Tracks: “Set It Off” and “Give Me A Beat” A.D. AMOROSI
