Girl Talk - Night Ripper
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Artist: Girl TalkEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Music Label: Illegal Art
Soundtracks:
- Once Again
- That's My DJ
- Hold Up
- Too Deep
- Smash Your Head
- Minute By Minute
- Ask About Me
- Summer Smoke
- Friday Night
- Hand Clap
- Give And Go
- Bounce That
- Warm It Up
- Double Pump
- Overtime
- Peak Out
Music reviews of Night Ripper
Music Review: More Than Just Samples
Rating: 4 Stars
I stumbled upon this album purely by accident. I like mash-ups and always have, but I find most of them two dimensional and repetitive. One listen-through of this album and I was blown away. This album is more than just a jumble of music samples. There are a dozen or more samples in each song and they have been skillfully put together. 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. 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. and layered on top of each other. All of this makes for a fun and exciting listening experience. 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. 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. He has been both criticized and praised for his work, receiving good reviews from both Time Magazine and Rolling Stone. 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.
Description of Night Ripper
"A fusion of Tigerbeat6's pop destruction and 2ManyDJs' mainstream mash-ups." -URB"Girl Talk...accelerates beats, distorts textures, pitches up flow, and sets up strange juxtapositions to render absurd the sexed-up aura of hip-hop and dance pop." - CLEVELAND SCENE
"In a time when kids can barely sit through an entire album by just one artist, this A.D.D. mix will keep them sedated and/or spastic." - XLR8R
Girl Talk (a.k.a. Gregg Gillis) is back with his third album on Illegal Art! With each release getting closer to his notorious semi-naked live show, Night Ripper is focused less on beat-fuckery and more on bringing heat to the party. It bangs as a continuous mix packed with wildly disparate Top 40 genres and eras. Current hip-hop hits, soft rock radio standards, party classics, grunge masterpieces, R&B singles, glossy club-shakers and rock anthems are all layered and pieced together into one nonstop celebration of pop and excess declared "a plunderphonics party record" by Mark Hosler of Negativland.
Girl Talk tours regularly and actively participates and collaborates with other "on the verge" Midwest and East Coast artists such as Grand Buffet (Fighting), Drop the Lime (Tigerbeat6), Chris Glover (Interscope) and Hearts of Darknesses (Schematic/Asphodel).
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