Any man who can combine Elton John’s, Tiny Dancer, with Notorious B.I.G. inside the same song without getting shot is pretty incredible in my book. Greg Gillis makes unholy unions all over the place under the name Girl Talk. After a trip to Olathe to visit my sister and her friends, I have fallen back in love with Girl Talk. Basically, Gillis is a DJ who takes tons of samples from songs of all genres and combines them into songs. Listening through, you will find yourself saying stuff like, “whoa, that is the guitar solo from Say it Ain’t So by Weezer!” or “hey, that part is from (insert song here)”. It really is pretty awesome. He also makes some great dance music with all his cool Frankenstein-esque mixing and matching. That is my best way of describing Girl Talk.
Girl Talk builds a new Frankenstein monster with each of his songs. It is really cool to watch the songs change and hear how he takes completely different kinds of music and makes it into something totally new and cool. His beats in each song pull the songs together into a real song. It should sound random and crazy, but there is a certain perfecting to his created chaos.
Sidenote: The guy is a freaking scientist. Like his actual job is in a lab where he works with a bunch of old people. None of them know that he is an incredible DJ
His newest CD has been released on his record label, Illegal Art, website and is available with the Radiohead style pay-what-you-want pricing structure (link posted at bottom). Speaking of Radiohead, both 15 Step and Paranoid Android are used on his newest CD. Reason enough for you to head over there, select 0 for how much you want to pay and download it. I like his new CD Feed The Animals a lot more than Night Ripper. But that is just me.
If you see me blasting this in a car, look away please. I will be dancing very embarrassingly and I don’t want you to see me.
Cory, Le Blog
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