Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Mashup DJ Girl Talk Deconstructs One Of His Songs

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* Correction: "C.R.E.A.M." is sampled from 2:29-3:12 and "Go!" from 2:19-3:24, not the other way around.

Pittsburgh-based computer maestro Girl Talk (known to the IRS as Gregg Gillis) has turned the cut-and-paste process into a jams-packed jigsaw puzzle. His latest album, Feed the Animals (released digitally in June with hard copies out September 23), brims with 300 song snippets in just over 50 minutes (compared to around 250 in his previous effort). "People want to see the bar raised," Gillis says. Below, a beat-by-beat breakdown of a single track.

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