C'est Marie!É sempre divertido
Girl Talk - Minute by Minute
Continuing the mashup theme from yesterday’s post on the Kleptones, here’s Girl Talk. Probably better known than The Kleptones (outside the UK, at least, where they come from), and very well known for his live shows, which frequently end up with half the audience in attendance on stage dancing along in various stages of undress. I haven’t had the pleasure myself, but I hear it’s a hell of a live show.
Anyway, Girl Talk is the stage name of Greg Gillis, who hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He makes his music almost completely by mixing samples from other artists’ songs, running the complete gamut of genres — from Black Eyed Peas and 50 Cent, up to Jefferson Airplane, The Pixies, and Britney Spears. In the liner notes for the album this track comes from, Night Ripper, he thanks over 100 artists (most of which haven’t actually give him permission to use their music).
It’s pretty hard to pick out one track from the album, since they all blend in to each other, but this one stands out pretty well on its own. You can try and spot all the samples used — which range from LL Cool J to Neutral Milk Hotel, and Juelz Santana to Steely Dan — but with at least 14 of them, I bid you good luck. (When you give up, here’s a list of them.)
