Good Music: Girl Talk

I was really happy when a friend of mine, T. la Rock, introduced me to Girl Talk, because now I have a great addition to my already assorted playlist.
Girl Talk is an alias for Gregg Michael Gillis , an American musician specializing in mashups and digital sampling. He produces mashup-style remixes, in which he often uses a dozen or more unauthorized samples from different songs to create something new.
I thought that the name Girl Talk for a guy was very odd but this is what Gregg had to say about the name;
The name Girl Talk is a reference to many things, products, magazines, books. It’s a pop culture phrase. The whole point of choosing the name early on was basically to just stir things up a little within the small scene I was operating from. I came from a more experimental background and there were some very overly serious, borderline academic type electronic musicians. I wanted to pick a name that they would be embarrassed to play with. You know Girl Talk sounded exactly the opposite of a man playing a laptop, so that’s what I chose.
Like most DJs, Gillis has a great set of ears and a hell of a laptop to create the magic I’ve become a fan of.
One of my favourite albums from him is Feed The Animals. It was number four on Time’s Top 10 Albums of 2008.
Feed The Animals Music Video (1 of the 14 videos) by Girl Talk
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Girl talk is definitely one of the best Mash up DJs I have ever come across…his records gets a lot of replay on my iPod Touch.
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