"It's pretty cool! Anything that can help expose the band to a new, younger audience is obviously great. Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, Feeds the Animals Its an assisted listen to the new album from mash-up artist Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk. "They're just really excited about it," says Thomsen. Speaking about the release, he explained: 'I had the idea to.
Unlike Girl Talk's previous releases, Broken Ankles focuses more on traditional beats rather than the straight mash-ups of his previous work.
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The five albums he has released (available free online) are all made completely from samples of other songs spanning a wide variety of. He quit his job as a biomedical engineer in 2008 to become pretty much the ultimate mash-up artist. It was released digitally on April 8, 2014. Newspaper Taxis (Girl Talk Style Mashup - Various Artists) January 2017 Newspaper Taxis DJ Growltiger January 2017 4:54 A girltalk-style pop/hiphop mashup. Gregg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, is an artist bound for some controversy. Nor, for that matter, do they plan on arguing about its legality, says Tami Thomsen, the band's rep at Kirtland. Broken Ankles is an extended play by American rapper Freeway and American mashup musician Girl Talk, both of whom hail from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lest there was any doubt, no, no one in the band or at the label had any heads up about the song's Run-time, and, yesterday, he excitedly passed the album along to his bandmatesĪnd management at Kirtland Records over email. Seems guitarist Clark Vogeler was the first to discover the band's part in theĭisc, which features a whopping 373 samples over its 71-minute Later, the fifth track, "This Is The Remix," finds Atlanta rapper B.o.B.'s vocals bolstering the Toadies' "Possum Kingdom." Meanwhile, the seventh track, "Get It Get It" features the intro laser sounds of Steve Miller Band's "Jungle Love," and the tenth track, "Steady Shock" features vocals from local rappers Party Boyz's "Flex," as well as, we think, a sample of Dorrough saying the word "remix."Īnyway, word out of Toadies camp this morning is that the band's pretty stoked to be included.
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Opening track "Oh No" alone boasts two such cuts - the panda-adored, area-indebted "Teach Me How To Dougie" from Cali Swag District comes over a beat that samples Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says," and not longer thereafter, Dallas' Own Dorrough and his familiar "Ice Cream Paint Job" vocals make a cameo. Gillis jokingly apologized for as much today, but he won't likely need to apologize to those whose songs he included on the mashup album - three four five of which have area ties. Yesterday, Gillis released a new mashup album called All Day as a free-to-anyone-who-wants-it download, and, as his fans flooded to the site hosting the album in attempts to get it, he pretty much crashed the Internet in the process. Girl Talk makes big orgies of 30/40 second clips of rap/hip hop lyrics over rock/pop music. The legality concerns and artistic merit of Greg Gillis' mashup work as Girl Talk leaves plenty to be debated, but this much is certain: His work sure is popular.