Girl Talk is a dude who has a serious gift for building mash-ups. This is a genre (if there is such a thing as a mash-up genre) that I have been a fan of for a while. For those who have been reading my rants for a while, have no doubt seen me dribble about base58 and Mannion, before. Girl talk goes about things in a slightly different manner that the run of the mill mash-up artist. Instead of just chopping and screwing tracks, then laying them over the top of each other, Girl Talk throws together a load of samples in a way that is much more coherent.
There was actually an article in GQ about the dude behind Girl Talk, this month. His name is Gregg Gillis. He is from PA and used to be too cool for pop music. Now he steals hot pop tracks, left and right, for his mash-ups. Speaking of stealing other people’s work. The photo of Girl Talk show, at the top of this post was shot by my homey S. Smoot. He posted it on his photo blog last November.
Given the breadth of variety included in GTs music, it is pretty much impossible to find a song that is 100% clean. This one is pretty close, though. It is called “Set it off.” Check it out.