Mashup might be a common occurrence at a club or bar in New York on a Friday or Saturday night, but what happens when an album is comprised solely of this genre of music? Remember the Atonement videos I posted here a couple of weeks ago? What if mashup is the musical equivalent of found objects and YouTube art like this?
Okay, so the reason why I'm on this subject is because I just acquired the new Girl Talk album Feed the Animals. It's a mashup experiment headed by a Pittsburgh native, Gregg Gillis. A broad scope of the album would be that it's a NOW compilation with ADHD. Pitchfork says, "The album plays like a rooftop 4th of July party". Each track has between 10 and 25 songs sampled on it. One of my favorite mashups is Ludacris's rap from "Glamorous" over "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire.
Here's "Still Here" off the album. Thanks to YouTube for also having a video mashup with the song =] The mashup contains the the videos of all the songs featured in the piece.
I mean, Gillis has got some balls putting "Damn!" over "Whiter Shade of Pale". Also love that "All That She Wants" is "My Drink 'N' My 2 Step". Genius. Head over to the Girl Talk MySpace page because they're pulling a Radiohead: You can download Feed the Animals at whatever price you want to pay. Want to buy it for free? Just answer why you're choosing to purchase it for free, and it's yours.
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