Girl Talk - Feed The Animals

*  "Girl Talk is one hip cat... like 2manyDJs speeding their nuts off or the result of eating every íNOW...í compilation ever and vomiting it onto wax, itís a veritable force of all thatís good." - NME.

*  Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. Feed the Animals, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live show.

*  Following the groundbreaking album Night Ripper, Gregg has moved closer towards danceable mixes of varying genres and dozens of audio sources in a stream of juxtaposed hooks centred on pop musicality rather than attention-deficit sample splicing.

*  A year after the critically acclaimed Night Ripper release (nominated by Rolling Stone, SPIN, Blender, Pitchfork, and Beck in their best of 2006 lists), Gregg quit his job as a biomedical engineer and now focuses on music full time.

*  Feed the Animals, collects the material that was developed over the last two years as part of his ever-changing live show, capturing perfectly the suitably excessive, exhilarating Girl Talk party feel (the stage always mobbed with a sweaty mass of crowd-turned-dancers surrounding Gregg as he triggers samples and multi-sampled mixes from his laptop).

*  With hours of material in hand, it still took months to meticulously edit together such a seamless album combining 300+ samples in 50 minutes. "This new album is expanded, with a larger range of tempos and samples than before," says Gregg. But such fastidious care is what it takes, and the thing that separates Girl Talk from the dime-a-dozen remixes littered about the Internet daily.

*  Rather than taking mashups to an extreme, Girl Talk is focused on the art of sampling and the transformation of what he calls "new pop from old pop" that has its own character, and surpasses all the original elements. Heís not a DJ, but a high-quality sample-based composer like Dickie Goodman, Negativland, John Oswald, Steinski, and The Bomb Squad era Public Enemy.

*  Emerging from his underground Pittsburgh roots, he ís now being lauded as the future of electronic music by techno pioneer Richie Hawtin, while celebrities such as Paris Hilton are vying to dance onstage during a Girl Talk show.

*  Tracklist: 1. play your part (pt1) 2. shut the club down 3. still here 4. whats it all about 5. set it off 6. no pause 7. like this 8. give me a beat 9. hands in the air 10. in step 11. let me see you 12. heres the thing 13. dont stop 14. play your part (part2)

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