Drama’s 1999 Dirty South hit “Left, Right, Left” doing a call-and-response with Roy Orbison’s “You Got It” the guitar riff of Stars’ “Hum” skronking beneath M.I.A.’s “Galang” the list of examples goes on and on.Īfter All Day, Gillis stepped back from mashups, but not from music. Over three albums - 2006’s Night Ripper, 2008’s Feed the Animals, and 2010’s All Day - and during his famously rowdy live shows, Gillis detonated pop’s spacetime continuum in astoundingly clever ways. ![]() “Can anyone afford to put it out? I’m not used to dealing with actual labels with a sample clearance team, so it was educational going through that process.”īetween 20, Gillis carved out one of the most unique careers in music with Girl Talk, a project that embodied the promise of the internet’s infinite jukebox. “When we were done, I was thinking, I don’t even know if this can come out!” Girl Talk - real name Gregg Gillis - tells Rolling Stone. No, the challenge Full Court Press presented was a hurdle that none of those years of mashups prepared him for: clearing samples. out April 8 via Asylum/Taylor Gang - is a marked departure from the producer/DJ’s wildly popular mashup albums. Not just from a creative standpoint, though Full Court Press - a collaborative album with Wiz Khalifa, Smoke DZA, and Big K.R.I.T. ![]() To finish his first album in 12 years, Girl Talk had to do something he’d never done before.
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