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Girl Talk / Feed The Animals / Illegal Art

From "Yo Diggity" and "Whoomp There It Is" to "Jessie's Girl", MIA, and "Born Slippy" (god, I love Underworld, even now it brings me the raw euphoria of the first listens out in clubs. Have you heard The Bells, The Bells yet? OMG), Gregg Gillis cuts up favorites and obscure tracks in majestical ways. It's reductive to call Girl Talk "mashup," but that's probably the best term to identify him until you listen and feel the energy.

J took me to see him play a live show with Dan Deacon at The Fillmore with the kids these days. it was fucking awesome. I mean. Really. people on stage dripping sweat, all but crashing into his tables, just utter insanity. I can't remember dancing that hard and having that much fun. The free Fillmore poster is still on my wall :)

Some of his older albums on Illegal Art were super in-the-know where you would be train-spotting every single cut of every track, just hoping that you'd successfully ID one in ten. This one is much more approachable, I guess? It's filled with hits. So hell yeah, Girl Talk Plays the hits!

Clearly, the best track.

July 1, 2008 · permalink · by oof