The album features samples from an array of artists from Neil Diamond ("Cherry, Cherry") and Depeche Mode ("Just Can't Get Enough") to Lady Gaga ("Bad Romance") and Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack sensation M.I.A. Using a dozen or more samples to create a song, Gillis says that at times "ten samples will go by in ten seconds" on the new album. With 373 samples, and at 71 minutes, All Day is longer and more musically complicated than previous albums. Like Feed the Animals, All Day has been released as a free download, and will remain so indefinitely. Feed the Animals reached number four on Time's Top 10 Albums of 2008, number 16 on an NPR listeners list, and nabbed top spots on 'best-of' lists by Rolling Stone and Blender.
Despite record industry doubts, though, fans love the mashups. Surely it was no coincidence that Girl Talk calls his record label "Illegal Art". This and the unauthorized sampling of copyrighted songs had The New York Times Magazine calling his music "a lawsuit waiting to happen." If they paid $10 or more they got a physical CD. Fans could download the entire album for free, or they could pay what they felt like. His last album, 'Feed the Animals', made headlines for its unique pay-what-you-want pricing structure.
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After finishing his studies at Case Western Reserve University, Gillis worked as an engineer until quitting his day job to pursue his musical profession full time. The Pittsburgh native started Girl Talk in 2006 using his laptop to splice and dice just a few seconds each of iconic and highly danceable songs to create brand new songs that people would recognize. The artist has said that copyright law stifles creativity and insists fair use laws protect his sampling practices.ĭJ Gregg Gillis is the talent behind the musical mashup "group", Girl Talk. As on previous albums, All Day uses unauthorized samples from an array of artists and genres, causing murmurs in the media industry about the legality of his work.
The frenetic solo musical artist "Girl Talk" released his fifth album, ' All Day', Monday.
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