Hip-hop

Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk creates musical chimeras – mating songs you probably thought were played out with other songs you thought were played out, to make some fresh, very danceable hip-hop music on his album appropriately titled Night Ripper.

What to call Girl Talk’s music becomes something of a technical debate in and of itself. This is not your father’s mashup. This isn’t DJ Z-Trip, this isn’t Hollertronix – this is a whole new beast, tailored for the ADD generation. Whereas a layman can make mashup music – combining two songs with the same BPM – Girl Talk’s Night Ripper took over a year to make and contains about 6,250 variations on samples from 167 different artists.