{"id":846,"date":"2008-02-20T23:10:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2008-02-21T02:16:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T01:16:46","slug":"girl-talk-night-ripper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"girl talk – night ripper"},"content":{"rendered":"

dig around the ireallylovemusic <\/EM>archives, and you’ll probably piece together a very simple jigsaw that proves i love sample heavy music.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
so you’d think i’d be all over the latest cut-n-paste star on the blog, girl talk, <\/STRONG>aka gregg gillis <\/EM>and his new album, night ripper.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
the fact that gregg has painstakingly spliced together 100’s of brief but easily recognisable (with a list being provided on the inner sleeve should you be so inclined) pop-n-rock-n-rap untreated samples to build up a continuous 41 minute mix, should have meant that the album would easily qualify for my love and devotion, sadly however, something about the unsubtle results just doesn’t click.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
perhaps it’s the complete lack of flow that permeates the adhd infused mix (the brevity of the sample loops making litigation improbable but for a very disjointed listen) , or the lack of originality in the sample choices, but you can be sure, after a couple of spot the sample <\/EM>spins, this high profile media baiting release isn’t going to be getting too many rotations @ ireallylovemusic<\/EM> hq. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
i have to say this lack of harmony is a real shame as i would love for someone to put cut-n-paste back on the map in the same way that steinski<\/STRONG> did back in the 80s, or dj shadow<\/STRONG> did in the 90s, but there is no way to avoid the simple truth that the whole strap a rap chant onto a pop sample loop backing <\/EM>idea has been beaten to a bloody pulp in recent times, making this album sound so corny and obvious in 2008, it’s hard to see just who is going to actually prefer this over the far more accomplished albums\/mixtapes that have been available for ages since the likes of freelance hellraiser<\/STRONG> kicked off the chaos back in 2001.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
that is until you drop a search on youtube for girl talk<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
gregg is obviously not about the creation of a classic genre defining album, but the party.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
he’s a showman with a laptop, and the diplo<\/STRONG>\/2 many dj<\/STRONG>s\/go home productions<\/STRONG> starved crowds seemingly love him.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
which is all well and good, something that can’t be said for this pretty below average mash up album.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
i could be proven wrong and find myself during the summer months revisiting this, realising that the fragmented sonic collage be a perfect soundtrack to my commuter related hell, but having endured the album thrice now i very much doubt it.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
yes if you have no access to the online glut of these type of mash ups then by all means pick up this album as you may be fascinated to hear so many well known sources be put through the cracked software blender, but i suspect that the real funk is to catch gregg playing this stuff live where gregg is not restricted to sample\/copyright laws and can actually let loose with his bits-n-pieces recipe.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
more detail<\/EM> : here<\/A> – – illegal art<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dig around the ireallylovemusic archives, and you’ll probably piece together a very simple jigsaw that proves i love sample heavy music. so you’d think i’d be all over the latest cut-n-paste star on the blog, girl talk, aka gregg gillis and his new album, night ripper. the fact that gregg has painstakingly spliced together 100’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}