That comes across in opener “Oh No,” which begins with Eminem, Ludacris and Jay-Z over more than two solid minutes of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.” That seems like a long time for Gillis to hang onto one sample. No song on Feed The Animals broke the five-minute mark, but only three of the 12 songs on All Day clock in under five minutes. That warning not to jump around especially applies to All Day, which seems to take its time a little more than previous Girl Talk releases. That’s actually sound advice because, although you might not like the beginning of “Jump On Stage” (featuring Big Boi rapping over Portishead’s “Sour Times”) and decide to skip to the next track, you would have missed Ol’ Dirty Bastard rapping over Radiohead’s “Creep.” And for what? Just to arrive at a random location in the mix with a broken sense of context. Gillis uses on average at least 12 samples in a given track, although Illegal Art says the album was “intended to be listened to whole” but segmented into separate tracks to make navigating it easier. ![]() We won’t even try to identify all of the samples in a given “song” (although it took less than a day for Girl Talk fans to post nearly each one on Wikipedia). To a casual observer, there’s almost nothing separating his latest, All Day, with any of his other work: It’s still samples stacked upon samples of relatively well-known material that hits you in just the right spot in your mind between the nostalgia and irony synapses. That album again demonstrated Gillis’ next level ability to combine Radiohead with Blackstreet and Kelly Clarkson with Nine Inch Nails. ![]() Last we heard from DJ Gregg Gillis was 2008’s Feed The Animals-his fourth full-length since gradually becoming among the world’s preeminent mashup DJs. While it probably takes a mashup lifer (or at least someone with more than a passing knowledge of AdobeMulch and/or Adobe Audition) to fully understand all of the subtle nuances of All Day, most people who have a passing knowledge of Girl Talk will appreciate that it seems like a step forward.
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