Mashups - Girl Talk

So I think it was a couple of weeks back, Dan Wu wrote a blog about a mash-up artist that was on Letterman or Leno and posted a video up. It’s just the term mash-up that got me going cause a few weeks later I bought a copy of the new US GQ (yes, the one with an overly retouched Olivia Wilde on the cover) and read an article about this group called ‘Girl Talk’. When I say group really it’s just this guy Gregg Gillis. So I was thinking, ‘what the hey let me sample some of the music, it won’t hurt’. Lo and behold I have become a fan. It’s really fascinating cause he uses a lot of the music I like (even the sad bastard music I listen to) as a base and then runs rap on the vocal. Genius. Check it out.