Leader of the mash-up world Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk is back at it again with another full length album free for download
here.
He tells you to download it as one file so the entire album can be listened to in full, as it was meant to be. I recommend downloading it by track. Mash-ups are fun but can quickly become too much, this 12 track album has 372 samples in it, that works out to about 31 sampled songs per track.
Here is the quick lesson of the day for us parents. mash-up = a song that consists entirely of portions of other artist's songs with overlapping, ie. a rock guitar solo with with rap vocals on top. Remix = taking another artist's song and adding your own music to it, not another artist's music, or a remix can be someone manipulating a song, ie. speeding up/slowing down the tempo, moving parts of the song around, repeating parts, etc. Cover song = a previously recorded song rerecorded by a different artist than the original (but you already knew that one, didn't you?). I listened to the first track without trying to solve all the music he had in it, I just wanted to kick back and let it soak in. What I took away from that first track was Lucacris, Trina, Dorrough and the Ramones. Don't let that scare you away though, this album's songs are more "song-like" instead of just being a novelty mix of opposite ends of the musical spectrum portions of songs that oddly seem to work together because they have the same bpm. (that last sentence sounded like a mash-up of words). Any way you look at it, it's a lot of fun, just download it and take it for what it is. I guarantee you that if you put this on at your next party full of "Parents (who lost touch with music)", everyone of them will ask you, "who is this? and where can I get it?".
In my next post I'll review the new Crystal Castles track featuring Robert Smith from The Cure. It's a cover of a song from the 80's by a band that nobody has heard of from a new band who sounds like an old band with Roberts Smith's vocals sounding like he's at his best. We may need a new name for this song since it's a cross b/w cover/remix/mash-up in sound. Let me think it over, until next time...
