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Night Ripper (CD)

By: Girl Talk (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Night Ripper (CD) Album By Girl Talk (Artist)
1   Once Again
2   That's My DJ
3   Hold Up
4   Too Deep
5   Smash Your Head
6   Minute By Minute
7   Ask About Me
8   Summer Smoke
9   Friday Night
10   Hand Clap
11   Give And Go
12   Bounce That
13   Warm It Up
14   Double Pump
15   Overtime
16   Peak Out
 
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Review

Rolling Stone (p.105) - Ranked #22 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "[A] virtuoso mash-up record....Coherent and sublime..."
Spin (p.58) - Ranked #27 in Spin's "The 40 Best Albums of 2006" -- "Greg Gillis turns our band-of-the-day age on its head, splicing hundreds of Top 40 gems into samples..."
Uncut (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[L]ike Kid606 rewiring Jive Bunny, via Fleetwood Mac, MIA, Pixies, Nirvana and Wings: the perfect party mixtape."
Q (Magazine) (p.107) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Pennsylvania laptop whizzkid Gregg Gillis takes DJ mash-ups to a new level."
Q (Magazine) (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "His debut album is a blizzard of samples that collides rock, techno and hip hop to brilliant effect..."
Clash (magazine) (p.112) - "[S]eamlessly grabbing beats, lyrics and hooks for a variety of sources and doing something very new and exciting with them."

Title Note

The high-minded conceptual tropes of the original plunderphonic artists, John Oswald and Negativland, were not exactly anyone's idea of party music--pointed and often humorous cultural critique, but generally not something one could dance to. The post-Napster Internet-era of accelerated consumption has ushered in a new generation of pop-culture recyclers. These young laptop jockeys are as hell-bent on filling dance floors as they are on smashing commonplace genre banalities. Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk) is the sampledelic wunderkind behind NIGHT RIPPER, a rollicking 40-minute ride through hundreds of musical fragments, from (seemingly) as many different music styles.

NIGHT RIPPER could easily have come across as a novelty record, but Gillis is no ordinary bedroom DJ-cum-producer. Abolishing the classic mash-up formula of vocal a capella over instrumental tracks, Gillis freely mixes snippets from a dizzying array of '80s pop, classic rock, grunge, Dirty South rap, and even Bollywood banghra beats. On the track "Bounce That," Gillis lays down a Ludacris rap over Elastica's "Connection" (itself an appropriation of Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba") in one of the album's stranger moments. Seamlessly mixed--as if by a highly skilled, attention-deficit-addled DJ--NIGHT RIPPER is a joyous, schizophrenic, and highly entertaining mess.

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