Posted: 30 Nov 2010, 1:38pmSubject: New Girl Talk Mash Up Album
Girl Talk album using nearly 400 different pop song samples inspires interactive web guides
Album so dense it needs web guides
Uses pieces of nearly 400 pop songs
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IT'S the sort of thing that appeals to music nerds.
As it turns out, Girl Talk's new album All Day has captured the imagination of web geeks as well.
All Day, the fifth album by US musician Gregg Gillis under his stage name Girl Talk, was released this month as a free download.
It's a musical mash-up of almost 400 different songs, with hip hop vocals laid over popular singles by bands like Black Sabbath, Cream and The Doors.
Each track uses samples of two dozen or more other songs, which are cut up and pasted back together to make something new.
You can see, then, why it appeals to record collectors and pop music trainspotters.
But it's also inspired a new wave of websites designed to help listeners learn which sample goes where.
It began with a list of the 372 songs sampled on All Day that was published on the website of Girl Talk's record label Illegal Art.
Wikipedia users began adding start and stop times to each of the pop songs and adding them to All Day's page on the public encyclopedia.
That led to the first interactive guide, on a website called alldaysamples.com, which used the Wikipedia data to display titles of the sampled songs as the album was streamed.
Now someone's taken that idea even further.
Another website called mashupbreakdown.com lets users stream the album and shows a visual representation of the samples in bold colours underneath.
So far the website has been shared on Facebook more than 16,000 times, with another 3000 shares on Twitter — including by Gillis himself.
"Many people have been posting this," he said on his Twitter account @therealgirltalk last night.
"It's a visualisation of my new record. Fun but missing many samples."
He then reposted instructions for adding the missing samples to All Day's page on Wikipedia.
Fans needn't feel too bad about missing a few samples, though. In fact Gillis said he forgot one himself.
"Whoever mentioned that I left off De La Soul — Me Myself and I off the official sample list, thanks, will be corrected soon," he said.
You can stream it and view the timeline of when each sample comes in here: http://www.mashupbreakdown.com/
Just checked the first track and its pretty well done... thought a few heads on here might appreciate it.
Album so dense it needs web guides
Uses pieces of nearly 400 pop songs
More: Technology news and reviews
IT'S the sort of thing that appeals to music nerds.
As it turns out, Girl Talk's new album All Day has captured the imagination of web geeks as well.
All Day, the fifth album by US musician Gregg Gillis under his stage name Girl Talk, was released this month as a free download.
It's a musical mash-up of almost 400 different songs, with hip hop vocals laid over popular singles by bands like Black Sabbath, Cream and The Doors.
Each track uses samples of two dozen or more other songs, which are cut up and pasted back together to make something new.
You can see, then, why it appeals to record collectors and pop music trainspotters.
But it's also inspired a new wave of websites designed to help listeners learn which sample goes where.
It began with a list of the 372 songs sampled on All Day that was published on the website of Girl Talk's record label Illegal Art.
Wikipedia users began adding start and stop times to each of the pop songs and adding them to All Day's page on the public encyclopedia.
That led to the first interactive guide, on a website called alldaysamples.com, which used the Wikipedia data to display titles of the sampled songs as the album was streamed.
Now someone's taken that idea even further.
Another website called mashupbreakdown.com lets users stream the album and shows a visual representation of the samples in bold colours underneath.
So far the website has been shared on Facebook more than 16,000 times, with another 3000 shares on Twitter — including by Gillis himself.
"Many people have been posting this," he said on his Twitter account @therealgirltalk last night.
"It's a visualisation of my new record. Fun but missing many samples."
He then reposted instructions for adding the missing samples to All Day's page on Wikipedia.
Fans needn't feel too bad about missing a few samples, though. In fact Gillis said he forgot one himself.
"Whoever mentioned that I left off De La Soul — Me Myself and I off the official sample list, thanks, will be corrected soon," he said.
You can stream it and view the timeline of when each sample comes in here: http://www.mashupbreakdown.com/
Just checked the first track and its pretty well done... thought a few heads on here might appreciate it.
