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Gregg Gillis, known to his fans as Girl Talk took the underground music world by storm last year with his album Night Ripper. Gillis composes avant-pop collages of hundreds of different songs—everything from Aerosmith to the Ying Yang Twins to Neutral Milk Hotel. The result is a new piece of original art stamped with the Girl Talk name, and it’s putting hipsters in a frenzy at clubs and festivals all over the world. None of the samples on Night Ripper have been approved by the original artists, but so far Gillis hasn’t been hassled. He represents a new generation of free culture proponents that will hopefully be embraced by the music industry, if not copyright lawyers.
There has been a long tradition of collage music, and one of the artists taking it to the “nth degree” is Osymyso. The UK DJ created a mind-blowing, 12-minute composition called “Intro-Inspection,” which is completely full of unauthorized samples. The song isn’t available for sale anywhere, but you can check it out on the web and on the Desert Island Jukebox.