girltalk feed the animals

so, i was late to the party on girltalk's first album, nightripper. once i got it, i enjoyed it, although i do prefer true dj/turntablist albums to mash ups. but nightripper was an enjoyable enough mash up, and heather really liked it. liked it enough that i had to hear it about a hundred more times than i would have listened to it by myself.

so, i saw that girltalk had a new album out (via download only now, comes out hardcopy in a while). and, they were running the old, pay what you want. you could even pay $0 if you wanted, but if you do that you have to answer a series of questions essentially explaining why you're a cheap bastard. so, i clicked over to see my options, think about how much i'd like to pay, and download the album.

so, if you pay $5, you can get a real high quality bitrate and download it as one long seamless song. or, you can download it as different songs @ any price. for $10 or more you can download it and get a hard copy when available.

i went the $5 route and downloaded the high quality seamless single track. but, i also like having the individual tracks, so after that finished downloading i went back and downloaded the normal album @ a lower bitrate for free. so, yes, i got two copies of the album for $5.

you should go and do something similar because this album rocks. if you like mash ups at all, this is one for you. there is no sophomore slump in girltalk. that word is lost from his vocab apparently.

this album is better than the last because it seems that girltalk's musical lexicon has been expanded. the last album had a good mix of variety, and did span several decades, but it was pretty heavy on 90's alternative and hip hop. those two are still present, but now there's so much more. you hear songs from the 60's to present all mushed together in a fairly cohesive flow. i love when you hear a snip of a song, or a new backbeat starting and it blows your mind. you think, "what is he going to do with that." i'm talking songs from grease mixed with some hip hop to atomic (trainspotting soundtrack) to the cure.

something that stands out again on this album, just like the first album, is how offensive and misogynistic that some mainstream hip hop lyrics are. they can get lost in their own songs, but stripped away and mixed with some 70's classic you really notice what filthy thing is being said.

finally, here are a few mixes that really stood out to me, got me nodding my head or weaving along the road on my bike:
public enemy over come on over
since you've been gone over head like a hole
jay z over radiohead's paranoid android
salt & peppa over nirvana's come as you are
'take yo broke ass home' over ewf's september then to god only knows by the beach boys
lipgloss over metallica's one
m.i.a. over cranberries