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i've not updated in a while.

the dudes who made wonder showzen & xavier apparently put out a record. it's interesting, but nothing to write home about.

it's really obnoxious & noisy, but still a decent time. there's not a terrible amount of noise or glitch so it's not painful to listen to. however, kanye west's new cd is painful to listen to. practically none of the songs are any good at all & pretty much none of them are any bit up beat or even fun to listen to. i feel as if listening to it i gained nothing, nor did i hear any good rhymes or anything even the least bit clever. hell, one song really didnt even sound like it belonged on a so called rappers cd, it was some bizarre almost indie ballad of sorts called robocop.

i guess i'm not a big fan of the whole computer microphone thing because it's played like fuck.


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the decemberists are doing a singles series. the first in the series "always the bridesmaid" isnt half bad. i'm looking forward to the rest of the series. theres also a bitchin cover of "i'm sticking with you" on the cd, while it is great, i think i might have heard too much of the song this year.


big dumb face is a band that doesnt get enough credit ever. duke lion fights the terror is one of the best albums with no definitive genre i've heard in a good long time.







oh, this is what i've got written for the girl talk show that's saturday. if you think of a question you'd like me to ask him please let me know about it.


Okay dear friends. Girl Talk. If you havent heard this man yet, where have to been living? Seriously, touring & flying to almost superstar status without any sort of commercial marketing. Girl Talk, or Gregg Gillis if you want to get technical is a brilliant mind. An ex-biomedical engineer from Pittsburg PA, Gregg got his start making glitchy abominations of pop & rap music. You probably didnt hear this record. He was playing mostly art galleries & other art/music collectives throughout various cities. Hidden throughout Providence & other cities in the country & wonderful gems disguised as loft apartments & warehouses are where some of the hottest & sweatiest dance parties can be found. But that's not what we're talking about, Girl Talk has climbed his way through the ranks & managed to land larger shows in larger venues. I'll be the first to admit, I never got to see any of his earlier, smaller shows & that my friends, is a damn shame. It's not a shame that Gregg is getting popular, it's quite amazing & great for him. Though, without this undergroud (for lack of a better word) art/music scene is going quite unrecognized & even destroyed in many areas. Not quite destroyed, but renovated & turned into loft apartments & condos, overpriced ones at that. But again, I digress.

Gregg's second CD "Unstoppable" is where you really start to notice just how capable he is of mixing music together. Unlike "Night Ripper" & "Feed the Animals" "Unstoppable" is not one long track to be played in order, it's just a fun ride through a whole ton of great music. Still glitchy, but using that to his advantage to create unbelievable beats using lyricists vocals, plenty of drums & a good amount of bass, all the while keeping it glitchy & fun.

"Night Ripper" I guess is where you could say Girl Talk really came into his own. I can still remember the night I heard it & how wonderful it was. Being quite the musical snob, I am generally very picky about what I'm listening to. Girl Talk didnt give me time to be picky. He was going everywhere. Boston, Ludachris, Biggy, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elton John & that's just naming a few. It was an entirely amazing mix of everything under the sun & to top it all off, it was fun as hell to dance to. I went to my first Girl Talk show shortly thereafter, it was at the now defunct Living Room which is a mostly punk venue from my experience, definitely not the smallest I've been to in Providence. The show was great, somehow I managed to walk into the backstage area & end up drinking Jack Daniels with him. When he went on, so many fans rushed the stage the power went out. After that was all settled it was just a great dance party for the rest of the night, most of which I spent on stage dancing & generally having a blast.

"Feed the Animals" is the Fourth & most recent record made by Girl Talk. Just like Night Ripper it's to be played as one long dope as ever track. Seriously, if you can't dance to this music just get out. How do you explain it? I mean, we got the Unicorns, Lil Wayne, Twisted Sister, Faith No More, Wu Tang Clan, & an incredible mash of "Roc Boys" by Jay-Z with "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead as the underlying beat. Mind you, that's only half of the first half of the record. Not to mention this is FREE. You can pay whatever you want for it, just like Radiohead did earlier this year. If you pay a certain amount you get the actual CD as well as high quality mp3s, though in all honesty if you're using .flac files to play your music, either you have an epic system or you just love wasting your harddrive space.

That being said, lets go back to what I said about no commercial success. Outside of a recent "I'm a PC" advertisement for Microsoft, Girl Talk isnt getting played on any radio stations or music television channels. But, how can this be? Why, 95.5 WBRU are the ones holding this concert at Lupos, how does that make sense? To be completely honest, it doesn't. I'm not trying to disrespect BRU, it is one of the better local stations in Rhode Island, however, they dont play the music I enjoy. Though, they're holding a concert for Girl Talk even though they cant really play his music on their station. It's blatent copyright infringement. Though in the same sense, it really isnt. He's making music his own by meticulously mixing each & every sample at the right moment with the right sample, the end result being that of a masterfully produced consistant flow of brilliant party jams guaranteed to make even the most elitist music snob's happy to be there & jamming out.

His technique is not a terribly new thing, the "mash-up" genre of music has been around for decades with groups such as Negativland, the Tape Beatles & the Evolution Control Committee but never before has any artist managed to let every sample flow flawlessly with each & every sample. The trick here being the drums, keeping the tempo & beat of the songs are countless drum samples strategically placed to keep the songs flowing, the end results being a downright club-banging-party-jam that anyone can enjoy.