Profile: Girl Talk

Excellent article profiling Girl Talk from Fast Company. Two snippets below, read the full piece here.

From Fast Company:

Gregg Gillis, the former biomedical engineer turned mashup artist, is among the most radical recyclers since Dr. Frankenstein. Performing as Girl Talk, the DJ has perfected the art of remixing the best beats, hooks, and choruses from other pop, gangsta rap, and rock artists, many of whom were left for dead by their labels.

He hasn’t won over fans and critics merely by playing with the best bits of other people’s music and performance styles. He’s sampling the most exciting ideas in the music business, too--leaking tracks, giving music away for free, making records that make no money but put thousands of gyrating backsides at his concerts--at a time when the music business is desperate for excitement.