Sampling is an art form in itself. To those who claim it’s merely stealing and uncreative, I present to you DJ Girl Talk. I came across Girl Talk while watching a documentary on file sharing, Good Copy Bad Copy: A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. Girl Talk was addressing and discussing copyright law and its effect on sampling. I went and copped one of his albums and all I could say is, “wow!” He blends so many songs seamlessly. On the first track of his third album, Night Ripper, he blends 19 different songs in the span of 2 minutes and 40 seconds. I have a hard to placing a genre on Girl Talk because he blends so much into so many different things. A rap song can become a metal song. A metal song can become a pop song, and so forth. Girl Talk displays the immense complexity and creativity that is involved in sampling. Girl Talk has 4 albums; Secret Diary, Unstoppable, Night Ripper, and Feed the Animals. You should be listening to DJ Girl Talk.
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