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79 out of 100

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8.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: Gregg Gillis releases his latest album of mash-up tracks as a free download.
  • Record Label: Illegal Art
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Rap, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Club/Dance, Indie Electronic, Experimental Techno, Left-Field Hip-Hop
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. Expert Witness (MSN Music)
    Jan 18, 2011
    100
    Gillis's vision becomes less orgiastic and more humanistic.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Dec 14, 2010
    60
    All Day is blessed with some of the most dazzling mash-ups ever to infringe copyright, but an overwhelming majority of these emerge during the first 15 minutes, and the hour of music that follows rarely reaches the opening salvo's dizzying heights.
  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Dec 14, 2010
    30
    Frustrated fanboy headscratching aside, the point is simple: All Day is a misstep of the worst kind, wherein Gillis' craft devolves from transformative to parasitic.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Nial619
    9
    This album will have your ears doing a double-take. Girl Talk is going to be the next big thing (either because of IPR suits or popularity) and this album is only adding to his legend. Is the music his? No. But does that make it any less genius? He uses other people's beats like a guitar, and their hooks like a microphone. Genius.… Expand
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  2. aca5x
    8
    Girl Talk’s newest album, All Day, like the group’s previous works, involves mash-ups of popular songs from the last forty years. This album is slower and more relaxed then their previous two albums, though still very popular for people looking to dance. In All Day, Gregg Gillis, the artist behind Girl Talk, overlapped 372 samples into a single 71 minute song that he cut into 12 songs for the listener’s convenience. Although sampling other works to create a new composition has been done since the 1960s, it was not named until 1985 when John Oswald coined the phrase “plunderphonics” in his article, Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. The concept of plunderphonics actually has origins in musique concrète, using real, tangible sounds instead of computer generated. Although there is a lot of electronic music in Girl Talk’s work, it all stems from real music that other artists have created. As for the composition itself, Gillis does an excellent job layering and fading in the different samples in his work; familiar songs get new tempos and rhythms through the combination of songs. The layering is the particularly impressive portion of music, Michael Jackson, The Notorious B.I.G., Nirvana, Katy Perry, and many other artists are seamlessly overlapped one another. Gills differentiated himself a bit from his previous work by using songs and artists that, while still popular, are not necessarily the mainstream hits that he used in his previous works. Gillis also utilizes numerous types of fades from sample to sample, including crossfading, beat matching, and standard fading. Fading is simply when there is a gradual increase or decrease in the volume of the music. Crossfading, Gillis’ most used technique, occurs when there is a simultaneous lessening of the signal from one sample and a gradual increasing of the signal from another. These fades are critical because they ensure the music is free from clipping and clicks (from sudden signal change) that can occur when mixing together music. Gillis does a phenomenal job at this, leaving the music clean and smooth. He also utilizes excellent beat matching when switching between samples. Beat matching is when two songs are mixed together but one or both have pitch shifting or time changing to match up the two tempos in order to have them flawlessly mix together. Ultimately Gregg Gillis did a phenomenal with Girl Talk’s newest album, All Day. Like his previous works, he employs the style of plunderphonics, the sampling and mixing of other artists’ works into your own. This style of music was derived from musique concrète, the use of real, every day sounds, because sampling is required to make musique concrète. To combine the 372 samples taken from various artists, Gillis used, to great success, layering and fading. Layering adds new musical compositions to well-known work. Girl Talk layers famous artists like Michael Jackson and Katy Perry to bring these pieces into a new artistic light. Gillis uses fading, crossfading, and beat matching to ensure that the changes in samples occur smoothly without sloppy editing, clicks, or distortion. All these musical concepts and styles combine to form the very popular dance and party music that young people enjoy today.… Expand
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