Track Listing
1. Once Again
2. That's My DJ
3. Hold Up
4. Too Deep
5. Smash Your Head
6. Minute by Minute
7. Ask About Me
8. Summer Smoke
9. Friday Night
10. Hand Clap
11. Give and Go
12. Bounce That
13. Warm It Up
14. Double Pump
15. Overtime
16. Peak Out
| Details | | Distributor: | NAIL Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The high-minded conceptual tropes of the original plunderphonic artists, John Oswald and Negativland, were not exactly anyone's idea of party music--pointed and often humorous cultural critique, but generally not something one could dance to. The post-Napster Internet-era of accelerated consumption has ushered in a new generation of pop-culture recyclers. These young laptop jockeys are as hell-bent on filling dance floors as they are on smashing commonplace genre banalities. Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk) is the sampledelic wunderkind behind NIGHT RIPPER, a rollicking 40-minute ride through hundreds of musical fragments, from (seemingly) as many different music styles.
NIGHT RIPPER could easily have come across as a novelty record, but Gillis is no ordinary bedroom DJ-c**-producer. Abolishing the classic mash-up formula of vocal a capella over instrumental tracks, Gillis freely mixes snippets from a dizzying array of '80s pop, classic rock, grunge, Dirty South rap, and even Bollywood banghra beats. On the track "Bounce That," Gillis lays down a Ludacris rap over Elastica's "Connection" (itself an appropriation of Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba") in one of the album's stranger moments. Seamlessly mixed--as if by a highly skilled, attention-deficit-addled DJ--NIGHT RIPPER is a joyous, schizophrenic, and highly entertaining mess.
Editorial Reviews
[S]eamlessly grabbing beats, lyrics and hooks for a variety of sources and doing something very new and exciting with them.
Clash
3 stars out of 5 -- His debut album is a blizzard of samples that collides rock, techno and hip hop to brilliant effect...
Q
3 stars out of 5 -- Pennsylvania laptop whizzkid Gregg Gillis takes DJ mash-ups to a new level.
Q
4 stars out of 5 -- [L]ike Kid606 rewiring Jive Bunny, via Fleetwood Mac, MIA, Pixies, Nirvana and Wings: the perfect party mixtape.
Uncut
Ranked #27 in Spin's The 40 Best Albums of 2006 -- Greg Gillis turns our band-of-the-day age on its head, splicing hundreds of Top 40 gems into samples...
Spin
Ranked #22 in Rolling Stone's The Top 50 Albums Of 2006 -- [A] virtuoso mash-up record....Coherent and sublime...
Rolling Stone
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