Night Ripper Altoona PA

Night Ripper

Girl Talk

Illegal Art, 2006

http://www.girl-talk.net/

REVIEW BY: Shane M. Liebler

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 02/07/2007

Hey, you know that iPod name-that-tune game that awards meaningless points based on your pointless ability to guess songs from your library in less than 10 seconds? Pretty cool, right?

Well, it was cool for the day you discovered it. You showed your friends, recognized how lame it was and never touched the function again, save several-hour flight delays.

Now, Pittburgh’s Gregg Gillis raises the stakes and takes the chore out of track recognition on his third mash-up masterpiece Night Ripper. It’s a hell of a lot more fun.

There’s a catch, though. Gillis claims he’s not a mash-up artist. He’s not even a DJ. His shows are less performance, more house party. For those of us who drained savings accounts to get iPods so we could have equal access to Abba and Young Jeezy at the touch of a button instead of fumbling through 200-CD Case Logic totes, Girl Talk is the man.