Day Seven: Girl Talk

It's down to one week until my departure for Chicago, and it's getting more and more tense (remember, I haven't been there) everyday.

But to digress, the artist for Day Seven on my Lollapalooza Ten Day Countdown is (or was) by day a biomedical engineer, and by night DJ Girl Talk, playing shows on his laptop in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Greg Gillis, the real guy, has released four albums since 2002 (all on Illegal Art), of hundreds of compounded samples of songs choreographed into three or four minute songs, drifting multiple genres - mostly hip-hop and classic rock - into singular pieces. His latest release, Feed the Animals was distributed by Gillis Radiohead In Rainbows style; as in, fans could choose their own price.

I've seen his live shows, and it's basically on hour from his lap-top of a non-stop, all-out party. It's good enough to have him high on my list of Lollapalooza artists I'm meaning to see.

Luckily, i've found his entire 2007 New Years shows (In Chicago, fittingly) online.

Check out Greg at work too.