An Animated Look At The Sample-Soaked Population of Gillis’ Island

Pittsburgh’s Attention-Discotheque-Disordered and hipster-beloved DJ Girl Talk’s new album Feed The Animals, given a nothin’-but-’net release yesterday by record label Illegal Art, bookends its 14 tracks with sister cuts titled “Play Your Part (Pt. 1)” and “Play Your Part (Pt. 2).” And that, for as many reasons as Animals has samples, is quite a loaded twin christening.

Released with an In Rainbows-style pay-whatever-you-want deal (even $0.00 gets you a 320kb copy), the notion of “playing your part” here could shallowly be interpreted as: 1. paying something for the record; or 2. simply downloading it. But one-man show Gregg Gillis, the audio collage artist behind Girl Talk’s four sample-based LPs and sole captain of GT’s manic, user-generated live shows, is actually asking you for—and giving—much, much more.

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Your SAK correspondent feels obligated to point out that mash-up wizard Girl Talk has posted a new MySpace profile photo and track (and deleted everything else). This is obvious run-up to the initially-net-only, pay-what-you-wish release of GT’s Feed The Animals that’s very soon to come. The photo (below) tells little, and the track (cryptically titled “1″ [or is that “I”?] over at MySpace link above), perhaps, says even less. It is, however, scary as hell.