That’s what Dan Deacon has promised (via a MySpace Bulletin yesterday) when, on Sunday, July 20th, the final night of Baltimore collective Wham City’s very own Whartscape fest, he collabs live with Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) and Naeem Juwan (aka MC Spank Rock).

It’s unclear which show that day will bring the three men simultaneously onto the same stage (both an afternoon and a separate evening show cap the 4-day blowout) or what the name of this Supergroup is (can your SAK Correspondent suggest The Charm City Rollers?) but the fact that this remains largely unposted across the indie rock blogosphere until now is slightly baffling, as anything 12 hours old seems ancient when you’re typing it into Wordpress.

Update: The name of this super group? That’s surely what you’re asking your SAK Correspondent: Well, Who Is The Tunafish Man? Of course.

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Your SAK correspondent’s disparate musings on Girl Talk’s Feed The Animals are now up at The New York Press site.

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.

Though it’s arguably best to start fresh with a new year upon us, the wise scribes of the web, always eager to list, compile, and debate the merits of a recently closed calendar year, invariably leave us with unfinished business: telling you about the best stuff that inexplicably evaded the concluding ‘07 ‘net hype.

They range from artists well-known to nearly un-known, and several of the tracks here-in found some acclaim at the time of their release, but just didn’t have the steam to make it to December. So SAK humbly presents: 7 songs that should have rocked your face in the last calendar year. (more…)