Amidst heavy touring all across the United States and Europe throughout 2007, Girl Talk returned to the studio to release his fourth album
Feed the Animals in June 2008. Taking a page from the successful (if unconventional) release of
Radiohead’s seventh album
In Rainbows last year, Gregg initially released
Feed the Animals as a digital download from his official website in mid-2008, allowing fans to pay as much as they wanted for the album - even allowing them to "purchase" it for free. Gimmicky release aside,
Feed the Animals will be available for purchase in LP and CD formats by the end of 2008, so you can be sure to jam to top-notch tracks like
"Play Your Part" and
"Shut the Club Down" in something other than .mp3 format.
From Lastfm:1. Girl Talk is the stage name of Gregg Gillis (born October 26, 1981). Gillis, who is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has released four CD albums on Illegal Art and vinyl releases on 333 and 12 Apostles. He began making music while a student at Case Western Reserve University. He specializes in sample-based remixes, in which he uses at least a dozen elements from different songs to create a new song. At his early shows, Gillis became notorious for his exhibitionist antics on stage, spontaneously removing most or all of his clothing mid-performance. He has given different explanations for the origin of his stage name, once saying it alluded to a Jim Morrison poem and once saying it alluded to an early Merzbow side project. He has also stated that "Girl Talk" is simply the opposite of what one would think when picturing a man playing music with a laptop.
Girl Talk was featured in Good Copy Bad Copy and Rip! A Remix Manifesto; both documentary films about copyright/fair use.
2. Girl Talk is also the name of a British 80's eurodisco duo consisting of sisters Karen & Julie Wright.