Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk) absolutely detonates the notions of mash-up Pitchfork. Girl Talk is returning to Australia to turn up the summer heat at the St Jeromess Laneway Festival, and has now announced three headline club shows in Melbourne, Ballarat and Sydney.

Hailing from Pittsburgh, USA Gregg Gillis-- aka mainstream-mining maximalist mashupper Girl Talk has spent the last couple of years putting sweaty nightclubs into overdrive with his ability to patchwork Top 40 samples into stand-alone songs.

Gillis has become infamous for his exhibitionist antics on stage, spontaneously removing his clothing (all of it) mid-performance. Girl Talks fourth album Feed the Animals out now on Illegal Art via Intertia, or for download from his website.

Gillis has meticulously edited together material developed out of his ever-changing live shows. Thats hours of material distilled down to 300+ samples (if you dare to count) and 50 minutes. Girl Talk creates musical chimeras, mating songs to make some fresh, very danceable
music.

Taking mash-up to a whole new level Feed the Animals contains elaborately constructed mixes of pop samples which siphons the over-the-top party feel of Girl Talk's live shows into album form.

His brilliantly mixed-and-mashed album Night Ripper was the party soundtrack of the summer 2006. Raps by Ludacris rubbed up against a Boston riff, the Ying Yang Twins whisper over the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony."

He's played with Beck at massive European festivals, and entertained party goers like LL Cool J and Paris Hilton, all of them floppingabout to his unremitting clips of '70s pop and '90s rap.
For anyone who hasn't experienced Gillis's live show its simple. Picture this -the stage is packed with people from the crowd dancing their asses off.

Here's where and when you can experience it for real.

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