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Return of the Friday Listening Post: Girl Talk

EDIT: Girl Talk is playing in Winnipeg, June 28th at the Pyramid.

The Friday Listening Post is back after a several week hiatus due to business and busy-ness.

Anyway straight to it: Girl Talk. Mashup artist. Awesome, pop-ish, hip-hop that blends in a tonne of Adam Freedland breakbeat style jamming - generally fantastic, energetic, listenable, danceable, fun - and full of no-doubt non-compliant, un-licensed, fairuse, screw-the-RIAA samples. Big hat tip to Gitta B. for pointing me to GT - thanks, dude!

There’s two MP3’s floating for free: Bounce That and Hold Up. Download and enjoy! Each is full of awesome moments - like when Hold Up breaks into Weezer at 2:30 — killer. This makes me want to clubbing, which I haven’t done for like 5 years.

Girl Talk has three albums: Night Ripper, Unstoppable, and Secret Diary. Each is available for purchase through the deliciously seditious sounding IllegalArt Web Store.

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Friday Listening Post: The killer mashups of Luke Enlow, downloadable MP3’s

TGIF, and time for another Friday Listening post. The first was here (Billy Bragg) - basically, the spirit of this series of posts is that Friday is time to chill and check out some tunes that can be at least vaguely related back to the world of technology.

I’d hoped some other blogs would share some tunes and expand my horizons (just tag your post “fridaylistening” and it will queue up with any others on Technorati) - but no dice so far! How about it, Jason? (couldn’t resist taking the bait somewhere today, though I didn’t follow any rules.)

Anyway - without further adieu: I strongly recommend checking out the audio stylings of Luke Enlow - Bostonian and audio mashup auteur. Lenlow mashes up artists, genres, beats, and riffs into catchy, inspired tunes.

In particular, I recommend (right-click, Save As time):

Mercedes Beck: A spectular mashup of Beck and Janis Joplin - sounds like they were in the studio together.

Get Eastwood: The Gorillaz and Sean Paul in a mix that just works.

Kanye Mahna - Mr. West vs. the Muppets - wicked.

…and pretty much all of the rest of them too. Always creative, always fun, always mashing up - Luke Enlow personifies Music 2.0.