Aeron Jentzen did an great interview with Girl Talk aka Gregg Gillis. Girl Talk is one of the most controversial persons of the mashup scene. Many people love him,many people hate him, so it is really something what you have to investigate. Go and read the whole interview at Pittsburgh City Paper , we have some quotes and something to listen to after the jump.
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He sips a giant Wendy’s fountain drink as he talks about the new album, and the ways his career has taken off since 2006′s breakthrough, Night Ripper. It helped transform his live act from small underground shows where "everyone was like, uncomfortable," to his current sold-out melees, in which the audience is encouraged to join Gillis onstage in a crush of dancing bodies. Success snowballed until Girl Talk — which is just one 26-year-old man and his laptop — sold out the legendary Fillmore Ballroom in San Francisco.

The new album is a seamless mix of more than 300 samples of other people’s music, combined in an album that lasts 54 minutes. The result is an impressive audio collage, one that sets rap lyrics from Ludacris, 50 Cent, Yung Joc atop pop hooks that range from the contemporary (Rihanna’s "Umbrella") to yesteryear (Ace of Base’s "All That She Wants," classic rock ("Styx’s "Renegade") to classics (David Bowie’s "Rebel Rebel").

Even if fans and critics hate Feed the Animals, he should be able to keep touring for another year or so, he estimates — and that would be fine. "I’m sure I’m going to make music forever, but I don’t really have long-term goals associated with this, because it’s so youthful, it’s really about embracing right now," he says. "I’d be happy just riding this out and then going back to a job."

But if all goes well, "I don’t know what the upper limit of this would be," he says. "I could move forward and make new music and I should be able to play shows for at least a few more years. I’m 26 now, and by the time I’m 30, I don’t think I’d want to be doing the same exact style shows. It’s so youthful now, I can’t imagine doing it then."

In the meantime, he’s just gotten his hands on some rare Nirvana multi-track recordings that he’s itching to mangle. And piece back together into something new.

+++UPDATE+++Sept. 06.
Girl Talk Deconstructs Samples From Feed the Animals for Wired

His latest album, Feed the Animals (released digitally in June with hard copies out September 23), brims with 300 song snippets in just over 50 minutes (compared to around 250 in his previous effort). "People want to see the bar raised," Gillis says. Below, a beat-by-beat breakdown of a single track.
[via Wired ]

+++UPDATE+++Sept. 07.
DJ Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk: The Music, The Model, The Mitigation on The Hopkinson Report

The Hopkinson Report did a profile on Girl Talk, looking at the music, the model, the potential mitigation, and of course, the marketing. Make sure you read it is a very nice read and might put the missing pieces into your ‘what is Girl Talk all about’ puzzle;)