As per our class discussion today about sampling and Fair Use Laws, someone brought up Girl Talk, one of the foremost mash-up artists. Here is an long, but really interesting interview with the artist on
Pitchfork Media . He gets into the legal aspects of his music towards the end of the article. I also find it very interesting that you can't buy Girl Talk albums on iTunes for these reasons too yet, Girl Talk's popularity hasn't seemed to suffer greatly from this.
Also, here some Girl Talk links:
And
here is a kickass video of the Girl Talk performance at Bonnaroo last year that was amazing! He literally kept it going until the wee hours of the morning and people went crazy! I highly recommend going to
Bonnaroo Music Fest if you can because it is a mind blowing amount of great music.
2 comments:
I guess maybe you had to be there, I couldn't make out anything that was being said. But I dig the idea, and like his comments on the laws of copyright.
I guess you are right in saying you had to be there. I just watched the video again and realized that it is probably only exciting to me... at least it gives you an insight into the madness of his live sets I suppose!
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