MixRevolution Blog

Girl Talk is the stage name of musician Gregg Gillis (born October 26, 1981). Gillis, who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has released four LPs on Illegal Art and EPs on 333 and 12 Apostles. He began making music while studying biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He specializes in mashup style remixes, in which he uses often a dozen or more unauthorized samples from different songs to create a new song; The New York Times Magazine has called his music “a lawsuit waiting to happen.”^[1], a criticism that Gillis has attributed to a mainstream media that wants “to create controversy where it doesn’t really exist,” citing fair use as a legal backbone for his sampling practices. In Saying that the Mix Rev Crew crashed one of his shoes in Atlanta a couple of Days ago. To say we loved it was an understatement. Granted this guy is not going to win a Grammy any time soon.  But sometimes, who cares. He totally made us jump the whole time we were at the show and for that we thank you GT.