An early (free!) holiday present!
For all of you Girl Talk lovers out there (and if you haven't heard his album Night Ripper I suggest you drop whatever you're doing and procure yourself a copy of it immediately): check out Ludachrist's album Bangfest, which I suspect will be just as addictive as Ripper. The download is free!!
Night Ripper has incredible energy and flow, but it's smooth (smoove?) -- the song-to-song cuts are seamless, and it feels like new songs (verse-chorus-verse style) are being created from the mash-ups. Bangfest ups the energy ante, but it's more frenetic and choppy than Ripper, which is not to say that it is less impressive. I marvel at the way these DJs look at the construction of existing songs and find similar threads in each with which to stitch them all together.









