Girl Talk | Terminal 5

The mashup lives, at least when Gregg Gillis is in town

Mashups, blends, rainy afternoons or whatever you want to call it, fusing two songs together to create a new composition (with varying degrees of irony) is pretty much over these days—we’re anxiously awaiting the release of Mashup Hero, played with a plastic iMac. But apparently nobody told this to Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, the mix master who holed up in his Pittsburgh apartment for over two years to craft his latest mixtape “Feed The Animals.” Judging GT tracks—played extensively during three packed Terminal 5 shows—is not an exercise in picking the “best,” but rather what most hits your musical wheelhouse. For us: Motown, commercial hip-hop and anything played by John Garabedian in 1991. Prefuse 73 and Bad Brilliance opened.