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Electronica
Release Date: 05/09/2006
The first album by
Girl Talk, aka DJ
Gregg Gillis, was like a
club-oriented version of
John Oswald's
Plunderphonics, filled with bits of familiar
pop songs that were mostly teasingly too short and too sonically manipulated to fully grasp.
Unstoppable, on the other hand, is more like an album-length mash-up as created by a well-stocked DJ with both ADHD and a wicked sense of humor. The samples on
Unstoppable are nose-thumbingly blatant in the manner of the classic early
KLF singles, but they're far more expertly mixed, and they come from a wider frame of reference that includes
Lisa Loeb's
"Stay" next to crunchy
Bon Jovi power chords. But what's most remarkable about
Unstoppable is how the samples are never the whole point of the album:
Gillis folds, spindles, and mutilates these bits and pieces of musical memory into entirely new songs with hooks, lyrics, and grooves of their own; before
"Pump It Up," who knew that the piano riff from
Coldplay's
"Clocks" could rock so hard? Great fun for trainspotters, sure, but the true delight of songs like
"Cleveland, Shake" and
"Touch 2 Feel" is that they're exhilarating
dance music.
~Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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