Girl Talk

There is only one option. When GIRL TALK hits the Boiler Room at BIG DAY OUT 2010 you will party, or you will party.

Here’s how it will go: GIRL TALK (aka Gregg Gillis from Pittsburgh) will crack open his laptop. His unique style of jump up, get down, freak out, sample-savvy collages – co-opting everything from hip hop to Top 40 – will burst out of the speakers. Soon enough, GIRL TALK will be surrounded by a sea of dancing punters having a seriously good time. As GIRL TALK says, “I try to make my shows a rowdy event.”

Gillis’ DJing career began with house parties in the Pittsburgh underground in the early 2000s. At the time, he was studying biomechanical engineering. Eventually, engineering musical mayhem took over. He’s since released four albums through Illegal Art – including Feed the Animals, which polled highly on countless “Albums of 2008” lists around the world.

“On 2006's breakthrough, Night Ripper, Gillis proved he was a true party-starter, effortlessly combining dozens of hip hop, pop and rock hits in every song. Feed the Animals ups the ante, implementing more than 300 samples to make an utterly virtuosic mash-up record … Rarely is postmodern art such bloody good fun.” (Rolling Stone, July 2008)

Gillis, who was featured in the 2009 documentary film RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, told inthemix he works hard to make his shows “over the top”. No one can match the “unique mix of diversity, pace and open-mindedness” of a GIRL TALK set, says Pitchfork – “not to mention his exquisite ear for snagging the best 15 seconds of every three-minute track blaring from your clock radio.” He may be hunched over his laptop, lost in a sea of grinning punters, but Gillis is still guaranteed to be going hell-for-leather to make sure he’s the guy having the most fun.

So what are you gonna do this summer? There is only one option: come party with GIRL TALK at BIG DAY OUT.