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Neat Infographic renderings of Girl Talk's Album

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http://mashupbreakdown.com/ has not only diagrams of the samples used in each track, but also plays the music and highlights the annotations at the appropriate time.

Also, as well as Girl Talk's latest album "All Day", it covers their previous "Feed The Animals" as well as The Kleptones' classic "A Night At The Hip-Hopera".

Wired did this too with a track off of Feed the Animals in 08: http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/pl_music_1609

I want to like Girl Talk, but that's just too many samples per track.

That's exactly how I feel - it's too ADD for my liking. By contrast, The Kleptones tend to have one main lyric track and one main music track for the entire duration; an arrangement I feel is easier to listen to, has more scope for brain-bending combinations[1], and generally I think it takes more skill to find two tracks that match up for an entire three-to-five minutes, rather than just 30 seconds.

[1] http://vimeo.com/15385734

I felt like that until perhaps 5 listens of Feed The Animals, after which it became a solid favourite.

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