i'm a ramblin' man

it opens with a combination of black sabbath's war pigs, ludacris' move bitch (get out the way) with a dash of H.O.V tellin' us to "hit me".

if that isn't a statement, then i don't know what is.

girl talk's new album, 'all day', is surely his masterpiece. i loved 'night ripper' and 'feed the animals' topped my list of '08. now there's this album to topple them all.
seamless translation from song to song, sweet mixes between old, new and obscure. i'm especially loving the track with jackson 5 'i want you back' providing the beats that lil kim's 'the jumpoff' raps over top. or the ramone's 'blitzkrieg bop' as the background to missy e's 'get ur freak on'. serious brilliance in action here, folks. girl talk masters the use of beat, rhythm and mash-ups in this album; an art he's near perfected throughout the years. feed the animals came incredibly close to perfection-- the album is supposed to be listened to as one track, no pauses and no jumping between songs.
'all day' has achieved that perfection girl talk set out to master with 'feed the animals' and 'night ripper'. the first time i listened to it out of banal curiousity i was hit with this endless soundscape of varying beats, songs familiar and unknown. i panicked that i would only get like, thirty minutes of this genius mixing, but with a run time of just over an hour, the beats keep coming. the seamless transition from track to track leaves you guessing where you are in the album.

girl talk 'all day' makes my recommendation list for november, despite the fact it's nearly over, because of it's genius mixing and infectious beats. who else would mix lil kim and peter gabriel? that right there is genius, no matter how you look at it.
so while you're partying this movember, whether you have a burt reynolds or a dirty hipster woodsman beard, throw on 'all day' for an hour of 'stache combing to get you pumped for a long winters night.