**format wars** vinyl ? mp3 ? cd ? turntables ? ableton ?

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I remember as a kid talking to someone on napster, they were all 'yeah Girl Talk is a true Dada artist, you know Kid 606's Straight Outta Compton remix? Girl Talk cut that up and re-assembled it back into the original, have a listen'

'but.....almost everything Kid 606 did to that song is physically impossible to undo, what you have here, is NWA's Straight Outta Compton, with a wind-up merchant's name on it.'

'no no no no, it's it's it's it's it's....Dada! Girl Talk is genius!'

'No....do I have to sit and explain the concept of sound to you?'

And so it went on. That's the first time i've heard the name Girl Talk since then, haha.

Unfortunately, being in the NYC area, the "hipster" scene is the dominant one, and it's quite lucrative if you get the buzz about you. "Artists" like Girl Talk fit right in. It's incredibly simple to do with the tools that a number of us have used so I'm just not expecting techno to go anywhere in my vicinity. It's very much LCD now. At the same time, it's going to allow for people doing something more complex and a bit different to bubble to the top again as this shit becomes the norm and eventually gets boring for the same scene that's lapping it up now. But, yeah, Girl Talk being Dada is a ****ing joke. So was Too Many DJs then. Negativland gets no love.