Gregg Gillis came to the publics’ attention with his 2006 album ‘Night Ripper’. This follow up is more of the same, slightly less heavy handed but equally as dodgy when it comes to lawsuits.

Based entirely on samples, ‘Feed the animals’ is awash with splices of hits thrown together with beats from other tracks, similar to very early 2 Many DJ’s in style but making the whole thing more songbased.
And unexpected ….you get hip hop beats being splattered by samples as preposterous as Sinead O’Conner and the Spencer Davies Group battling for attention against Kanye West. Sometimes it’s pure inspiration; such as Radiohead’s ‘15 Step’ battling for prominence against Blackstreet’s classic ‘No Diggity’ with steals of Nirvana and Busta Ryhmes thrown in for good measure.

It’s creative and inventive but after a while being attacked by snippets of songs it becomes too full on, this kind of thing is best placed in nightclubs by djs showing off, not for sitting down and relaxing to a CD.

This is musical larceny on a major scale , this is the sound you’d make if you’d broken into your local HMV pissed up helping yourself to as many CDs before the cops arrive.
Chris Todd