Night Ripper CREATES culture

Plunderphonics-- taking existing music and "ripping" them to create a whole new work
Blue Ocean Space- the act of entering a market that nobody else thought of with an idea, product, or service.

I see Girl Talk’s music as a representation of our culture and time period. Looking in retrospect, if somebody ripped and made a CD of the top 200 artists of the 1920’s or something, what would we think of it today. I would surely think of it as Brilliant!!! What if every generation did this? How representative of our culture would this be? And then we could rip and burn music from say the 1920’s and perhaps 2005 and make a brilliant CD that meshes the two time periods. Possibilities…..possibilities!!!

Lastly, I am finding it very hard to find Girl Talk’s album Night Ripper on Itunes or any other legitimate mp3 website. How about in the stores? Wal Mart? This must say something about their CD and the perception of big album companies. Although Girl Talk is fair use according to the law. DJ’s are a great example of, I would argue, a more serious version of ripping and contextualizing other’s music while performing at clubs and what not. Many artists and rappers change their music by creating alternate versions. He is essentially entering a transformative area of a market where no one else went before. Obviously there are many laws that thus do not apply to Girl Talk’s version of music and it will be interesting to see where the law goes to either inhibit or expand their creative genre.