Girl Talk: Master of critically jizzed-on "Mashup" genre or a lawsuit waiting to happen?

[HughBeaumont]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LvLkqraXFI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQC_fHlXxQQ&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8VV5k9PHFU&feature=related

The guy's been at Coachella and Bonnaroo (which, I guess, means that you're beloved by various random hipsters acrosst Murka), has a new album out and has existed for over half a decade without any major litigation to his name that I know of. So does this mean that the musicians who's melodies he . . .er . . . "uses" are being good sports about this or have major artists just given up trying to protect their stuff?

Really, though, the guy's not doing anything different than mix-master DJs (Double D and Stienski come to mind) have been doing since the early 80s . . . he's simply doing it digitally rather than with turntables, a drum machine and a Roland sampler.

I mostly listen to this to hear what he does with the older songs. Not being the biggest fan of the modern hip-hop/rap he loads his songs with, I recognize maybe 3/4 of the songs "used".

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Some of my friends are big fans, but I've never really listened.