Two months ago, Girl Talk released his newest album as a disengage download. Now, riding a wave of newfound attention, the mash-up king is already planning his final gig - due to take space, wisely enough, at the apocalypse.
"I'm planning my final show on December 21, 2012," explained Girl Talk aka Gregg Gillis. "It's when the Mayan calendar ends. It's the sidereal day when solids become liquids and liquids become plasmas."
Gillis is famous for his rapid-fire mash-ups - songs appear for just seconds before fading into others. Bubba Sparxxx fades into Dexys Midnight Runners, the Velvet Underground into Justin Timberlake. He is as well known for his live sets - raging parties that make a guy with a laptop seem like the most adept thing in the world.
And while Gillis expects in that respect will be a couple of releases before 2012, that's when he volition wrap the project up. After all, it's when the worldly concern will end.
"I think I wanna do a 24-hour set," he told MTV News. "I want it to be an endurance test, and I want it to be wretched and as fantastic. I think [in] too many shows, people are also aimed at pleasing the audience. If you want to do a truly great demo ... you make to actually make it bad for them for like 20 hours and then you can kill it for four hours, and everyone will be really excited."
While we look up to Gillis's philosophy, we're still not sure we want to spend 20 of our net 24 hours with a DJ making us "paltry". Then over again, we can't think of a better way to go extinct, than hearing to the Cure segue into Soulja Boy...
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