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How ‘mashups’ married old music with the new

How one artist put a new spin on mashing up new and old music tracks

Aired 04/23/2022

PBS News Hour

How ‘mashups’ married old music with the new

Clip: 4/23/2022 | 5m 45sVideo has Closed Captions

How one artist put a new spin on mashing up new and old music tracks

For the last 20 some years, Gregg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, has been creating mashups, or musical reimaginations of contemporary and classic songs. Streaming services have made hearing those mashups easier, but now for the first time, Gillis is releasing an album with fully licensed samples. Christopher Booker reports.

Aired 04/23/2022

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