Off the Record
Fri., July 27, 2007
The Ghostface of You Lingers
Before South by Southwest, Gregg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, predicted that every third-grader soon would be able to make audio mash-ups with the ease of collaging images in Adobe Photoshop. Shortly thereafter, Aaron Brink and Steve Reidell of Chicago's May or May Not launched the Hood Internet, a music blog that masterfully merges those two procedures, often resulting in iconic dispositions like "The Ghostface of You Lingers," an opaque combination of the Wu-Tang wordsmith with Spoon. "Sometimes the title just creates the song," admits Brink, relating the Hood's mix of Ghostland Observatory and Pimp C, "Pourin' Up Vibrations," with Car Stereo (Wars)'s like-minded "Ghostface Observatory." The Hood watches Texas development closely, mashing Denton's Ghosthustler with Rick Ross ("Everyday I'm Hustlin'") and Houston's Lil' Flip with the New Pornographers ("My Chips Versus Yours"). "Those two styles converge a lot more naturally than people would expect," Brink contends, "most of the time at least."