Girl Talk's Feed The Animals

When Girl Talk released his newest album titled Feed The Animals you could download it from his website in exchange for any donation and a donation of over $10 would net you a flesh-and-blood copy in the mail. My copy came recently, and by recently I mean it came probably a few months ago but being in college I didn't actually get to hear it until I found it in my stack of mail at home the other day.

The mixes are good, everything is clean, sounds good together. Overall, Greg's done it again. But what would a blog entry be without a little bit of criticism, eh? Compared to his previous album, Night Ripper, I'd have to say I like this one a little less.

Actually, I like the first part of Feed The Animals, but once it starts trailing off into obscure songs and everything starts sounding the same I lose interest. That's one thing Night Ripper didn't do: for almost all of its duration the album kept me focused on the music.

Even though both albums feature songs blended into each other very well, to me the songs blended in Night Ripper just flow very well, while the FTA songs seem to be themed so differently at times that even though mathematically they work. . . they just don't. Metallica and that lip gloss song come to mind, as well as a few others: yes they were perfectly mixed but seriously. . .

Here's a link to the Illegal Art site where you can find Girl Talk's work:

http://illegalart.net/mainindex.html

Numark DXM09 Digital DJ Mixer

I've gone through a period of time where I've been saving up for new stuff. Here is one of those recent purchases:

Numark DXM09 Digital DJ Mixer

Some specs:
3 channels
3 band EQ with kills
RCA and 1/4" balanced outputs
RCA inputs
lots of headphone functions
smooth crossfader
several effects like echo, flange, phaser, etc.

I purchased this Numark as a sort of entry-level mixer. In the short time I've had to play with it I believe it's a quality product for its price. The fader is smooth and the knobs and functions are all easy to find and get used to. Sound output also seems good. Since I don't have a more expensive mixer to compare to I can't make that comparison, but I doubt the difference in quality would be anything to write home about.

I'm also trying to get better at scratching and this mixer is keeping up with that goal. As smoothly as everything runs the only limiter at this point is my own ability.

Overall: Great mixer for the price. Not as many effects as the higher versions but quality built in to everything it does have, which is enough for me at the moment.