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As a mark of honour, the town officially declared 7 December 2010 as “Greg Gillis Day”.

To support the release of his fifth album “All Day” in 2010 (another free release via the Illegal Art website) Gillis began his nationwide tour with two sold out shows in his hometown of Pittsburgh, US. In turn, all of Gillis’ releases fall under the Creative Commons license which means fans are able to use his work for derivative purposes. Not one to shy away from controversy, Gillis has been the subject to many a licensing and copyright debate about his use of unauthorised samples using up to as many as 150 per album. The album featured in many publication charts including number 22 position on Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2006. It was the release of his third album “Night Ripper” in 2006 which led to his commercial breakthrough, highly praised by critics and fans alike. The album featured his distinctive and signature mash-ups as he played with the post-modern approach to making music.

The album featured on the labels website and was on sale through the pay-what-you-want model. In 2002 came the release of Girl Talk’s debut album “Secret Diary” through the sampling label Illegal Art.

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The juxtaposition of the name implying a young pop girl band and the reality of Gillis not limiting himself to the confines of underground electronic music and instead shook up the conventions through his early sampling through the use of The Spice Girls and Jurassic Park which set him apart.īefore assuming the stage name in 2001, Gillis worked full time as a biomedical engineer which to some appears to be a far cry from his position as an artist but he cites similarities between the two in regards to the meticulous nature involved in engineering and applying it to his rhythm calculations. Gillis choice of moniker appears odd, but at the time of him first venturing into the industry he found himself situated within the experimental music community and the name came about as a form of rebellion.