I’m a huge fan of Gregg Michael Gillis, who most of you might know as Girl Talk. I first head his album NightRipper about two years back and was sold as soon as I heard the first tracks. This guy produces mashups/remixes like no other, in which he blends over a dozen tracks through each other matching vocals and samples. It like crazy how hard he can rock a laptop. What makes his tracks so dope is that you keep rediscovering differents tracks and loops within each track everytime you listen to them.

With the Piratebay trial just finished I must recommend you check out Good Copy, Bad Copy which is a documentary about copyright laws, peer-to-peer filesharing, pirating,… It features interviews with many people with various perspectives on copyright, including copyright lawyers, producers, artists and also the guys from PirateBay who tell us their side of the story.

Head on over to On-Point.be if you’re interested in checking out the entire documentary, as it was featured overthere a while back.

After having seen the documentary I got interested in the whole discussion concerning copyright and open source. What really caught my eye was the trailer for RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008). The concept is rather simple, its the first open source documentary about the changing concept of copyright. I just discovered you can check out the different chapters overhere. The film is directed by Brett Gaylor who founded the Open Source Cinema project which brought us this documentary containing the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to the website. The project keeps encouraging people to create their own remixes from this movie, using all available media on the website or YouTube.