The stage name of music producer and DJ Gregg Gillis, Girl Talk’s Night Ripper is a bizarre mash up album. Specialising in sample-based remixes thieved from literally dozens of genres of music and artists - from hip hop to dance to R&B and pop – keep your ears open, you’ll soon discover there’s practically nothing that Gillis won’t plunder.

Although the album showcases as 16 separate tracks, to all intents and purposes Night Ripper is one 42-minute continuous mix. The tempo stabilises between mid-stream to high throughout, and plays almost like a pub quiz. Is that three bars of Spandau Ballet I hear next to some east coast hip hop dude?

In fact, there are lots of questions to be fleetingly asked. Where did Gillis get permission to use all these samples? Did he painstakingly arrange them so that they cleverly bond together like superglue, or use a cheap adhesive – his brain? Sounds like the latter. Is this a celebration of contemporary mainstream pop music or a money-making gimmick? The latter of course, although the novelty is unlikely to last as long as it takes to listen to the first 19 minutes of the CD.

Producers, creative music makers and serious music aficionados will be horrified by this puerile release, yet it’s still a valuable commentary on today’s culture of cut and paste forever recyclable music – whereby if you’re not creative enough to be original or even credible, try and make money using somebody else’s talent.

It’s 2008, and Girl Talk sounds like Gillis has just stumbled on the sampler. Maybe today’s restless teenagers, who can barely sit through an entire MP3 without losing concentration will like it, for the rest of us – this is the very ripest of turds.