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Night Ripper was unleashed into the world 20 years ago, and when it hit, it did the same thing to us as it did to many: rewired our brains to forever change our associations of all the songs sampled within. We’d already loved 2ManyDJs' "As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2," Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album," the many Z-Trip mixes that bridged genres— and the advent of this Girl Talk album helped unearth even more OGs: "The Lesson(s)" by Double Dee & Steinski, or Italian releases like Club House and Pink Project. It also absolutely opened the doors to people's reception of our bootleg mp3 blog The Hood Internet, which later evolved into live DJ sets, plus all sorts of remix, editing, and composition projects. The Hood Internet's initial approach was largely an already-been-done A vs B re-imagining of two songs together as a full "single" or DJ edit, sourced from our own vast collections of music at that moment in time. I'm trying not to use the word mashup, but that's what we made. (Picture that Winnie the Pooh meme where his usual appearance is next to the word "mashup," and then wearing the tuxedo he's next to the word "blend.") Whereas Girl Talk's approach was FRENETIC: 15 to 20 samples happening within a single track, all anchored together. It made sense that he'd state he was "not a DJ," and that the tracks weren't mashups. Night Ripper was a pop sound collage built for the dance floor. Can you even remix something like that? Eh, why not. As a nod to its 20th bday, we grabbed the samples Girl Talk used on EVERY track from the album, and created remixed versions of each track that keep the original tempo and rearrange the samples into a brand new configuration. And then made music videos for each of them!