Last Monday, the Interweb gave itself a virtual hernia as folks flocked en masse to download All Day, the new Girl Talk album from master cut-and-paster Gregg Gillis.

Being the responsible blogger I am, I refrained from throwing the spotlight on All Day until now, waiting until the series of tubes was unblocked so you can grab the totally-free set without any frustrating delays.

All Day, the fifth Girl Talk album and the follow-up to 2008’s Feed The Animals, is Gillis’ most sprawling work to date. Clocking in at over 70 minutes, the set’s 12 tracks are comprised of 372 samples (averaging out to 31 each). If you’ve only got the vaguest sense of why so many are so geeked about Girl Talk, your ears are in for a real treat. Digging into a deep collection of music past and present for his mix-and-match artistry, the absolute genius of Gillis’ output is that each listener will likely find themselves smiling for totally different reasons as his stitched-together samples pop in, out, and under.

For me, the All Day moments that really got me grinning on the first spin through were the extended chunks of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes,” T’Pau’s “Heart And Soul,” and Bananarama’s “Cruel Summer,” all examples of the “breathing room” Gillis tried this time around. Of course, I heart the ’80s, so I’m, like, totally biased. Check out “Jump The Stage” at about 1:42 through and see if it don’t make you beg for more:

Playing “peg the sample” is, of course, part of the fun of listening to Girl Talk, but if you’ve got some time and don’t mind much of the mystery being removed, I suggest streaming All Day via this site, which displays the songs being sampled in real time. Pretty genius use of the tubes, I’d say.

And if you dig what Gillis does, but wonder why he hasn’t been hauled into court for his unauthorized sampling, paidContent has a response worth reading.

Download Girl Talk – All Day (as a seamless mix or as 12 separate tracks) via Illegal Art, which now also helpfully lists mirror sites in case its servers are busy.