Renowned mash-up merchant Gregg Gillis – who you’d probably know as Girl Talk – has been busy on the campaign trail following the release of his internet-imploding Feed The Animals album in 2008, most recently landing in Australia to sweat it up in the Boiler Room at this year’s Big Day Out.

Since finishing up touring duties for that classification-defying LP, Gillis has been at work in his studio crafting his next record, originally envisioned as a non ‘collage’ album, but which has ultimately morphed into another round of mixed-up mayhem in true Girl Talk style.

Speaking to Pitchfork this week, Gillis confirmed that fans can expect to see his next album land on the interwebs before the end of the year and also that it’ll be the longest GT outing yet, clocking in at over ‘65 minutes’.

“To me, amping things up doesn’t mean cramming in more samples as much as it means making things more dynamic and expressing more patience and being more detailed than before,” Gillis explained of his process for following up Feed The Animals. “I wanted to put in more little breather-room elements. It’s definitely in the same ballpark as Feed the Animals, but the production’s more complex and there’s more of a variety in the source material. I’m trying to make something that’s really, really complicated and has material that jumps around as far as possible in genre and style but, when you ultimately listen to it, it sounds like one cohesive piece of music.”

Forever testing the length of his leap by jumping from genre to genre in each mash, Gillis promised some more mind-bending blends on the next album, including a mix of Aphex Twin with ring-tone rapper Soulja Boy described by Gillis as his ‘favourite moment’ on the new album…