WEEZER vs GLASS CANDY

2008: The Year In Rejects Part 5 - Glass Candy Edition

ABX - Buddy Holly's Imagination [6MB; via drop.io]

Glass Candy put out Deep Gems, a record of singles and b-sides, which had tons of synthy instrumental sections just waiting to be mixed with something. Unfortunately I decided to mix it with Weezer. There should not be a dance mix of Weezer. Sorry, Rivers.

JAZMINE SULLIVAN vs GLASS CANDY

ABX - Busting Your Misty Windows [9MB; via drop.io]

BONUS FAIL: 5x Grammy nominee and 1x Hood Internet reject.

SURVIVOR vs GLASS CANDY

ABX - Glass Eye Of The Candy Tiger [8MB; via drop.io]

WHY NOT: This track was posted on the Bootie Top 10 in November, so it's not exactly a reject. This just seemed like a good time to post it.

MAINO vs CRYSTAL CASTLES

2008: The Year In Rejects Part 4

DJ STV SLV - Magic Haters [8MB; via drop.io]

This one would theoretically sound pretty boss if I could have located a better acapella file. Shout out to Crystal Castles who still owe me 10 dollars.

HIEROGLYPHICS vs GENESIS

2008: The Year In Rejects Part 3

DJ STV SLV - That's Who [7MB; via drop.io]

This year for Christmas I got this mashup of two of my favorite groups. It's as if I got a haphazardly-assembled hybrid of the Wii and the Xbox 360 that doesn't work quite as well as either would on its own (if even at all), but the idea of it is kind of fun.

DJ ASSAULT vs DEERHUNTER

2008: The Year In Rejects Part 2

DJ STV SLV - Deer Assault [7MB; via drop.io]




It's definitely been a busy year for the Hood -- posting slowed down a considerable amount from last year, probably because we spent a lot of our weekends out and about DJing. Even still, we still knocked out a fair amount of tracks and a bunch of different mixtapes: Vs Lykke Li, Vs Tobacco/Aesop, The Hood Volume Three, and Vs Chicago — which Current TV recently named as their #3 mixtape of the year:



So: onward with this year's batch of not-so-sure-about-this-one Hood tracks. This one finds Craig Diamond AKA The Street Narrator in cahoots with Bradford Cox and company.

BEYONCE vs FLEET FOXES

2008: The Year In Rejects Part 1

ABX - Single Foxes (Put A Wood On It) [4.2MB; via drop.io]

We ended last year posting tracks that didn't quite work for whatever reason. We're back with some new ones to close out 2008. And if you're wondering why these were rejected and that track with Ne-Yo wasn't, I really have no good answer for you. So don't ask.

The Beyonce and Fleet Foxes songs for this track were two favorites from the past year, but sounded like a mess when I was trying to put them together. I put in some extra work to clean it up for this post, and now I kind of like it.

AALIYAH vs GANG GANG DANCE

ABX - Are You That Inners Pace [6.3MB; via drop.io]



NO PHOTOSHOP: Yeah, that's an actual picture of Liz from Gang Gang Dance wearing an Aaliyah t-shirt. These were meant to be together.

GUCCI MANE vs MAX TUNDRA

ABX - Stoopid Entertainment [4.6MB; via drop.io]

HOOD vs LOS ANGELES

The Hood Internet - Nothing Is Getting L.A. Anywhere [5.3MB; via drop.io]

KEYS 2 THE CITY: We put together this track for imeem's Keys 2 the City series for Los Angeles. We crammed a whole bunch of L.A. artists (The Game, Ice Cube, MURS, Eazy E, Busdriver, Guns N' Roses, and Guns 'N' Bombs) onto one track to give a little flavor of L.A. past and present. Check the video below for the first installment in the series. Check this post at Discobelle for more info on the series. And check here for the rest of the series.

REMINDER: Hood will be performing live this Saturday December 6th at Echoplex in Los Angeles with our friends from Bootie L.A. Come dance.

COMMON vs FLYING LOTUS

ABX - Universal Goldfish Control [4.4MB; via drop.io]

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