With all the attention paid to Girl Talk lately, I feel like we should get to know another big name in the mashup game: The Hood Internet. The Hood Internet is made up two deejays from Chicago. (They actually released a mixtape of songs entirely by Chicago bands/rappers, which is pretty neat.) Their style is much different from Girl Talk’s, though. Whereas GT likes to skip from popular song to popular song, Hood Internet’s trademark is mixing indie rock and electro with hip-hop. And instead of quickly fading from one song to another, they tend to let the beat ride a bit more, which isn’t necessarily bad.
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Girl Talk released his new mixtape “All Day” this week in a failed attempt to finally break the internet. TheAwl weighed in by noting how good it was and comparing it to the hub-bub over the Beatles catalog finally appearing on iTunes.
Want to know all 375 samples that Greg Gillis used? Check out the nerdlingers over at Wikipedia.