SELF/TACO: If you haven’t already seen the cover artwork for our new compilation (released today via Mishka), spend two minutes of your life watching the behind-the-scenes video. After that, you’ll be either hungry or revolted — but whichever the case you’ll have the necessary prerequisites to download (for free) fourteen tracks of remixes and original productions that we’ve created over the past couple of years. Tracklist:

1. Ninjasonik & Johnny Nelson - The Future [prod. THI]
2. Foster the People (feat. Hollywood Holt) - Pumped Up Kicks (THI Remix)
3. Hooray For Earth (feat. Donwill) - True Loves (THI Remix)
4. Tobacco (feat. Aesop Rock) - Dirt (THI & Zaid Maxwell Remix)
5. Mando Diao (feat. GZA/Genius & Cadence Weapon) - Dance With Somebody (THI Remix)
6. Freddie Gibbs, Class Actress & Telli Gramz - VCR [prod. THI]
7. BBU (feat. Das Racist) - Please, No Pictures [prod. THI]
8. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (THI Remix)
9. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round (THI Remix)
10. The Rosebuds - Get Up Get Out (THI Remix)
11. Ramona Falls - Russia (THI Remix)
12. DVAS (feat. Kid Static) - Society (THI Remix)
13. Still Flyin’ - Victory Walker (THI 4:46am Remix)
14. Database & Empires - Bang Bang (THI Remix)

RIHANNA vs TV ON THE RADIO

ABX - Only Cannonball In The World (Rihanna vs TV On The Radio)
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FLORIDA: This Thursday Hood Internet rolls through Fort Lauderdale for a show at The Green Room on their Digital Love night.

SHAPERS + TOBACCO + BEANS = TOUR: You may know that Hood Internet’s STV SLV plays in a band called SHAPERS. This month they will be touring the Midwest through the Pacific Northwest with Tobacco and Beans. Tour dates are listed below. Also, check out the Daytrotter session they just dropped here and download The Hood Internet remix of the SHAPERS track “Father Trout” at the bottom of this post.

WED 4.13 - The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI
THU 4.14 - The Strutt, Kalamazoo MI
FRI 4.15 - Lincoln Hall, Chicago IL
SAT 4.16 - High Noon Saloon, Madison WI
SUN 4.17 - Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis MN
MON 4.18 - The Aquarium, Fargo ND
WED 4.20 - Top Hat, Missoula MT *
FRI 4.22 - Chop Suey, Seattle WA
SAT 4.23 - Holocene, Portland OR
MON 4.25 - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City UT
TUE 4.26 - Larimer Lounge, Denver CO

* w/ The Hood Internet (no Tobacco nor Beans)

SHAPERS - Father Trout (The Hood Internet Remix)
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Also check out the SHAPERS video for “Jar,” shot and edited by Craig (aka Wheezy Waiter) and Matt of Driftless Pony Club with expert technical assistance from Ryan of Harmony Joyride Productions. You can watch it over at Tiny Mix Tapes or view below:

JOHN BLU vs GONZALES

2010: The Year In Rejects Part 3

DJ STV SLV - Theme From Yo Booty (John Blu vs Gonzales)
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Hope you all had nice holiday time, whether recently or earlier this month or whenever the fuck you celebrate. Now let’s get back to our annual digital cutting room floor. The title alone on this one was questionable, as most permutations of “In Love With Yo Booty” and “Theme From In Between” resulted in a pause. Also questionable: the mix itself!

NEW YEARS EVE + NEW YEARS DAY: If we haven’t scared you off with this year’s installation of nonsense, don’t forget we have TWO shows this weekend. The first is on New Years Eve (Friday) at the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis with Brother Ali. It’s a benefit for the music programs at Robbinsdale Cooper High School in MPLS. More details here. The weekend continues on Saturday in Chicago, where we’ll be at Lincoln Hall with Tobacco, Elite Gymnastics, and Sparkletone. (Discounted admission if you’re already attending Lincoln Hall’s NYE show with Flosstradamus.)

R.E.M. vs HOLY FUCK

DJ STV SLV - Dr. Crush (R.E.M. vs Holy Fuck)
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NEW YEARS EVE TICKETS ON SALE NOW: We’ll be in Minneapolis for the Vega Productions New Years Eve with Brother Ali, DJ Snuggles, More Than Lights, and Dada Trash Collage. Get tickets here.

NEW YEARS DAY TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY AT NOON: Back to Chicago for Saturday 1/1/11, we’ll be at Lincoln Hall with Tobacco and Elite Gymnastics. Plus either DJ TBA or DJ TBD. Get tickets here.

This 5-song EP is culled from Tobacco’s new Maniac Meat album (out tomorrow on anticon, click here to purchase) and Slug + Murs + Aesop Rock’s Felt 3: A Tribute To Rosie Perez (out now on Rhymesayers).

The acappellas and instrumentals from the Felt 3 album are available on iTunes, with all proceeds from downloads benefiting 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging creative and expository writing skills in students across the country.

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1. Paul Reubens’ Aerobics
2. Creepy Ghost Calls
3. Grape For Your Trunk
4. Hot Tub Freaks Like You
5. Stretch Your Whaleface

BIG L vs BIBIO

BROTHER ALI vs FLYING LOTUS

Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) has a new album called Fucked Up Friends dropping on Anticon in two weeks. Aesop Rock is on the track “Dirt,” so not only does he appear on the Hood remix of said track, we’ve also made this whole mini-mixtape (technically a compilation since the songs don’t mix into each other) of Tobacco and Aesop with some other special guest appearances. Let’s get it:

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1. Little Pink Getaway Car (feat. Cage, Breeze Brewin)
2. Hairy Candy at 11:35 (feat. Mr. Lif)
3. Coffee Hawker (feat. John Darnielle)
4. Dirt RMX (feat. Zaid Maxwell)
5. Lime Eaters (feat. Camp Lo)
6. Dark Pink Goo (feat. Rob Sonic)
7. We’re Backwoods Famous (feat. El-P)

Make sure to get Fucked Up Friends when it’s FOR REAL released in two weeks, and catch Tobacco at CMJ on October 22 with Fujiya & Miyagi.

Side note, shout out to Amplive who we met at a show in Indiana this weekend. Download his Radiohead Rainydayz Remixes if you haven’t already, and see him at Popscene in SF on October 17 with Ladyhawke and Bumblebeez.