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MUSIC WE LIKE: LYKKE LI; THE HOOD INTERNET

10/23/2008 / Comments (0) / by Mark Lim

lykke li (http://www.lykkeli.com) is a 22 year old swedish (where most good pop music comes from these days) singer who actually kind of looks like scarlett johanssen. her first album, youth novels, has gotten loads of acclaim from both the critics as well as the music blogs. it's kind of hard to describe what her music sounds like, so i guess it's better to just show you..

lykke li - little bit

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meanwhile, the hood internet (http://www.thehoodinternet.com) are a chicago-based group specializing in mashups of hiphop tracks with indie and sometimes pop songs. though the artists they decide to mash together would make you go wtf (dizzee rascal vs cyndi lauper?), somehow they make it work. they regularly release a compilation of their mashups on their site, and recently released volume 3.

i decide to feature them both at the same time because it turns out i wasn't the only one infatuated with lykke li's music. the hood internet is as well, and they decided to make a lykke li mashup album featuring six of her songs mixed with the likes of booka shade, digitalism, and gui boratto. this one is massive.