''The Hard Road: Restrung'' is a

remix A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...

of Hilltop Hoods' previous album '' The Hard Road'', featuring the

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is a South Australian performing arts organisation comprising 75 full-time musicians, established in 1936. Based in Adelaide, South Australia, the orchestra's primary performance venue is the Adelaide Town Ha ...

and American freestyle rapper Okwerdz. The album was released on 12 May 2007 in Australia, with a launch show and one-off performance with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the Entertainment Centre on the release date. International guests Okwerdz and Mystro performed as a surprise for fans; they were not advertised on the bill. The performance was recorded, and will be feature on a DVD along with footage from recent Hilltop Hoods performances. The album debuted at #8 on the ARIA Album Charts and was certified gold. ''The Hard Road: Restrung'' won the award for Best Urban Album at the 2007 ARIA Awards.

Album development

''The Hard Road: Restrung'' was brought about in part by the Hilltop Hoods' performance with the string section of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra during the 2006 ARIA Awards, where they performed " The Hard Road". Two tracks were not included from the original album ''The Hard Road'': "Blue Blooded" and "Circuit Breaker". This was down to the very nature of hip hop: ''"you are speeding things up or slowing them down when you sample them and that changes pitch. We had to pitch-shift entire songs so they were in tune with the orchestra and it just didn't work with those songs."''. ''The Hard Road: Restrung'' has a new order of tracks and also contains one new track "Roll on Up". "Stopping All Stations" and "What a Great Night" also have new verses by Suffa on the former and Pressure on the latter. The album was released in a censored format: :''"we were working under the assumption that it was a requirement of working with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Turns out that it wasn't (they've been really cool to work with, really flexible and laid back). By the time we found this out it was way too late in the mixing process to go back and change the edits."''Suffa on Hilltop Hoods mySpace blog page
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Singles

"Recapturing The Vibe Restrung" was released as a single and a video was made and uploaded to YouTube on 13 December 2007.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Certifications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hard Road Restrung, The Hilltop Hoods albums 2007 remix albums ARIA Award-winning albums Obese Records albums