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WE // R \\ GOING

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Passion Pit's remix contest. Grab all the parts here!

Tuesday // April 28, 2009 at 15:38 // filed under Music

Passion Pit at studio

Passion Pit's career is getting bigger with every day that passes. The boys are becoming masters of the teaser and are making us more anxious than we have been already. After we posted about their remix contest for their adorable new song 'Little Secrets', lots of our friends came to us asking for help in finding all the sample parts for the benefit of their remixes. And we did, with the help of Google, lots of e-mails and some nice internet people.

If you are worried that by downloading this you might be breaking any number of rules and getting thrown out of the contest, you are wasting precious time that could be spent remixing, as they support this trading off in the pursuit of getting better remixes. "Trade with your fellow remixers and musicians until you have all the snippets, or just create a new composition around the one piece you have."

We have some different files versions here, but we haven't checked them all. So you better check to see if everything is working. You could also send your remixes to holler@imyouare.com, we would love to post them - as long we like them, of course.

Passion Pit remix (file: aif) missing "vox_bg"

Passion Pit remix (file: mp3)

Passion Pit remix (file: flac)

Passion Pit remix (file: wav)

PS. Have you heard 'Moth's Wings'? It's a melodic non-single-material which helps to fill the album as one epic indie debut. It was premiered at Pitchfork yesterday and will be part of Manners.

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Passion Pit - Moth's Wings [mp3]

POSTED BY RAPHAEL CAFFARENA

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