Do you like old funk songs that sound like they were recorded in the 70s and could make any Sunday afternoon the best you've ever had? Then you should stop reading this and press play on the video below.

Gotye is an Australian musician (born in Belgium) who has released some albums but finally manage to catch my attention with his latest international single. And I have to blame the fact that they asked Passion Pit to remix 'Learnalilgivinanlovin' for the American release of the single (via the amazing blog/label Neon Gold).

The remix is the best so far from Passion Pit. They kept the funk vibe of the original and added some welcome synths that balance the experimental and danceable side of the band. Hpoefully they will stop with the "I was born in a 90's rave" type of remixes that they've been releasing.

Now let's go back to the original. 'Learnalilgivinanlovin' is a classic born hit that features all the big band elements you expect from a funk song - including brilliantly sung vocals. If played in a movie, the song would be the soundtrack for the sunny-day-at-the-park-SLASH-the-moment-I-knew-it-would-be-forever type of thing.

Now excuse me while I go chasing for Gotye's entire discography. Don't forget to order the 7" single via Neon Gold and Puregroove. Certainly worth it.

Starsmith already stole our heart with his remix for Marina and the Diamonds, now he strikes again with the help of another girl that we also love, Ellie Goulding. The target is one of the best songs of 2008, Passion Pit's 'Sleepyhead', and the result is a melodic and charismatic cover that erases the weird voices and synths from the original and introduces a more organic feel to it. Now we can finally have sweet dreams about sleepyhead.

The producer did an exclusive summer mix for the blog of the label Neon Gold (home to himself, Ellie and Passion Pit). It's a 5 minute long mix with songs from classic artists Michael Jackson, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, newbies Little Boots and Marina and the Diamonds, and the ever awesome Destiny's Child and Will Smith. You'll want to find out who else is on this mix after the jump. So. Good!

Tracklist

Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone

Destiny's Child - Say My Name

Little Boots - New In Town

Will Smith - Wild Wild West

Heads We Dance - Sirens

Michael Jackson - Rock With You

Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed

First of all, the cover above for Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 'Heads Will Roll' single has to be one of the coolest of the year. Secondly, we already posted the Michael-Jackson-as-a-dancing-wolf video which is also really cool (seriously, go watch it). So what's missing? The remixes, of course!

The Brooklyn trio are heavily remixing every new release from their third album It's Blitz! and chose the heavily hyped Passion Pit to retouch 'Heads Will Roll' with different synths. Unfortunately for us, Passion Pit chose synths that don't really belong to them and made a souless remix with the most predictable lines ever.

But no worries, Weird Tapes will show you how to inject your personality into a remix with their version. The unique blend of synths, feels and textures are not meant to be for dancefloors but will surely find a place in your thematic mixtapes. Although much better than Passion Pit's, the Weird Tapes version seems a bit out of sync at some moments.

Now will Yeah Yeah Yeahs release a more danceable mix of this song? There is still hope in the remixes from Tommie Sunshine, Little Vampire (aka Nick Zinner), James Iha that are going to be released on the 14th of July.

(I HEART PHOTOSHOP)

Again two artists we absolutely adore have collided. This time it’s a newer paramour Miike Snow with longer time love, Passion Pit.

The opening is a more noir affair than the original; the syncopated synth chords here are so laid back  that they’re almost out of synch, before being pulled into line and drilled over with frenetic fast bleepy electronica.

Miike Snow keep the glory of the chorus in tact though, it’s Passion Pit through and through. It’s less of a remix and more of a re-edit and it works it really does, and works great. Bloodshy and Avant themselves are obviously very used to applying themselves to other artists, with much success. And their skill in production is most evident here in their handling of ‘The Reeling’; they sublty mould the artist in question with their mad skillz, but they also leave the bulk of what they're about in tact. If it ain't broke don't try and fix it too much, is I suppose, the adage here.

Miike Snow do a nice job, but if I have to critique, they don’t really do all that much to the original (though what they do add I love); they don’t particularly reinterpret it nor do they improve on the fantastic original track. It left me just lukewarm - I feel like this remix was a little unnecessary, but still appreciated because I can’t resist either band!

What would you come up with if you took 'Umbrella's drums, samples from eighties sci-fi movie Starman and the Notorious B.I.G. rhymes from 'Hypnotise'? Dan Black triumphantly came up with 'Hypntz' and for that he travelled around some 'next big thing' lists for 2009. Some months later and he has an album ready to be released - but turns out that he didn't get permission to officially release 'Hypntz' because oddly, Notorious' mum, the one who takes care of his legacy, doesn't allow any sampling of her son's lyrics.

So Dan Black, who couldn't and shouldn't lose that song, re-wrote the lyrics and created 'Symphonies'. Although some may say the cover was better, I do find it charming the way Black tried to keep the dramatic content of the original, but also dropped some crazy fun rhymes (e.g. focus with hocus pocus). And as the theme is sampling, the music video features some famous movie openings; from the sepia classics to the 3-D futuristic.

By the way, do you know what it sounds like when two hypes collide? It sounds like robotic voices, hyperactive drums and dry 90s synths. At least this is how the Passion Pit remix of Dan Black sounds, and you can download a 320kbps version below.

'Symphonies' will be released by June 29^th with ((un)), the debut album, following in the 6^th July!

Shuttle is Passion Pit's Nate Donmoyer

photo by Alex Tabet 

Oh, Passion Pit. I feel that I can't talk about you anymore, but I already said those three little words about your debut album some time ago and now I will follow you everywhere until you get fat or start becoming jealous of my male friends...But as we're in the honeymoon phase I'm still dazed by your moves and impressed by everything you are part of. Your auto-remix of the summer anthem 'The Reeling' is no exception.

Shuttle is the cover name for Passion Pit's drummer Nate Donmoyer and he is taking the soft pop of 'The Reeling' to 'Super Club Mega Mix '99'. The remix starts with baile-funk flavored beats, then dusty synths are added (dated, as the name of the remix suggests, from '99), some digital claps and, of course, the sweet vocals from Michael Angelakos get the robot treatment. This non-ironic banging piece of music is aiming for all the club kids out there, but as soon as you get home, go and listen instead, to something quieter and better, like Manners.

It's an easy equation. Get one heavily hyped band, invite a heavily played (but still hyped) producer and combine their fame into one smashing remix. Fortunately for all of us, this equation also includes such variables as "awesome band", "great producer", "one of the best songs of the year" and "great remixer". If you still don't get it, I'm talking about Passion Pit, Calvin Harris and 'The Reeling' and you are a just a few lines (or should I say pixels?) away from a 320kbps download link of this joyful result.

PS. Considering this remix and the awfully adorable Coca-Cola music ad, we can say that Calvin Harris' trip through the tacky (but also ridonkulously addictive) rave phase has ended already. I was going to write "I hope so", but boy, 'I'm Not Alone' has been my favorite guilty pleasure since RuPaul's latest album.

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.

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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.