Just when you thought that nothing more could be wrung from Passion Pit's 'Little Secrets', here comes a remix from our latest favourite up and coming male pop star, Penguin Prison.

Taking a softer, more echoey approach, Penguin Prison spins something altogether more pillowy (pillowy. Are you getting me with that one?) and airier than the original. Kinda arm waving, y'know? The piano line becomes the foundation and the vocals mellowed out. Penguin Prison (aka Chris Glover) does a sweet job turning 'Little Secrets' into a funky lullaby. We're waiting with bated breath to hear his debut album.

Tegan and Sara really love their song 'Alligator'. They love it so much that they just released a digital album full of different versions (remixes included) of the song and named it... Alligator! Passion Pit, VHS or Beta, Holy Fuck, Ra Ra Riot, Four Tet, Mad Decent, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, Toro Y Moi are only a few of the names that are part of this ode to 'Alligator', but let's go to the original version first.

'Alligator' is a perfect pop song that will stick to your brain - one that you won't complain about. It's 2 minutes and 49 seconds has a quite a simple and delicate structure created around drums, piano and sometimes by bass. The video shows a world with festive, multi-colored confetti, lots of plastic bags and a synchronized dance. Too cute!

As for the remixes, Toro Y Moi's makes the track smoother, prettier and less delicate than the original. The chillwave treatment suits the girls' vocals perfectly; we would not be shocked if this turns into a future album collaboration.

And when we had almost lost faith in Passion Pit remixes, they finally release one that sounds like a Passion Pit song, not some horrible electro rave type of affair. It's like an 80s party with glittery synths and echoey drums. Nice one!

We've heard all 17 different versions of the song and we have to say there is some great music in there - some even better than the remixes we post. So if you like these three versions, you'll be impressed with the content on this album.

Lady Alpha Passion Bits refers not only to a mash up of Alphabeat and Passion Pit who did the 'Telephone' remixes in this post, but also I suppose, a little bit of what Lady Gags kinda presents: an Alpha[beat] bitch, [Passion]ate about her work who's Bits are under speculation.

The very first time I encountered 'Telephone' was sometime late last year. It wasn't actually the single - it was this version below (I couldn't find the original poster/video, but here it is anyway).

Even in this form, it's sticky as shit to your shoe.

I don't look out for Gaga or go out of my way to check her, because stuff from and about her tends to smack you in the face anyway - GIRL IS EVERYWHERE (and suffering from exhaustion as you undoubtedly would be). When 'Telephone' assaulted my senses, I was floored by it's ambition and ridiculousness.

'Telephone' has been analysed, blogged and screen capped to mega-deth; and begrudgingly, understandably so, just like 'Bad Romance' was. And yet I also find these two remixes of the track fun and hair flicky enough to post. I sort of don't feel like I have that much perspective on Lady Gags; I'm a bit confused myself as to how I actually consume her/music/product/persona/poo cakes.

Either way.

Alphabeat's remix goes between a typical dance club track to a Pussycat Doll-ish segment during Beyoncé's breakdown (which I really enjoy) to taking on a touch of Robert Miles. Really not bad at all Alphabeat.

Passion Pit's retouch immediately made me question whether I'd misunderstood who had actually remixed it. Passion Pit, dat really chu? It was more interesting to me that this was a Passion Pit product rather than anything else, in this super dancey late 90s feeling remix, though it's still pretty bangin' as well.

I get the Madonna comparisons and all, but I really think that Gags is going to end up much more like a Cher figure/character rather than Madge-y one, y'know? What do you think?

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.

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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!