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Yesterday morning, scary news that Passion Pit’s debut album, Manners was being pushed back hit the Twitterverse. Later that afternoon, InSound reported that the album was indeed back on track and will be released on May 19th. Thank goodness!
Good Passion Pit news keeps on coming, today the band announced a remix contest for one of the tracks off Manners, “Little Secret.” The band is offering up snippets of the original track. No stems, just snippets — so this will challenge you to bring your best remix game. I challenge you PMA readers to enter this contest! Email me/comment with mediafire/zshare links to YOUR “Little Secret” Remix, and you WILL see it here.
(I strongly suggest you check out the comments section for downloads of the different stems and tips from other remixers)
Read on for the mp3 and the official message via DailyGrindBlog
Passion Pit is offering up snippets from “Little Secrets” right here, a full month before the track is available with the May 19th release of Manners. They want you to take those pieces and build your own songs around them. All you have to do is offer up your email address and you’ll be sent a stem snippet of the unreleased track. 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.
Hover over the shapes on the player to hear the snippets. Submit your info on the player, and when you receive your piece, get to work – the sky’s the limit, add synths, guitar, cowbell, more children’s choirs, your best Michael impression. Post the results here, where fans will vote for their ten favorites until May 15th. After voting closes, Passion Pit will pick five remixes to be released along with a special vinyl version of “Little Secrets,” while the five runners up will receive a copy of the vinyl and a signed CD of Manners. Official contest rules here.
Sweet! Here’s a two minute clip of “Little Secret” to mold into your remix.
I’m expecting AMAZING REMIXES people!
by on April 23, 2009 ‡ 1 reaction
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{ 76 comments… read them below or add one }
ok somebody help Ican’t download anything from the site, it’s not working and I can’t find any stem snippets online please upload them somewhere else or send me them, thanks
Well, they sent me a 10 second clip of “synth chorus.” Lemme know if anyone wants it. It happens to be the clean version of the sound from the rightmost swoosh looking thing. Do I post the link or does that ruin the fun?
No it doesn’t ruin the fun! lol its 10 seconds, even if we loop it it isn’t much c’mon
What I got was http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/zopier/synth_chorus.aif.zip
Sound like it could be looped. I tried poking around with the address to see if a file like “vocal_loop.aif.zip” etc existed, but I suspect the folder for each might be special.
So, I suppose you could just enter lots of different email addresses to get them all, I also got http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/vnjkqm/bells.aif.zip
Good Idea, and thanks alot. I’ll see what I can do, I don’t have a piece but I would give it out if I had it
I want to try this out even though I have no chance at winning. Everyone should just get a bunch of e-mails and download as many snippets as we can
these are the ones I have gotten
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/vnjkqm/bells.aif.zip
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/oeiruf/keys_verse.aif.zip
Got another one!
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/ipuzbf/more_bass.aif.zip
if other people contribute i will post three more that I have gotten. but if I’m just giving these away without getting any back then there’s no point!
Look my computer isn’t working with the site, so sorry I can’t
Oh and is it only available as an AIFF? Audacity doesn’t work with those and I use Audacity. I’ve been ripping them but its rrly low quality
hmmm.. maybe you can convert aiff to mp3 or wav?
I can try…with what?
I’ll find something
gooogle.
If we get enough of these snippets I’ll put them in a zip folder for everyone to download
i was able to listen only after i changed the .aif to .zip manually while saving the file. hope that helps some.
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http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/kmqsfh/aux_perc.aif.zip
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/bkofqp/kids.aif.zip
- smedly
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/kmqsfh/aux_perc.aif.zip
- smedly
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/apowxd/synthstrings.aif.zip
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http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/znsdfk/vox_verse2.aif.zip
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http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/zebnrs/outro_guitar.aif.zip
-smedly
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/vnjkqm/bells.aif.zip
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http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/lhnkvg/bass.aif.zip
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Passion Pit never ceases to amaze me.
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/pozeir/drums_bass_prechorus.aif.zip
I was thinking about just recording every sound. Somehow that seems less tedious to me than entering numerous emails. Let me know if anyone wants a zip of them. Sounds like it’ll be fun to remix this.
Also, pretty much any major music program nowadays can convert btwn aif and wav – if you’re desperate you can even use iTunes.
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/enbvwf/vox_bridge.aif.zip
another one i got
Didn’t realize – you guys posted almost all of them. Nice! Here’s another one:
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/oiklnq/synth_chorus2.aif.zip
@letting up
could you send me a zip?
ryan.parker-@hotmail.com
oh is that all of them above? didn’t see those haha, scanned right past them!
damn! i wonder if this is breaking the rules.
It’s not. it says on the real page to trade with your fellow musicians and remixers.
Ok I wanna Zip, before you make fun of me I made my email when I was like goddamn 8 and everyone allready knows it so I nvr got around to changing it, its homeworkhater5@yahoo.com shutup n dont make fun of me lol
wait are the ones above Everything? I have 13…
No, that’s not all of them. There is 20 in total. I think there’s 15 above. So we’re missing five. Time to register more e-mails
I’ve registered about 15, I keep getting ones that I already have.
and there’s only 13 above my mistake.
OhMyGod, I nvr would have thoughtt it was so damn hard to get a free AIFF to MP3 coverter! All of the ones I got kept giving me error messages, so I began to think it was the file, until One of them converted the files but it only converted 30% and for the other 70% I had to pay, and I just tried by like using to simoltainious programs that didn’t work…
If you find one that works could you send me a link? acid pro is giving me an error when i try to open the parts
@David~!
If you put them into iTunes, you can create an MP3 version. From there you can use just about anything to put them into wav
So how would I do that? Sorry, I’m bad at this sh!t lol
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/azwxcd/synths_bridge.aif.zip
Another one.
Haha. So you right click, open with iTunes. Once it opens, you can right click and hit Create MP3 version. It’ll send it to wherever your iTunes sends ripped music and will be in Unknown Artist, Unknown Album
Full zipped file in wav format…
http://www.zshare.net/download/591512606bfebd51/
wow!! thanks a lot david! you rawkk!!!
Any chance for Bmp?
That zshare file doesn’t work. it says it’s damaged when I try to extract it
Downloading the zhare zip fine WAV as I type…I’ll let you all know
ok and David thanks alot but I did that but its like MPEG 4 and Audacity isn’t converting that either, but I guess MPEG 4 is alot easier to convert than AIFF? I didn’t get any “Create MP3 version” when I right clicked, only “Create AAC version” so thats what I did
Ok so David that ZIP had some problem can you please reupload? I would honestly kill for an MP3/Wav version of all this, please
Other David can you re-upload that or just the one I need? All I need from it is keys_verse though.
ok so I just did it another way, first do what david said “Haha. So you right click, open with iTunes. Once it opens, you can right click and hit Create MP3 version. It’ll send it to wherever your iTunes sends ripped music and will be in Unknown Artist, Unknown Album” for me it was create ACC but whatev then from there use the link below to change to MP3
http://www.sharewareguide.net/article/Guide/guide:-how-to-convert-mpeg4-to-mp3-with-the-mpeg4-to-mp3-converter.html
The good news: it works. Bad news: Chops off the last second or so cuz I didn’t pay. I’m ok, Thru pitch correction and looping I’ve gotten most fixed but it chops off “complain” on the Bridge, so I had to Loop Friends and have it fade out, sounds weird.
whoa! so much effort! looks like a major pain in the ass without even having gotten to the all important remixing aspect of it….
my ears and i are just gonna be waiting for the results…
ok If U ppl post the remaining 6 then I’ll zip all 20 as an MP3
And it won’t chop any off, if you post the remaining 6 stems I WILL POST ALL 20 AS AN MP3
dude why dont you register some e-mails and get them. you havent gotten any
anooon my computer doesn’t work with the website
Hey! don’t think this one is up here yet.
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/mqkfsa/drumbreak.aif.zip
*Hugs Lancar*
I think mine is still not up here.
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/mlkzaj/synth_prechorus.aif.zip
New one:
http://www.mxp4.com/passionpit/secret/ghjqkm/vox_chorus.aif.zip
All 20 Samples in FLAC (converted from the aifs, not the web preview)
http://rapidshare.com/files/226492601/little_secrets.zip
… took me over 80 e-mails
Thanks, a million times over.
Ok so the laxity’s rapidshare was a lifesaver but it’s in Flac, I needed to convert them with a program I have if anyone needs me to then I’ll post a zip file of all 20 in MP3 form, I dont know if anyone does if one person wants it I’ll post it so comment.
anyone have the links for keys intro and vox_verse??
nevermind. use xACT
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14246
you guys crack me up
can’t wait to hear the remixes. I wonder when voting starts (i.e., when they put up all the tracks for people to hear)?
voting just started. check it out!
voting started! some really good ones.
(also check out the pp forums.. http://passionpit.freeforums.org/)
My mix is up – vote for it if you like! It’s the Letting Up Despite Great Faults track. I’m currently 3rd
http://www.passionpitmusic.com/contest
Thanks a mil! I know what I’m up to today!
whatever happened to this? did anyone win??