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between

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and Animal Collective member

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. It was limited to 1,000 copies. This is Panda Bear's third single from his 2007 album '' Person Pitch''.

Song information

"Carrots" consists of two sections: "Good Girl" and "Carrots". "Good Girl" lasts for the first four and a half minutes, and then segues into "Carrots", which itself consists of two separate sections, the last one starting at the eight minute mark. The first section contains a sample of "Radio Calcutta #2" from the Sublime Frequencies album "Radio India: The Eternal Dream Of Sound". The second part contains samples of "Enter the Dragon" by

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and "Someday" by Kylie Minogue, and the last section of the song contains a sample taken from Kraftwerk's song "Ananas Symphonie" ("Pineapple Symphony") from their 1973 album

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. The interplay between the song's three movements illustrates a statement made by Panda in an interview o
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radio, in which he discussed the idea of performing songs the way a DJ would play records, blending samples that have different BPM which would result in discordant

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. Excepter's side contains fragments of two live versions of "Knock Knock", whose lyrics are inspired by the traditional folk song illustrated on the sleeve, " King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O".

Track listing

Side A – "Carrots": # "Good Girl" # "Carrots" Side B – "KKKKK": # "Lypse 2" # "Who's There" # " Knock Knock" # "Jrone (Four)" # "

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