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Manifesto

| September 19, 2005 | music, weekly mp3

OK, so I love mp3 blogs, its where I listen to most of my music, its where a lot of the inspiration comes from for my own tracks (and a fair few of the samples too). So I’m going to start using this area of the site to post up my own favourite things, more or less at random. I’m making no promises in terms of regularity here, and I can almost guarantee you that there’ll be no consistency – you’re gonna love some of this stuff, and you’re gonna hate some of it, but hey thats all part of it. I like a lot of different kinds of music, and a lot of really absurd and dumb stuff. Dumb stuff is cool.

I’m not going to try to keep up with the hottest, newest, coolest stuff – although I do personally like to keep up with all the hottest, newest, coolest stuff – but there are plenty of mp3 blogs already doing that. I don’t claim to be some hip crate-digger or obscure record collector either – I find most stuff on the internet, and if I could do it, you could too. This is just going to be about songs that I like and that I want to share. Time to give something back.

So come back soon as I start leaking my favourite tracks onto the world wide web, one by one. Just got to decide where to start.

4 comments:

1 Tim { 09.20.05 at 2:11 pm }

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2 Tim { 09.20.05 at 2:15 pm }

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3 Kris { 10.13.05 at 8:53 am }

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4 Maddi (Tim's Sis) { 10.13.05 at 9:10 pm }

I was going to go with the ‘This is a test comment’ but i thought id be cool, considering i am your sister and say.. AWESOME SITE TIM!.. love the cd
*biggest Fan*

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February 2010

/// The second Faux Pas full-length is called Noiseworks and will be released in April 2010. Its a joint release between Sensory Projects and Heroics.

/// See the awesome cover art (courtesy of New York artist Tomokazu Matsuyama) here.

/// The new record features extended versions of singles “Chasing Waterfalls” and “Silver Line” – the single edits however, are still available for free download.

/// Also, you can listen to four remixes of Silver Line (courtesy of Kharkov, Kane Ikin, Loopsnake and myself) here.

/// Lastly – I’ve started posting a demo or spontaneous jam once a week on my Facebook page. It has been going for a few weeks. Be warned: results may vary. Check it out – you don’t need to be a Facebook member to listen/download them.

Tim Shiel lives and in Melbourne. He makes music under the name FAUX PAS, and is also a broadcaster on public radio station 3RRR FM. This blog began in 2005.

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Tim’s SUPER RAD BIOGRAPHY

1981: Born in Melbourne Australia, life feels empty and without meaning

2005: FAUX PAS created – life still meaningless

2009: Tim writes brand new three-line biography

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