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Manifesto

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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August 2010

/// New 6-track Vanderbilt EP features two Faux Pas tracks plus remixes by Crumbs, Aoi, Pasobionic and Lewis CanCut. Its a free download, get it here.

/// My album Noiseworks – featuring “Vanderbilt”, “Chasing Waterfalls” and “Silver Line” – is available here.

/// I’ve been working on remixes for local bands Rat vs Possum and Flying Scribble. These are good people.

/// I’ve started making some new songs – if you want to have a sneak peek at what they sound like, here is the place to start.


 
 

Tim Shiel lives 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 meaningful BIOGRAPHY

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

2005: FAUX PAS created – life still meaningless

2010: Tim writes brand new three-line biography

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“Psychedelic. Balearic. Straight up pop. Call it what you want, this is memorable music.” keytarsandviolins

“Lush, dreamy future pop that just begs you to dive in headfirst, your heart in close second. Just be careful how many times you dip in – you might find yourself blissfully lost in here.” mess+noise

“Impressive elastic strands of plaited sense associations; extract of flashy disco, pastoral swoon and computer exploration.” threethousand

“A total cottage industry – one guy recording, pressing and releasing his own music – and it’s an example of how to do it right from the bottom up.” Stylus

“A manic journey of sounds, bound by neither genre nor era.” Beat

“Cuts-and-pastes big samples with delicately rendered instrumentation. A party jam. Four stars.” Pitchfork

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