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16. cleptoclectics – interstellar taste lapse

i’m currently going track by track through a mix i recently did for a website called research and development – find out more here.

16. cleptoclectics – interstellar taste lapse

cleptoclectics is tom smith, originally from canberra, now in sydney. his textural take on cut-up instrumental hip hop is really intuitive and immediate, and he is a sampler with respect for the processes he’s employing. i found out about him through a compilation cd put out by australian leftfield music magazine cyclic defrost last year.

“What counts has never been to go along with some related movement, but to make one’s own movement. If no one starts, no one will move.” Gilles Deleuze

i’m exceedingly happy to say that cleptoclectics have turned in the very first remix of a faux pas track ever, and that it sounds great. in fact, he’s turned in two of them, and they are both pretty special. i’m gonna sit on them for a little bit longer, like a hen sits on an egg, like john howard sits on the toilet and excretes shit like so much coalition policy. actually not like john howard.

in the meantime, here are two tracks taken from cleptoclectics’ debut release for feral media which is called “poignancy beats volume two” – you can find out more about that here.

MP3: Cleptoclectics – Bit Rate Blues

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: Cleptoclectics – Fahrenheit 4/4

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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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