June 2009

/// New website! Holy shit!

/// Faux Pas remixes “Blackbird” by The Rectifiers - listen here.

/// Subscribe to PBS 106.7 FM and receive a free CD of Melbourne electronica featuring an exclusive Faux Pas track “Great Fortitude” + Qua + Pasobionic + more.

/// Faux Pas now on twitter! So micro!

/// You asked for it, Metatron heard your prayers. Waterfalls t-shirts now available, all sizes & colors.

Tim Shiel is a Melbourne-based producer, blogger and radio guy - he makes music under the name FAUX PAS. Read more >>>

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

TIM SHIEL FUN FACTS

I like to describe my home studio in Melbourne as “modest” - its a kinder word than “shitty”

I have remixed a whole bunch of local bands, including but not limited to Pikelet, Aleks & the Ramps, Gotye, Inquiet and The Rectifiers

My blog (featured left) has been running since 2005 - thats pre Web 2.0, otherwise known as “the dark ages”

I have a weekly radio show (with my friend Dave) on Melbourne’s 3RRR 102.7 FM

I love Paul McCartney, or at the very least, the idea of him

Hi-res press photos:

Photos by James McCulloch

Super awesome Press Quotes of the Ages

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

“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

Faux Pas film clips and favorites on YouTUBE

Listen to songs and whatever MYSPACE

I am in love with LAST.FM and also have a personal profile there

Arguably redundant FACEBOOK profile page

Me and Dave’s RAD RADIO SHOW (we podcast too)