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| April 13, 2009 | music

in other news… our radio show on 3rrr has now moved to sunday evenings! 8-10pm! we are also podcasting the show again, after a summer hiatus mostly due to laziness. go stream/download/whatever.

while you are at it – “noise in my head” (our new neighbour on the 3rrr grid) has just started podcasting as well. download recent mixes by bumrocks, canyons, and more.

some good tunes around the blogs:
- kano (the 1980 italian disco dudes, not the grime guy) “i’m ready” perfect slice of italo-disco funk at going other places
- undomondo uncovers italy’s newest tropicalia troubadour giorgio tuma and his ‘vocalese fun fair’ – totally technicolor!
- silence is a rhythm too has so i’m jo, australia’s answer to the junior boys. check out this last.fm photo. too handsome!

also, big thanks to silence is a rhythm too, as well as disco delicious & einstein music journal, for some flattering recent features on faux pas. particularly digging the EMJ writeup: “with cascading synths and bleeps and SFX melting together in a hazy bowl of noise, it’s like eavesdropping on your crush’s dreams.” totally nailing that stalker vibe i’m going for

4 months on and people are still finding the waterfalls ep, its got legs and knows how to use them. 4000 downloads and counting. new music coming soon, i hope!

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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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“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

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