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i’m teasing you!

| July 15, 2009 | mp3, music

about my new album, you see!


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i’m workin haaaaard on it!! and we start mixing it next week. pretty excited. so i might not get back to regular blogging as soon as i’d hoped – but i have become embarrassingly active on twitter. i will return to macro blogging soon enough, i promise. there’s sooo much i can’t say in 140 characters or less, but i’m not quite finding the time/headspace to get it together on the blog at the moment.

OK THATS BORING, HERE’S THE ALBUM TEASERS:

MP3: Faux Pas – Vanderbilt demo

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MP3: Faux Pas – Casioing Waterfalls

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MP3: Faux Pas – MY NEW ALBUM … in 3 minutes

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you want more? i’m pretty sure i’ve already explained myself pretty well in this earlier blog post. something about eric the badu and the 7 wolves. whaa, that post is over a year old? holy shit. its crazy. you know, in the past 2 years i’ve scrapped literally several albums’ worth of material. i’m pretty sure this is it though. ha! we shall see, right?

in other news, i just want to say some huge & mighty thanks to fee b squared, the big o & J.P. for being hospitable, generous and very kind to me during my stint on rrr breakfasters filling in for sam pang. thanks to everyone involved at triple r for making me feel at home in the early mornings for those few weeks. breakfast radio, people! its crazy. they make you get up at like 5am. do you have any idea how much earlier than 11am that is? SIX MILLION HOURS IN MY DIMENSION, FOR SURE

more soon – yes, that is my song on the NAB ad, thanks for noticing and for all the emails (more on that later)

14 comments:

1 Tim { 07.16.09 at 12:00 am }

ps. this is how i’m feeling about my record at the moment:

2 Tim { 07.16.09 at 12:01 am }

3 Tim { 07.16.09 at 12:02 am }

4 Tim { 07.16.09 at 12:02 am }

5 max { 07.16.09 at 5:11 pm }

fuckkkkkk i can’t wait for this faux pas album to leak i am gonna pirate it like a motherfucker

ps hey tim, cool gif!

6 Tim { 07.16.09 at 5:26 pm }

max, mind yr language in front of stuart. he’s a gentle flower.

7 max { 07.16.09 at 5:37 pm }

good golly! SO HE IS!

8 max { 07.16.09 at 5:40 pm }

ahem.

9 Steph { 07.17.09 at 2:47 pm }

Definitely feeling teased after that all-too-short snippet of Casioing Waterfalls. I felt like a girl of 6 again…when smooth salsa beats like that were only the press of a button away.

10 tutts { 07.22.09 at 4:37 pm }

going to listen to tracks this evening, hooray! i’m really wishing that macgill was playing just a few years more at the moment.

11 Sam { 08.03.09 at 4:14 pm }

i like the 3 minute version! it sounds slow rather than fast.

12 John Davidson { 10.25.09 at 11:57 pm }

Hi Faux Pas,

Where can I buy your cover of Touch?

13 Tim { 11.05.09 at 6:23 pm }

sorry john – you can’t buy it at the moment. i haven’t figured out what i’m doing with it yet. yeah i suck.

but you can listen to it any time you like, on my myspace, and in that bright orange audio player thats at the top of my website. free o’ charge

14 John Davidson { 11.06.09 at 8:01 am }

Cheers man!

I’m loving Touch and I pop in here now and again to give it a listen.

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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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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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