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i’m teasing you!

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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July 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, Flying Scribble and Akimbo. 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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