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slinky, sexy and erotic

| September 10, 2009 | music

there’s been a few changes around here. the faux pas blog – now well into its fourth year – continues to mutate, wavering in format intermittently, warbling incessantly like so many robin gibb vocal takes.

anyway, now you can listen to 30 songs while you read the blog. thirty. they are all up there at the top. see the big orange button? thats the one. its a couple of hours worth of faux pas, including lots of remixes and rarities. that, combined with the random post feature, could keep you busy if you are partial to my stupid sense of humour.

i haven’t figured out how to make it keep playing the song while you visit different pages, but i’m on it. suggestions welcome.

in the spirit of these changes… here are a few songs called “changes”. i like them all.


the association

MP3: The Association – Changes

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my unbounding love for the association is so without limitations that it borders on some kind of, i dunno, copyright infringement.


the imagination

MP3: Imagination – Changes

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really digging imagination at the moment. only found out about them recently when wally gotye blogged about them at the start of the year. then, more recently, i got my hands on their night dubbing record and have been fairly hooked. completely absurd dubbed out funk-pop. sexy as hell. wikipedia nails the mood when describing how the bands key members hooked up:

John and Ingram formed a songwriting partnership, resolving to start their own ’slinky, sexy and erotic’ group, working in a short-lived band called Fizzz.

’slinky sexy and erotic.’ yes! did i mention the singer’s name is leee john? with three e’s?

ok. to take us back to me, which is what this blog is really about, here’s my summer smash hit “changes” – and, as a bonus, the weird intro bit that didn’t make it on to the changes ep.

MP3: Faux Pas – Changes

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MP3: Faux Pas – Changes Part 1 (unreleased demo)

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as a bonus beat, because i can’t help myself, here’s imagination getting completely ridiculous in their 1983 clip for “new dimension.”

2 comments:

1 sam { 10.19.09 at 6:28 pm }

tim you should have posted changes by the shape of broad minds as well. that one is real good

2 Tim { 10.21.09 at 1:08 pm }

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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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