i’m back from holiday in time to tell you – with all the breathless enthusiasm i can muster, considering i’ve been primarily sunning myself and drinking cocktails for two weeks – that i have a track featured on the latest compilation from the good folks over at moodgadget records.

moodgadget (coincidentally celebrating their 5 year anniversary) was originally a spinoff from the ghostly international label, and is currently one of the most progressive and interesting young labels going around, both in terms of their sound and their approach to distributing music.

i’m crazy-proud to be welcomed into their gang. it feels very similar to last month, when i found out my track was going to be on a ministry of sound compilation. except this feels a lot less wrong.

Ghostly International Presents Moodgadget: The Nocturnal Suite

its a sprawling 38-track 2xCD compilation that covers a lot of ground and its a pretty inspiring thing to be a part of. its very much in the spirit of previous compilations put out by both moodgadget and ghostly – comps like idol tryouts, the synchronicity suite, and ghostly swim. a whole bunch of my favourite brand-new acts are on there too such as worst friends, d gookin, daniel johnson and mux mool.

the faux pas track featured on the comp is a special edit i’ve made of “rose’s lament,” released late last year on my free waterfalls ep (which you can still download here).

The Nocturnal Suite is eclectic, but even among its stylistic diversity (the liquid space-disco of Faux Pas’ “Rose’s Lament (Gadget Edit),” for instance, sits right next to Wild Yaks’ caveman-like “Crazy but Not Afraid,” which flanks 800Beloved’s Psychedelic Furs-esque anthem “Galaxies”), there’s a distinctly nighttime-y mood, folding acoustic guitars and sleepy vocals in with its distressed beats and synths. Daedelus’ remix of Praveen & Benoit’s “Chiaroscuro” clothes a distant clattering beat in ambient reverb swells and wisps of orchestral flutes; Bluejay’s “Blurry” wraps its bedroom electro-pop around a deliciously melancholy hook; City Center’s “Summer School” is an exercise in pastoral dream-beat, a psychedelic fog of a track that drifts like a late-afternoon beachside nap.

sounds good, right?

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updates and holiday snaps from my adventures in newcastle & queensland later…

in the meantime, i’m in the studio this week going through three years of faux pas demos, sorting the wheat from the chaff. so i’ve decided to make it a “twitter thing“, and we’ll see how it goes – for the next seven days, if you want to hear a never-heard-before completely unreleased faux pas demo, come find me on twitter and i’ll pick one at random to show you!

unfinished songs that for whatever reason Aren’t Good Enough! quality control thrown out the window, all this week on da faux pas blog.