ok so if only just to prove that, yes, it can (and will) get stupider than yesterday’s post, i’m closing out this week of mp3s with something dumb. michael stavrou, aka stav, is an engineer who writes a column on mixing in australia’s audiotechnology magazine. now most of you aussie audio engineering nuts out there would already know that. but did you know he is also a magician? and an inventor?

anyway my audiophile housemate is into stav, and even has stav’s book on mixing called ‘mixing with your mind.’ after an invigorating chat one evening, when i was in a bit of a rut during the mixing of faux feels, my housemate convinced me that the key to getting a fresh perspective on my tracks was to listen to them backwards. this technique, obviously called ‘backwards mixing’, is one of stav’s calling cards. so i did it. and it was awesome. i don’t know if it helped with my mixing, but it was fun. the weirdest thing about it was that it was like it gave me a chance to listen to my own songs for the first time - all the melodies have changed, the song structure is obviously reversed, so the song is completely different. although it still sounds the same..

anyway, i nearly left the songs as they were, backwards, and had to be convinced that it wasn’t a good idea to start a new genre of ‘backwardtronica’. here’s evidence that backwards is better than forwards - and if you have an audio editing program yourself, you can of course reverse these two tracks and you’ll have two more mp3s from faux feels. i’m one generous geezer.

Faux Pas - Barry (backwards) (7.9MB)
Faux Pas - Angles (backwards) (4.4MB)