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October 5, 2007 
i’m currently going track by track through a mix i recently did for a website called research and development - find out more here.
15. nino ferrer - looking for you (faux pas edit)
another one from robotsinheat.com, and another track that i felt compelled to fiddle with. i think this track is still mutating, but is fun enough in its current form. i think the more i play with it, the less it becomes a re-edit and the more it becomes its own track. it is exceedingly difficult to work out where this line is drawn, given the kind of music that i make. the agitation free re-edit i posted last week i would never consider that a ‘faux pas’ track.. whereas this one, its heading towards being in the same ballpark as the other stuff i have released as ‘faux pas’, where a debt is owed to the sampled material obviously but the new track has enough of its own distinct identity that i feel comfortable separating it (in name) somewhat from its origins.
at the end of the day i try not to think too much about these kind of things, and just get the music out there. sorry this post is a little introspective and rambling, my head’s a little full of other things at the moment (the reasons why should become apparent soon - lets just say, you can officially start getting excited… now– if faux pas related things get you excited, that is)
nino ferrer was something of a reluctant superstar in his native france. he had some smoky hits in the 60s but it seems he never quite was convinced by this image of himself, a cynical and seductive crooner 10 years senior to the young starlets and hunks coming through the emergent pop machine of the late 60s and 70s. hmmm. there’s a lot you can assume about a guy from a thorough wikipedia entry. he moved to italy and became a cult tv presenter.
Video: Nino Ferrer - Le Telefon (1967)