http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog parts of sound arrange into musakedelica Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:53:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en welcome to iamfauxpas.com. when i initially decided i needed a website to accompany this faux pas bollocks, of course fauxpas.com was at the top of the list. that was about 3 years ago - then, as it still is now, the domain name fauxpas.com was taken. go there now - ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/06/master-of-mine-own-domain/ a quick one today for fellow ableton nuts and hot chip fanboys - felix from hot chip discussing the band's move to ableton... there is also a tantalisingly brief clip of the jazzmutant lemur that felix uses to control ableton live during hot chip's live shows. i know its approximately ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/04/hot-chips-digs-abletons/ blastcorp aka kris keogh, is a songwriter and glitch technician with a healthy love of both nerdy computer gear and twee melody, formerly based in darwin (where he helped to set up darwin's happening art-farty nightspot happy yess) and now he is hanging in osaka doing any things, including teaching. ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/02/the-surreal-hand-of-blastcorp/ lee tran lam hosts a lovely radio show up on sydney's fbi 94.5fm, its called local fidelity and it covers australian music - "wallflowerish bedroom singer-songwriters, beat-slick electronica, nerdy post-rock and much more" to be more specific. i tend to think of myself as a nerdy wallflowerish bedroom post-beat-electronica-rock songwriter, ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/30/beverly-and-lee-tran-and-me/ here's some songs. note the similarities in rhythm between ratatat's absolutely sublime bjork remix, and t-fire's 70s nigerian funk. then, if you haven't already, completely lose your head over wax stag and how amazing their song 'short road' is. then track down the remixes. MP3: Bjork - Wanderlust (Ratatat remix) ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/23/reality-is-that-which-when-you-stop-believing-in-it-it-doesnt-go-away/ here's my new guitar, check it out, i bought it on saturday, like how i said i was going to: what can i say, chris willits' little guitar/ableton lesson inspired me, i now have a guitar midi synth thing coming to me (in parts, from hawaii and japan) thanks to ebay. ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/16/shiny-new-guitar-operation-tim-becomes-willits-step-one-complete/ this post is all about handsome men. christopher willits is an experimental guitarist/producer from san fransisco who puts out releases through the horrifyingly consistent and interesting ghostly international label, here he is giving a crash course on why when he plays his guitar, god awful screeching sounds come out of his ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/14/willits-roland-nate-from-hawaii-theo-and-donovan/ in case you haven't seen it anywhere else yet, here's lou reed and others getting their hands on the new 'moog guitar'... The Moog Guitar offers three unique modes…Sustain, Mute and Controlled Sustain. In the Sustain mode, it provides infinite, powerful sustain on every string and at every fret position; Mute ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/12/the-moog-guitar/ i had a great long weekend. i spent three days in the country with 11 of my best friends. i wouldn't normally mention this kind of thing here, but today i'm making an exception. thanks to all of my friends, without whom i would probably be dead or at least ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/10/long-weekend-minimums/ some music from around the blogs. i like blogs. silence is a rhythm too has a neat little mix from kelpe, a nice mix of ambient and textured beat type stuff, the kind of thing thats nice to put on for a sunday afternoon when you are sitting in the backyard ... http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/08/what-were-enjoying-2/