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version 4: october 15, 2008. almost there… stay on target…

MP3: Inquiet – Rose Rose (Faux Pas remix – v4)

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see also: version 1 | version 2 | version 3

version 3: october 4, 2008. four days later.

MP3: Inquiet – Rose Rose (Faux Pas remix – v3)

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see also: version 1 | version 2

version 2: september 30, 2008. five days later. i sit down for another couple of hours. cue the four to the floor.

MP3: Inquiet – Rose Rose (Faux Pas remix – v2)

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inquiet is a lovely chap named sam who founded melbourne’s rad diy label brothersister records with a bunch of his talented friends. i asked sam if i could remix a song from the record that he just put out – which is called “inq beyong”, by the way, and is really accomplished and good – and he said sure, so thats one of the things i’ve been working on lately.

i thought i’d do something new here on the blog, something i haven’t done before. its probably pretty obvious listening to the end result, but my music is iterations on iterations on iterations. thats not unusual, and potentially not very interesting either.. but lets see anyway. i keep a pretty good record of the way songs mutate as i work on them. my creative process with music is very much, um, every couple of days throw some new shit at the wall, and eventually you end up with a wall covered in shit, and hopefully it sticks and starts to smell rosy. often its just shit.

ANYWAY over the next couple of weeks i’m going to post up five different versions of my inquiet remix, starting with the results of my very first sit-down with the project, and then ending with a “finished product”… as finished as anything i do ever is (here’s a hint: it never is). not to say that i’m the wizard of oz, but this does feel a bit like opening the curtain and letting you see my hideous inner workings – its not necessarily pretty but maybe someone will appreciate it. it might be interesting to track where the different parts of the song move in each iteration, hear some of the differences in the mixing and arrangement as the track changes, and get a bit of an idea of how i work. that is, if you are a massive nerd.

ok. so, lets start with – version 1: september 25, 2008, which is about a month ago. i’ve been listening to sam’s record for a couple of weeks since its release and getting really excited about wanting to play with some parts. so i sit down for a couple of hours, record some guitar, dig out some samples, and this comes together.

MP3: Inquiet – Rose Rose (Faux Pas remix – v1)

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if you haven’t caught it yet, here’s the film clip for “coach” recently completed by bob jarvis aka zeal, who has now earnt his PhD in photocopying:

coach comes from the changes EP, released last november. buy it or don’t.

also – there are, all of a sudden, a bunch of places online where you can hear new faux pas songs, works in progress, remixes, things like that:

- 3 new songs at myspace.com/iamfauxpas
- a remix of mine now appearing at myspace.com/olloollo (which comes from their recently released remix ep)
- the rad istanbul blog undomondo recently posted an edit i made of 70s kraut stoners agitation free… alongside some footage of them rolling in egyptian dunes. big thanks, considering that its only through undomondo that i found out about the track in the first place.