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for those who might have missed it, a couple of weeks back i put together a new mix. its about emotions.

(cover by alex cornell at iso50)

tracklisting
arp – st tropez
elegi – despotiets vesen
dam-funk – galactic fun
ka so re – shoes (eero johannes remix)
jason forrest – evil doesn’t exist anymore
aoi – floral foam
megastick fanfare – june stranglets (seekae remix)
the avalanches – since i left you (cornelius remix)
charles spearin – mrs morris
basement jaxx – raindrops (joker & ginz remix)
hudson mohawke – overnight
daedelus – lights out
chancha via circuito – prima
jean michel jarre – zoolook
kraftwerk – tour de france
mount kimbie – vertical
eero johannes – finnrexin
rustie – tempered
qua – ritmo giallo
gershon kingsley – popcorn
moonbeam – slow heart
oh astro – candy sun smiles
electronic – getting away with it
jackson – teen beat ocean
isolee – enrico
the soft pink truth – promofunk
bogdan irkuk – space reflecting on the bosphorous

MP3: Faux Pas – Emotions Mixtape

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really happy with how this mix turned out. its manic but it reflects a lot of the music that i’ve been into in the last 12 months, and its probably a decent indicator of what the new album sounds like. its named emotions due to my obsession with a song by roger troutman that didn’t actually make it into the mix – you can find out more about that song at arawa.fm, a constant source of unlikely inspiration.

speaking of blogs, big thanks to two of my favourites for posting this mix – silence is a rhythm too, and iso50 (who also supplied the cover art). feel free to repost it on your blog, myspace, twitter etc, if you do please let me know. love spreading the love.

if you’re keen, links to a couple of older mixes are below. of course, you can hear my selections in a more radio style every sunday night, my friend dave and i broadcast weekly over the 3rrr airwaves in melbourne, also streaming across the web. plenty more info about that at our blog .

MP3: Faux Pas – R&D mix September 2007

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a smoky, hazy listening-style mix i put together for the research & development website – accompanied by my track-by-track notes posted here on the blog. visit the r&d site for a full tracklisting. may include: j dilla sampling moroder, a faux pas kraut rock edit, the kinks, wings

MP3: Faux Pas – The Roland Gift mix April 2007

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a party mix i made for triple j’s mix up program in april 2007. its a party. more info and tracklisting here. may include: spank rock vs christopher cross mashup, air vs out hud, embyronic version of changes, steel drums

a month or so ago, declan from research and development (and also host of rrr’s great against the arctic radio show) asked me to put together a mix for r&d’s latest issue, which went live today.

it was heaps of fun putting this together:

MP3: Faux Pas – R&D Listening Mix (from r-n-d.net)

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the last mix i put together was the one i did for triple j a few months ago, which was more of a kinda saturday night party vibe (well, the kind of party you could only have in your bedroom, i guess) – for r&d i had to do something different, so i tried to put together a pretty straight listening mix, not much in the way of home studio beatmatch trickery, just a bunch of songs i like, put together in some order that i hope is pleasing. the tracklisting can be found at the r&d site.

research and development is also hosting a second mix of mine, one from the archives – a shorter mix called “weird parties mix” which is full of wacky covers and oddball tunes. anyone who bought one of the first 50 or so copies of my faux feels EP (about two years ago now) will remember the mix cos i sent it out as a bonus cd. limited edition! well now its available to all. check research and development to download both mixes.

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people ask me sometimes where i find music from, so i thought i’d write up a few notes on this mix i’ve put together, maybe explaining a little bit about what led me to each individual track. i find out about most music these days through the blogs, so essentially this is a chance for me to give some shout-outs to some of the great blogs that i’ve now come to rely on to find out about good music. its also a chance for me to post up a whole bunch of other stuff, other mp3s that are related to the tracks i put in this mix. it feels like this blog has had a bit of an mp3 drought recently – i’m about to rectify that in a rather serious fashion.

i don’t want this to come off as conceited, i’m aware that this kind of track-by-track ramble is probably best left to the professionals, the true crate diggers or whatever, the historians, custodians. i’m doing this for fun, hopefully you get a kick out of it and maybe bump into some things you haven’t heard before. i’m of the opinion that music is to be shared, and i don’t really buy into the idea that things are somehow cooler or more worthy when they are known by only a few. if you’ve found the good stuff, you gotta spread it around, even if you don’t totally know what you’re talking about… otherwise we end up living in a world where everyone listens to powderfinger… mmm

anyway, once i got started on this track-by-track rundown, it got out of hand. so we’re getting daily on this thing..! strap yourselves in cos it starts tomorrow.

ooh one last thing, this kind of thing has been done many many times before both on and off the internet – but to highlight one in particular, my shot at it was partially inspired by dan seltzer’s rundown of his beats in space set – his write-up is far more insightful than whats about to take place and his selections i think much more interesting… you should check out his set and his comments.

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every week, a previously unreleased mp3 from the world of faux pas – remixes, retakes, demos, off-cuts, whatevz

so.. this should last about three weeks

i’m starting things off with a monster. a few people have been asking for it so here it is. its the 60 minute mix set that i put together for triple j’s mix up program last week. i’m calling it “the roland gift”.

it turns out that a number of people weren’t able to tune into the stream of the set while it was up at the triple j website last week, mostly mac people i think. i’m so sorry about this, because we all know that mac people are precious and delicate flowers. i, alas, am not a mac person, i am a cold and brittle twig that exclusively uses the atari 800.

now you can download this mp3 onto your heathen macputers and find out what the rest of the world has been shrugging about.

artists featured in the roland gift include: prince, tunng, out hud, roots manuva, christopher cross, riton, ratatat and the electric indian. and a lot of, you know, the usual dj set bollocks. filter sweeps! whooosh! beat mixing! shazam! i posted the tracklist here in a previous post, where you will also find the mix compressed down to six minutes. time-shortening is the new thing!

Faux Pas – The Roland Gift (a 60 minute max mix)

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