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i’m workin haaaaard on it!! and we start mixing it next week. pretty excited. so i might not get back to regular blogging as soon as i’d hoped – but i have become embarrassingly active on twitter. i will return to macro blogging soon enough, i promise. there’s sooo much i can’t say in 140 characters or less, but i’m not quite finding the time/headspace to get it together on the blog at the moment.
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you want more? i’m pretty sure i’ve already explained myself pretty well in this earlier blog post. something about eric the badu and the 7 wolves. whaa, that post is over a year old? holy shit. its crazy. you know, in the past 2 years i’ve scrapped literally several albums’ worth of material. i’m pretty sure this is it though. ha! we shall see, right?
in other news, i just want to say some huge & mighty thanks to fee b squared, the big o & J.P. for being hospitable, generous and very kind to me during my stint on rrr breakfasters filling in for sam pang. thanks to everyone involved at triple r for making me feel at home in the early mornings for those few weeks. breakfast radio, people! its crazy. they make you get up at like 5am. do you have any idea how much earlier than 11am that is? SIX MILLION HOURS IN MY DIMENSION, FOR SURE
more soon – yes, that is my song on the NAB ad, thanks for noticing and for all the emails (more on that later)
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interrupting the play-by-play on that inquiet remix – sunday afternoon seems like a good time to drop a few notes on what music i’m listening to at the moment. nothing too fancy, just feels a little overdue.
traffic sounds leigh (host of 2ser’s tape relay who, as far as i can tell from stalking her on mess+noise, is currently whooping it up with some kind of vincent chase lifestyle) recently put me on to eero johannes, for which i’m very grateful. he is a finnish dude signed to planet mu who is the torch-bearer for an underground movement of funky scandinavian chiptunez weirdly named “skweee.” the skweee movement moves into the spotlight, with a recent feature event on sonar and, of course, a wikipedia entry.
its scandinavian, so yeah, of course its too cool for itself and way too much fun. here’s a video sampler from skweee label harmonia (eero johannes from about 1:46 with skweee anthem ‘we could be skweeroes’ – yeah, seriously):
so fun, funky, so nerdy.
what else is around here… i went out to a bar at QV last friday night and the DJ played diamonds on the soles of her shoes, technically a tood terje edit but i didn’t figure that out until later. so i went and found that, and its dumb fun. then i went and found about 20 other todd terje edits, and couldn’t really figure out what the fuss was about. same DJ played this weird holy ghost vs the message thing that was pretty bad but reminded me what a mind-blowingly great sound “hold on” has.
i’ve been getting into a couple of tracks from a label/website called moodgadget.com – a label which, as far as i can tell, has several of their artists on extended loan to ghostly (mux mool, jdsy, reflecting skin). ghostly swim was such an amazingly strong compilation (and free too!) and one of the tracks thats really holding up for me from that comp is from moodgadget’s mux mool. not sure exactly how to track the threads on the moodgadget/ghostly connection, but anyway moodgadget put out a compilation of electronic artists earlier this year called “the synchronicity suite” which acts very much like a companion piece to ghostly swim, and has some great finds on it – the greatest being, easily, a track caleld “glad i met you” from d. gookin.
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i can’t quite get into the alexis taylor record, its hard to figure out what its trying to be, if in fact its meant to be anything other than a collection of castoffs and throwaway recordings (which i think essentially it is meant to be). covering mccartney “coming up” seems obvious but its hard to hate such a loving rendition. alexis taylor’s “coming up” and max tundra’s “coming up” are like very odd bookends that now sit on either side of that early 80s mccartney pop gem.
ahhh. the new kieran hebden vs steve reid is cool, more engaging than the earlier collaborations i think. its cool that they are just putting out whatever they do, you might not enjoy every record but you can hear their process developing which is fun. trying to get into the new skeletons record but its even harder to listen to than the last. i gave the last record a lot of latitude i think because i was so enraptured by the more accessible tunes. this one… i hope it grows on me.
These hats are awesome :3
i became completely obsessed with this song a couple of weeks ago. it holds within it the secret of all music, and indeed, life and time and space. you think i’m joking? i want to throw away whatever ideas i’ve ever had about music and just start a new movement based only on what is contained in this song. you think i’m kidding? i want to coat myself in honey and jump from a tall building onto a giant piece of sourdough. you think i’m fooling around?
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/// The second Faux Pas full-length is called Noiseworks and will be released in April 2010. Its a joint release between Sensory Projects and Heroics.
/// See the awesome cover art (courtesy of New York artist Tomokazu Matsuyama) here.
/// The new record features extended versions of singles “Chasing Waterfalls” and “Silver Line” – the single edits however, are still available for free download.
/// Also, you can listen to four remixes of Silver Line (courtesy of Kharkov, Kane Ikin, Loopsnake and myself) here.
/// Lastly – I’ve started posting a demo or spontaneous jam once a week on my Facebook page. It has been going for a few weeks. Be warned: results may vary. Check it out – you don’t need to be a Facebook member to listen/download them.
Tim Shiel lives and in Melbourne. He makes music under the name FAUX PAS, and is also a broadcaster on public radio station 3RRR FM. This blog began in 2005.
1981: Born in Melbourne Australia, life feels empty and without meaning
2005: FAUX PAS created – life still meaningless
2009: Tim writes brand new three-line biography
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Super awesome Press Quotes of the Ages
“Psychedelic. Balearic. Straight up pop. Call it what you want, this is memorable music.” keytarsandviolins
“Impressive elastic strands of plaited sense associations; extract of flashy disco, pastoral swoon and computer exploration.” threethousand
“A total cottage industry – one guy recording, pressing and releasing his own music – and it’s an example of how to do it right from the bottom up.” Stylus
“A manic journey of sounds, bound by neither genre nor era.” Beat
“Cuts-and-pastes big samples with delicately rendered instrumentation. A party jam. Four stars.” Pitchfork
