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the weekly mp3 experiment is, perhaps predictably, over until further notice - if you’ve been downloading and enjoying the demos and remixes i’ve been featuring the last few months, thankyou for listening, and thanks for the feedback.

i is in the left speaker, andy in the right speaker.
an improv blues post-rock jam band that never was.
& it was six years ago. holy shit..

MP3: Lon Suder - The Payoff andy’s bedroom july 2001

previously:
013 - Faux Pas - I Logins Loggins (demo)
012 - Faux Pas - Angles (backwards)
011 - Faux Pas - Looking for Nino (demo)
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MP3: Faux Pas - I Logins Loggins (demo)

previously:
012 - Faux Pas - Angles (backwards)
011 - Faux Pas - Looking for Nino (demo)
010 - Faux Pas - Dorothy’s Finger (demo)
more…

some very favourite people of mine gave me a subscription to audiotechnology magazine for my birthday, which is very exciting. audiotechnology is a great read if you are a gear nerd, and its great to have a locally focused magazine that regularly does interviews with local acts, quizzing them about their live & recording setups and habits. for example a recent highlight was an interview with marty brown from melbourne’s much-loved art of fighting, talking about his completely analogue home studio out in the backyard, where the last clare bowditch record was made:

“I think Clare’s songs are often domestic, in that they’re not about unicorns and drug experiences… To bring out the ‘domesticity’ I wanted to capture the sound of the place where we record, which is at our home. So I made a concerted effort to get as many sounds from the location onto tape as possible - not only the studio space but also the next-door neighbours dogs, the Greek Orthodox church down the road, our squeaky studio door and the rainbow lorikeets. In fact, the start of the album involves me walking from our house to the studio; unfortunately, it sounds a little like a radio play, but I wanted to have it there because that was the sound at the start of each day’s recording. To me, these features make the album sound just like us playing music in our shed - which is what we do!”

marty goes on to talk about all kinds of interesting stuff - he goes through some of his gear, he talks about the songwriting process, and discusses at length his completely analogue computer-less (gasp!) setup. a bit of trivia: the interviewer in this article is greg walker, who i’m assuming is greg walker aka machine translations. though i could be wrong, it is within the realm of possibility that there is more than one musical greg walker. but here’s a machine translations clip for good measure:

Video: Machine Translations - Amnesia

any regular audiotechnology readers would be familiar with regular columnist stav:

his oddball tips on mixing and engineering are always interesting. after his column on ‘reverse mixing’ i briefly became obsessed to listening to everything i did in reverse. i don’t know if it helps with my mixing any, but it is kind of weird - in reverse it sounds like the same song but different, its definitely strange being able to hear a track that i’ve heard 1000 times, and suddenly feel like i’m hearing it for the first time… and stuff going backwards just sounds cool

MP3: Faux Pas - Angles (backwards)

previously:
011 - Faux Pas - Looking for Nino (demo)
010 - Faux Pas - Dorothy’s Finger (demo)
009 - Faux Pas - Into Trevor Jones
more…

maybe they think that i am mad

MP3: Faux Pas - Looking For Nino (demo)

MP3: Nino Ferrer - Looking for You (download it at robotsinheat.com)

previously:
010 - Faux Pas - Dorothy’s Finger (demo)
009 - Faux Pas - Into Trevor Jones
008 - Aleks and the Ramps - Pisces vs Aquarius (Faux Pas remix)

more…