Will
Fauxpas be focusing on any particular type of music, or do you have
quite a wide remit?

Fauxpas Musik isn’t really focusing on a particular kind of music. We
just like to release the music we love from the many different arms of
electronic music as well as to support our friends, so the music on the
first release will be completely different to the second or the third
release. Although the first one has this very smooth and slow,
spherical dub touch, we have other releases that are set to be released
which are clubbier tracks, or even raw techno.

How did the idea to start the
label come about?

We want to express our love to electronic music as well as our love to
the—as we see it—only medium, quality music should
be released on… and that’s vinyl! The idea behind starting a new
label in these days was to release outstanding quality music on vinyl
as strictly limited releases (fauxpas001 is limited to 350 pieces)
without any represses. The records are handnumbered and thus
collectors’ and music lovers’ items!

What is the reasoning behind
it being a vinyl-only label?

The reason why we are not too keen about being a digital label is that
through the increase of releases since the digital boom started, the
quality has begun to lack more and more. People just don’t really think
hard about whether they should or should not release this certain
track, so we miss the quality being played and listened to. We want to
release music on vinyl that’s worth being pressed! The medium should
always express the value of the music on it. Another reason was to make
it harder for “pirates” to find and load our tracks in the internet
illegally. So maybe even the French phrase “faux pas” expresses the
direction the music industry is going towards. Think of the rumours
about 1210 manufacturing being stopped!

Have you got anything set in
stone for your next releases?

fauxpas002 will be Mittekill’s “Zum Spielplatz,” with a club and dub
mix by Goldwill. The slow remix can be listened to on our Myspace.