Melbourne, Australia
In the old times, one man composers like Mozart and Beethoven would lock themselves in their rooms so they could write their beautiful music while paying dearly for their sanity. As time went on, these men began to lose interest in their rooms (at around the same time women began to show their ankles) and their music suffered as a result. Fast forward a couple of hundred years and we now find artists slowly creeping back to their dens to compose their masterpiece. The reason? Perhaps it's the internerd. You can now live your whole life in cyberspace (minus food and maybe a toilet break - actually I suppose you could use wireless in your bathroom). So lately I rediscovered one man composer Gotye's masterpiece Like Drawing Blood and had the realisation that this was far better than The Avalanches and is arguably Australia's most creative album. But you knew that anyway. So I'm not going to bore you with another Gotye write up. Instead I'll introduce you to another one manner, Faux Pas.

Admittedly I know very little about Faux Pas other than he's from Melbourne and he and Gotye are 'top 8 friends' on myspace - in fact that's how I stumbled across him. Like Gotye, his music is well layered with guitars, bells and whistles, jungle beats, synths, trumpets, vocals - you name it. He's mated house music with an indie sound and made it work.
Check out these tracks. More are available from his website as well as an EP and an LP which you can purchase. Look, there's even a Gotye remix.. Friends for eva.