Fauxpas

Fauxpas is a German record label founded in 2009 by André Naszada and Tobias Duffner in Berlin.

After a cooking evening, the two work colleagues decided over a couple of beers to establish their own label. However, Duffner disembarked in 2011, in order to dedicate himself to his own label Poem. Since at least spring 2016, Naszada has no longer been working on the label completely alone: »For a couple of months, Johannes Xaver Zeppelin has been helping with the arrangement of the demos and together we are on the lookout for new artists.« Initially, they were all sourced from their circle of friends, just like everything else, which has inspired Fauxpas: already in the mid 90s, Christian Hilscher from the duo Kollektiv Turmstrasse provided the motivation behind the founding of the label, reinforced by the Word & Sound boss Kai Fräger and its name supplied by the decks.de employee DJ Acid. Naszada is narrowly rooted in the scene and very well known behind the scenes. The sound of the label is not calculated, yet Fauxpas dares to break away with Dance music conventions. »There is no label philosophy, the music must simply be timeless!«, says Naszada. The Yoko duo-LP by Holger Zilske and August Landelius was slipped to him at a party and after a couple of plays the next morning at the breakfast table, it was made clear that »Behaving Like A Widower« would be published on Fauxpas.

The circle of friends is, however, no longer the sole source of inspiration for Fauxpas, which as a label brings together a variety of artistic positions; from the gentle House of Sevensol & Blender, to the fuzzy Breakbeats of Nocow and the winning Downbeat-Sounds Desolate. However, there are two names that always appear in the backcatalogue: Sven Weisemann, a part of the duo Desolate and similitanouesly active as Essay, and Steffan Laschinski, alias Rising Sun. »In the meantime, the two have become close friends of mine, who I also appreciate as artists«, says Naszada. In turn, the Fauxpas-artists appreciate the loving packaging, in which their releases appear: coloured vinyl, box-sets and screen-printed B-sides are more the standard, than the exception. » It is very important to me, that the records continue to be a piece of art even after 10 or 20 years on the shelf or in the record bag and are cherished”, stresses the label’s boss. Nevertheless: it should stay affordable. Although it might seem unlikely that such a high-value product will end up nonchalantly in your record bag, this is not supposed to be an argument. »The music, like already said, should remain timeless and continue to impress us even after playing it for the 53th time.« A humble, yet ambitious aspiration.