XOFY2 // FIRE MOSS

XOFY2

Returning from the depths of our first post, XOFY2 brings 3 new experimental EPs to your libraries, with an artist debuting (EVAC), one we've already seen giving us the next piece of the puzzle that is their minds (RPR), and a classic KU hitmaker with an unexpectedly mindblowing piece! XOFY is a series of new EP challenge promoting experimentation from new artists (and especially solo artists) based on new themes each time. The original one birthed two classic rapsters from opposite sides of the St. Lawrence: Tenant of Neptune and Crybaby of Venus. What does the Goddess of time have in store for these three new participants? A mile-long set of limestone stairs with a gate at the top forming the mouth of a massive statue of a frog's head.

EVAC

Trying to make pop songs with a drum kit, one microphone, and minimal keyboard, skills, Bedford Jones is "[l]earning how to be the guy in the basement" in this pop storybook described as "pass0-aggro funk" and "outsider elctronic". Who says basement dwellers don't know how to have fun? The concept EP tells the story of a revolution through music, focusing on the elusive Kriemheld, whose fate is open to interpretation.

RPR: Welcome to Aiden's Dino Birthday Party

The Red Power Rangers return from the summit of oblivion with a Dino-Birthday album of impressive proportions, recorded with "only [their] voices and a pair of shitty children's keyboards, while babysitting". The babysittees were NOT happy about this, nor were they pleased with their inevitable bedtime. SxC xylorap.

HERTZ: Alien Rainbows

On distant planets, colours arrange themselves in obscure patterns, with hues unseen by the human eye, and unable to be seen. Whether this EP was even new, we don't care. New Hertz shit on the internet is always a delight! With album art that can only have been the inspiration for TofN's original EP's, this "shiny-key record", as Hertz puts it, will tear through your perception of reality with the power of distorted keyboard. So beautiful it Hertz.


FIRE MOSS: WHAT THE MOON TELLS US
After millenia of curiosity, local sound expeditionaries David Parker (double-bass and electronics) and K.L. Sealegs (synthesisers and pedals) have embarked on a quest to answer this divisive question, returning with improvisational "freaked-out noise" that will (hopefully) never leave you staring at the stars again. We would pay upwards of MS 20 dollars for these lunar samples on tape. Recorded by Matt Rogalsky fuck yes.

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Coming Soon: XOFY3!!!! Get in on this shit while you still can, gentlefolk... (you have a while)

XOFY3's challenge will be "kitchen sounds"! Make some music with primary instrumentation performed with kitchen items, either live or produced. Remember that anything is allowed, the challenge is only a guideline to unite artists towards a common creativity! Align yourself not to perceptions of expectation, but to your inner goals and brain music. 

We have no idea when this will go down, who's gonna be on it or absolutely anything. But we do know it will happen. Shoot an e-mail to malayaandherneighbours@gmail.com or contact Ryan Martin or Spencer Curtis if you wanna get involved / you know how to contact those people!