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The Sequel - Ufoufo2: Hominid Catharsis

Once upon a time, Uzi Fox as well as Mihael Keehl were actually titled Ufoufo2 at some point. I knew from the inception of Ufoufo1 that a sequel was an inevitability, but as I came to the titling process toward the end of each album's creation I knew that they were too experiemental, not core enough to my sound. At the end of the day I'd been venturing so far from my source style, a Ufoufo2 was delayed again and again. Something happened after I recorded Joyboy. It was as if all of that mental blockage, that which halted Uzi Fox, nearly killed Mihael Keehl, paused the still-unreleased precursor to Joyboy, all of that obstacle had completely been obliterated. I was writing music with a newfound freedom. I sounded so... Ufoufoufo. So here it was, I knew by two tracks in, THIS was the album, THIS was the sequel to that humble mathcore beginning. This album is still so fresh in my mind, it's hard to say much. As I write this, the album has been out for only two months (though it feels like so much longer). What can I say other than this is my strongest foot forward? The production is at my best, the riffs are fun, the vocals are shredding, the lyrics are prose, and despite all of that it feels like just the beginning of the true Ufoufoufo era. This album is the one where I've found my sound. Experimentation will always be for me, but this is the style I want to hone. This is Ufoufoufo.

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2024's Random Collection

The same year that saw the release of two massive albums for the project, there still was a ton of music that just couldn't find a home. As I operate with a "Show the world everything" approach, for better or for worse, I polished the best unused tracks and put them together into the compilation album 'Data://KNIFECYCLE'. Okay, well, I lied. The first three tracks are a collaboration with a good friend Aaron (also my name!) who sent me some spicy bass tracks to build off of. This manifested the opening trilogy of interpretations titled "Crimson Mask". The fourth track keeps to the theme of collaboration, a Ufoufoufo-ification of my good friend Mason's electronic music. As if the left-field musicality wasn't enough, track 5 "Otamatometal" has no guitars, featuring only Otamatone mic'd up and run through guitar amp software. The next two tracks are random unfinished doo-dads from this year, but the great lie hides in the final five tracks, all recorded way back in 2018, one year before Uzi Fox and one year after Ufoufo1! As some sort of lost tapes, these tracks I created for a project with an online friend who never quite got around to recording vocals for them. By the time he was able to, he said he wanted me to re-record them, and after his bully-ish behavior finally pushed me to the block button I decided with a bit of mastering work the tracks would fit perfectly as a send-off for Data://KNIFECYCLE.

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Third Album - Joyboy

The day after the final cut of the tie between myself and my narcissist mother, I recorded the first track of what I didn't realize would become one of my bravest and proudest works. I Am Free came first, then slowly the album built itself, a polished and adventurous journey into righteous acceptance of the self, my truth finally spoken plainly. This album reads as journalistic as apposed to an impressionist vibe like Mihael Keehl before it. By this point each album is so radically different; a straightforward mathcore debut, a deathly romantic and depressing follow up, and a blatantly open and self-accepting third installation. I love the story this album tells, as I hear my voice so much clearer here than ever before.

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Palette Cleansing - Noise Punk and Math Rock

After Mihael Keehl I sought a massive reset in my musical journey. I was newly in a thriving relationship and learning to love myself. Enter the most insane idea ever: Animal Crossing Math Punk EP. Flush with some of my best guitar tones to date and my best impression of a a village NPC run through various pitch effects, this is We Are Mayor.

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In the time after recording We Are Mayor, I did record an entire album, of which is one of my most proud works, still unreleased. Why? Well partway through I experienced a defining life moment in losing my mother as I finally went no-contact, a long-awaited experience that would culminate in the interruption of that album to start my true third album. But as that was in the production process I decided to bide some time with a fun math rock electronic EP.

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Album 2 - Mihael Keehl

At the deep end of a crawl through the proverbial desert, I spent a year of grief and loneliness in Arizona, writing and recording a passion-album that became Mihael Keehl. Pulling from odd influences from all over I wasn't sure what I wanted this album to be. It ended up a frustrated and impressionistic successor to the failed album project of Uzi Fox. I toiled at this album making incremental progress over three years, debating leaving it behind like the unfinished album before it, ultimately decided to release something I hated was better than releasing nothing at all. In hindsight I love this album for what it is- a swan song to the darkest time of my life.

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College Demos - Uzi Fox

Music school messed with my head a bit. In this time I was incredibly ambitious and sought to record the most insane material I could, but by the time I started recording vocals I felt I had lost my voice. These songs are scattered trauma songs I never had the confidence to finish. I deeply wanted friends to record drums and bass but things fell through. This scattering of tracks is my most avant-garde and nonsensical, and I rarely have the ear to revisit it, but it feels too personal to hide from the world.

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Early works

Before Ufoufo1, the project was initially named "Hide The Amoeba", recording an initial EP titled Inclementine. This Concept EP followed the first-person perspective of an individual recognizing fascist dystopia, culminating in a revolution cycle.

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Before Inclementine, several instrumental recording sessions yielded the initial sparks of the project.

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Debut - Ufoufo1

Mixed by producer Robert Sandifer and recorded at 17 years old in my bedroom. This album was an aggressive and delightful start to this amazing musical journey that shows no sign of slowing down.

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