Purveyors of all things that go wub in the dead of night, The Spicy Bois label, have come at your ear holes with more audible treats to make you aggressively wiggle. Incorporating wide ranges of weird noises that somehow come together into a veritable sonic delicacy, these men are contemporary wizards of their craft. They’ve just blessed us with a 5 track EP with more spice than a habanero pepper, the They Don’t Even Have a Laptop EP, featuring solo tracks from Space Wizard, Cnopes, Mlotik, and Kyral X Banko, and a massive collaboration from Meso & smith..
Starting off this escapade of sweltering beats is Space Wizard coming at you live and direct with ‘More of the Same,’ a tyrannical flamethrower of sub bass sure to bust your eyes wide open like the first sip of coffee in the morning. If there was one question to ask him after rinsing this track for the first time, it would surely be “who hurt you dude?” This track will crush more skulls than a state school crushes cheap beer cans in a weekend. I was left battered, confused, and slightly angry when this track was over. Unsure of what to do with myself, I found my only course of action was to throw myself right back into the fierce throng of malicious beats once more.
Taking up the second spot in the compilation, Kevin Lee, known by his production name Meso, collides with a man that has cornered the market on low-end, smith., to bring us a song that resembles a demon growling at you from the fourth dimension. ‘HiFi’ is the epitome of what we describe as “experimental” music in this day and age, eliciting only the gnarliest of bass faces and alien dance moves. Forget a seance and the need to whip out a ouija board, this track will practically be a batman symbol in the night sky for spooky spirits.
Next, Denver-based boys Kyral x Banko have brought us ‘Activ8,’ a true nod to their overall goal of crafting pieces that have great diversity within. This track features several different styles of drops, some with waterfalls of cascading crunchy bass, while others sound like laser cannons are firing at extraterrestrial forces hell-bent on taking over our planet. If you ever felt the need to put your mind into a blender for exactly two minutes and fifty-one seconds, this is it chief.
Coming at the fourth spot, mlotik brings us a dancey, lively banger in the form of ‘BoJenkins’. The song starts out on a high note, with the first drop by itself being a grand ol’ time, but it continues to grow and expand, adding exceptional layers and spacing that practically hammers your head back and forth subconsciously. This is a track that’s an absolute joy to get up and groove to. The vocal sample “where my dogs at?” is included in the middle of the track, and to answer that question succinctly, it’s not where the milkshakes are for once. Like sharks to blood in the water, bassheads will surely flock to whatever sound system is bumping this prime piece of wonky goodness.
Rounding out the compilation is Cnopes coming in hot with ‘Innerlook’, a deep dive into sonic therapy via centered introspection. With all the different aesthetic elements included within, this is a track that truly builds off the little moving parts to create this much bigger stitched-together blanket of sound. It’s easy to put this song on repeat and have time slip away ever so pleasantly, joyfully high on noise and lost in the moment.
If there’s anything to take away from this compilation, it’s that I’m almost positive these Spicy Bois do, in fact, have laptops, and they’re quite well-versed in making them pump out exhilarating, energetic alien noise. If you’re headed to Wakaan Music Festival this week, make sure to check out their takeover and the individual sets from these quickly rising bass maestros.
Check out the They Don’t Even Have Laptops EP in full for yourself below!
