Flute gang.
"EXILED.
Such is the name. A man wandering half a globe away from his birthplace Egypt, land of the ancient flutes. A story that leaps scorching deserts, vast oceans, and resumes at a Montreal hideout in the freezing north. Dramatic... However, it is what it is. The mission? Crafting some badass internet hits 🗿''
ExylSuch is the name. A man wandering half a globe away from his birthplace Egypt, land of the ancient flutes. A story that leaps scorching deserts, vast oceans, and resumes at a Montreal hideout in the freezing north. Dramatic... However, it is what it is. The mission? Crafting some badass internet hits 🗿''
—Bandcamp profile description
is an Egyptian-Canadian Electronic Music producer who began releasing music in 2019. He is best known for his songs related to the messaging app Discord, the most notable of them being "Ping". An entry into a contest on the site that sampled its notification sound, Ping released silently at first but went viral on YouTube months after release and kick-started Exyl's music career.His music falls in the sub-genres of House, Electro House, and Glitch Hop. He is also an animator, with most songs he's released having a 3D Animated Music Video of his making to go with them.
Tropes related to Exyl:
- Artifact Title: "Barcode Valkryie" is a song dedicated to Geometry Dash, a game with zero relation to its title. According to its YouTube upload, the title was kept after the song was re-themed to the game because it sounded cool.
- Author Avatar: Exyl appears in his music videos as his logo with two circle hands.
- Author Appeal: He's a fan of Discord, thanks to his large community on the site and its role in starting his career. Ping is built around a sample of the site's notification sound, Ping 2 makes the notifications themselves Mooks, most of his characters are based off of Twemoji emotes that Discord uses, and Together Forever is a collaboration with the Discord music bot Rythm.
- Continuity Cavalcade: The music video for "Together Forever" has returning characters from most of Exyl's other music videos such as Egg, Moai, and Blob as they all reminisce on a past friendship while listening to music together.
- Crossover:
- "Cosmic War" is a collaboration with electronic music producer Creo. Its video features characters from Exyl and Creo's music videos in a standoff.
- "Together Forever" is one with Discord music bot Rythm. The music video follows the Author Avatar of its creator as he restarts it, and features several of Exyl's characters listening to the song on it together.
- Egg Folk: The music video for "Egg" is about an egg with sunglasses jumping out of a nest and flying away on a paper airplane.
- Five Stages of Grief: The Newgrounds upload of the Save This World EP connects each of its five songs to one of the stages. "HOW" is denial, "SAVE THIS WRLD" is anger, "Cosmic War" is bargaining, "Without YOU!" is depression, and "No Way Back" is acceptance.
- Hard-Work Montage: The video for MOAI MONEY features one of the moai taking on several different jobs to pay for the Exyl Car.
- Interquel: Both MOAI MONEY and Together Forever are considered by Exyl to be "MOAI 1.5" and "MOAI 1.75", respectively, being released between the first MOAI song and its upcoming sequel MOAI 2.
- Logo Joke: The video for "Cosmic War" gives Exyl a logo in the style of Creo's.
- Sampling: Ping! and Ping! 2 are entirely built around a sample of the Discord notification sound.
- Shout-Out: According to the description for MOAI MONEY, the moai's name is Dumdum Johnson.
- World Shapes: The planet Earth in the music video for "Egg" is egg-shaped.
- Writing Around Trademarks: A music example. His song Terraria was later remade as a version titled "Bunny" without samples or melodies from the game, making it completely safe for use in Rhythm Game levels.
