路新配 Luxinpei

Luxinpei is a two-piece band from Beijing, formed by Ma Meng and Ma Yuan in 2007. Back to 1990s they were classmates, sharing a same desk. In 2008, Ma Meng became friends with Zhu Wenbo and they formed another another duo project Fat City. After some performance, Zhu started organized a weekly Tuesday performance series in 2009, which was the beginning of Zoomin’ Night. Both Luxinpei and Fat City were core names in early Zoomin’ Night days. Luxinpei’s work could be found in a Maybe Mar’s live compilation CD, a Rose Mansion Analog’s cassette, and a double-disk split album with Fat City. Actually they did not play too many live performance in those years. In 2013 Luxinpei went to hiatus, and both of Mr. Ma disappeared from Beijing's scene.

Eight years pass. In 2021 Luxinpei went back into rehearsal room again. They picked up some old tracks in 2012, and composed some new pieces. They did two recording sessions in rehearsal room, one in 2021 August and another in 2022 March, total in 4 hours. Zhu Wenbo helped them doing the mixing work, and suggested a spoken-words/feedback piece read by their old friend Liu Xinyu. The reading text included some fictional scandals of this band. The album title and cover design are tributes to the Encyclopedia of American Scandals. After this album, Luxinpei is working on some new stuffs now…