Between March 2009 and March 2010, Xiu Xiu recorded and mailed out a once-a-month CDR series of 50 copies each, focusing on ambient, experimental, and minimalist forms.
There was a notoriously unsuccessful attempt to create a custom chocolate to accompany the 13th CDR. It crumbled to dust, tasted bad, and resulted in a very small, messy batch, affectionately referred to as "CHOCOFAIL". Download 122 ZiU rar
This series was a focused dive into sonic landscapes outside of their traditional song-oriented writing, designed to be, as Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) noted, "entirely unrevealing as to how the sounds were made," which was likely the point of the endeavor. Between March 2009 and March 2010, Xiu Xiu