Yoav Landau

— They tell me I'm a God. —

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## Yoav Landau

### Genre

Electronic Music
 Remixes

## People

### Associated

Sam Haft
Maxime Cholley
Guy Bernfeld
Or Orko Cohen

## Information

### Social media

Twitter
 Personal YouTube
 Newgrounds

### Date joined to YouTube

Feb 13, 2006 (Koolfox)
 May 21, 2011 (The Living Tombstone)

**Yoav Landau**, also known as **Koolfox**, and **The Living Tombstone**, is the creator, music producer, and vocalist for The Living Tombstone. He was the main singular person behind the project until Sam Haft joined him with the making of My Ordinary Life. Ever since then Haft has been thought of as "1/2 of The Living Tombstone."

## Background

Growing up, Landau was always very into electronics and gaming. He connected with people through the internet and eventually found FL studio where he began making music. He wanted to combine the two passions and was introduced to the show My Little Pony.

### Koolfox

On February 13th, 2006 Landau created his first YouTube channel entitled "**Koolfox**." On this channel, he would upload videos of him playing video games, vlogs of his day-to-day life, and remixes. He would also upload his music onto his Newgrounds.

He would use this account until August 28th, 2011. Yoav would post an announcement on his old channel saying he made a new channel called "**The Living Tombstone**" and that he would be more focused on the new channel. This marked the end of the Koolfox channel, and Landau switched his content entirely to the new channel.

## The Living Tombstone

Landau posted his first remix on the new channel; Melting Pot of Alcohol. This was a remix of the now-deleted video of the YouTuber Ghost. Ghost then added him to a "shitlist" which gave him a good amount of traction. Landau would keep posting remixes, original songs, covers, and vlogs based around video games, life, and specifically My Little Pony. He would eventually release the song Five Nights at Freddy's which was based on the game of the same name. This video became extremely popular, and The Living Tombstone became very well-known and popular in the gaming community.

## Partnering with Sam Haft

Yoav eventually moved to New York. At this time, Sam Haft had just finished recording an album with his comedy band *"Sam & Bill"*. The two of them were both looking for an audio workspace. Before directly meeting, Haft and Landau had mutual friends, due to them both being in the "geek culture space." They had a friend who was moving away from New York and was holding a karaoke-goodbye party. They met there and both realized they needed a studio, so Haft's band shared one with Landau. They shared an office, and at first worked separately but they couldn't "keep [their] noses out of each other’s work." Landau would help produce a Sam & Bill song, while Haft would help with their music.

### Release of My Ordinary Life

My Ordinary Life was the first song released by the duo not based on a video game, show, or other piece of media, but a completely original song written by the two over an order of fried chicken. They thought they would branch out a little, and if people didn't like it they'd go back to their original works. The song ended up being extremely successful and made them realize they could be more than gaming-music YouTubers.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5475337/
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/SamHaft Profile Bio
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 http://pop-culturalist.com/exclusive-interview-pop-culturalist-chats-with-the-living-tombstone/
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkcSzZ7RX0
5. ↑ https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4017161/ghostTweet.png
6. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/715529646690795540/715565374413864981/718256343462445087