minusbaby
http://minusbaby.com
Experimental / Electronic / World
New York, New York, USA
About
Long-time 8bitpeoples member, minusbaby, born Richard Alexander Caraballo in New York City, trades in counterpoint, subtle dissonances and surprises. While it may be impossible to predict what will happen at each performance, one constant can be expected: a forceful equatorial beat. Each familiar song is given new variation while the center holds it down with a bassy bottom end to make anything bump and bounce that hasn’t been tied down, exploding the very meaning of 8-bit orchestration.
Since 1999, he has come to prominence in the chip music scene, with a foundation in New York City and the 8bitpeoples. He has performed extensively, having been featured in London’s DMZ Media Arts Festival, the International Chiptune Resistance, Blip Festival 2007 and 2008, multiple Pulsewave nights, headlining the premiere of The Tank’s “Less Than Three” and Philadelphia’s only monthly chip music event, 8static at Studio34.
In addition to three solo releases, “Monkey Patch” [8bitpeoples], “Strong Arctic Winds Take Terns” and “Saudade for Beginners” [8bitpeoples], he has been featured on the first Micromusic and Soulseek CD compilations, the influential “8BP050” [8bitpeoples/The Tank] as musician and designer and War Child’s “Yesmamma” [Ninja Tune/Magex] compilation alongside Coldcut and Amon Tobin.
Inspired by a recent residency in Brazil, minusbaby recouped his technique and scope to prepare and produce a new mission: the propagation of a unique brand of chip music largely informed by 1960s samba and boogaloo, 1970s krautrock and Música Popular Brasileira, 1980s no wave, hip-hop and electro, and 1990s shoegaze and post-techno.
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Events(2)
Jul 12 |
Liverpool, |
7:00pm |
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Jul 16 |
Oporto, |
10:00pm |
Members
Richard Alexander Caraballo
Mtsejwood, Jul 27, 2008:
i envy you pixel skills
Dauragon C. Mikado, Jul 25, 2008:
damn you and your non capitalization
MXP4, Jul 08, 2008:
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Dauragon C. Mikado, May 03, 2008:
oh shite
it's teh Minusbaby
MONDRIAN, Apr 28, 2008:
suzywan design & music, Mar 17, 2008:
Gagosian Liga, Jan 10, 2008:
"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov)
Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany!
Feel free to download my music!
486, Jan 04, 2008:
Hello!
Thanks for lookin' me up! I really enjoy your songs. And your travel photography is beautiful. Really, the two go very well together!
Do keep in touch!
~486
Udault, Jan 02, 2008:
some great tracks here, good work
subcult, Jan 01, 2008:
All best in 08! Dmitry Subochev - music-electronic.net
