Born RICHARD ALEXANDER CARABALLO in New York City, minusbaby is a musician, designer and photographer. Focusing primarily on software-based composition, minusbaby uses lo-fi electronic synthesis to create polyphonic, rhythm-driven electronic music. Loudly.
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.
Always keen on collaboration, he is currently working with Def Jux Records' turntablist, DJ Big Wiz [Aesop Rock, El-P, Mr. Lif], Trackmasters producer, The ARE [Lil’ Kim, De La Soul, K-Otix] and the assembly of a samba school.
Now available on 8BITPEOPLES, “Saudade for Beginners”
After a five-year hiatus, minusbaby returns to our discography with the hip-shaking Saudade for Beginners; five tunes written in São Paulo, Brazil and East Harlem, New York City. Whereas “Monkey Patch” concerned itself with fictitious apes and animal hybrids, Saudade for Beginners aims to express life after the experience of saudade, a term often discussed pedantically by the academe, but best left to music and poetry as in bossa nova and samba — of which minusbaby is a devoted connoisseur.
Shake what your mãe gave you.
Saudade for Beginners by minusbaby is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at 8bitpeoples.com.
