Richard Alexander Caraballo and/or minusbaby

Born RICHARD ALEXANDER CARABALLO in New York City, minusbaby focuses primarily on software-based composition using lo-fi electronic synthesis and old keyboards to create polyphonic, rhythm-driven electronic music. Ass-shakingly.

Since 1999, he has come to prominence in the chip music scene, with a foundation in New York City and the 8bitpeoples, of which he is a longtime member. minusbaby 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” [Rappers I Know Records] and his most recent, “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 along with a superabundance of collaborators including, but not limited to, Definitive Jux's DJ Big Wiz, OxygenStar, Balún, Max ZT, glomag and Neil Voss.

Godxiliary Tour: NYC • Sunday, June 21, 2009 at Santo's Party House

Nullsleep, Machinedrum, Protman, minusbaby, glomag, Jerohme Spye, Futureboots, Yoshi, The Machinist and Mikrosopht

http://godxiliary.com

Sunday, June 21, 2009
8 PM
$5 • 18+

Santo's Party House
96 Lafayette Street
Between Walker and White Streets
New York, NY 10013 USA

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BY SUBWAY
A, C, E, J, M, Z, N, Q, R, W, 1 or 6 to Canal Street

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.