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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.

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, Pulsewave, and most recently having headlined the premiere of The Tank's newest music series, "Less Than Three". In addition to two solo releases, "Monkey Patch" [8bitpeoples] and "Strong Arctic Winds Take Terns" [Rappers I Know Records], he has been featured on the first Micromusic and Soulseek CD compilations, the influential "8BP050" [8bitpeoples/The Tank] and War Child's "Yesmamma" [Ninja Tune/Magex].

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.

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Saudade for Beginners

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.

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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.

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Animals & Alphabets

Now available on GODXILIARY, “Animals & Alphabets

Various Artists
“Animals & Alphabets”
Godxiliary
2008

 26 LETTERS 
 26 ANIMALS 
 26 ARTISTS 
 26 SONGS
 


Mikrosopht, Sound, Invisible Public Library, Viktoria A. Lisbet, Joshua Wentz, Futureboots, The Stomach Aches, Rad Skeleton & Herpes, Rob Moore, Random Animal, Jeremy Simmons, Jerohme Spye, John Lasala, The Zesty Burrito, and Simian Hu Flung Pu, Yoshi, minusbaby, Atom™, Protman, Musical Feedback, Cold Icecream, Rad Skeleton, Ihouoniui, The Very Us Artists, Kemmler, The Darth Vader Girls, OCP and Hibernativity Scene

My tune is called “O” Is for “Orangutan”

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