Twitter@Tru3Sta5 Aw man. There's always a perfect time to drop out, though, and I'm going to say with full confidence that now is the perfect time._
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"BIAS" Is at Bandcamp

“[…] you can give that to anybody and say ‘THIS is chipmusic’, they'll get it. It's the first chip album for me where there's no gimmick, it's a serious piece of work that's not ruled by the hardware it's made on.”

— Matt Simmonds a.k.a. 4mat (igorogogo.com/4mat.htm)

This newly mixed and mastered release includes an alternate version of “Left”; originally released by 8bitpeoples in 2009.

The second half is an extended (by over twelve minutes) version of “Derecha” [2010], plus a brand new track, "Subimago".

The CD version is a shrink-wrapped Digipak®.

For those who buy the CD: let me know if you'd like me to unwrap the case and write or draw something inside the white box on the cover! There's an option at checkout. Thank you!

You may stream and purchase it at http://minusbaby.bandcamp.com.

Hi.

  • minusbaby
  • New Website and Thangs
  • 2011-05-19

01 · Oh, look… a re-design with a fancy, collapsible Twitter bar up there, just about every track I've released in the "Music" section and an "Art and Design" section that's not yet complete, but will be filled over time. I'll add a "Photography" section eventually, too.

02 · I'm playing Blip Festival New York 2011 tonight. I will be joined on stage by crashfaster, members of Samba New York! and Brazilian Quarter. Clarinet, tuba, cavaquinho, mandolin, agogô, tamborim, pandeiro and surdo. Clothing is optional.

03 · "BIAS" has been released on CD via monobomb records. On it are my last two 8bitpeoples EPs, "Left" and "Derecha", newly mixed by Morgan Tucker at monobomb studios in San Francisco and mastered by Hans Dekline of Sound Bites Dog in Los Angeles. You may buy one or 998 copies at Blip for now, and online later.

That's that, I think. Thanks for visiting. See you on the dance floor. No really, go.

BIT.TRIP FATE

BIT.TRIP FATE takes Commander Video to a darker place. The rhythms are heavy; the sound unlike anything he's ever heard. Now you, too, can explore an unfamiliar and hypnotic genre mash-up wherein dubstep and chipmusic flirt with, and intoxicate your senses.

In a fitting guest-appearance, minusbaby lends two of his most sublime tracks to the album, just to get you in the mood.

Discover your own FATE as you continue your BIT.TRIP with this amazing audio companion.
Two of my tunes will be in Gaijin Games' "BIT.TRIP FATE", to be released this Autumn via Nintendo® WiiWare™. The menu and credits screens will feature new versions of tracks from "Left": "Left [Sucka MCs Mix]" and "A Large Part of Your Mind Sliced [What Mix]".
You may preview and buy it at www.cdbaby.com/cd/gaijingames5.

New Release on 8bitpeoples

It's surprising to me as someone who generally isn't that big on chip music that I'm on my third straight play through minusbaby's new album, Derecha. And even though I admittedly get fidgety and impatient on hearing more than one song at any given time in any given genre (chronic musical ADD), here I am humming along like an asshole, more forcefully with each repeated listen, ad-libbing riffs here and there while I finger-drum beats on my desktop like a white Candido, and quickly approaching my fourth return listen.

As an album, it's a mature progression from his previous EP, Left. And it's damn good. And I want to tell people about it, but what do I even say? It's chip music, but it doesn't sound like something from any video game I played when I was a kid. It's new music made with old-school mentality using a combination of sounds that could either be from 1985 or 2085. It's funky, it's danceable, it's composed, it's cerebral, it's performing a complicated samba throughout the Southern Hemisphere at times. It's all of these and yet it's none of these.

In a word, it's minusbaby.

— Dylan Garret, DJ · New York, NY · July 2010

You may download it at http://www.8bitpeoples.com.
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