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Stephen James Wilkinson (born 4 December 1978), better known as Bibio, is an English musician and producer. He is known for a distinct analog
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sound, and for working in a diverse range of genres, beginning in
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and
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and later stretching to include instrumental hip hop,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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. He currently releases music on
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, and previously released on Mush Records.


Biography and career


Beginnings at Mush Records (1999–2009)

A resident of
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in the
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, England, Wilkinson developed a passion for experimental music during his time at
Middlesex University Middlesex University London (legally Middlesex University and abbreviated MDX) is a public research university in Hendon, northwest London, England. The name of the university is taken from its location within the historic county boundaries ...
in London from 1999 to 2003, where he studied "sonic arts". His earliest songs were mainly layered guitar compositions inspired by
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's ''Electric Counterpoint'', one of his earliest being "Cantaloup Carousel", which was originally recorded in 1999 at his university residence. His recording equipment at the time consisted of a "plastic" microphone, a budget
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, cassette deck, and a portable
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recorder. Listening to music on
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in 2000 led him to experiment with programming virtual synthesizers in
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, which he was introduced to via his university classes. His discovery of
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and
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in 2001 also encouraged him to try fingerpicking and alternative guitar tunings, which "opened up new avenues of melodic expression and serendipity" and "made playing guitar feel fresh and exciting again". Wilkinson credits these "happy days of discovery" at university with helping develop his signature lo-fi sound. Upon graduating, Wilkinson left London and returned to Wolverhampton, setting up a recording space in the spare bedroom of his girlfriend's parents' house. He worked part time while recording music, and was briefly a lecturer at Stafford College teaching Music Technology. After sharing his collection of recordings with Marcus Eoin of
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, Eoin recommended Bibio to American indie label Mush Records, who signed Wilkinson in 2004. He adopted the name "Bibio" from the name of a black-and-red artificial fly his father used on fly-fishing trips for trout in Wales. Wilkinson's university recordings from 1999 to 2003 formed the basis of his debut album '' fi'', released in February 2005. Sophomore album ''
Hand Cranked ''Hand Cranked'' is the second album by the music producer Bibio. It was released on 7 March 2006 on Mush Records. Critical reception ''XLR8R ''XLR8R'' (pronounced "accelerator") is a website that covers music, culture, style, and technolo ...
'' was released March 2006, and continued in a similar style, seeking to emulate the sound of mechanical music boxes using antique instruments. His third full-length album ''
Vignetting the Compost ''Vignetting the Compost'' is an album by Bibio, released on 3 February 2009 on Mush Records Mush Records is an American independent record label. It was founded by Robert Curcio and Cindy Roché in 1997. History Originally known as Dirty L ...
'', released February 2009, carried on with his signature sound while progressing towards more traditional folk song structures. Digital only EP ''Ovals and Emeralds'' followed in March 2009 and explored circus music and the sounds of fairground organs. Bibio's output on Mush Records mostly consisted of instrumental guitar compositions, centered around the use of looped melodies, ambient field recordings, found sounds, tape distortion and manipulation, additional folk instruments, and gentle synth drones. Only occasional songs featured vocals ("Mr. and Mrs. Compost", "Great Are The Piths", "Abberiw", and "Flesh Rots, Pips Sown"). Bibio occasionally worked with
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during this time, after Wilkinson met Richard Roberts working at the same pub as him. Roberts co-wrote and co-produced several Bibio songs, the pair began a short lived music project named SK Dreams, and the three along with Matt Cutler started a record label named Artists' Valley, which released a limited 7-inch Bibio single "Shelia Sets Sail" in 2005.


Warp and ''Ambivalence Avenue'' (2007–2009)

While continuing to record lo-fi guitar pieces, Wilkinson was inspired by artists like J Dilla, MF Doom, and Madlib to begin a short-lived hip hop side project named Duckula. Listening to
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and Warp Records artists also inspired him to create 90s
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and electronica tracks, and Brazilian guitarists like Marcos Valle and João Gilberto deeply influenced his guitar playing and led him to write funk, soul, and samba inspired pieces. After a period of trying to separate his various styles into different side projects, Wilkinson was encouraged by his friends to de-compartmentalize and merge his interests under the Bibio name. In 2007, he recorded the song "Ambivalence Avenue", which he now regards as a milestone in his career – "it combined the lofi tapey Bibio guitar sound with weightier beat based production, fingerpicking with jazz chords, it had a Brazilian influence, a folk influence and a hip hop influence, it was a realization of an idea in my head trying to come out, it was a combination I had been striving for a while. Making this track gave me a new confidence and triggered what became the most prolific period of my life so far." The song caught the attention of Steve Beckett of Warp Records, who encouraged him to keep recording in this style. Wilkinson "knuckled down" and recorded the tracks that would make up ''
Ambivalence Avenue ''Ambivalence Avenue'' is a studio album by English folk/electronica musician Bibio, released in 2009. It is his first album on Warp. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstre ...
'' between 2007 and 2008. On the strength of these recordings Bibio signed to Warp Records in August 2008. ''
Ambivalence Avenue ''Ambivalence Avenue'' is a studio album by English folk/electronica musician Bibio, released in 2009. It is his first album on Warp. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstre ...
'' was released in June 2009, four months after ''Ovals and Emeralds'', and marked the start of a new sound and era, embracing vocals, hip-hop beats, folk and pop song structures, and funk/soul guitars. Wilkinson regarded it as "another debut album" and recalled recording the album during "difficult years, having a degree that meant nothing to the world around me... being in my mid 20s and not knowing where I was heading in life in a town with little opportunity," and was uncertain whether people would enjoy its variety. ''Ambivalence Avenue'' was met with largely favorable reviews, with
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describing it as his "most creative and penetrating release yet" and '' Pitchfork'' ranking it as the 33rd best album of 2009, stating "it's shocking how utterly and successfully he rewrites his playbook." Some reviewers were more critical, with
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claiming "Bibio’s tendency... to either smooth the edges of his creations into non-threatening abstraction or fail to zone in on his best ideas is frustrating." Companion release '' The Apple and the Tooth'' followed shortly after in November 2009, his fourth major release of the year, featuring four new songs and eight remixes of tracks from ''Ambivalence Avenue''. The original tracks were described as "expert, full of electronic papier-mache layers of arpeggiated guitars, glitchy drum patterns and joyful percussive samples," by
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. In some publications, it is referred to as Bibio's fifth album due to its length.


''Mind Bokeh'' and ''Silver Wilkinson'' (2011–2014)

Bibio's next studio album, ''
Mind Bokeh ''Mind Bokeh'' is a studio album by British electronic musician Bibio, released on Warp. It was released on 29 March 2011 in the United States and 4 April 2011 in the rest of the world. Bibio described the album as a "balance of the familiar and ...
'', was released on 29 March 2011 in the US and 4 April in the UK, promoted by the single "Excuses" in February 2011. It continued the sound of ''Ambivalence Avenue'' with more mixing of genres, including forays into
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on "Take Off Your Shirt" and
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on "Saint Christopher". Wilkinson described the album as having a "balance of the familiar and the non-familiar." ''Mind Bokeh'' was met with mixed reviews. Clash ranked ''Mind Bokeh'' the 24th best album of 2011, and Slant praised the album for being "fluid and formless, committing to pop structure and melodies one moment only to eschew them the next, often all within the same track", while Tiny Mix Tapes called the album "an ugly stepchild of a record, neither diverting enough to work as pop nor novel enough to satisfy as pure electronic music," and XLR8R felt the LP had "a less than desirable success rate". ''Mind Bokeh'' was followed by two accompanying EPs, ''K is For Kelson'' in May 2011 and ''T.O.Y.S.'' in August 2011, which featured alternate versions of "K is For Kelson" and "Take Off Your Shirt" respectively alongside new music. Bibio's sixth record '' Silver Wilkinson'', named after a fishing fly found in a charity shop, was recorded shortly after ''Mind Bokeh'' and was released 13 May 2013. Wilkinson took lyrical inspiration from films and daydreams and sought a "cinematic, panoramic and lush" sound for the record, while electing to "pick up the guitar more and focus on a more melancholy live sound". "Sycamore Silhouetting" dates back to 2007–2008 and existed in "many different versions" before being finished for ''Silver Wilkinson'', and "You" began as part of the side projects which led to ''Ambivalence Avenue''. Significant parts of lead single "À tout à l'heure" and "Dye the Water Green" were recorded outdoors in Wilkinson's garden. Wilkinson described the album as his "most melancholy perhaps as a whole". The album was met with mostly positive reviews, with
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praising the album as "a scenic route through Bibio's music that showcases its depth as well as its breadth." ''Silver Wilkinson'' was followed by '' The Green EP'', released in January 2014, which features archive tracks chosen to compliment Wilkinson's favorite track "Dye the River Green". Bibio next contributed "Dye the River Green" and six original songs to the 2014 film '' Men, Women & Children'', directed by
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. Wilkinson spent a day with Reitman playing unreleased tracks over film footage, and described the experience as "very perfect, like dream come true stuff". Four of the six original songs appear on the film's soundtrack album. In 2015, Warp Records reissued ''fi'' for its 10th anniversary, adding an uncut version of album closer "Poplar Avenue".


''A Mineral Love'' and ''Phantom Brickworks'' (2016–2018)

Released 1 April 2016, Bibio's seventh studio album ''
A Mineral Love ''A Mineral Love'' is the seventh studio album by electronic musician Bibio, his fourth studio release on Warp Records. It was released on 1 April 2016. Reception At Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates r ...
'' featured collaborations with Gotye, Oliver St.Louis, and Wax Stag, as well as a prominent 70s, 80s, and alternative R&B sound, and was described by PopMatters as a "joyous yacht-psych fever dream". Wilkinson began the sessions for ''A Mineral Love'' in February 2015 by building a sound-proof home studio, which he credits with helping take the album away from the "bedroom producer approach" of his earlier records, and cited Sly and the Family Stone,
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,
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,
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,
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and B. B. & Q. Band as influences on the album. Wilkinson had been friends with Wax Stag from early on in his career, while his collaboration with Gotye happened entirely over email, the pair never met. Bibio was introduced to Olivier St.Louis through his feature on
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's song "Butter" and bonded with him quickly over "guitars, brogues and watches". Their collaboration led to further meetings, and in September 2017 the follow up ''The Serious EP'' was released, featuring three more songs written by the pair..The song “Why So Serious” was included in the soundtrack for Ubisoft’s 2017 video game Watch Dogs 2. Another followup EP ''Beyond Serious'' was released on 12" and digital on 5 May 2017. Wilkinson had been making
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since "before the name Bibio came into being" and had always wanted to release "an EP or something of just house tracks". Inspired by a recent purchase of a
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, Wilkinson recorded four tracks using nothing but the machine and a ring modulator, then developed the songs further with synths and chopped manipulated vocals from the recently recorded ''The Serious EP''. '' Phantom Brickworks'' was released 3 November 2017, preceded by the single "Capel Celyn" on 27 October 2017. In a divergence from his work over the last decade, the album is entirely ambient, made from a set of improvised compositions consisting of processed piano, synth, and guitar loops surrounded by tape hiss and field recordings. Recorded over ten years, Wilkinson produced the LP based on the concept that "places can be haunted by meaning," reasoning that "human beings are highly sensitive to the atmospheres of places, which can be enhanced or dramatically altered when you learn about the context of their history." Most of the song titles are references to abandoned places in the United Kingdom, such as
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, a community in
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,
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that was intentionally flooded to create a reservoir in 1965, and "Capel Bethania," a song named after a chapel demolished in 1991. The album was well received by reviewers, who called it Bibio's most accomplished record. It landed at number 11 on ''
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'''s list of the best albums of 2017. ''
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'' claimed "Bibio has not only created a record that stands apart from his other Warp albums to date, but has cemented his mastery of the atmospheric." A followup EP ''Phantom Brickworks (IV & V)'', featuring two additional tracks from the ''Phantom Brickworks'' sessions, was released exactly a year later on 12" and digital on 9 November 2018, along with a limited edition release photo book. The tracks were described as "the ideal bookend to Bibio's project".


''Ribbons'' and ''Bib10'' (2019–present)

Bibio's ninth studio album ''
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'' was released on 12 April 2019. The album marks a return to the lo-fi guitar oriented roots of his earlier career, such as on 2009's ''Vignetting the Compost'', while retaining some of the funk and soul influences featured prominently on ''A Mineral Love''. The album was well received by critics, accumulating an overall score of 81 out of 100 on
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, indicating "universal acclaim." Canadian music publication ''
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'' stated, "With Ribbons, it is clear that Bibio is trying to take the best parts of his music over the years and bring them together into one concise, but eclectic, album, and on more than a few moments, he succeeds beautifully." Ten track EP ''
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'' was released June 12, 2020, and was an extension of the lo-fi sound of ''Ribbons'', featuring a variety of traditional string instruments and folk inspired songwriting.
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called it "quintessentially Bibio, and spending more time with it is a joy." Across 2020 and 2021, Warp Records obtained the rights to Bibio's Mush Records recordings, and began reissuing ''Hand Cranked'', ''Vignetting the Compost'', and ''Ovals and Emeralds'' on vinyl and digital. ''Hand Cranked'' was reissued digitally with five bonus tracks, including the original recording of "Cantaloup Carousel" from 1999. On 08 September 2022, Bibio announced his tenth studio album ''
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'' would be released 21 October 2022, calling it "more of a party album" and "an ode to guitar in a very different way."


Live

Bibio rarely performs live in front of an audience, preferring to share studio sessions recorded at home. He embarked on a DJ tour through 2009 and 2010 in support of ''Ambivalence Avenue'', and continues to DJ live on occasion. He most notably toured a live solo electronic show in 2011, working with midi controllers and a laptop remixing songs from ''Ambivalence Avenue'' and ''Mind Bokeh'' on the fly, as well as a one-off show in 2017 in Japan where he performed with a TR-808, TB-303, and laptop in the style of his ''Beyond Serious'' EP. Although he discussed putting a live band together in 2011, none materialized, except for a small band of friends for ''Silver Wilkinson'' studio sessions. He confessed in 2016, "I said that... because it was expected of me, that forming a band was a logical step to make. In honesty, it's not something I want to do," and later explained "I like to perform alone in my home or studio into microphones, that's how I like to express myself as a musician, it's a place where I can get lost in my world of imagination and make something for people to connect to, I can't feel like that in front of an audience... it takes me so far out of the zone that I don't feel like I can get into the music."


Visual work

Stephen Wilkinson creates the majority of the artwork for Bibio – including ''fi,'' ''Hand Cranked,'' ''The Apple and the Tooth'', ''Mind Bokeh'', ''Silver Wilkinson,'' and ''Ribbons''. He also works on videography, having created the film for his ''Mind Bokeh'' album sampler, the music video for "A Tout L'heure" and co-directing the video for "Excuses" with Michael Robinson. Wilkinson is an avid photographer, working with film / analog photography.


Discography


Albums

* '' fi'' (2005, Mush Records) * ''
Hand Cranked ''Hand Cranked'' is the second album by the music producer Bibio. It was released on 7 March 2006 on Mush Records. Critical reception ''XLR8R ''XLR8R'' (pronounced "accelerator") is a website that covers music, culture, style, and technolo ...
'' (2006, Mush Records) * ''
Vignetting the Compost ''Vignetting the Compost'' is an album by Bibio, released on 3 February 2009 on Mush Records Mush Records is an American independent record label. It was founded by Robert Curcio and Cindy Roché in 1997. History Originally known as Dirty L ...
'' (2009, Mush Records) * ''
Ambivalence Avenue ''Ambivalence Avenue'' is a studio album by English folk/electronica musician Bibio, released in 2009. It is his first album on Warp. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstre ...
'' (2009,
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) * ''
Mind Bokeh ''Mind Bokeh'' is a studio album by British electronic musician Bibio, released on Warp. It was released on 29 March 2011 in the United States and 4 April 2011 in the rest of the world. Bibio described the album as a "balance of the familiar and ...
'' (2011, Warp Records) UK chart peak: #195 * '' Silver Wilkinson'' (2013, Warp Records) * ''
A Mineral Love ''A Mineral Love'' is the seventh studio album by electronic musician Bibio, his fourth studio release on Warp Records. It was released on 1 April 2016. Reception At Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates r ...
'' (2016, Warp Records) * '' Phantom Brickworks'' (2017, Warp Records) * ''
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'' (2019, Warp Records) * ''
Bib10 ''Bib10'' is the tenth studio album by English producer Bibio, also known as Stephen Wilkinson, released on 21 October 2022. Background and recording In a 2020 interview with Stereogum, Bibio announced that he was working on new material tha ...
'' (2022, Warp Records)


EPs

* ''Ovals and Emeralds'' (2009, Mush Records) * '' The Apple and the Tooth'' (2009, Warp Records) * ''T.O.Y.S.'' (2011) * '' The Green E.P.'' (2014) * ''The Serious E.P.'' (2016) * ''Beyond Serious'' (2017) * ''Zen Drums/Dada Drums'' (2018) * ''Phantom Brickworks (IV & V)'' (2018) * ''WXAXRXP Session'' (2019) * ''
Sleep on the Wing ''Sleep on the Wing'' is the follow-up to Bibio's ninth studio album, Ribbons; it was announced on 5 May 2020, and was released on 12 June 2020. The release consists of ten new songs, only two of which contain lyrics. Upon release, the EP receive ...
'' (2020, Warp Records) * ''Vidiconia'' (2021)


Singles

* "Sheila Sets Sail" b/w "Tribio" (2006, Artist's Valley Records) * "Ambivalence Avenue" b/w "Fire Ant" (2009, Warp Records) * "Hedged-in" (2009) – contributed to The Relay Project, an online musical "collaboration" * "Lovers' Carvings" (2011) (
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peak: #170) * "K Is for Kelson" (2011) * "Excuses / Old Friends" (2011) * "Willenhall" (2012) – split single with
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* "À tout à l’heure" (2013) * "Dye The Water Green" (2013) * "Petals" (2015) * "Town & Country" (2016, Warp Records) * "Heath Town" (2016) – split single with Mark Pritchard and
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* "Capel Celyn" (2017) * "The Art of Living / Spruce Tops" (2019) * "Curls" (2019)


Remixes

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Clark Clark is an English language surname, ultimately derived from the Latin with historical links to England, Scotland, and Ireland ''clericus'' meaning "scribe", "secretary" or a scholar within a religious order, referring to someone who was educate ...
– "Ted (Bibio Remix)" from ''Ted E.P.'' (2006) *
Epic45 epic45 are a British indie/ post-rock band. Core members Rob Glover and Benjamin Holton who grew up in Wheaton Aston, Staffordshire, formed the band in 1995 when the two school friends were only 13 years old. The band have released albums across ...
– "The Stars in Autumn (Remixed by Bibio)" (2008) *
Lone Lone may refer to: People *Lone (given name), a given name (including a list of people with this name) * Lone (musician), Matt Cutler, an electronic musician from Nottingham, United Kingdom *Lone (surname), a surname (including a list of people w ...
– "Midnight Feast (Bibio Remix)" from ''Cluster Dreams'' (2009) * Neon Indian – "Mind, Drips (Bibio Remix)" from ''Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed'' (2009) *
DM Stith David Michael Stith is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who released his first album ''Heavy Ghost'' in 2009 on the Asthmatic Kitty label. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. David Stith comes from a musical family: his fa ...
– "Abraham's Song (Bibio Remix)" from "Heavy Ghost" (2009) * Grasscut – "The Door in the Wall (Bibio Mix)" (2010) * Gonjasufi – "Candy lane (Bibio Remix)" from '' The Caliph's Tea Party'' (2010) *
!!! !!! ( ), also known as Chk Chk Chk, is an American rock band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as the Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Pope Smashers. They are curr ...
– "The Most Certain Sure (Bibio Remix)" from ''Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass'' (2010) * Tycho – "Spectre (Bibio Remix)" from "Awake (Deluxe Version)" (2014) *
Dorian Concept Dorian Concept (born Oliver Thomas Johnson, 1984) is an Austrian composer, music producer and keyboardist whose work draws on an eclectic variety of sources including modal and free jazz, funk, hip-hop, electronic, ambient, and soundscape musi ...
– "Ann River, MN (Bibio Remix)" from ''Joined Ends Remix EP'' (2015) * Boards of Canada – Kaini Industries (Bibio remix) * Marly Lüske – Smell (remix by Bibio) (Warp records 2007) * Villagers - A Trick of the Light (Bibio Remix) from '' The Art of Pretending to Swim'' (2018)


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External links


Bibio
at the Warp Records website
Bibio
at the Mush Records website
Bibio visits Rob da Bank in the studio
* {{Authority control Living people Alumni of Middlesex University 1978 births Warp (record label) artists English electronic musicians English multi-instrumentalists Musicians from the West Midlands (county)