Mixel Pixel was a music/video project based in Brooklyn, New York, active from 1995-2009.
Formed in December 1995 in rural Minnesota, Mixel Pixel soon released their first home recorded 4 track cassettes, Lez Puff, Pastelogram, and Basement Mom. Later, they relocated to Delaware where they spent the next 4 years recording their first LP called Mappyland. Upon moving to New York in 1999, they made a string of homemade cut-and-paste rock LPs; Rainbow Panda, Contact Kid, Music For Plants, Let's Be Friends, and Highschool is not Hell.
In 2007 Mixel Pixel toured with
Of Montreal. Through the years they've also shared the stage with
Man Man
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,
Chromatics, Extreme Animals, Chairlift,
Grand Buffet
Grand Buffet is a hip-hop funk duo from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, made up of Jackson O'Connell-Barlow (stage names: Iguanadon, Grape-a-Don, Plaps, Nate Kukla, and Mr. Pennsylvania) and Jarrod Weeks (stage names: M-Dog, Lord Grunge, Viceroy, Mat ...
,
Ra Ra Riot, Grizzly Bear,
We Are Wolves
We Are Wolves are a Canadian indie rock band, based in Montreal, consisting of vocalist and bassist Alexander Ortiz, keyboardist/backing vocalist Vincent Levesque and drummer/vocalist Pierre-Luc Bégin. The band released their debut album, '' Non- ...
,
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years, Flansburgh and Linnell frequently performed as a duo, often accompanied by a d ...
,
HEALTH
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, and
Pit er Pat.
Mixel Pixel have collaborated on music videos with
paperrad
''Paper Rad'' was an art collective from approx. 2000 until 2008, based on the East Coast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island. Known for creating comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and mu ...
,
Noah Lyon
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A graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Noah Lyon works in drawing, painting, artist's books, sound art, and installation ...
, Ricardo Rivera, Radical Friend, and Devin Clark.
Mixel Pixel have remixed bands including
Professor Murder
Professor Murder is a dance-punk quartet from New York City that mixes synthesizers and percussion-based compositions in a method that has drawn comparison to post-punk and new wave bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s. They released their cr ...
and
Of Montreal.
Discography
Official Albums
Mappy Land (2000)
#Fake Violin Solo
#Subhuman Levels
#One Up
#Go Mappy Land for U
#Charlie 5000
#Song Y
#Polaroid Booth
#Coney Island Bound Trash Train
#(daphne's tape)
#10 Ft. Coffin
#Steamroller
#Body Double
#Cyclone Took My Baby
Rainbow Panda (2003)
#Pink Shirts
#My Animal
#Desert Falcon
#Silver Sparkle Amps
#Holsters
#Out of the Woods
#_____m
#Psych Mo-Fo
#Your No. 1
#Oh! the Summer People
#Boy with the Saddest Eyes
#Perfect Little World
#Body Automatic
Contact Kid (2004)
#I Am the Contact Kid
#Mantis Rock
#Penny Rocket / Romantic
#Little Wolverine
#Tell Tale Drum Machine
#Out of My Mind
#At the Arcade
#Gas House Gables
#Pittsburgh Brain
#The Drag City Starlet
Music for Plants (2006)
#You're the Kind of Girl
#Switchblade Sister
#Coming Up X's
#Black Van
#I Cannot Die
#Behind the Sun
#Ghost for Life
#Abandon Ship
#These Mortality Pictures
#Turkish Delights
Let's Be Friends (2008)
#What Ever Happened to One
#Sinking Feeling
#Favorite Sweatshirt On
#Great Invention
#Let's Be Friends
#Cats
#You Could Be...
#So Regal (Tigershark Kiss)
#Fake Girlfriend
#Last Song
#Distant Station
Other releases
You're the Kind of Girl (digital ep 2006)
#You're the Kind of Girl
#What Are You Wearing? (
Momus cover)
#Personal Space Invaders
#My Animal (
Poingly Mix)
Coming Up X's (12" 2006)
#Coming Up X's (Album Version)
#Coming Up X's (
Alan Astor
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People
* Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname
* Alan (given name), an English given name
** List of people with given name Alan
''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.''
...
Mix)
#Coming Up X's (
Streetlab
Streetlab is a live electronic rock production duo out of New York City formed by Mark "Coz" Lamorg and Ryan Leary. The two approach music with an appeal to both rockers and dancers.
The duo raised attention with many of their classic rock remixe ...
Mix)
#Coming Up X's (
Poingly Mix)
#X's Is the Reason (
Books On Tape
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Mix)
You're the Kind of Girl (7" 2006)
#You're the Kind of Girl
#Artificial Kid
Sinking Feeling (digital single 2008)
#Sinking Feeling
#I've Been Around
#My Summer World (with Lauren Winslow)
References
External links
Official band website*
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Indie pop groups from New York (state)
Musical groups from Brooklyn