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, Chromatics, Extreme Animals, Chairlift, Grand Buffet, Ra Ra Riot, Grizzly Bear, We Are Wolves, They Might Be Giants, HEALTH, and Pit er Pat.
Mixel Pixel have collaborated on music videos with paperrad, Noah Lyon, Ricardo Rivera, Radical Friend, and Devin Clark.
Mixel Pixel have remixed bands including Professor Murder 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) Source:
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 Mix) Coming Up X's (Streetlab Mix) Coming Up X's (Poingly Mix) X's Is the Reason (Books On Tape 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