Mixel Pixel
{{Short description|Music/video project based in New York}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Mixel Pixel
| image =
| caption =
| background = group_or_band
| origin = Brooklyn, New York, United States
| genre = Indie pop
| years_active = 1995 - 2009
| label = Kanine Records (United States)
Mental Monkey (United States)
| associated_acts = Fab Fur, Mail Order Monsters, Black Blunt, Jefferson Air Conditioner, The Eastern Stars, Mr. Mixel Pixel
| current_members = Matty Kaukeinen
Kaia Wong
Rob Corradetti
| past_members = Ben Russell
Little John
Matt Snee
}}
Mixel Pixel was a music/video project based in Brooklyn, New York, active from 1995-2009.
Formed in December 1995 in rural Minnesota,{{cite web|title =Mixel Pixel: Biography |first=Mark|last=Deming |publisher=Allmusic| url ={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mixel-pixel-mn0000765646|pure_url=yes}} |accessdate =18 May 2013}} 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:{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7989732.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307170528/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7989732.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 March 2016|title=Sound Checks|last=Donnelly|first=Elizabeth|date=7 November 2006|work=Boston Globe |via=HighBeam Research|accessdate=18 May 2013}}
- 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)==
==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
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.mixelpixel.com/ Official band website]
- {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p730424|label=Mixel Pixel}}
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