Mixel Pixel is a music/video band based in Brooklyn, New York.

Influences include (but not limited to) The Byrds

The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...

, Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...

, Love

Love

Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...

, Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston

Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....

, Velvet Underground, King Missile

King Missile

King Missile is an American avant-garde band that has been led in various disparate incarnations by poet/singer John S. Hall since 1986. Currently, Hall performs with a new version of the first incarnation, King Missile ....

, Bruce Haack

Bruce Haack

Bruce Clinton Haack was a musician, composer, and pioneer of electronic music. He was born in Alberta, Canada.-From Alberta to New York :...

 and Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...

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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 LPs, Rainbow Panda, Contact Kid, Music For Plants, Let's Be Friends, and Highschool is not Hell. Rob Corradetti, the artist behind Mixel Pixel, has also worked on such other music projects: Fab Fur, Mail Order Monsters, Black Blunt, and The Eastern Stars.

In 2007 Mixel Pixel toured with Of Montreal

Of Montreal

Of Montreal is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontman Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance with a woman "of Montreal." The band is one of the bands of the Elephant 6 collective...

. Through the years they've also shared the stage with Man Man

Man Man

Man Man is an experimental band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Man Man is known for their exuberant live performances. When performing, the members of the band sometimes coordinate their outfits, often seen in white outfits and, more commonly, war paint....

, Chromatics

Chromatics

Chromatics are a band from Portland, Oregon, whose current lineup features singer Ruth Radelet, guitarist Adam Miller, drummer Nat Walker, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Johnny Jewel. The band originally featured a trademark sound indebted to punk and lo-fi and described as "noisy" and "chaotic"...

, Extreme Animals, Chairlift, Grand Buffet

Grand Buffet

Grand Buffet is a hip-hop funk duo from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, made up of Jackson O'Connell-Barlow and Jarrod Weeks . Their music is a unique brand of humorous, often satirical rap...

, Ra Ra Riot

Ra Ra Riot

Ra Ra Riot is an American indie rock band from Syracuse, New York, consisting of vocalist Wes Miles, bassist Mathieu Santos, guitarist Milo Bonacci, cellist Alexandra Lawn , violinist Rebecca Zeller, and drummer Kenny Bernard.-History:...

, Grizzly Bear, We Are Wolves

We Are Wolves

We Are Wolves are a Quebec indie rock band, based in Montreal, consisting of vocalist and bassist Alexander Ortiz, keyboardist/backing vocalist Vincent Levesque and drummer/vocalist Antonin Marquis. The band released their debut album, Non-Stop Je Te Plie en Deux with Fat Possum Records, in 2005...

, They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are...

, HEALTH

Health

Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

, and Pit er Pat

Pit er Pat

Pit er Pat is an Experimental band from Chicago Illinois. They formed in 2004 as the trio of Fay Davis-Jeffers on keyboard and vocals, former founding member of Alkaline Trio Rob Doran on bass, and Butchy Fuego on drums. Their sound is very atmospheric and has a dark ambience that is similar to...

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Mixel Pixel have collaborated on music videos with paperrad, Noah Lyon

Noah Lyon

Noah Lyon is a visual artist and musician based in New York City.A graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Noah Lyon works in drawing, painting, artist's books, sound, video, new media, writing, performance and installation...

, Ricardo Rivera, Radical Friend, and Devin Clark.

Mixel Pixel have remixed bands including Professor Murder

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 early 1980s and late '70s. They released their critically hailed debut EP, Professor Murder Rides the...

 and Of Montreal

Of Montreal

Of Montreal is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontman Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance with a woman "of Montreal." The band is one of the bands of the Elephant 6 collective...

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Mappy Land (2000)

1. Fake Violin Solo
2. Subhuman Levels
3. One Up
4. Go Mappy Land for U
5. Charlie 5000
6. Song Y
7. Polaroid Booth
8. Coney Island Bound Trash Train
9. (daphne's tape)
10. 10 Ft. Coffin
11. Steamroller
12. Body Double
13. Cyclone Took My Baby

Rainbow Panda (2003)

1. Pink Shirts
2. My Animal
3. Desert Falcon
4. Silver Sparkle Amps
5. Holsters
6. Out of the Woods
7. _____m
8. Psych Mo-Fo
9. Your #1
10. Oh! the Summer People
11. Boy with the Saddest Eyes
12. Perfect Little World
13. Body Automatic

Contact Kid (2004)

1. I Am the Contact Kid
2. Mantis Rock
3. Penny Rocket / Romantic
4. Little Wolverine
5. Tell Tale Drum Machine
6. Out of My Mind
7. At the Arcade
8. Gas House Gables
9. Pittsburgh Brain
10. The Drag City Starlet

Music for Plants (2006)

1. You're the Kind of Girl
2. Switchblade Sister
3. Coming Up X's
4. Black Van
5. I Cannot Die
6. Behind the Sun
7. Ghost for Life
8. Abandon Ship
9. These Mortality Pictures
10. Turkish Delights

Let's Be Friends (2008)

1. What Ever Happened to One
2. Sinking Feeling
3. Favorite Sweatshirt On
4. Great Invention
5. Let's Be Friends
6. Cats
7. You Could Be...
8. So Regal (Tigershark Kiss)
9. Fake Girlfriend
10. Last Song
11. Distant Station

You're the Kind of Girl (digital ep 2006)

1. You're the Kind of Girl
2. What Are You Wearing? (Momus
   Momus (artist)
   Nick Currie , more popularly known under the artist name Momus , is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired...
   
    cover)
3. Personal Space Invaders
4. My Animal (Poingly Mix)

Coming Up X's (12" 2006)

1. Coming Up X's (Album Version)
2. Coming Up X's (Alan Astor Mix)
3. Coming Up X's (Streetlab
   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....
   
    Mix)
4. Coming Up X's (Poingly Mix)
5. X's Is the Reason (Books On Tape
   Books on tape
   Books on tape may refer to:*audio book: recordings of literary material read out loud.*Books on Tape: electronic music artist from Los Angeles, California....
   
   Mix)

Sinking Feeling (digital single 2008)

1. Sinking Feeling
2. I've Been Around
3. My Summer World (with Lauren Winslow)