MINIMAL CRIMINAL is a dark minimal progressive psytrance project from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was formed by Dj's Valerio Zhyin and Bruno Echoes in the beginning of 2003. Their tracks are around 133-140 bpm, often with a dark night time vibe, bizarre psychedelic effects and crazy samples.
We have just updated the Music section with our tunes from 2007 - Graverobbers From Outer Space, Red Mongolian Deathworm, Dark Lord of the Synth and Unnatural Life. Check them out!
February 15, Halu Beats, the new sub-label of Psylife Music will release their first compilation - Halu Beats Vol.1. The comp will include Minimal Criminal track "Graverobbers from Outer Space". As it says on the Halu Beats myspace page ( the official site is coming up ) :
«On 'Halu Beats Volume 1' masters of mixing dark and prog, Australian Sensient and Brazilian duo Minimal Criminal are showing their unique beats and alien atmospheres with the tracks 'Square One' and 'Graverobbers from Outer Space'. Moreover, the disc features remixes made of Ace Ventura-, Tegma- and Kino Oko-gems by the Halu Beats Triumvirate: Adam Hohmann (aka Para Halu), Deto and Kalumet, its highly recommended to watch out their future releases! Adam is not the only artist on the compilation who used to be committed to fast and twisted psytrance but shows his talent in the slower side of trance this time: Ocelot from the USA prepared some catchy rhythms too, together with Finnish psytrance veteran Haltya aka Justin Space.»
DJ Zhyin is currently working on the material for the first full-length album, which will be released by Cosmic Conspiracy records.
Two Minimal Criminal tracks will be released sometime within the next few months.
Bio-Sine rec.(Australia) will release "Red Mongolian Deathworm" on their 2nd compilation cd, and the new Hungarian label, Halu beats, will release "Graverobbers from Outer Space".
In the end of June 2007 , dj Zhyin left Brazil and moved back to the U.S.A, the country where he grew up. The other half of Minimal Criminal, Bruno Echoes, remains in Brazil and continues to perform Minimal Criminal live sets there. Bruno will be performing at the Universo Paralello festival this year alongside some of our favorite artists such as Sensient, Sun Control Species, and Tetrameth.
At the present time, Dj Zhyin is on vacation in Israel until the end of January. So far , he has performed at the Psyspirit Rosh Hashana forest party(11/09 ) , the Sakaya bar(Tel Aviv) alongside Marcus( X-Dream) and appeared on the Kol Ha Kampus 106FM Hafirot radio. This New Year's eve Zhyin performed a Minimal Criminal live set at the Senka Tribe urban gathering at Kulture club in Tel Aviv on December 31st.