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.
FREE track - Mary Poppin' Pills for download in 320 quality. This track came out in the VA Cyberpunk Chronicles vol.3 from Uroboros rec. , however this is the version mastered by Liam from InYourPhaze mastering, the guy who mastered our album.
UPCOMING GIGS
11/11/11 Minimal Criminal (dj Zhyin) will play a Live set at a Solaris project party.
Line up:
- UNION JACK (Platipus rec / U.K)
- COSMOSIS (Transient , Holophonic rec, U.K)
- ONE TASTY MORSEL (Zenon rec , Australia )
- MINIMAL CRIMINAL (Cosmic Sonspiracy Rec)
- Loud (Nano rec / IL)
- U.R.I.N.I.M.U - full live show
- Skizologic (Solaris / IL)
- Nativ (IL)
- Unbalanced (Solaris/ IL)
- Shape Shifter (Bambi, Solaris / IL)
DJ Zhyin will play a dj set at Zizi club, Tel Aviv
Line up:
- MINIMAL CRIMINAL (COSMIC CONSPIRACY REC)
- SONIC TICKLE (ZENON REC) GERMANY
- SANDMAN (MATSURI REC) IL
- ULTRAVOICE (COM.PACT REC)IL
- SPACE CAMEL
December 24, 2011, Miminal Criminal (DJ Echoes) will play at Solsticio Psychedelic festival in Argentina. Line up TBA.
RELEASES
Our track with Tripinstumble,Baaraparchuterphobia, was released recently on a compilation called "Phobophobia" , available through Cosmic Conspiracy rec. After 3 days of release, it's currently number 5 in the top 100 releases in Psy Trance at beatport. It is also available at Itunes and Juno.
The following tracks will be released in the near future:
"All Hail the Mountain King" will be released on Glitchy Tonic rec.
"The Power" will be released on Uroboros, compiled by dj silent B
"Pick- Darkness(Minimal Criminal remix)" will be released on Inpsyde Media
The track, "Apollyon", will be released on a EP from Soundmute rec, with remixes by Opsy and Cujorius One.
Besides these tracks, Valerio has composed the very first Minimal Criminal chillout track. The track is called "So Ya Lha" and it is a collaboration with royal singer, Kencho Wangdi, from Bhutan. More information about this track will follow soon.
DJ Valerio Zhyin, who lives in Israel, has now a booking agent by the name of Tal Pinto (Solaris project). Tal is handling all booking requests from now on. You can send booking requests via our contact page or contact him directly at talpinto23 [at] gmail.com
Bruno has a new solo project called Traxon.
Hello friends! We have updated our official web site. Our album "Minimus Maleficarum" is finally available in the site as 24-bit wav files as well as 320 mp3s. Nowhere else can you find the album in 24-bit quality. These are the same files we use in our live sets!
You can either buy the album tracks separately or the entire album as a big (1GB) archive. The whole album download comes with some special surprises unavailable anywhere. Oh, and it's cheaper to buy than in other online shops.
Besides the album, we added many other Minimal Criminal tracks, old and new. Some of them are available for FREE!
The track "Defeat"(FREE download) was featured in Computer Music magazine(issue 161), the best selling music software magazine in the world, and it received a very good review.
We also have shirts and a cool tote bag available for those who REALLY wanna support Minimal Criminal.
UPCOMING RELEASES
- A new Minimal Criminal track called Mary Poppin' Pills will be released in a free compilation from Uroboros records called Cyberpunk Chronicles vol.3. This compilation will be available from Ektoplazm. This track is sure to ignite dancefloors everywhere, day or night.
- Minimal Criminal is collaborating with Tripinstumble in a track called Baaraparchuterphobia for the next CCR compilation called "Phobophobia"
- Soundmute Recordings will release a Minimal Criminal digital EP called Apollyon with remixes from Cujorius One and Opsy sometime within the next few months.
March 11th, Zhyin will perform a DJ set at the Massive Progressive nature party in the center of Israel.
Line up:
- Minimal Criminal (CCR)
- Aerospace (Spin Twist rec.)
- Mute (Lono rec.)
- Rocky (Echoes rec.)
- High M Vectro (Criminal Zone rec.)
- Meta Herz (a.k.a. Energy Loop - Blitz studio)
- Pick (Zenon rec.)
- Addiction (a.k.a. Adi Quantize - Iboga rec.)
February 25th, Dj Zhyin will perform a Miminal Criminal live and dj set at Spirit of fusion - Dive session party at Vozduh club, Moscow.
Line up:
- Minimal Criminal(Cosmic Conspiracy Records) LIVE+Dj Set
- Cujorius One(Soundmute Recordings/ Zenon rec) LIVE
- Trollwood(Trimurti records)
- Anix Gleo(SunStation records)
- Felix(Fusion lab)